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“The studio was underground," recalls Dana McReynolds, The Summit’s guitarist, on the phone from his Missouri home. "It was under a parking lot in some place in downtown Kansas City. You'd go to a door, and it was kind of like you'd walk into a telephone booth in a parking lot, and then you'd follow the steps down into the studio. It was really quite a nice experience. When you're 16 and you do something like this, you wonder, 'Wow, this is the beginning. Where is this gonna go?'”