September 8, 2009
this stupid company used our logo. I don’t know if it’s calling cards or pre paid cell phone cards or what. I’m sure they just came across our logo in a google image search for birds or something and used it. We’re trying to find the company because they are in Mexico or maybe South America somewhere but we’re on it. We just gotta ask them to stop. that’s all

this stupid company used our logo. I don’t know if it’s calling cards or pre paid cell phone cards or what. I’m sure they just came across our logo in a google image search for birds or something and used it. We’re trying to find the company because they are in Mexico or maybe South America somewhere but we’re on it. We just gotta ask them to stop. that’s all

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July 10, 2009

2 weeks into warped tour

I have been on warped tour for 2 weeks now surrounded by a ton of bands, trends, haircuts..and you would think that a guy like me would have a million things to say about what I have seen here, and i do. I don’t like just popping up and saying this band sucks or this band is great. i try my best to wrap my head around things and analyze them before I talk about them.

Now there are bands that are bad for sure and bands that are great. The most disappointing thing that I am seeing these days is just completely fake bands. And I don’t mean fake in intentions and attitudes. I remember when that was the problem with the scene and I wish that was all it was. Things have gotten a lot worse then I could have imagined. The amount of “bands” that I see using autotune live, playing to drum tracks with a drummer pretending to play along, people even straight up lip syncing. It’s outrageous. Bands that use professional songwriters and bands that use sex appeal to win over 13 year old girls. It’s just awful. It almost makes me wish for bands that are writing and playing music just to get rich because that would be better then bands that are having other people write it for them and then pretending to play it live.

what really breaks my heart and gives me the feeling that this black cloud disguised in neon is going to continue to digest our scene until there’s nothing left of it is that no one seems to give a shit. The bands that are using auto tune when they play, don’t turn it off in between songs so they sound like auto tuned robots when they talk. It’s such an insult to people’s intelligence and these bands don’t even have to hide it because everyone is eating it up anyway. They need to take that shit over to radio disney.

To be honest I saw Brokencyde and Millionaires and after seeing a lot of other bands, I wasn’t even that offended by them. I mean, I don’t like it still, but at least they are exactly what they claim to be. They’re not pretending to be bands. They’re not trying to trick anyone into thinking that they’re musicians. And at least they write their own fucking songs.

I guess what I’m saying is, there are silent killers out there that are poisoning us from the inside, and they’re flying under our radars because they’re holding instruments and pretending to play them while we’re all bitching about the fucking Millionaires.

-“so why don’t we start making a history worth being proud of and start fighting the real fucking enemy?” -propagandhi

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June 20, 2009

Here’s my first solo song. It’s called “The Ballad of Bill The Saint”. I wrote it the day before this show so it may change a little bit by the time it’s recorded for real but this is pretty much it. Hope you guys like it!!

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June 18, 2009

Steve from New Found Glory made this amazing video that pretty much sums up the whole US tour we did together. Good friends and good fun.

This blog is overdue but it’s been a crazy 5 months and I finally have some time now to sit down with a cup of coffee and put my feelings down.

We have just finished up a tour with a band called New Found Glory. The tour basically started in January and ended in June. It’s been 5 months, 10 countries, 52 cities and over 1/2 a million fans. When i say that this tour was a dream come true, I mean it on a bunch of levels. For one, NFG was a band that i grew up listening to and had a lot to do with the shaping of our band. As a matter of fact, when we recorded our first demo in 2000, we were driving to see NFG play in Long Island at a catering hall the day we recorded it. We wanted to give them a copy of the cd but it we didn’t have a name to write on it, so on the way to the show we passed by the BAYSIDE train station and said, that’s it, it’s just gonna be Bayside so that we can write something on the cd for them. other then that, when we started our band “Nothing Gold Can Stay” had just come out and it was on heavy rotation on all of our first tours and now, “Not Without a Fight” is in heavy rotation on our current tours.

NFG is a classy band, and you don’t get that enough with bands anymore. They truly care about music, about originality, about their fans, about their friends and they care about the scene and what is going to become of it. Being on tour with them was the perfect mix of being with peers and goofing off and kind of like being with statesmen who showed us how much more there is to learn about being a band. Being a band is more then just playing some songs and NFG is the whole package. From seeing them when I was 16 to seeing them everyday for 5 months all over the world, my jaw drops everytime.

We want to thank those guys so much for everything they have done for us and for being great friends that we’l have for the rest of our lives.

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June 2, 2009

Oh lady gaga, you’re so abstract and artsy. fucking hack. you gotta wait till the end and see her play with her feet. laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame

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May 23, 2009
YEAHHHH!

YEAHHHH!

