Taking Back Sunday

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Taking Back Sunday
Taking Back Sunday performing on the Projekt Revolution tour in Boston, Massachusetts on August 24, 2007
Taking Back Sunday performing on the Projekt Revolution tour in Boston, Massachusetts on August 24, 2007
Background information
Origin Amityville, Long Island, New York
Genre(s) Alternative rock[1]
Years active 1999–Present
Label(s) Warner Bros. Records
Victory Records
Website http://www.takingbacksunday.com/
Members
Adam Lazzara
Matt Fazzi
Eddie Reyes
Mark O'Connell
Matt Rubano
Former members
Fred Mascherino
John Nolan
Shaun Cooper
Antonio Longo
Jesse Lacey
Steven DeJoseph

Taking Back Sunday is an alternative rock band from Amityville, New York, Long Island, New York. The current members are Adam Lazzara, Matt Fazzi, Eddie Reyes, Mark O'Connell and Matt Rubano. On October 4, 2007, it was announced that Fred Mascherino would be permanently leaving the band to work on his solo project, The Color Fred.

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[edit] History

[edit] Early years

Taking Back Sunday originally formed in 1999 with Antonio Longo on lead vocals, Jesse Lacey (now lead singer/guitarist of Brand New) on bass and backing vocals, John Nolan (now lead singer of Straylight Run) on guitar, Eddie Reyes on guitar, and Stevie D. on drums. Their first release was the Taking Back Sunday EP. However, in the middle of recording the EP, the band went through a lineup change. Lacey left the band to play for The Rookie Lot and was replaced by Adam Lazzara, and Mark O'Connell replaced Stevie D on drums. The five-song EP was finally released in February 2001; though distributed at shows, the EP never got noteworthy success.[2]

By the time their first album was released, Taking Back Sunday would again go through a major lineup change. After Longo was forced to leave the band, Reyes moved Adam Lazzara to lead vocals and then recruited Shaun Cooper to play bass. The resulting lineup would remain in place for the first album, Tell All Your Friends in Spring of 2001.

[edit] Independent success

The band released their first full album Tell All Your Friends, produced by Sal Villanueva for Victory Records in 2002. Tell All Your Friends gave the band a small taste of success in the alternative rock spotlight.

The album cover is a picture of an off-ramp, marked by a sign bearing the words "Exit 152", signifying the exit sign where they met their friends. The number has appeared on every album cover to date.

In 2003, Taking Back Sunday almost broke up when guitarist and back-up vocalist John Nolan, as well as bassist Shaun Cooper, left the band to form Straylight Run. The loss of John and Shaun put the already unstable band into a state of heightened tension, and delayed shooting for the band's next video, "You're So Last Summer". However, with the addition of guitarist/vocalist Fred Mascherino, formerly of Breaking Pangaea, and session bassist Matt Rubano, the band stabilized, and they were able to complete the music video.

The year 2004 proved to be successful for Taking Back Sunday, as the band opening for Blink-182 and co-headlining the Vans Warped Tour. In addition, their second album, titled Where You Want to Be, was released on July 27, 2004, on Victory Records. Although sounding slightly different from Tell All Your Friends, the new album managed to do well commercially. Propelled by the single "A Decade Under the Influence", Where You Want to Be went on to debut at the #3 spot on the Billboard 200 albums chart, with around 163,000 copies sold.

Taking Back Sunday received even more mainstream exposure by appearing (on the day of Where You Want to Be's release) on late night talk shows Jimmy Kimmel Live! and Loveline, as well as contributing the song "This Photograph Is Proof (I Know You Know)" to the soundtrack for Spider-Man 2. They also contributed the song "Your Own Disaster" to the Elektra soundtrack, and the original version of "Error: Operator" to both the Fantastic 4 soundtrack and its tie-in video game, where it served as Mr. Fantastic's theme. An instrumental version is also used as background music in the game. In 2007, the band contributed the song "What's It Feel Like to Be a Ghost?" to the soundtrack for Transformers, although the song did not appear in the movie. Also, the band was featured in Tony Hawks American Wasteland when they remade the Descendents song "Suburban Home."

[edit] Major label debut

On April 25, 2006, Taking Back Sunday released their third album, entitled Louder Now, on Warner Bros. Records. The band's comments on the album reflected the dramatic change the band had undergone in the two years since their last release. Lazzara stated that fans seemed to feel their live shows had more energy than their recordings, and that Louder Now brought more of that across.

