Taking Back Sunday - 152 (October 27, 2023) Album • Page 99

I mean really this just means that Eddie, Mark, Matt, Fred, and Fazzi could you know, do a thing. They have all the instruments covered now.

Taking Back Taking Back Sunday

 

And they just do Receiving End of Sirens covers since they have 3 guitarists and 3 singers.

 

Who is the third singer in that lineup? In this completely nonsense fabricated scenario, I was picturing Fazzi being the frontman (Adam parts) and just playing aux stuff, except for acoustic songs. But of course he can play whatever he wants because he's amazing.

 

this is probably the best succinct summary though I think a lot of the information that we have might be a bit biased simply because the band themselves don’t really speak publicly about a lot of this.

I know in one of those recent oral history books of the scene (the MySpace ones I think), for example, Eddie talked about the band supporting him financially through his first attempt at rehab. I’m not saying they were right to cut ties with him after he relapsed, but something tells me that Eddie’s version of whatever happened following that might not factor in their feelings, things he may have done and said to them, and their version of the truth. It feels a bit more nuanced than him getting left behind simply because of his struggles.

I can see some of the hypocrisy maybe in terms of taking a brand deal with a distillery, but not because of anything to do with Eddie. He’s no longer in the band. I don’t make my work decisions with former coworkers in mind (though I realize this isn’t exactly the same thing; bands do function a little differently).

In my opinion though, anything Eddie said that might have had any value went right out the window the moment he mentioned somebody else’s substance abuse issues in his post.

He’s since deleted it, anyway.

 

Rubano sings a bit, mostly backups and harmonies

 

obviously multiple sides to the story and there is a lot we don’t know, but prior to his departure, it seemed like they gave him a really long runway to clean himself up. If i recall there were a couple years where he was MIA.

 

i wasnt aware that adam got sober, good on him.

 

That sounds right. He was hit or miss in 2016 after the Tidal Wave release, but I think they said he missed some of those shows due to a family member being sick? And I remember having a conversation with somebody about how they didn’t know until a day or two before their 2017 tour with ETID that he wouldn’t be out with them, but he showed up at the holiday shows that year. I don’t remember when they announced he was out officially, just that it felt like a while of not hearing anything about it.

 

He mentioned it offhand in a podcast I think, but otherwise isn’t really public with it. He’s not really public with much though, admittedly. But it makes the sparkling water brand deal make a bit more sense.