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| Fall Out Boy's Dark Dimension | ||
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| Topic Started: Nov 17 2006, 04:18 PM (33 Views) | ||
| thatmanckid | Nov 17 2006, 04:18 PM Post #1 | |
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Inteview and Story from Rock Sound![]() Selling a million records is great right? Fame, power, money, fans and importance are just a few of the good things that will come your way as the albums fly out the door. Cannot imagine it being that hard really, or is it? Fall Out Boy have been dealing with the fame dilemma as the bug has bitten hard in the past twelve months. In LA (of all places) Rock Sound caught up with vocalist and guitarist Patrick Stump and bassist Pete Wentz to discuss the other side of fame...the dark side of a million records. Rock Sound: How has been the adaptation to fame in its various forms, it must be difficult to rationalise the person you think you are with the person the media wants you to be? Patrick Stump: It’s like there are certain behaviours that are thrust on you, and you are damned if you do and damned if you don’t. I don’t think of us as famous, I know Pete’s face is all over everything but I only see him as some asshole that hangs out with me. The way you see yourself versus the way people see you is massively different at times. This whole thing came up because a journalist recently asked me why we do encores. I had no idea what to say to her; if we do one you will be mad at us for doing an encore and being rock stars, if we don’t do one you will be mad because we didn’t do enough songs. We could have played twenty songs but because we did not do the encore we are short-changing you. If we played nineteen then did an encore twentieth then those people would have been satisfied even though it’s exactly the same. Pete Wentz: if you display a behaviour that is consistent with the way people want to see you then you will get tarred with it. PS: If you do enough research you can prove that Paul McCartney is dead even though he is not, there are things that people want to believe whatever the actual truth is. Supposedly I am the shy and nice one, but I am way more extroverted than I ever was before and I am an asshole. He is the asshole that is out there all over the place but he is a way nicer dude. PW: No one writes that story dude, I will say a thousand times that Patrick is my golden ticket, my lottery ticket that he is a genius. Then in the story I read all they do is try and stir up that the band has animosity in it and whether we did display that or not, people have stories they want to write or want to tell. When we are in a vacuum, when it’s the four of us on a bus, or the four of us at Chucky Cheese like it was the other night and its fucking awesome, we are not weird at all. But then someone comes in with this fucking agenda and it all changes. RS: The pre and misconceptions that people have about you as people and as a band must be hard to deal with? PS: I have two things on that, one is how everyone sees Pete as a mogul… PW: Yeah, I’m totally a mogul even though I got up at 11.30 this morning. I’m not a very good one. PS: At the end of the day, if this dude was just into making money there are far better and easier ways to do it. He signed Panic because he liked Panic, it was one of those things that he wanted to be involved in or whatever. People say whatever they want about us, that there is tension in the band or this or that, if you want anything proven about our band go and fucking see us live. If you want to see us in our most natural state and enjoying ourselves that is where it will be. RS: Pete, do you find the attention difficult, like it detracts away from the band? PW: It is hard because a lot of times I will purposefully be on the backburner for an interview or stand at the side of a shot. I mean I am a talkative person in general but I will force myself to shut up to give everyone else room and to give the press something else to write about. But I also find myself overcompensating because I get super nervous about it and I don’t want the band to think I am being awkward. RS: It must be tough to self police to that level… PW: I feel like half the time when I am talking and writing online that all it is is damage control. All I do is explain this bit of press or this incident. What’s more frustrating is when people who interview us think they are getting the real story but what they are actually doing is chopping up and dissecting what we say until it does not mean anything more. PS: It is hard for this band sometimes as there is such momentum behind things that are essentially lies, this dude is not a mogul he is a dude. Yeah he has interests and he occasionally does things but whatever, I am also so sick to death of reading about the time this dude got sick. We all know; we were all there. It does detract from the stuff he writes as they are trying to read it all into what he is doing. Take the words for the words. PW: To me, I feel a small part guilty as you put so much of what you feel out there and then people start reading that into the art and over analyzing it. At that point you cannot digest what this band is doing as it loses all semblance of meaning. RS: People think they know you too well, yet they don’t… PS: People have to remember that our second record was us learning to write, it came from a lot of different places. Know we are at a point where we do it so well that writing a song between the two of us is like a phonecall. It is expressed between the two of us, we do not have to constantly ask each other if we like it or not. I think the next record will give a clearer indication of who we are and where we are at. Better than a lot of the articles you read about this band. <3 xxx |
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| Sinion Kabe | Nov 17 2006, 04:38 PM Post #2 | |
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Yeah. Fall Out Boy are becomming really well known. | |
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| thatmanckid | Nov 18 2006, 12:00 PM Post #3 | |
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I know, my second favourite band, I fucking <3 them From playing in small town basements to big Network stages, it's impressive |
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| MissBehavin | Nov 18 2006, 01:26 PM Post #4 | |
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Wh!p La$h W0nd3r
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they all look short in that photo lol. ive heared of em but i aint heared any of there songs i dont fink | |
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| thatmanckid | Nov 18 2006, 01:56 PM Post #5 | |
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http://www.purevolume.com/falloutboy <3 xxx |
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