Kirkpatrick replaces Dooley

In September 1997, drummer Timothy Kirkpatrick (formerly of the emo band Roosevelt) replaced Dooley in both As Friends Rust and Culture. Though Looker and Kirkpatrick wrote a handful of new As Friends Rust songs together between Culture tours, the reformed band came to a halt when Looker quit both As Friends Rust and Culture to join Morning Again, moving to Coral Springs, Florida in March 1998. Looker would later join ex-As Friends Rust members in Red Letter Day (with Chris Carrabba having replaced Rudas), and play in Crucible, Poison the Well and Reggie and the Full Effect , until he became a band manager, representing such artists as Further Seems Forever , The Bled and As Friends Rust’s successor, Salem. Moyal quickly asked recently fired ex-Morning Again guitarist and former Bird of Ill Omen band-mate, Joseph Simmons (who had just finished recording Morning Again’s As Tradition Dies Slowly ), to join both Culture and As Friends Rust (thereby switching places with Looker), and also recruited Hot Water Music’s roadie , Kaleb Stewart , as bass guitarist and backing vocalist for As Friends Rust. With an intact line-up, As Friends Rust recorded the song “Home Is Where the Heart Aches” at Goldentone Studios in Gainesville, Florida in late March 1998, with producer Rob McGregor. Stewart invited three close friends, Chuck Ragan , George Rebelo , and Chris Wollard (all members of Hot Water Music), to provide backing vocals on the recording.