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Turmoil in both the band?s personal life and the rest of the world would put derail them momentarily, but would also provide a wealth of musical inspiration for their new record, Eastern. "For Gingersol the last 2 or 3 years has been very challenging to say the least. Both Seth and my marriages have ended and there have been huge hurdles for us to keep going." Steve says reflectively, "My songs, like Seth?s, are mostly deal with what has now has become the end of my marriage. I didn?t want my marriage to end and I tried to keep it alive and that is a big part of every song." Seth also had heartbreak to guide him. "My 3 songs, as I look at them, are all about my marriage ending, and I guess there?s just 3 different points of view on that. Although I was strung out on Vicoden after a ski accident and in a fragile emotional state, I think that the song "I Did" may be the first newer Gingersol song that has some humor. It?s mostly about failure and not understanding convention, but when I wrote it it seemed funny. The other two "Please Let Me Go," and "Rome?s Behind Us" seem pretty easy to understand." The album centerpiece however, "Great Day For a War" were inspired by how the newly arrived to New York Tagliere viewed the tragic events of September 11th. "It?s a song about how I felt waiting for the war against terrorism to start after sept 11th when after all I moved here for good on sept 9th." While you might think that this might make for a depressing album, this is far from the case. As Seth puts it, "The new record, to me, sounds and feels epic. It?s much longer than other Gingersol records, the process was longer, it includes the two longest Gingersol songs, but none of this is negative, it just feels expansive?big." Steve also remains very optimistic about the future of Gingersol. "I couldn't be more excited about the direction his band is heading in. It's only the beginning. We are only scratching the surface of what the music can be and we try to be really conscious of that," admits Tagliere. "There's a lot more we could be doing, it's easy to fall back on formulas when you're creating a song, but that's ultimately less satisfying. To get the definitive version of a song and the right mix of sounds is what it's all about. To get to the place where you're making stuff that's personally inspiring and you can stop thinking about and just enjoy is really special. That's what we try to do."