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Gabriel: Yellow Swans ended the same way it began: with a plan. Back in 2001 I was looking for a way out of the East Bay where the first dot-com gentrification crisis was grinding me down. I’d met Pete at a house in SE Portland when my band Boxleitner had driven up there in the middle of a blizzard a few days after Y2K. Turns out I had seen Pete’s old band Mur*der play in the same neighborhood a while before which had made me want to start Boxleitner with George Chen in the first place. Pete and I agreed that if we were ever in the same town we’d start a band. Shortly after I’d decided to exit the Bay and move up to Portland I got an email from Pete asking if I thought we could get a band together in time for a show a few weeks later. I hadn’t packed yet. We hashed out an idea of what it was we wanted to do and a few months later ended up with our first gig. When it came time to end the band it was the same deal. We’d finished another grueling 5 week tour across the US, both of us exhausted and not actually liking each other very much. For me, I knew we had maybe another year of this kind of tour-record-tour grind before we’d never want to look at each other again. I figured that if this band was at its end we might as well do it on our terms, in a way that meant we could respect ourselves and still be friends in the future. We made a list of things that each of us wanted to accomplish before pulling the plug on the project, and releasing a final album was at the top of the
