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Ashtray Rock is an album by Canadian indie rock band Joel Plaskett Emergency, released on April 17, 2007. In interviews, band frontman Joel Plaskett has noted that Ashtray Rock is not a genre of music, but an actual location—in the forest west of Clayton Park, Nova Scotia—where teenagers go to get drunk. The album is a concept album about two friends growing up in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who form a band together, fall for the same girl, and have a falling-out in their friendship. Places are never as romantic as you remember them. But to me the beauty of that is trying to romanticize an unromantic place. I mean, Ashtray Rock was a big rock in the middle of the woods. Everybody has an equivalent of some place they would meet on a Friday night. It's not like it was that exceptional a place—it wasn't. The only thing that makes it exceptional is that I had friends to meet and memories to form. — Plaskett Plaskett intended a nostalgic feel to the album, and used songs from his days with the band Thrush Hermit: "Snowed In" was performed live by that band, "The Glorious Life" is from 1994, and the title track Plaskett wrote in 1992 when he was age 17. The album is Plaskett's most personal. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashtray...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
