I spent a day with EMO LEGENDS (Underoath, Silverstein, From First To Last)

emo bands bands of musicians who write and perform rock music characterized by melodic musicianship and expressive often confessional lyrics and streamed vocals emo music originated in the mid-1980s with the hardcore punk movement of washington dc where is known as emotional hardcore and was pioneered by bands such as rights of spring and embrace by the early 2000s emo splintered into numerous sub-genres including emo pop and screamo and continued to take the world by storm as the emo movement made huge splashes in mainstream culture but who are these legendary bandleaders and vocalists who shaped so many of our lives in ways that could never truly be appreciated my name's anthony padilla and today i'm going to be sitting down with legendary emo band leaders to learn the truth about this rock star lifestyle do these band leaders find joy in their relentlessly demanding rock rockstar lifestyle or has the unforgiving music industry left them emotionally drained by the agony of their constant battle for musical relevancy [Music] spencer what's up man shane what's up anthony matt hi how's it going thank you so much for coming on here and teaching me about the world of legendary emo band leaders hey dad that's my pleasure you know funny enough i've actually uh labeled myself with the moniker king of emo llc as of recently well there you go there you go what do you consider yourself an emo band leader uh someone part of a band with an undefined music genre from when we first started if people want to call us emo or they want to call us like anything we're we don't really care i try to be a jack of all trades in all things guitar rock oriented these days to me i'm just i'm a songwriter you know i always have been i've been playing music my whole life what is your band and what do you think is your most popular song my band is called from first to last and our most popular song i'm going to say it's a toss-up between note to self and emily my banda silverstein and the most popular song i gotta give it to our song from 2005 called my heroine [Music] my band is a band called under earth i think that probably our most popular song is probably writing on the walls which was on our second record or a boy brush red living in black and white which is on our first record yeah that's that's what always comes to mind for me those are the two songs that i mean will always play live you know for the rest of our lives probably what does being a front man for a band entail i mean you don't worry about your hair as much these days i guess it's the first thing it was always it was always the swoop you had to have the swoop i still have the barber leave some some length in the front you know uh but seriously no it's really just all about kind of being the bridge between the audience and the band and the music and you know you're facilitating all of that you're kind of the face of the band to a certain degree because you're the voice that they hear absolutely i have a podcast every week and i have you know lead singers on it and i had d snyder you know legendary front man of twisted sister yeah and he's he put it best when he said you're standing up there with pretty much only your dick between you and the audience that's true that's just you and your voice and your personality that has to you know determine all of these people what they're going to experience you have to have like a level of confidence or like you never second-guess yourself and it's like you think about bands where it's like corn think about corn right like think about the first time jonathan davis singer walked in the booth and like i got to look at him and then i was like this like man like you have to have a crazy level of confidence to be like nah dawg and you're like are you sure like yep where did you first hear the term emo and what did it mean to you you know when i went to high school i guess that there were you know shows and even in just my local suburban community there were bands playing and some of these bands were playing like really different music that i never heard before because it wasn't on the radio or anything like that you know sort of this offshoot that sort of was in the shadows that was just you know bubbling uh was called emo i understood it as being it stood for like emotional hardcore so it was basically like those heavy hardcore bands but it was like the kind of i don't know the sad side of it i guess you could yeah yeah yeah you're not afraid to let your heart spill right that was what emo was it was basically like you take hardcore and and to a lesser extent punk and you kind of blend them together and then the songs are basically not not political at all every band from fallout boy to bring me the horizon is for some reason classified as emo to many people why do you think the the genre spans so many different sounds i think really what it was was it was all came down to the image of it the fashion trends and whatnot right and because pete wentz was painting his nails and had wearing makeup and had this little swoop um a fairly small swoop he just had the babysitter i honestly think that um people saw what they saw more than they heard what they heard yeah and it was easy enough to kind of just say oh that's that's emo you're an emo i don't like emos or whatever and it you know do you consider your band emo a lot of people didn't think my band was emo for a long time but the fact that i'm here right now talking to you about being what was it you said legendary emo band leader yes because of that i think that we are officially now an emo band no maybe i think maybe