The story goes that the band didn't have a name when it played its first gig, and it asked the audience to provide one.
April 9, 2007 (Press Release) --
Beginnings
Fall Out Boy's story starts in suburban Wilmette with a combination hard-core punk/thrash-metal band called Arma Angelus that featured Wentz on growled Cookie Monster vocals; at various points, Hurley and Trohman were also members. Stump was drumming in another band back then, but he wanted to sing, and in 2000 he and Wentz formed a new group to play a more melodic brand of hard-core punk.
Somebody shouted "Fallout Boy," after an inside joke on "The Simpsons," where the character is the sidekick of a superhero called Radioactive Man. It stuck, and the quartet recorded its first thoroughly generic and generally lousy album in 2003, "Fall Out Boy's Evening With Your Girlfriend."
Stump was still playing rhythm guitar at the time, and the debut featured a different drummer. The group now erases that disc from its history by saying that the band didn't really start until Hurley came onboard for the second album, "Take This to Your Grave," issued later in 2003.
Here, the Fall Out Boy sound as we now know it began to take shape, with hard-driving rhythms and melodic, anthemic choruses distinguished by Stump's rich baritone and Wentz's witty and literate lyrics. The wordy puns and metaphors are what prompted some critics to brand the band "emo," but that tag never really fit: Though Wentz can be as dark and overly sensitive as any of emo's bedroom bards, he's always had a piercing sense of humor, and the band boasts more speed, volume and melody than the most rambunctious emo band.
Playing through the pain
In 2005, Wentz, who'd struggled with emotional problems as a teen, attempted suicide with an overdose of the anti-anxiety drug Ativan. He has told the story often, and it provides another clue to the band's appeal: Fans living through their own turbulent teenage years relate to the bassist as someone who's been there, emerging to not only talk but laugh about it all.
Recorded while Wentz was climbing out of the black hole through therapy, and with cover art depicting a van accident that beset the group during its constant touring, "From Under the Cork Tree" is an album about persevering in the face of trying times. The song "7 Minutes in Heaven (Atavan Halen)" stands as the most obvious reference to Wentz's overdose, but it was another tune that hit hardest: "Sugar, We're Goin Down." Both that single and the follow-up "Dance, Dance" peaked at No. 6 on Billboard's singles chart at a time when hip-hop, R&B and dance-pop ruled the Top 40.
"I like proving people wrong," Wentz said as we talked in Smart Bar below Metro. "I remember when the label came to us about 'Sugar, We're Goin Down' -- and it was the same with 'Dance, Dance' -- and they were like, 'This is never going to be a hit.
Source: http://www.msn.com
Fall Out Boy's story starts in suburban Wilmette with a combination hard-core punk/thrash-metal band called Arma Angelus that featured Wentz on growled Cookie Monster vocals; at various points, Hurley and Trohman were also members. Stump was drumming in another band back then, but he wanted to sing, and in 2000 he and Wentz formed a new group to play a more melodic brand of hard-core punk.
Somebody shouted "Fallout Boy," after an inside joke on "The Simpsons," where the character is the sidekick of a superhero called Radioactive Man. It stuck, and the quartet recorded its first thoroughly generic and generally lousy album in 2003, "Fall Out Boy's Evening With Your Girlfriend."
Stump was still playing rhythm guitar at the time, and the debut featured a different drummer. The group now erases that disc from its history by saying that the band didn't really start until Hurley came onboard for the second album, "Take This to Your Grave," issued later in 2003.
Here, the Fall Out Boy sound as we now know it began to take shape, with hard-driving rhythms and melodic, anthemic choruses distinguished by Stump's rich baritone and Wentz's witty and literate lyrics. The wordy puns and metaphors are what prompted some critics to brand the band "emo," but that tag never really fit: Though Wentz can be as dark and overly sensitive as any of emo's bedroom bards, he's always had a piercing sense of humor, and the band boasts more speed, volume and melody than the most rambunctious emo band.
Playing through the pain
In 2005, Wentz, who'd struggled with emotional problems as a teen, attempted suicide with an overdose of the anti-anxiety drug Ativan. He has told the story often, and it provides another clue to the band's appeal: Fans living through their own turbulent teenage years relate to the bassist as someone who's been there, emerging to not only talk but laugh about it all.
Recorded while Wentz was climbing out of the black hole through therapy, and with cover art depicting a van accident that beset the group during its constant touring, "From Under the Cork Tree" is an album about persevering in the face of trying times. The song "7 Minutes in Heaven (Atavan Halen)" stands as the most obvious reference to Wentz's overdose, but it was another tune that hit hardest: "Sugar, We're Goin Down." Both that single and the follow-up "Dance, Dance" peaked at No. 6 on Billboard's singles chart at a time when hip-hop, R&B and dance-pop ruled the Top 40.
"I like proving people wrong," Wentz said as we talked in Smart Bar below Metro. "I remember when the label came to us about 'Sugar, We're Goin Down' -- and it was the same with 'Dance, Dance' -- and they were like, 'This is never going to be a hit.
Source: http://www.msn.com
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