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May 21, 2009
When you sleep in a coffin in a moving vehicle for 10 weeks at a time, it’s hard to readjust to a stationary bed so every trip back home always begings with insomnia. So I’ve been up all night bored reading through some stuff on our upcoming trip to Europe. We have been to the UK many times but this is going to be our first time in a lot of new countries. There are a couple of emotions involved. I wouldn’t call it fear, but there is definitely an uncomfortable feeling about the language barrier. This will be our first time in non English speaking countries. Navigating around a city you’ve never been to without speaking the language  will be hard enough but performing is about 50% confidence and when you take your confidence to communicate ideas with an audience out of the mix, it could get hairy. There is also of course the weirdness of playing to people who may or may not have any idea who you are. Crowds can be real dificult and hard to read sometimes, but after 10 years on the road, you know how to play in Anaheim or LA or Richmond or San Antonio. You understand the vibe of each place and you give the people what they want. And of course there is excitement, and that is really the biggest thing inside me right now. It’s not your average excitement either. For me, it is the kind of excitement that I felt 10 years ago before our first tour ever. The kind of wide eyed excitement that used to make me think “I don’t care if there are 5 people at the show, i don’t eat for 4 days and I sleep in the alley behind the club”. New cities, new sites, new fans, new venues and new challenges. It’s making me feel 16 again and I like it. The excitement and nervous energy always make for the best shows. When you check the light show and the tour bus and the autograph signings at the door, you get great fucking punk rock shows. The kind of shows that going to got me into punk rock and the kind of shows that playing made me know that music was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. This is going to be epic. be prepared Europe.

When you sleep in a coffin in a moving vehicle for 10 weeks at a time, it’s hard to readjust to a stationary bed so every trip back home always begings with insomnia. So I’ve been up all night bored reading through some stuff on our upcoming trip to Europe. We have been to the UK many times but this is going to be our first time in a lot of new countries. There are a couple of emotions involved.

I wouldn’t call it fear, but there is definitely an uncomfortable feeling about the language barrier. This will be our first time in non English speaking countries. Navigating around a city you’ve never been to without speaking the language  will be hard enough but performing is about 50% confidence and when you take your confidence to communicate ideas with an audience out of the mix, it could get hairy. There is also of course the weirdness of playing to people who may or may not have any idea who you are. Crowds can be real dificult and hard to read sometimes, but after 10 years on the road, you know how to play in Anaheim or LA or Richmond or San Antonio. You understand the vibe of each place and you give the people what they want.

And of course there is excitement, and that is really the biggest thing inside me right now. It’s not your average excitement either. For me, it is the kind of excitement that I felt 10 years ago before our first tour ever. The kind of wide eyed excitement that used to make me think “I don’t care if there are 5 people at the show, i don’t eat for 4 days and I sleep in the alley behind the club”. New cities, new sites, new fans, new venues and new challenges. It’s making me feel 16 again and I like it.

The excitement and nervous energy always make for the best shows. When you check the light show and the tour bus and the autograph signings at the door, you get great fucking punk rock shows. The kind of shows that going to got me into punk rock and the kind of shows that playing made me know that music was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. This is going to be epic. be prepared Europe.

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hahaha this picture haunts us everyday of our lives. We kind of look like one of those gay german industrial bands who include sex acts and stuff on stage. It is always so funny getting to clubs and seeing giants posters plastered around a city with you looking like you just walked out of the Blue Oyster in a Police Academy movie. And then you wonder how many people have seen that in the city and said “who the hell are those wussies”

hahaha this picture haunts us everyday of our lives. We kind of look like one of those gay german industrial bands who include sex acts and stuff on stage. It is always so funny getting to clubs and seeing giants posters plastered around a city with you looking like you just walked out of the Blue Oyster in a Police Academy movie. And then you wonder how many people have seen that in the city and said “who the hell are those wussies”

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May 13, 2009

CONTEST!


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Dates
June 18 - Hoboken, NJ @ Maxwells HOBOKEN TICKETS
June 19th - Tampa, FL @ the Crowbar TAMPA TICKETS
June 20th - Gainesville, FL @ 1982 Bar GAINESVILLE TICKETS
June 21st - Orlando, FL @ Backbooth ORLANDO TICKETS

This is my kind of contest. All you have to do to win is show up. Simple as that!

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May 11, 2009
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May 10, 2009
steveisthereason: End of tour party at Desert Paintball..

steveisthereason:

End of tour party at Desert Paintball..
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May 9, 2009
me and jordan watching the baseball and smokin cigs

me and jordan watching the baseball and smokin cigs

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My new New Found Glory tat.   Truck Stop Blues

My new New Found Glory tat.   Truck Stop Blues

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Let’s Go Yanks!!!

Let’s Go Yanks!!!

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YEAH!    Drink Coffee and Detroy!!

YEAH!    Drink Coffee and Detroy!!

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