<p><img width="274" height="202" align="right" src="/uploads/explodinghearts1.jpg" title="The Exploding Hearts" class="right-img" alt="" />Followers of the local music scene are no doubt familiar with the story of the <a href="http://www.explodinghearts.com/">Exploding Hearts</a>: in 2003, the Hearts were poised to burst onto the national scene &ndash; when the band suffered a devastating car accident, killing most of the young band members.<br /> <br /> But in the five years since that accident, the Exploding Hearts&rsquo; music has continued to impact the local music scene &ndash; and the life of Terry Six, the only member to survive the crash.<br /> <br /> <img width="143" height="139" align="left" alt="" class="left-img" title="Terry Six plays tonight at Slabtown in Portland." src="/uploads/billrayTERRY2.jpg" />Six recently played a show at <a href="http://www.myspace.com/slabtownbar">Slabtown</a> with early Exploding Hearts songwriter/guitarist Louie Bankston (a <a href="http://www.portlandmercury.com/music/bayou_death_march/Content?oid=862408">junkyard punk legend</a> in his own right). It was the first time Terry had performed Exploding Hearts songs in public since the accident five years ago.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>OPB's Scott Silver has this profile:</p> true 2008-08-22T04:11:00-07:00 2008-08-07T09:25:31-07:00 false 294 true 2008-08-08T04:11:21-07:00

OPB's Scott Silver profiles the Exploding Hearts' Terry Six. Five years ago a tour van accident took the lives of Six's bandmates. He recently played their songs in public for the first time since.

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