My best friend and bandmate Jeff, and also host of The Club, is sharing never-told stories only to The Club members. Here is an excerpt of the story about the song “Shadows of Our Evening Tides”.
“It was around mid-afternoon, he had just finished recording his final vocals on “Shadows of our Evening Tides” and he then invited us all for an official listening session. Those moments are sacred for us, as we know that it means that Alex considers the song as being truly “alive” and that he is ready to let go of his obsessive shaping mastery.
Over our fifteen years of friendship, Alex and I developed our own language where our friendship brought us to go through every possible and impossible thing you could think of! No words need to be said for both of us to fully understand what we are living or trying to communicate. Therefore, when the song reached the end, we looked at each other, filled with all sorts of emotions, remembering what he experienced and how much courage it took for him to simply reach that point. I knew he was emotionally exhausted and I knew the incredible measure of love and forgiveness it took him for us all to simply be in that very room, listening to what I knew cost him more than I would probably ever figure, ever comprehend. And here we were, speechless, hugging each other so hard that it felt as if we hadn’t seen each other in 20 years or so! It was one of the most powerful moments we shared at the time!
It was such a powerful and meaningful moment. As if Alex was inviting us all to start anew, as if he was saying: “Let’s celebrate what’s way beyond everything we ever experienced, may it be good or bad, may it be real or illusionary”. Alex doesn’t talk much about what really goes on deep inside of him. Most people usually get to know about him through his music or blogs but when I looked at him, we both knew that nothing would ever be the same. It’s been a long way back into the light for him and that moment meant he was willing to give a chance at embracing what it meant to be alive… to live, no longer only trying to survive.”