Saves The Day Band • Page 15

Chris, definitely.

E: the credits just say Saves the Day but there are plenty of instances of Chris saying how he wrote a song

 

Really? You think David didn't write much of the actual guitar work? I'm not doubting you, just wondering if there's proof of that

 

Oh I'm not doubting his contributions, like I'm sure he wrote leads and that they all helped with arrangements, but in terms of rhythm guitar I am pretty sure most of those were Chris. One source is a few pages back (I think it's this thread) a user posted a track by track of IR by Chris where he says what a song is about and sometimes about the actual songwriting. And I'm p sure about reading how Chris writes vocal melodies and then adds chord progressions to them which is why I also think it was mostly him.

 

Oh I would definitely say so. At the least copious amounts of smoking dope.

 

This band needs to tour soon.

 

Would sure be nice! I'd love to see them, missed them when they came through on that tbc 15 year

 

They're the only band I know that plays long, diverse sets every night.

 

I'd love to watch them live :(

 

Re: Chris writing the guitar parts, I don't doubt that he wrote a lot of them, not just on In Reverie but on all their albums. Years and years ago, I wanna say in, like, 2006, Alternative Press ran an oral history of Saves The Day that covered their career from the beginning up through when Sound the Alarm was coming out. In that oral history someone (it might have been Rob Schnapf talking about Stay What You Are or Steve Evetts talking about Through Being Cool) said how it was crazy that they didn't have the best guitar player in the band (Chris) actually playing on the record. So I don't doubt that Chris has always been heavily involved in writing the guitars on the albums.

 

That's cool. Yeah, it's not like Chris just randomly picked up a guitar one day after SWYA and started learning, that dude knew how to jam

 

For anyone interested, this:

#214 - Hawthorne Heights - Magazine - Alternative Press

...was the issue and THIS:



...was the cover haha

 

That cover is yikes

 

I wanna know what their When We Were Young Fest setlist was. Same with alk3. Neither are on setlist.fm. Sadness.

 

I honestly kinda surprised the fest still happened, it was such a complete disaster in the last few weeks/month leading up to it

 

Most bands aren't. Very disappointed

 

In what way? Did some bands drop off or something?

 

No, the venue fucked up once again. I don't think anyone was buying tickets, and they flailed. Weekend passes were $200 when they first went on sale, then a few months later they released daily tickets for like $90 and $75, essentially meaning early birds got ripped off. And then the tickets ended up on Goldstar, where tickets go to die, and weekend passes were only $75 for the last week. So there was a ton of rage from people who rushed to get $200 tickets in the beginning, and then prices went way way down. Among other things, but that was the biggest

 

That brings up an interesting thing....what people are willing to pay for an indie/pop/hip-hop festival vs. a pop-punk one.

 

Very true

 

311 is good about this too. Much different band of course

 

I do think a fair amount is the venue itself though. They had two festivals that were complete and utter disasters, it's the main reason I didn't get tickets honestly, and I couldn't be the only one. Yes, I think there is a big genre discussion there, but this specifically I think there is more

 

It's rare from what I've seen. Much respect to the bands that do it.

 

I think we are also reaching some level of festival saturation.

 

Agreed. So many bands just rehearse the same songs and play the same set nightly.

 

As a diehard Phish fan, I wish bands in our scene would mix up sets a lot more. Many bands don't have the back catalog necessary to make this possible, but some bands are definitely guilty of it. I've seen Bayside 20+ times over the years and the lack of setlist diversity kills me.