Taking Back Sunday Band • Page 491

patriots we are taking back tacking back taking back Sunday once again

 

Just very weird that they JUST put out an awesome brand new album and they’re gonna tour louder now with Fred lol idk it doesn’t make sense especially after they repeatedly say they don’t want to be a nostalgia act

 

But they've been doing WWWY and are doing another nostalgia-oriented festival next year too (Not Just A Phase festival).

 

I feel like "nostalgia act" is getting close to being as watered down as the term "sellout"

 

This just makes me less excited about the band again. If Fred rejoins the band and they record a new album with him and John, that would get me excited.

 

I hope we get the Adam/John/Fred album before 2030.

 

Obviously not an ideal video, especially with rolling comments and such, but this sounds great man

 

Demo/Early Live Spin actually goes even harder at times in my opinion. I think it was toned down a bit for the album and I'd love to hear a harder take on it recorded proper. Probably won't happen, but had you said Fred was gonna be playing with TBS again last week I'd have felt about the same. :P

 

The reality is that no matter how much these bands don’t want to be “nostalgia acts”, the album plays pay the bills.

 

where can one find these alternative versions

 

For what it's worth Fred is really good at learning songs he didn't play on (just see how he did with Say Anything, he killed it night after night). The idea is for him to fill in for John, not to just play the songs from when he was in the band.

Also I posted some inside tea of why Mark isn't in the band anymore and nobody noticed or cared lol

 

Urgh I must’ve missed this!

 

The footage of Liar is even better. Adam looks like he's having a blast performing that song in a way I haven't seen in a long time. Fred's guitar solo alone gets him all pumped up

 

I bet Lenny is having a blast whether hes actually spilling tea, OR simply trolling us haha. No fair

 

The Nostalgia act is s silly thing for bands to say all the time. I don’t think it’s wrong to do album plays. Particularly if it’s one run across the country. I’m personally not that interested in those tours but I bet a lot is people would come out for a Louder Now tour that haven't been following anything they’ve done in 10 plus years.

 

This was true of the run of holiday shows in general. I do not think it was Fred specific. Liar was like the third to last song they played that night. We’ve talked pretty extensively about this band feeding off a crowd, and these shows specifically were some of the LOUDEST crowds I have been in for them recently (especially Mulcahy’s night 2 and Starland night 1). I think videos from any of these show similar excitement. Looking back at some of my videos, even the TAYF songs that feel kind of rote at this point feel alive in a new way. He even sat on the security guard’s shoulders and went up to the barricade (in the crowd?) during cute, which is not a common occurrence from him at shows anymore.

(Also Nathan usually plays Fred’s solo these days and kills it)

 

I have no doubt that Fred would be able to learn the songs (he literally did this with TAYF). My concern is that I don’t like his voice compared to John’s. I even prefer John’s voice on the where you want to be songs, which I know is controversial around these parts.

Happy for everybody who will be happy about this, but I also think there will be a subsection of those people who go to the shows (especially if they fell off after louder now) and will be…sorely disappointed by what they get. Switching out Fred and John is not going to fix what most people think are the issues with tbs live and I think there are some people (not everybody!) who are going to have a hard time with that.

 

Wow are you telling me Fred can learn to play songs he didn’t write?? That’s unheard of

 

Tour with both John and Fred, but they split all of Adam's parts, and Adam does all the second vocalist parts.

 

Adam will be playing drums, you fools.

 

Adam goes back to bass like in the beginning, Shawn keeps making the band do zoom interviews

 

You know I think he would if given the chance

 

was it the thing about them ghosting him after he took time off?

 

okay smartass, I'm saying Fred touring with them doesn't mean they're just gonna play WYWTB and Louder Now like someone was suggesting. he's a very versatile player and learns stuff really fast. He learned the whole Lemonheads discography in almost no time when they asked him to fill in for them

 

yeah I think approaching it with this perspective is wrong. Fred's not here to "fix" TBS (although he did have some feedback about how fast they're playing some songs). He's helping them out temporarily. John is still the official guitarist