Word: summers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sean: At the end of the summer, we played a lot of football. You're just chilling with the boys and you get to watch batting practice...
...Sean: At the beginning of the summer my feet hurt...
...There is also, however, a certain distance the members put between one another that is palpable. The Kroks spend their entire summer together every year, crisscrossing the globe and by the end of tour, tensions run high. "I was ready to kill everyone in the group," one member explains. The Kroks spend a dozen hours or so together during the average school week and then band together as, perhaps, the only (mostly) fair-skinned, English speaking people in some of the exotic places they visit. To avoid conflict, they realize certain compromises must be made. The first is that they...
...keep them singing this stuff for a dozen hours every week. Although the stirring ballad "Loch Lomond" is referred to simply as "Loch"--so often does the group sing it--several members of the group do know what the song is about, having visited the actual Loch on their summer tour. In the green of the Scottish Highlands, they sang the tune in what was, for one Krok, "the most sacred moment in my time in the group." But their arrangement of William Blake's "Jerusalem" is shabby, and it seems doubtful that they are really considering the meaning...
...encounter with tequila that had its most lasting effect. That entire summer after I returned from Mexico, I didn't think. I would sit on buses and have not a single thought flicker on my screen. Emptiness, numbness. I had never felt it before. I loved...