Este cuarteto se formó en el año 2001, en Chicago (Illinois) en la escena de bares y el circuito subterráneo del rock local. Con una buena puesta en escena y un buen manejo de la música en vivo Fall out boy rápidamente se dio a conocer en toda la ciudad.
La banda se integró por Patrick Stumo, Meter Wentz, Andrew Hurley y Joseph Trohman, amigos de infancia que compartían el mismo gusto y afinidad por la música, especialmente por el rock y el Neopunk emergente.
Su primer disco es ‘Take this to your grave’, aunque previamente la agrupación lanzó dos mini álbumes o EP’s: ‘Fall out boy’s evening out with your girl’ y .
Su siguiente trabajo fue ‘From under the cork tree’ con el cuál lograron varias nominaciones y premios en los MTV Video Music Awards 2005.
Fall out boy se caracteriza por ser una banda versátil y muy original por eso se reinventa y explora nuevos sonidos constantemente. Por eso no es de extrañar que esta joven agrupación se haya arriesgado a realizar el cover de Gorilla Biscuits ‘Start today’, con tan buena aceptación que fue incluido en la banda sonora del video juego ‘Tony Hawk’s american wasteland’.
When he was a little boy, Fall Out Boy bassist and lyricist Pete Wentz enjoyed reading “Curious George,” “Babar” and Richard Scarry books, but his favorite children’s book was “The Story of Ferdinand” by Munro Leaf. The story, about a giant bull who sits under a cork tree and smells flowers instead of getting into the ring and battling a bullfighter, was so inspirational to Wentz that he titled the band’s breakthrough record From Under the Cork Tree.
“I think it’s an amazing metaphor for how people can be,” Wentz says. “There’s something really honorable about following your own path and not doing what’s expected of you.”
It’s a lesson Fall Out Boy have taken to heart. When the Chicago band finished touring for their debut album, Take This To Your Grave, they were flooded with accolades from critics and fans, which clamored for a follow-up. However, rather than jump right into writing and recording mode, as they had for their debut, Fall Out Boy took their time experimenting with different sounds and textures in order to makeFrom Under the Cork Tree as crafty, infectious and enduring as possible.
“We could have easily regurgitated our last record which is what certain people expected us to do,” Wentz says. “But when it’s all over, we want to be remembered as a rock band that pushed limits and was sincere and totally honest to itself and its fans. When we are 90 years old and on our death beds, it will matter to us that at least we took chances.”
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