God how good were the blood brothers though. One of the few non-instrumental bands I listened to in highschool that I can still enjoy.

Yeah, one of the cool things about Thursday was always their life performances. They also had a great habit of paying attention to smaller up and coming bands and doing what they could to support them.  I know their frontman, Geoff Rickly, was a big supporter of the alt-country indie band Murder By Death and that's…