Taking Back Sunday Band • Page 515

I still think they should take the time to learn Swing and bust it out as a deep cut at like a holiday show. They'd have to lose a Louder Now song off the setlist though, probably. (Or just completely forgo representing self titled and tidal wave again, more likely)

 

I’ll never forget in 2013 when they randomly busted Catholic Knees out during their fall tour that year before Happiness Is was released. That setlist also included Flicker Fade, Best Places, Slowdance, Call Me in the Morning, 20 20 Surgery and Beat Up Car. Possibly my favorite set I’ve ever seen from them.

 

The band can and should play whatever they want to. But it doesn’t seem like it’s a record they feel like their crowd would be that into based on their sets over the years. Minus EMG, as they do play it on occasion. That seems to be the only real exception.

Plus, officially now, only one member on stage was involved with that album. Doesn’t mean they shouldn’t or can’t play anything off of it, but (assuming Fred is playing with them) every other album will have at least 2 people from any other album and they’d be more likely to want to play those together.

 

Legend has it that the first show of this tour also got Lonely, Lonely, and prior to 2014, I think My Blue Heaven was also only made appearances every once in a while but I can't remember if it was on this tour or not. Beat Up Car being debuted live so far in advanced and then rarely getting played in more recent years is always crazy to me.

That tour was the last time I felt l like they actually pulled out "deep cuts" on a tour. For the most part (the past summer with most of the 152 being on the setlist excluded) the setlist has been rather consistent. And I get that when you've been touring as consistently as they have and know most of the crowd wants to hear the older things, you accommodate those folks, but it would be nice to hear a bit of a variety in setlists.

That's in part why the holiday shows are fun because they do tend to play a song or two that doesn't regularly get played.

 

I can definitely imagine this playing in the radio. Also, somehow I never noticed those Beach Boys-esque backing vocals. It's a nice touch!

 

I'm in the middle of watching this Live from Orensanz thing, and it just hit me that Adam is the only one from this lineup still in the band haha. crazy.

 

Me realizing that you can now say the same for WYWTB and LN, unless you count Fred again. Which may be a fair thing to do.

 

Only one remains...

 

They played catholic knees and lonely lonely with John???

 

Yup! And it ruled. At least Catholic Knees did. I think they only did Lonely Lonely for 2 shows on that tour

 

Guys, I was just joking about Antonio because he jumped into the beef on reddit or insta last week seemingly out of the blue. I hardly doubt he's actually going to be involved in any way.

 

how have i never seen this

 

Hell yea i always felt like John wound have crushed that song

 

TBS performing on a show that was hosted by Alex Turner's then-girlfriend is still wild to me, as a TBS and AM fan.

 

I always regret not going to see them back then. They played with Anberlin on that headlining tour and god I was such an idiot. At the time I was like “oh the shows over 30 bucks so that’s expensive for shows so I won’t go”. What a dumbie

 

“I’ve got a strong will but weak hands and I don’t know what to do with either one of them” is just fucking speak Adam lyrics

 

love the song so much

 

said it before and I’ll say it again in this thread, it’s their best album

 

I went to one of the Anberlin shows with fun. opening which is wild to think about in hindsight. They didn't tour a lot with that version of the line up (a few small runs prior to New Again dropping, then that summer tour with Envy on the Coast, some time out with Blink-182, and maybe a tour with AAR? in the states)


Of all the iterations of this band I've seen, I do think as far as stage presence goes (maybe not on a technical skill level), the most recent version with John and Shaun has been my favorite. There's something about the banter between Adam and John, or even the way Adam interacts with Shaun and Nathan on stage that just was missing when I saw them with the New Again line up. (I saw a couple of shows during the Louder Now cycle but don't remember much of what happened on stage so much as the Nassau Coliseum barricade thing)

 

Last time I saw them was the coin flip of louder now/WYWTB and Adam said he still uses an IPhone 5

 

Yep they definitely did a co-headlining arena tour with All American Rejects the Fall after New Again came out. I went to that show, and even though I was piss drunk I remember thinking the stage banter was lacking. Also remember TBS closed my show and there seemed to be a decent amount of people gone after AAR played.
Before that they did a leg of Blink's reunion tour. I went to two nights of that and both damn shows I got there late just as TBS were starting their last song....but I do remember both nights the people around me complaining that TBS seemed different than usual.

 

First time I saw them was in 2002 with Brand New and Rufio at a tiny place with a stage like one or two feet high. And it was like $10. NO BIG DEAL.

 

Not sure if this has been mentioned yet or not, but when comparing that statement against everything he posted/said over the last week or so and how different the overall tone is - it makes me wonder if TBS' management and legal team stepped in and made some sort of agreement between both parties that benefitted mark to stop all of the wild tagging/posts.

I haven't been following it super closely, so this idea doesn't mean much if he's already back to his usual reddit/IG posts, but something about the change of tone makes me think the "higher ups" got involved to some degree.

 

John Nolan’s mom in the comments: “sorry to see you go.”