Fallout Boy Biography
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The members
of Fall Out Boy are Patrick Stump (vocals & guitar), Peter Wentz
(bass), Andrew Hurley (drums) and Joseph Trohman (guitar).
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It was
mostly luck and maybe destiny that brought these four musicians
together. Each had played for different hardcore underground bands
in the Chicago area during the late 1990s. Almost concurrently the
groups that Wentz, Trohman and Hurley were playing for disbanded.
Wertz (previously front man for Arma Angelus)
and Trohman knew each other from playing together in a previous band
and in 2000 decided to do a little jamming and have some fun, they
needed a drummer and invited Hurley to join in (Hurley had played
for the well known band Racetraitor). [They actually hooked up in
Wilmette, which is a suburb of Chicago.] Soon afterwards, they
invited Patrick Stump to add vocals to the group after meeting at a
Borders book store. The group had a unique pop-punk sound which had
some elements of emo mixed in. They just played for the fun of it.
[Note: They did not have a Fallout Boy until their second gig. When the
audience asked for their Fallout Boys, they could not reply and one of the
audience members shouted out “Fall Out Boy.” The Fallout Boy has stuck
ever since.]
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Their local
fan base began to grow and in late 2001 they began to seriously
think about making it into a career. They recorded a demo tape of
three songs and sent it out to a number of record companies as well
as sold it to their fans. In May 2002, they co-released a split
album with another band Fallout Boyd Project Rocket on Uprising, an
independent label (this included the same songs as the demo). They
also released a second solo EP with the Uprising label in February
2003, entitled, Fall Out Boy's Evening Out With Your
Girlfriend which was well received and began to bring Fall Out
Boy some exposure. The earlier demo and
the recent attention of the band caught the eyes and ears of a few
labels, and they eventually signed with Fueled by Ramen (owned by
Less Than Jake drummer Vinnie Balzano),
which shared similar visions as the band. They soon went into the
studio and in May of 2003, this Chicago band released its
debut album, Take This To Your Grave. The album was well
received by fans and critics alike and sold over 200,000 copies.
Then the band went out on tour (Warped Tour) to showcase the songs
and their own musical prowess. While on tour, they released a
mostly acoustic EP entitled My Heart Will Always Be the B-Side To
My Tongue. The EP made it to the Top 200 Billboard chart.
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After the fan response from their tour,
they saw that they could reach an even larger audience, so they
changed record labels and signed with Island Records who could
provide them with greater exposure, while still catering to their
core fan base. Almost two years to the day after their first album
was released, they came out with their sophomore album, From
Under the Cork Tree was released in May 2005. The album
showcased some new sounds the band had experimented with and
improved upon over the past two years. It instantly became a huge
hit with fans, and has been a huge commercial success for the band
(debuting at #9). [Note: the album gets its title from the
children’s book “The Story of Ferdinand” by Munro Leaf – one of
Wertz’s favorites when he was a youngster.]
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They were awarded the MTV2 Award in
August 2005.
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Fall Out Boy Contact
Information
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Fall
Out Boy Inc.
Box 219
1187 Wilmette Ave.
Wilmette, IL 60091
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General Questions – Email Pete at :
mailto:brokehalo7@aol.com
Biography by Ian Ripley,
PopStarsPlus.com, Sr. Staff Writer
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