Looking at the raw transcripts from this late 2018 conversation with Glass Tiger’s Sam Reid feels like opening a time capsule. The band was on the precipice of a major Canadian tour with Johnny Reid, a new album was in the wild, and they were staring down a career milestone. But this wasn’t the triumphant 30th anniversary victory lap everyone had expected. Instead, it was year 31. And that one-year delay tells a story of crisis, survival, and an unexpected artistic rebirth that redefined the band for a new era.Everything screeched to a halt when frontman Alan Frew suffered a mild stroke.