Time & Perspective Quote by Dave Blood

There is something quietly radical about a bandmate describing friendship not as preexisting chemistry but as a skill learned in public. Dave Blood frames closeness as a byproduct of work: they "became friends as we became a band", as if rehearsal rooms and van rides were the real origin story, not destiny. For a musician, that phrasing lands like a rebuttal to the myth that great groups are either soulmates or time bombs.

The subtext is damage control without bitterness. "Ups and downs" nods to the inevitable frictions of creative partnership - ego, money, attention, exhaustion - but he refuses the tabloid arc of betrayal and breakup. The emphasis on "mostly ups" and "almost all of the time" feels deliberately unsensational, the language of someone reclaiming the ordinary from a culture that treats bands as reality TV with guitars. Even the little "Hey!" reads like a grin through the microphone: a reminder that affection can be simple, even after the hard parts.

Context matters here because bands are factories for intimacy and resentment at the same speed. They compress adulthood into a touring cycle, forcing conflict resolution on a deadline. Blood's insistence that "we still do" like each other carries the weight of survival: not just the survival of a lineup, but of a shared past that could have calcified into grievance. It's less nostalgia than a small victory lap for collaboration itself.