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today is a big day. it will mark a new chapter in my life. the details will need to be kept private...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:15:28 -0500

today is a big day. it will mark a new chapter in my life. the details will need to be kept private for just a little longer, so I’m not entirely sure why I am writing this when there is not much I am allowed to say (yes there are some authorities that can shut me up). It is 7am and I slept for 2 hours last night in anticipation of what the day will bring and what it’s events will bring to the next era of my life. I started playing guitar when I was 8, started playing in bands when I was 13 and started Bayside when I was 18. A lot of people ask when we knew that we “made it” and I usually don’t have an answer because I have always been a believer that truly “making it” doesn’t afford you the time to notice that you have. I have kept my head down and stayed prepared for what was going to come next and never gave myself the opportunity to appreciate what was happening at the time. But today, in the 10th year of our band, after 8 releases, 4 continents, 1000s of shows and a million memories, I am sitting in my house, enjoying a cup of coffee and thinking about the ride I have been on. I wondered in a lyric a few years ago if any of it was worth it and today, having finally given myself the opportunity to think about it, I can assure myself that it has been. I love being in Bayside, I love making music, I love our fans and I can’t wait for the next 10 years. Today is going to be a big day

Moderation Is Not a Negation of Intensity, But Helps Avoid Monotony

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:28:00 -0500

Will you stop for a while, stop trying to pull yourself together
for some clear “meaning” - some momentary summary?
No on can have poetry or dances, prayer or climaxes all day;
The ordinary blankness of little dramatic consciousness is good for the health sometimes,
only Dostoevsky can be Dostoevskian at such long tumultuous stretches;
Look what that intensity did to poor great Van Gogh!;
Linger, lunge, scrounge and be stupid,
that doesn’t take much centering of one’s forces;
As wise Whitman said “lounge and invite the soul”
Get enough sleep and not only because (as Cocteau said) “poetry is the literature of sleep”;
Be a dumbell for a few minutes at least;

We don’t want Sunday church bells ringing constantly

-John Tagliabue

Top 10 of 2009

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 18:21:03 -0500

I was going to do a top 10 albums of 2009 list, and I tried for about an hour, but I couldn’t think of 10 albums that I liked this year. So with that said, I wont be doing one. However, the Lilly Allen, Paramore and New Found Glory records are all wonderful. Hopefully I can do one next year

the bluebird (by Charles Bukowski)

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:50:32 -0500

there’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I’m too tough for him. I say “stay in there. I’m not going to let anybody see you”

there’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I poor whiskey on him and inhale cigarette smoke and the whores and the bartenders and the grocery clerks never know that he’s in there

there’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I’m too tough for him. I say “stay down, do you want to mess me up? do you want to screw up my works? you want to blow my book sales in Europe?”

there’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I’m too clever. I only let him out at night sometimes when everybody’s asleep. I say “I know that you’re there so don’t be sad”. Then I put him back but he’s singing a little in there. I haven’t quite let him die. And we sleep together like that, with our secret pact ,and it’s nice enough to make a man weep…but I don’t weep. Do you?

Solo Acoustic Shows in January

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:05:00 -0500

Here is the Ticket Info for all of my upcoming solo acoustic shows!! If you’ve never seen me play any solo shows before, it is a fun night of music where I play acoustic versions of some solo songs, some Bayside songs, some covers and just talk some, which if you read this blog you might be into. Every night is special so don’t miss it

**Shows with Dustin Kensrue (Thrice), Matt Pryor (Get Up Kids) and Chris Conley (Saves the Day)

January 7th - West Hollywood, CA @ the Troubador
WEST HOLLYWOOD TICKETS

January 8th - San Diego, CA @ House of Blues
SAN DIEGO TICKETS

January 9th - Anaheim, CA @ House of Blues
ANAHEIM TICKETS

January 10th - San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill
SAN FRANCISCO TICKETS

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**Headline Shows with JT Woodruff (Hawthorne Heights) and Vinnie Caruana (Movielife, I Am the Avalanche)

January 20th - Hartford, CT @ Webster Underground
HARTFORD TICKETS

January 21st - Farmingdale, NY @ the Crazy Donkey- (special guests Kevin Devine and Shane Henderson (Valencia)
FARMINGDALE TICKETS

January 22nd - Philadelphia, PA @ Northstar
PHILADELPHIA TICKETS

January 23rd - Hackensack, NJ @ School of Rock
HACKENSACK TICKETS

January 24th - Wilmington, DE @ Harmony Grange
WILMINGTON TICKETS

CLICK HERE TO HEAR MY NEW SONG!!!!

