This Place

Album: Let the Dominoes Fall (2009)
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  • Vocalist Tim Armstrong (from the band's MySpace site): "I've been going through these cities for years and know them well. I know what they look like and sound like; it's like a movie I've seen twenty times. The last time we toured through the Rust Belt the downtowns looked gutted and they didn't feel the same. That feeling is what inspired this song."
  • Bassist Matt Freeman added: "It's about the dying industrial regions of this great country and with it the dying of the middle class. Speculators and bankers that came into these cities and closed factories and sold them off overseas or just let them die. Putting nothing in its place and moving on like some mythical destructive monster. To me this song has a real Who vibe mixed with classic Rancid hardcore that could have been on Let's Go."

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