Fall Out Boy’s Patrick Stump sat down with Kerrang! for a new interview. During the chat, the rocker admitted that Fall Out Boy felt like a ‘scrappy punk rock band.’ The reason? They hadn’t rehearsed in so long. He described it as:
“This is silly, but it’s real.”
What Happened During The Rehearsal?
Stump later explained what happened:
“Pete and I were trying to figure out who voiced a certain note and a chord between he and I – we couldn’t remember. There was this movement of me saying to the crew, ‘Can somebody play this back in our ears?’”
He explained how the rest of the member switched and messed up their parts:
“Meanwhile, Joe and his tech are working out a specific lead part, because I played it on the record, but now Joe is playing it live. And I’m like, ‘Wait, should I play this part if you’re playing that part?’ So then my tech’s running around. And the thing that was so amazing to me was it was like ballet: all of a sudden, everybody knew what they were doing. It was this one little moment, of just band and crew communicating…”
Stump added:
“It was like all of a sudden going from some scrappy punk rock band to being a symphony – everybody knew what they were doing. And it blew me away: the fact that we’re that band now!”
Their Fame Wasn’t ‘Overnight’
The singer wasn’t too hopeful about the band at first, but things turned out differently. After gaining recognition with their debut album ‘Take This to Your Grave,’ Stump recalled releasing their major label record From Under the Cork Tree, ‘Sugar, We’re Goin Down’ hit big, and everything took off.
However, this wasn’t an ‘overnight success.’ In another interview with People, Stump shared his aim to debunk the idea that Fall Out Boy became an overnight success:
“It wasn’t really overnight. Sometimes people talk about overnight, it wasn’t really like that. We had already been touring for a few years and working.”
He also admitted that the success after the release of their major label debut record ‘was very different.’