our first record was yeah kind of because chasing safety yeah kids call it screamo yeah which i hate that one that's so funny because but as a kid i heard screamo and i thought it was a cool word yeah it wasn't the emo but like the streaming yeah that's so sick under earth is a weird one though like we kind of always we're throwing a wrench in the system and i think that's because there's six of us that don't agree on anything so every record we make sounds so different it does every record is very different so like if someone were to ask now i would say we're we're a rock band we're like a hard rock band there's always heavy elements there's no sense of like emo anymore and there's no like screamo it's just kind of like it's like what i would consider the death tones but we're not as cool in my heart you're just as awesome thank you before we learn more about the world of legendary emo band leaders i just want to take a quick moment to mention that this episode has clearly been in the works for quite a while because i wanted to get the perfect guess for this episode and i really feel like we accomplished that obviously i'm also coming to terms with the fact that my emo phase was not just a phase and i'm still such a big fan of all these bands and so many similar genres across the entire spectrum and with that said please press a like if you want to see more episodes like this one and leave a comment letting me know which other genres and artists you'd like me to spend a day with and you know i'm sure that future potential guests would be stoked if they see your overwhelming enthusiasm i appreciate all of you and supporting me in the series and giving the chance to live out some of my dreams that i honestly i never thought that i would actually be able to achieve that's all i wanted to say now back to learning about the world of legendary emo band leaders do you think that term emo has hurt or helped your band at all i think it had to have helped in some way or another the people out there that like were into it knew what they were looking for and although i would be shocked if someone didn't know who we were and like that music in that era people that hated that term hated us and i think all that hate that we got probably helped make us bigger too because when people are talking about you that's true any attention is good attention well not always but you know sometimes there's a few examples of why it's not but we'll leave those i think the word nostalgia hurts people more we've got lucky because we broke up and got back together and made a record and i think that's where people are getting confused with like the nostalgia emo knight emo this emo that it doesn't really have to be a phase it could just be a genre of music that people enjoy why do you think emo music exploded in such a big way in the early to mid 2000s i think that it for a lot of people was really fresh and for younger people looking to be a part of something that wasn't i don't know mainstream i think that it was it was kind of easy and it was something that people really believed in i mean every high school kid is feels all these like this mishmash of craziness and emotions and mood swings and like this i think was the one thing that could really bring you know people together uh for people that felt alone there was an entire movement that supported the idea of not being afraid to talk about your emotions and the pain you were going through yes exactly my space is taking off and people are connecting through these and i think they just kind of blew the whole thing up people finally had a place to find like-minded people the very first social media and with that music happening and those are the kind of people that are using it that age demographic and they're connecting so four people in my high school listen to hawthorne heights and i get made fun of for it but i found 500 people online and then you feel accepted and you start embracing your your music taste your sense of passion and then they kind of boom that way and they're going hey have you heard this band have yeah you like that have you you know and i think that was that was just huge are you nostalgic for those early days at all it would be kind of weird to not feel nostalgic about like a great time in your life you know what i mean but uh yeah i mean i'm not not in any kind of way where i'm just like oh my god like ever since then life has been it gives me such a nostalgic feeling for that time in my life and i can only imagine what like actually being up there on stage how that probably felt even bigger for you too the feeling you get when you're walking out on the stage and it just sounds like white noise blasting because people are yelling and screaming like i'm like getting a little like wet in my eyes thinking about right now like yeah it's it's unreal man like it feels like your body's firing in all cylinders i feel like if if you aren't just or you say you're not nostalgic you're kind of lying i think or maybe you're just you're just like you don't have a heart because for me like those times were so magical and you know you'll never have them again that stuff is is near and dear to my heart and i'm glad we have that stuff as you grow older and your musical taste continues to evolve how do you manage to appeal to long time fans and the mainstream market while also being true to yourself for us like i think every step of the way we're just really cautious about making the best material not following any trends i went back and listened to your entire catalog and you like i feel like every album still stands the test of time and i could tell that you guys weren't like trapped in like