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:02:27 -0500

CLICK HERE TO HEAR MY NEW SONG!!!!:

I’ve been talking about it for a long time, and I know a bunch of people have been coming to see me at my solo shows for the last couple of years. I’ve been so busy with great Bayside stuff that it’s taken a while to get this finished. I finally got arounf to recording some demos of my solo songs. This one is called “The Ballad of Bill the Saint”. I’ll be playing at all my solo shows in January

We dressed up as old men for our Halloween show at the El Rey in...

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:24:00 -0500

We dressed up as old men for our Halloween show at the El Rey in LA. This is probably what we’re all going to look like in 50 years or so. Jack said I looked like Robert Dinero at the end of Casino

Here is the ticket info for every show that we’re going to play for the rest of the year....

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:59:57 -0400

Here is the ticket info for every show that we’re going to play for the rest of the year. After this string we’ll be taking some time off the road for the holidays and to start writing a new record. Hope to see everyone out at these shows for a good time before our break.

HEADLINE SHOWS
October 10th - Jermyn, Pennsylvania- Eleanor Rigbys - BUY TiX HERE
October 16th - Poplar Grove, Illinois - Chubby Rain - BUY TiX HERE
October 17th - Omaha, Nebraska - Sokol Underground - BUY TiX HERE
October 18th - Colorado Springs - Black Sheep - BUY TiX HERE

w/ SAY ANYTHING, EISLEY AND MONEEN
October 19th - Salt Lake City Utah - In the Venue - BUY TIX HERE

w/ BOUNCING SOULS AND BROADWAY CALLS
October 21st - Seattle, Washington - Neumos - BUY TiX HERE
October 22nd - Portland, Oregon - Hawthorne Theater - BUY TiX HERE
October 23rd - San Francisco, California - Slims - BUY TiX HERE
October 24th - San Francisco, California - Slims - BUY TiX HERE
October 25th - San Luis Obispo, California - Downtown Brew - BUY TiX HERE
October 26th - Santa Barbara, California - Velvet Jones - BUY TiX HERE
October 27th - Las Vegas, Nevada - House of Blues - BUY TiX HERE
October 28th - Pomona, California - The Glasshouse - BUY TiX HERE
October 29th - San Diego, California - House of Blues - BUY TiX HERE
October 30th - Los Angeles, California - El Rey Theater - BUY TiX HERE
October 31st - Los Angeles, California - El Rey Theater - BUY TiX HERE
November 3rd - Englewood, Colorado - Gothic Theatre - BUY TiX HERE
November 4th - Kansas City, Missouri - Beaumont Club - BUY TiX HERE
November 5th - Madison, Wisconsin - Majestic Theater - BUY TiX HERE
November 6th - Chicago, Illinois - Metro - BUY TiX HERE
November 7th - Detroit, Michigan - Majestic Theater - BUY TiX HERE

HEADLINE SHOWS
November 8th - Covington, Kentucky - Mad Hatter - BUY TiX HERE
November 10th - Greensboro, North Carolina - Greene Street - BUY TiX HERE
November 11th - Columbia, South Carolina - New Brooklyn Tavern - BUY TiX HERE
November 12th - Atlanta, Georgia - Vinyl - BUY TiX HERE
November 14th - Pensacola, Florida - American Legion Post 33- BUY TiX HERE
November 17th - Baltimore, Maryland - Ottobar - BUY TiX HERE
November 19th - Albany, New York - Valentines - BUY TiX HERE
November 20th - Watertown, New York - Jefferson Community College - NO ADVANCE TIX

THANKS!

The Snarkiest of the Scenesters

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:02:12 -0400

The Snarkiest of the Scenesters:

During my hiatus, read this blog. Keaton is a bad ass and writes really insightful and entertaining stuff. She’s got my full endorsement

That's the news..and I'm outta here

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:07:00 -0400

After a bunch of thought, I think I’m going to shut my blog down. I don’t like the attention that it gets and sometimes I think it is taking focus off of the music I make. One of the hardest things for me to hear is that people have liked the band but my attitude turns them away. I can’t lose sight of why i got into all this in the first place. I know it probably has seemed like a great way to get attention but I don’t see it that way. It’s a distraction. I’ve never been into the famous side of being in a band and as hard as it is to believe, I actually don’t like attention. I’m going back into my cave to make the best record of my life and you’ll hear from me when it’s done.

