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But I think that's actually a pretty accurate assessment of where I was at. And at the end of the song “Forget Myself,” I say, “This is not my life, or maybe it is, I keep on forgetting myself.” At the time, when I wrote that, I didn't really think anything of it. And it lasted through the second record, through Blue. A friend said, musicians, they either die or stall out at 27, which I think is kind of great. In every aspect of my life, the tempo just went chaotic, into hyper-drive. And everything just kind of blew up, and I went on this change in tempo of my life. I was living, I had five roommates, one bathroom, like most people living in San Francisco. And I didn’t have any expectations on it. I had come up in the music scene for a really long time and really struggled for a long, long time before my first album came out. You said to me earlier, “This is a painful album about being underprepared and losing my way, which is probably why other people like it.” Pain is a great source for musical output. So we started to play “Red Star.” And it's only on this tour we've been able to make it happen live, I think. And one of the things I want to do with the EP is songs that really never went very far out there in the soundscape.
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We're hoping to make a live EP on this tour. But we've never been able to pull it off live. Even the reverb on it sounds like sounds reverberating off the concrete in Berlin. I kind of felt like we pulled that off on that one. So that was kind of the story under it, and about keeping a hold of your voice in the face of opposition. It's imagining living in the right-wing Cheney regime, reimagining living in East Berlin under Stalin. I love the song “Red Star.” It's a very political song. Stephan Jenkins: I ranked them, but I have one thing to take issue with, which is that we couldn't include EPs. To celebrate the release of Dopamine, we had frontman Stephan Jenkins look back at the band’s last four records that have been released over the last 18 years. Arguably the stalwarts of the alternative radio heyday, Third Eye Blind has built a solid fanbase that follows them to this day from the hits on the first album, Blue, to their latest release Dopamine, their first album in six years.