Let Us Fray

With God on their side, these musicians have gone from zeros to heroes.

A few weeks ago, the Fray played to a raucous capacity crowd at the Soiled Dove. But at the end of the set, when the fans were clamoring for more, the band didn't oblige.

"It's very simple," Slade says flatly. "We ran out of songs. We don't play 'Come Together' anymore. We retired 'City Hall.' We retired 'Without Reason.' That's really it. We played every song we had."

An Epic story: David Welsh (from left), Isaac Slade, 
Joe King and Ben Wysocki are the Fray.
Kaylinn Gilstrap
An Epic story: David Welsh (from left), Isaac Slade, Joe King and Ben Wysocki are the Fray.

"This is why we didn't play an encore," Welsh interjects. "Joe's sitting there looking at the clock -- we had like ten minutes or so left. He turns around and mouths 'Come Together' to the bass player. And as Joe was saying it to him, I was like, 'Lord, please let Dave not know how to play "Come Together" so we don't ever have to play that song again.' Dave looked at him and shrugged his shoulders.

"God is real."

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