Hey! I'm in this. It's so cool Patrick took the opportunity to talk to us and indulge our questions about his old bands and FOB demos. He seems like a kindred spirit in hunting down lost/rare music. Spoiler, turns out they just couldn't find the Cork Tree demos? Patrick refers to it as "misplaced media". He sings us snippets of the unreleased "We Don't Take Hits, We Write Them" and the original "Snitches and Talkers Get Stiches and Walkers", the latter of which was also teased back in the FUCT days as Myspace Whore by Pete. Thank god they never used that song title.
That was so fascinating to hear. It's rare that artists are this willing to go in depth about unreleased stuff. It's often a taboo especially for acts that have suffered damage from leaks at some point in their career. Makes me feel like the tides changed regarding this over the past decade, or it's just easier to bring that up when it concerns eras that are so far in the past.
Awesome job landing that interview with Patrick! I love that he gets the passion of being a die hard music fan, so it was cool to see him go with the flow and indulge in the interview. Initially I thought the band just didn’t want to unearth those FUCTS demos. Didn’t expect their omission came down to being unable to locate them, lol. Also, during that segment, it was rad to hear him still advocating for the original “Snitches” and “We Don’t Take Hits.”
I feel like this interview could've only happened in this current era of FOB in addition to what you said. Also, I think it helps we were only asking about prehiatus stuff in regard to demos! Yeah it's actually really funny but surprising they didn't manage to find a CD or something in their storage. In comparison, regarding the TTTYG demos, "Colorado Song" and "Jakus", Sean O'Keefe mentioned to us how they had legal issues trying to clear those. I'm forgetting what exactly, but something to do with labels and rights. Maybe the rest of the band will finally let Patrick put "Snitches" and "We Don't Take Hits" on a future album though
Looks like they're playing a small capacity show in SF next year. I wonder if more shows will be announced (hopefully that aren't exclusive for Wells Fargo customers) Edit: Looks like it's a Super Bowl thing LMAO
Whole Episode was officially posted on YouTube two weeks ago. Here's the playlist, the first half is Fall Out Boy songs. Sugar I Don't Care What A Catch Sophomore Slump (Patrick plays drums for this one) ------- Guessing Games Out of Touch What Becomes of the Broken Hearted.
Daryl Hall had the vibe of a tim heidecker character in 2009 great performances, makes sense that this happened in the folie era
I can’t say much but I did get invited to a work event in November and to my surprise Patrick Stump came out and played a few songs. No phones allowed, maybe 200-300 of us in the room. Very cool experience.
The day they don’t go through Manhead merch will be the day I start buying things from their store. I hate Manhead with a passion.
Agreed. They have screwed me over multiple times across multiple artists. I absolutely won't use them and will only support those artists in person
Any specific reasons why? I've had a few orders take way longer to arrive so I'm not that impressed either. I've found hello merch to be one of the more solid merch companies in the space. Any others you reccommend?
I have a feeling they’re going to let Manhead design and distribute their merch for a long time. It’s founded by someone from Crush which was their management for a while (may still be). To me, their designs are always soulless, tacky, corny, or a combination of all three. Which sucks because it wasn’t always this way. I especially loathed the deluxe 20th anniversary of FUCT vinyl bundle. God what an infuriatingly cheap-looking, shitty, money grab.
For some reason this is basically a pavlovian response for me at this point haha: the first time in Feb-Apr that the Midwest gives us non shitty weather (defined as “open the windows at all”) this record gets played immediately