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1 year ago

But we wanted to stick out, and given our hardcore roots, we didn't think live shows were about being pitch-perfect. They were about express- ing one's emotional state through being physical--stage diving, head walking, throwing your guitar around like an asshole.

We wanted early Fall Out Boy to take that hardcore energy, the exposed, emotional rawness, and transport it

Only I'd never dived off a stage that tall (it was at least ten feet high), nor had I attempted to clear a barricade, ever. After misjudging the fifteen-foot barrier by about five feet, I landed spine first on the steel barricade itself.

Looking back at old footage of myself, it was as if I were the physical manifestation of full-blown hypermania, though it's clear now that this acting out was my way of releasing all the negative energy I had stored up from years of trauma. Losing myself in the process, rather than dealing with the pain I had

early fall out boy and emotional motion —

joe trohman at warped tour 2005 / none of this rocks / unknown show / pete wentz at warped tour 2005 / andy hurley 2003 / patrick stump 2003 / none of this rocks / unsourced interview for dance, dance on mtv2 / pete wentz smashing his bass on snl / none of this rocks / calm before the storm at the metro 2003 / none of this rocks