When they announced their reunion, I went on a Twitter rant about how it wasn't ATR without Hanin or Carl and Alec responded, telling me it wasn't my band and that I didn't know and that people were going crazy for their live shows. I told him that I respected him but that I didn't consider it ATR.
Months later, I got to interview Alec (I didn't mention the Twitter flamewar) turns out he was a gracious person, a total pleasure to interview and I got to ask him about the reunion without the original members, he gave me a straight up answer.
Shortly after, I got to see them live and it was so amazing I didn't expect it. I slammed for the first time in years.
So yeah, still a very important band for me.
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