Taking Back Sunday received mainstream exposure by appearing on the late night talk shows The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and Late Night with Conan O'Brien, as well as the teen drama Degrassi: The Next Generation.

In December 2006, the band released its first DVD documentary, Louder Now: PartOne, featuring behind-the-scenes tour footage and four live concert videos. Following months of touring to support Louder Now, Taking Back Sunday appeared in the American leg of Live Earth on July 7, 2007. During the summer of 2007, Taking Back Sunday was also a part of Linkin Park's Projekt Revolution tour, along with My Chemical Romance, HIM, and many other bands. During the tour, Mark O'Connell was diagnosed with a herniated disc, and for the first time in eight years they used a replacement drummer.

On October 30, 2007, the band's former record label, Victory Records, released Notes From The Past, which featured four songs from Tell All Your Friends, six songs from Where You Want to Be, and two B-sides: "The Ballad of Sal Villanueva" and "Your Own Disaster '04". The band then released Louder Now: PartTwo on November 20, 2007, a DVD of unreleased live concert footage from their show at Long Beach Arena in Los Angeles, as well as special features such as the video for "Twenty-Twenty Surgery" that was made for Europe. The DVD was packaged with a companion CD featuring eight live tracks, two B-sides that were previously unreleased in America, and a special "Twelve Days of Christmas" track.

[edit] Departure of Fred Mascherino

In October 2007, the band announced that the next studio album would be missing the vocals of Fred Mascherino, who will now be focusing exclusively on his solo career. On their website, the band said:

“ After four great years and two successful gold albums together, Fred has decided to leave Taking Back Sunday to pursue his solo career. We wish him well and we are working on the next Taking Back Sunday album as we speak.

We wanted to let you guys know and then get back to working on the music. No drama, just riffs.

On that note, Fred's album The Color Fred's BEND TO BREAK is coming out on October 30.

The Louder Now Parttwo CD/DVD is coming out November 20. You want webisodes, we got webisodes. You want unreleased live videos? Got that too. Lots of bonus features and behind the scenes goodies on this one. More on that soon.

The next Taking Back Sunday album is in its very early stages. As always, we will be updating you on that as we go along.[3]
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Mascherino stated in an interview that the main reasons for his departure were the band's musical direction along with their tumultuous history.[4]


[edit] Upcoming Album and New Member

In a blog on the band's official website, bassist Matt Rubano revealed that the band had 12 new songs written for their upcoming album. However, the band still does not know who will produce the album.

On May 5, 2008, Taking Back Sunday officially revealed that its new member was Matt Fazzi (guitar and vocals), previously of Facing New York. The band played its first show with Matt that day at The Crazy Donkey in Farmingdale, NY. The show was a surprise event and announced through a blog on the band's MySpace page. The band booked the venue under a different name, Lance Striker and the Rockoholics, as a joke. That show gave them a chance to reveal the new guitarist before playing with My Chemical Romance at Madison Square Garden on May 9.

At the May 5 show, it was also revealed that bassist, Matt Rubano, would be a third singer for the band.

Also during the May 5 show, the band played two new songs (presumably from their yet-to-be-recorded album). Adam Lazzara confirmed the title of the second song as "That Is Quite Enough" (while only introducing the first new song they played as "a new song"). According to Adam, that night was the first time they had played their new material for an audience. However, jokingly, Adam said they had played one of the new songs for his dad who said it was "cool".

On May 6, 2008 the band made a surprise appearance opening for My Chemical Romance at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia (they were listed as "Special Guest" on the marquee and even came onstage wearing masks, not revealing themselves until the start of their first song) so no one in the audience had any idea they would be performing until they revealed themselves onstage.

[edit] Members

[edit] Discography

Main article: Taking Back Sunday discography

[edit] Albums

[edit] EPs

[edit] Compilation

[edit] Live

[edit] Appearances in soundtracks

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/March05/Jimmy.eat.world.html
  2. ^ www.mtv.com/music/artist/taking_back_sunday/artist.jhtml#bio.
  3. ^ MySpace Bulletin, October 4, 2007
  4. ^ www.mtv.com/news/articles/1571245/20071004/taking_back_sunday.jhtml.

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