TAKING BACK SUNDAY started with Eddie Reyes, punk
rock for life who was calling Long Island home in
1999. A fertile area for some of today's most (insert
synonym for promising here) advantageous, bright,
favorable, felicitous, fortunate, golden, halcyon,
happy, hopeful, lucky, opportune, propitious, prosperous,
rosy, timely, well-timed young artists, Eddie quickly
found three friends nearby with a shared musical vision
and recruited one from a little further away (current
vocalist) Adam Lazzara originally moved to NYC from
High Point, North Carolina) to play bass. After their
initial demo circulated, (insert line-up change here)
Victory Records quickly signed the band and put them
in the studio with Sal Villanueva of Thursday fame
running drills.
TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS, their debut album was released
in March 2002 and the band continued to tour, winning
fans over by their (insert synonym for exciting here)
agitative, animating, appealing, arousing, arresting,
astonishing, bracing, breathtaking, commoving, dangerous,
dramatic, electrifying, exhilarant, eye-popping, far
out, fine, flashy, groovy, hair-raising, heady, hectic,
impelling, impressive, interesting, intoxicating,
intriguing, lively, melodramatic, mind-blowing, moving,
neat, overpowering, overwhelming, provocative, racy,
rip-roaring, rousing, sensational, showy, spine-tingling,
stimulating, stirring, thrilling, titillating, wild,
zestful live shows. By the summer of that same year,
only a few short months later, shows were selling
out in advance and word of mouth continued to spread.
Sharing the stage with Boxcar Racer, The Used, Jimmy
Eat World, New Found Glory quickly followed and the
band saw less and less of home and more and more fans
dedicated to the catchy yet meaningful songwriting
layered over a unique blend of rock's best attributes.
Lyrics such as "Why can't I feel anything from
anyone other than you" taken from Cute Without
the 'E' (Cut From The Team) and "You could slit
my throat, and with my one last gasping breath I'd
apologize, for bleeding on your shirt" taken
from their upcoming single You're So Last Summer became
anthemic sing alongs with audiences quickly overpowering
stage wattage output at tour stops from coast to coast.
Believe it or not the entire band writes as well.
All of them play guitar and write melodies. No fact
checking necessary, even drummer Mark O'Connell is
very involved in the writing process.
Fast forward to spring of 2003: TAKING BACK SUNDAY
embarked on the Takeover Tour, their first national
headlining tour. Playing to (insert synonym for sold
out here) awash, brimful, brimming, busy, chock-full,
clean, close, compact, crammed, cramped, crushed,
dense, full, full house, full up, huddled, jam-packed,
jammed, loaded, lousy with, massed, mob scene, mobbed,
overflowing, packed, populous, sardined, stiff with,
stuffed, swarming, teeming, thick, thickset, thronged,
tight, topped off, wall-to-wall crowds in most of
the US and Canada (2,200 fans in Toronto when the
band had never stepped foot over the eastern border)
helped the press take notice and features in Rolling
Stone, Spin, Alternative Press (cover) and Revolver
quickly followed.
By now TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS had surpassed 200,000
records sold. The band had plans to travel to Europe
and then return to the US to spend the summer as one
of the main stage acts on the 2003 Vans Warped Tour.
(insert line-up change here) Instead they welcomed
Fred Mascherino and Matt Rubano to the mix. Mascherino
comes to Taking Back Sunday from one of their favorite
bands, Breaking Pangaea, best known for significant
college radio airplay and critical raves. Fred's strong
backing vocals, guitar virtuosity and insightful lyrics
bring an added dimension to the Taking Back Sunday
sound. New Bassist Matt Rubano is a native of Baldwin
New York and a life long friend of Mark's, so the
chemistry between the two is unmistakable. Matt has
recorded and toured with a variety of artists from
all genres of music, but is best known for his work
on Lauryn Hill's grammy winning debut, "The Miseducation
of Lauryn Hill".
Debuting the new line-up at the last three Warped
shows in Philly, NY and NJ respectively allowed the
band to dispel the rumors of a (insert synonym for
break-up here) adjourn, disassemble, disband, dismantle,
disperse, disrupt, dissolve, divide, divorce, end,
halt, part, scatter, separate, sever, split, stop,
sunder, suspend, take apart, terminate and allowed
TAKING BACK SUNDAY to blast through songs from the
record and introduce some new ones which received
a more than favorable review from fans and press alike.
Their third video for You're So Last Summer will feature
a guest appearance by Public Enemy's Flavor Flav.
Why you ask? "Why not," would be their reply,
there are no rules.
In late summer the band will play some scattered
festivals and radio shows, play a benefit with Blink-182
for cancer striken pro-surfer Jason Bogle in a 1,500
capacity club in San Diego, make their network television
debut on Jimmy Kimmel live (September 9) then head
back out across the nation with Saves the Day in the
Fall. The fans have waiting patiently. They will not
be (insert synonym for disappointed here) aghast,
balked, beaten, blue funk, cast down, chapfallen,
complaining, defeated, depressed, despondent, disconcerted,
discontented, discouraged, disenchanted, disgruntled,
disillusioned, dissatisfied, distressed, down, downhearted,
foiled, frustrated, hopeless, let down, objecting,
shot down, taken down, thwarted, unhappy, unsatisfied,
upset, vanquished, worsted.
Band description courtesy of Luckymanonline.com
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