Taking Back Sunday
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| Background information | ||
| Origin | Amityville, Long Island, New York | |
| Genre(s) | Alternative Rock Pop Punk |
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| Years active | 1999–Present | |
| Label(s) | Warner Bros. Records Victory Records |
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| Website | http://www.takingbacksunday.com/ | |
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| Adam Lazzara Fred Mascherino Eddie Reyes Mark O'Connell Matt Rubano |
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| Former members | ||
| John Nolan Shaun Cooper Antonio Longo Jesse Lacey |
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Taking Back Sunday is a rock band from Amityville, Long Island, New York. The current members are Adam Lazzara, Fred Mascherino, Eddie Reyes, Mark O'Connell, and Matt Rubano. [1]
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[edit] Biography
Their first release came in 2001 with the Taking Back Sunday EP, and featured Antonio Longo on vocals, John Nolan on guitar and backing vocals, Eddie Reyes on guitar (the original founder of the band), Jesse Lacey on bass, and Mark O'Connell on drums. This CD was distributed at Taking Back Sunday shows, but never achieved any noteworthy success. Following a change of lineup (Antonio Longo to Adam Lazzara and Jesse Lacey to Shaun Cooper) they released the follow-up album Tell All Your Friends, which was produced by Sal Villaneuva. The album gave the band a first taste of success in the scene. After the release, they played with bands such as Brand New and The Used, as well as performing as a short stint on the 2003 Vans Warped Tour. Another change in their lineup occurred when singer/guitarist John Nolan and bassist Shaun Cooper left the band and formed what is now Straylight Run. Because of these departures, the band's future was in doubt for some time. However, with the additions of guitarist/vocalist Fred Mascherino and bassist Matt Rubano, the band became stabilized.
2004 proved to be successful for Taking Back Sunday, with the band opening for Blink-182 and being one of the main headliners for the Vans Warped Tour. In addition, their second album, titled Where You Want To Be, was released on July 27, 2004 on Victory Records. This album had a different sound than Tell All Your Friends. 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 sales of around 163,000 copies. Taking Back Sunday received even more mainstream exposure by appearing (on the day of Where You Want to Be's release) on the late night talk shows Jimmy Kimmel Live and Loveline, and by 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 Four soundtrack and tie-in video game, where it served as Mr. Fantastic's theme. An instrumental version is also used as background music within the game.
On April 25, 2006, Taking Back Sunday released their third album, entitled Louder Now, on Warner Bros. Records. It nearly mirrors the first two albums in style and message, yet delivers with a more polished sound. Louder Now was leaked onto the Internet in its entirety on April 19, 2006. Taking Back Sunday received mainstream exposure by appearing on the late night talk shows The Tonight Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, and Late Night With Conan O'Brien.
In April 2006, Taking Back Sunday took part in the 2-day "Give It a Name" indoor rock festival in England. The band played at Manchester Evening News Arena on Saturday, April 29 and London Earls Court on Sunday, April 30. During the first song of their set at the Earls Court show, Adam Lazzara kissed Matt Rubano on the lips. Later on during the festival he hit Matt while swinging his microphone and knocked him out cold. He was rushed backstage for medical treatment. Rubano later returned to the stage sporting a large head-bandage and a noticeable amount of blood on his face. During his absence, the band carried on playing with the help of Aiden's guitarist Angel Ibarra. Following his return to the stage, Rubano continued to play while sitting down. In a less noted incident, during the band's last song at the MEN show, the pedal to the bass drum broke, and the band had to stall whilst a replacement was found and installed.
The band released the follow-up single to MakeDamnSure, Twenty-Twenty Surgery, on August 21 2006 in the UK. The video depicts Lazzara as Johnny Cash.
Taking Back Sunday embarked on their North American Tour on February 22, 2007 at Bryce Jordan Center in University Park, PA with supporting bands Underoath and Armor for Sleep. This tour was sort of a throw back where they featured older songs from previous albums, and they played the song "Brooklyn (If You See Something, Say Something)" for the first time live.
