Cruising To The Edge
Having grown up with a father in the American military, Evership keyboardist Shane Atkinson’s childhood was itinerant and consequently frequently solitary.
“As a military kid I moved every two years, so it was very difficult to make relationships. I really didn’t have any friends. There’s a song on Evership II called Real Or Imagined about imaginary friends growing up. I was a very inward turned child. I wrote stories and was into progressive music. But back then I didn’t know it was progressive, or that progressive was a genre.”
Atkinson and his brother James lived at various times on both the west and east coasts of the United States during their childhood and would jam together as a garage band, with Shane on drums and James on guitar.
“When I was 14 or 15, in the summer we would open the garage door regularly
