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The album has simplicity, cohesiveness, and power that Rick Rubin might envy—and that seems to have eluded the band ever since.

They made several follow-up albums, none as brilliant as their first, and have had many stops and starts and breakups and fights. That put a damper on things for several years. This year, though, that first, great album turned thirty, and the band reunited to play it in its entirety at a few festivals.

That week, the weather had turned from deliciously crisp to muggy and ominous. Summerstage, at Rumsey Playfield, is a walled-off concert space near the center of the park, in which a small V.

That evening, it was also covered with puddles. The lightning flashed every minute or two, but, around , there was no rain, no thunder. A crowd of sweaty fans—including a guy in a memorial-golf-tournament polo shirt, a group of dressed-up girls, an older woman who yelled at anyone who moved into her sight line, and a stout wiseacre in a tank top and a gold chain—anticipated the show in varying stages of mirth and anxiety.

Some people smoked cigarettes, some drank beer out of plastic cups, some grabbed strangers as they tried to navigate around puddles. A cheer went up as the band took the stage.

Here they were! And time was of the essence! With his self-tinting glasses and receding hairline, Gano looks like a world-weary high-school math teacher; Ritchie, a big, long-haired guy who now lives in Tasmania he also plays the shakuhachi, the jaw harp, and the didgeridoo, among other instruments , looks like a man who has sought, and found, himself. He was playing a big wooden acoustic bass and wearing a wide black hat with a brim. A cloud of pot smoke added to the thickness of the air; a sweaty bearded guy wandered into an inch-deep puddle and stayed there, not noticing it until his girlfriend came up and pointed to the ground.

Ritchie took the mic. He joined in on guitar. The crowd hollered the lyrics with sloppy enthusiasm. The rain started to fall. People danced. But Gano has revealed that was not his initial intention. The other interpretation is much more literal. And you thought there were no conspiracy theories in folk-punk?

Think again. Whether you know what the song is about or not, it has lasted the test of time. Cancel reply. Gano: He was very generally supportive of whatever I would be doing—and then not getting into specifics and details. He really got a good chuckle out of that one. My parents each had had a previous marriage and maybe other stuff, too. So I always found that a little peculiar. But what do I know? She loves everything. Do you have fond memories of playing New York early on?

Ritchie: We came out of the punk era and the best of that music came from New York, so some of our favorite bands were people like Television, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Ramones, Talking Heads, that whole scene.

And that was still relatively recent. New York is the musical capital of the entire world. It was his comeback, sort of. So we felt like that really put us on the map. And after that when we came back, the word had spread and there were people lined up around the block.

Even before we had our first album out, there was a buzz on us in New York City. Gordon moved to New York in , in between the release of the first album and when we recorded Hallowed Ground, and I moved to New York in Do you think they understand the lyrics?

What are you talking about? You wrote it. I had never thought of that. Gano: Not to me! Ritchie: When we played Coachella, we could see the panorama of the entire festival. They all started running from the other stages. More: Interviews. Group Combined Shape. Combined Shape Group 2.