Sometimes I feel like writing anything in this blog is pointless because everyone will turn whatever...

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:22:46 -0400

Sometimes I feel like writing anything in this blog is pointless because everyone will turn whatever i say into whatever they want it to mean. Short of having a full conversation with everyone in the world, it’s impossible to get the real point across to most people

If kids on message boards are entitled to opinions I’m entitled to mine. I totally welcome rants and nasty opinions. I have plenty myself
I wasn’t defending a t shirt design, I could care less if people like a t shirt design. I defend myself when people call me a ripoff
Not only do I think everyone should like our band, I think it’s crazy anyone does
I’m not professional or PC and never claimed to be. I’m an opinionated music fan with a dirty mouth like most other music fans. I just have a platform for my of color opinions whether they’re favorable or not

I like Brand New. I used to do merch for Brand New when Bayside was first starting

Now everyone can go turn that into me being an asshole and read between all those lines with their opinions on how I can’t have opnions

Nick's Blog - "This Song Rules"

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:37:55 -0400

Nick's Blog - "This Song Rules":

everyone could check out my good friend and bandmate Nick’s blog. It’s called “This Song Rules”.

AP.NET Hate

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:58:00 -0400

dear absolutepunk.net comment posters. my atticus collaboration shirt is fucking girls shirt. it’s not neon, it’s pink. a pink shirt for girls doesn’t seem that strange to me

I especially enjoyed “PlacesToGo“‘s insight. I like the Ruff Ryder’s avatar. you’re so clever and ironic. if it’s not there for irony, and you actually like ruff ryders, then you’re just as retarded.

Mr “SSLYBY”, I’m sure that you used to like us but went off to college and only listen to Brand New and the Beatles now. Can’t be bothered with our pop punk shenanigans. Not sure if it’s cool that you like Kings of Leon yet though. I’ll have to check with scene police and see if they get a pass. They did play Lollapalooza so you’re probably ok.

Kopi Luwak or Civet Coffee has to be one of the strangest...

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:52:00 -0400

Kopi Luwak or Civet Coffee has to be one of the strangest delicacies that I have ever heard of. It’s some Indiana Jones type shit. I will give you the Wiki definition because it’s more tasteful and scientific then I would be able to say it

Kopi Luak (pronounced [ˈkopi ˈloo - uck]) or Civet coffee is coffee made from coffee berries which have been eaten by and passed through the digestive tract of the Asian Palm Civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus) and other related civets. The civets eat the berries, but the beans inside pass through their system undigested.

So this ugly looking thing eats coffee, craps it out, Indonesian people pick the beans out of the droppings and then brew them. The craziest part is that the beans go for anywhere from $100-$600 a pound! It’s known as the most expensive coffee there is. Wiki says there are cafes that serve it for $50 a cup.

i think I would actually try it though. Next time I’m in London, I’m all over it. Who’s with me?

The Anthony Raneri / Atticus Shirt is available at Zumiez!!

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:18:00 -0400

Hey guys. If you don’t know by now, I did an awesome collaboration shirt with Atticus Clothing. The shirt is now available in select Zumiez stores as well as in the Zumiez online store.

You can check out the list of stores that are selling the shirt HERE

Or go here to get it from the ZUMIEZ ONLINE STORE

As a special added bonus, anyone who goes and buys one of these shirts from Zumiez and takes a picture in it, and sends it to ATTICUS’ MYSPACE , or Twit-pics it to ATTICUS’ TWITTER will receive a free copy of the Atticus IV Compilation.

thanks for your support! hope you like the shirt Anthony

this stupid company used our logo. I don’t know if...

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:09:45 -0400

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

2 weeks into warped tour

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:32:00 -0400

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

Here’s my first solo song. It’s called “The...

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:22:00 -0400

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!!

Steve from New Found Glory made this amazing video that pretty...

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:06:13 -0400

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.

Oh lady gaga, you’re so abstract and artsy. fucking hack....

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:35:47 -0400

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