Time & Perspective Quote by Dave Blood

There is a quietly poignant pragmatism in Dave Blood framing a DVD and CD not as legacy objects, but as an “excuse” to be in the same room again. For a working musician, especially one moving through the long afterlife of bands and scenes, reunion is rarely just nostalgia; it’s logistics, bandwidth, and the fragile willingness to prioritize old chemistry over new obligations. Blood’s language is tellingly modest: “great fun,” “make time,” “especially pleased.” No grand mythmaking, no claim that the work will change your life. That restraint reads as both musicianly realism and a subtle defense against the usual rock-story melodrama.

The subtext is about friendship and continuity disguised as production talk. “The four of us” is the emotional core: a small circle that matters enough to require a formal project as cover. Cultural memory in music often gets packaged as content - releases, reissues, “definitive editions” - but Blood lets the curtain slip. The artifact isn’t the point; the gathering is. The end result matters, yes, but it’s also proof that the bond still holds, that they can translate shared history into something finished.

Contextually, the quote sits in that early-2000s era when physical media still carried prestige and permanence, before streaming dissolved the sense of an “end result.” Blood sounds pleased not just because the products exist, but because they mark a successful act of coordination: time reclaimed, relationships reaffirmed, the band (or what remains of it) briefly made whole.