In April 2007 they will be supporting Lostprophets on their UK arena tour
[edit] Band members
- Adam Lazzara — vocals, additional guitar
- Fred Mascherino — guitar, vocals
- Eddie Reyes — guitar
- Mark O'Connell — drums
- Matt Rubano — bass
[edit] Former members
- John Nolan (1999-2003) -guitar/vocals/piano
- Shaun Cooper (1999-2003) - bass
- Antonio Longo (original lead singer, only featured on TBS demo)
- Stevie D. [2] (original drummer, only featured on TBS demo who is now in "Midgets On Stilts")
- Jesse Lacey, bass, backing vocals
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
| Album Cover | Date of Release | Title | Label |
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March 26, 2002 | Tell All Your Friends | Victory Records |
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July 27, 2004 | Where You Want to Be | Victory Records |
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April 25, 2006 |
Louder Now | Warner Bros. Records |
[edit] Early EPs/Demos
| Album Cover | Date of Release | Title | Label |
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2001 | Taking Back Sunday EP | Independent |
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2001 | Lullaby EP | Independent |
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2002 | Taking Back Sunday Demo | I Will End You Records |
[edit] DVDs
| Album Cover | Date of Release | Title | Label |
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2006 | The Louder Now DVD: Partone | Warner Bros. Records |
[edit] Videography
- Timberwolves At New Jersey (2002) (Unreleased—the video can be found on the special edit of Tell All Your Friends)
- Great Romances Of The 20th Century (2002)
- Cute Without The 'E' (Cut From The Team) (2003)
- You're So Last Summer (2003)
- A Decade Under the Influence (2004) #16 US Modern Rock
- This Photograph is Proof (I Know You Know) (2005)
- Set Phasers to Stun (2005)
- MakeDamnSure (2006) #48 US Hot 100, #8 US Modern Rock
- Twenty-Twenty Surgery" (2006) #60 UK
- Liar (It Takes One To Know One) (2006) #83 UK, #21 US Modern Rock
[edit] Trivia
- The song "There's No 'I' in Team" off of Tell All Your Friends is a response to the Brand New song "Seventy Times Seven" off Your Favorite Weapon. The songs are rumoured to be written about the time that John Nolan (ex-TBS) slept with his best friend Jesse Lacey's girlfriend. An all-out fight ensued, and the two didn't speak for years. They eventually made up, and the songs expressing their sides of the story were put on their respective albums. Brand New has been known to change the lyrics of "Seventy Times Seven" to the TBS version from time to time, and John Nolan has appeared with Brand New to sing the song as a duet with Jesse. Jesse has also appeared with TBS to sing "There's No 'I' in Team", but has not since John Nolan left the band to form Straylight Run. [3]. The force behind John Nolan's decision to leave the band has been publicly stated by John as being due to "artistic differences". He claims that the band was not moving in the direction that he felt suited his musical preferences. However, it is widely believed that his departure was due to Lazzara cheating on Michelle Nolan (John's sister) while they were dating and Adam was on the road, touring.
- TBS guest starred as themselves on The-N/CTV's teen drama Degrassi: The Next Generation in the episode "What's It Feel Like To Be a Ghost? Part 2" which is named after the song on their 2006 album Louder Now
- Taking Back Sunday was featured on Degrassi: The Next Generation. The episode, "What's It Feel Like to Be a Ghost Pt. 2", will feature the character Craig Manning. The band was also featured in one of the miniature online webisodes called "Degrassi Mini's". This information has been confirmed by Stephen Stohn, the show's Executive Producer. The episode premiered on Friday, January 12 on The N.
- "Spin," from the album Louder Now is featured on the NFL Football video game Madden 07, which was released August 22, 2006
- Taking Back Sunday was nominated for the MTV2 Award in the 2006 VMAs, but lost to 30 Seconds To Mars.
- The music video, Liar (It takes One To Know One), was the first one in which Taking Back Sunday performed with a Green Screen
[edit] External links
- Official website
- Taking Back Sunday's Official MySpace
- Taking Back Sunday's Official Youtube
- Interview with Eddie
- Live Pictures in Edmonton
- TBSUnion.com Fansite always updated
| Taking Back Sunday |
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| Adam Lazzara | Fred Mascherino | Eddie Reyes | Mark O'Connell | Matt Rubano |
| John Nolan | Shaun Cooper | Antonio Longo | Jesse Lacey |
| Albums |
| Tell All Your Friends (2002) | Where You Want to Be (2004) | Louder Now (2006) |
| EPs |
| Taking Back Sunday EP (2001) | Lullaby EP (2001) | Taking Back Sunday Demo (2002) | A Decade Under the Influence EP (2004) | Liar (It Takes One to Know One) EP (2006) |
| Live CD's |
| Taking Back Sunday/Angels and Airwaves/Head Automatica/The Subway Promotional CD (2006) |
