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From @addisonwright(Addison Wright)’s Instagram photo stream on May 15, 2013
Shooting a behind the scenes video of Fall Out Boy today in their old
HAVE WE TALKED ABOUT THIS!? PART 2: GIF EDITION
Better version tumblr hated right here.
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LADIES AND GENTLEMAN THE KING OF SASS AND RIGHTEOUSNESS
dang. I actually have many mutuals with Shane Morris and a couple of friends who are signed under his management.
I was close to signing with them but I’m really glad I didn’t.
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Ten years ago today, my band released our debut album Take This To Your Grave. We were just four unsuspecting Midwestern nerds named after a moderately obscure Simpsons character, living life like the background characters in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. We were totally unprepared for everything that followed.
Up to that point in the band’s history, we were merely something to do before we were forced to give in to the pressures of real life. We saw ourselves as a pretty cool excuse for a semester off of college. My accountant mother was also the ex-wife of a musician (my dad in point of fact). She knew empirically the odds weren’t in our favor and wisely advised me to consider planning on getting a real job. Instead of taking her advice, I went ahead and recorded an album.
Take This To Your Grave began as a demo…a supremely lucky long shot lightning strike of a demo. The band was a fractured and seemingly futureless mess at the time; No drummer, having also freshly lost our most recent of many revolving door rhythm guitarists. We had all entertained the thought that our collective candle for our little pop-punk odyssey was about to flicker out when the great Sean O’keefe offered to record us. We discussed a three song demo to be recorded at the legendary Smart Studios in Madison Wisconsin. We thought “What the hell? Why not?” We didn’t even have three new songs to record, but who doesn’t love a hearty bluff?
I remember writing “Homesick at Spacecamp,” on the plane home from visiting family only days before the session.
We’d asked our friend Andy Hurley to play drums on it. He said yes…granted he could make it to Madison in time after tracking an entire album earlier that day for another band in Chicago. I actually checked drums with Sean, under the assumption that I’d have to play them. We were literally about to start my first take of “Dead On Arrival,” when in walked Andy.
I guess in a lot of ways, in walked the actual beginning of Fall Out Boy as well; From that point onward, Joe, Andy, Pete, and I were a proper band. The three songs we recorded in what felt like two days (“Dead on Arrival,” “Homesick at Spacecamp,” and “Saturday,”) would go on to become three of our most enduring, and certainly the first time any of us heard ourselves in speakers and went “Huh! We definitely don’t suck!”
It laid the groundwork for many “Huh! We don’t suck!” Moments to follow on our four subsequent albums.
So here we are, ten years, two gold and two platinum albums, three MTV VMAs, a couple Kerrang awards, and a Grammy nomination later. Hell, we just had our second Billboard number one album a couple weeks ago! I guess I can say this now: Mom, I’m sorry, but I don’t think I’m getting a real job.
Thanks to everybody who’s supported us over the years. It continues to be a crazy ride.
Love, Patrick
can you believe its been 10 years? how many miles since that first van we got off that old flower shop and slept on our amps? how many pb&j’s? how many hours spent pacing in security lines in airports? vs how many smiles and kids waiting in line- forever screaming along to the words on take this to your grave. this was a special moment in the history of FOB- if evening out with your girlfriend represented us first breaking ground as a band- TTTYG was the ribbon cutting on where we were taking off to. thanks for sticking around with us through it all. happy 10 bday TTTYG - you’re gonna be a crazy teenager one day.
Fall Out Boy: Grand Theft Autumn / Where Is Your Boy
We thought we’d end our day the same way it started - with a tribute to the 10th birthday of Fall Out Boy’s debut album, Take This To Your Grave. This album was a huge turning point in the history of Fueled By Ramen and the introduction of Fall Out Boy to music fans around the world.
I remember driving around Gainesville, Florida with Punchline and Fall Out Boy listening to the master of the album for the first time. It felt like the start of something big but I don’t think any of us knew just how big the band and their music would become.
Now 10 years since the album’s release, our friends at Property Of Zack have posted a great article on the impact and legacy of Take This To Your Grave - read it HERE.
“It’s timeless. And much like the music, the themes of the album - heartbreak, nostalgia, and youthful optimism - never go out of style.”
Happy birthday Take This To Your Grave from all of us here at Fueled By Ramen!
Adam
Mashup: Fall Out Boy vs. Wiz Khalifa - “Sugar, We Roll Up”
bananas hopes he is a gentleman @falloutboy. happy 10 years #TTTYG
Krewella x Fall Out Boy collab?
in case you missed this 3 AM post. Been a huge Krewella fan for over a year now so it’s awesome to see them doing huge things. I think the Madden brothers (Good Charlotte) are also helping out on their album coming out on Columbia.
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