This photo was taken after a show in Columbus, Ohio during the summer of 1998, while Ten Yard Fight, Fastbreak and In My Eyes were on tour with Virginia’s Time Flies. If there is a single snapshot from that era that illustrates the relationship of band members from Bridge Nine’s mid-‘90s output (most notably, Tenfold) and what would soon become American Nightmare, this is it.
Photo courtesy of Kurtis Powers (1998).
This photo features two former members of Tenfold (Neal St. Clair in the Revelation Records t-shirt, and Luke Garro directly to his left) who helped form In My Eyes (with Damian Genuardi - top right, who later joined Panic), Sweet Pete (far left, in the Red Sox hat) and Anthony Pappalardo (next to Damian), who had left Ten Yard Fight to start In My Eyes (later a member of Sinners & Saints). Also featured is Ten Yard Fight bass player Brian “Clevo” Ristau (center, in the Dropkick Murphys shirt) who later joined Right Brigade with Pat Rorick (originally of Fastbreak) and vocalist Anthony “Wrench” Moreschi (bottom left, in the Time Flies tee), who later formed Stand & Fight after moving to Southern California, as well as guitarist Tim Cossar (far left) and his friend from Maine, TYF roadie Wes Eisold (front, in the Bane t-shirt) who got American Nightmare going in the basement of our Mission Hill apartment later the next year.