i need we need to appeal to the trends right now yeah absolutely you know and our fan base has been so awesome but we also recognize that they are our lifeblood and they've allowed us to do this for now 20 years how do you feel when people demand that you play your old stuff it would be really ridiculous to not feel anything but happy or grateful for that because you're talking about songs i wrote when i was 19 years old and i am now 36 and people are still fans of them and want to hear them like i couldn't think of anything more flattering in the world than that that's insane to me i think only we're just like no because when you reconsider that like what's old like we make a record every yeah a couple of years yeah yeah didn't you release an album a compilation album called player old stuff yeah that was just a middle finger it was a funny joke we're like we're we're serious and the songs and the lyrics really serious but yeah our band jokes around all the time have you ever had a fanboy moment when sharing the stage or a tour with another band 2008 war tour when i was singing for the band um it was angels and airways on the tour we shared the main stage so like i ended up somehow or another conversing with tom one day and i was just like whoa this is crazy like you know i wouldn't even be in a band if it wasn't for you like quite literally that's not even just a thing like i would not yeah it wasn't for that guy yeah and he was just like yeah i love your voice and i was like oh god that's crazy so oh we ended up hanging out last summer like a lot yeah it was pretty cool like we were like smoking point you tell me about alien videos like yeah you'd be like dude i got this video of this lady who found an alien in the woods with their dog and the cia's asking me for it back and they're coming for me and i was like holy this is not it's like you're like you're like where am i no because it's crazy either way he's not telling the truth that he's crazy or he's not that's crazy too and you're like whatever either way this is crazy oh and katy perry was on the tour that year too so like we did this whole thing i can't believe katy perry was on warped tour yeah like we pranked her i put a mustache on her face on the side of her bus oh my god and uh she like had her bust i ever put a dead fish in my pillow yeah dude and it was it was wild it was a wild time i am in line for catering i ask about the option for vegetarians so they bring out this other plate of like the salad so i go to get it and all i hear beside me is damn that looks good so i i i turned back and i realized it slash and i had something to say to whoever said that but when i realized it was slash [Music] that was verbatim what i said to slash she probably gets that a lot though to which he just said can i get that too to the person working worst and best emo fashion trend go the sidekick dude sidekicks were they were so good amazing a physical keyboard that you pulled down i remember the first time i saw a t-mobile sidekick and i thought to myself it could never get better than this the the pinnacle of mobile communication i don't know if that's an emo specific trend but it sure felt like it was it felt like an emo trend every single scene girl i knew had a sidekick you could not be a scene girl without a sidekick no they were so good worst was the swoop hair well you mean just the fringe in general just like the skunk thing oh yeah yeah spiky the spike in the back yeah the skunk i never quite got into that but i never did it i definitely thought there were hot girls doing that yeah i never did the did you straighten your hair though i did that's terrible probably just like the shirts that just weren't big enough for you two small shirts yeah yeah i don't know yeah you need to like when you bend over you can see half your back i love my old shirts where i'd like stretch and you just see like my belly button hair yeah it's like you can wear a shirt that fits you man it's all good i promise it was a very cool period where there was that transition from people wearing clothes that were very big to people you know guys wearing skinny jeans and stuff like that you literally had to go to the girls section of the store to find them it was yeah it was kind of a cool movement where people it was like an anti-mainstream culture of course yeah it played all into the lifestyle everything about it was like the anti you know like yeah go to gap to find girls jeans as a guy that seems so ridiculous back then and it kind of does now too because they're like well i mean they make fun of plenty of jeans for guys to fit i feel like i was also drawn to the movement back then because guys weren't afraid to spend time on their hair wear clothes that were tighter you know paint their nails or do makeup if they wanted and it just felt like a moment of expression where guys weren't necessarily being shamed within their circles for for doing these things that were traditionally seen as more feminine yeah it was cool it was kind of like a uh like a release for a lot of people to like kind of like let like take that shroud off of like fake masculinity a little bit yeah you know you're always like living up to these standards stuff by like you know like your parents or like society or whatever in a lot of ways many bands at the time including yours was helping showcase to to many people including me that it was okay to feel these emotions and it was okay to talk about them and it was okay to express yourself with clothing that wasn't you know screaming masculine feeling comfortable to express yourself you know without any weird like judgments because like i think there's this thing where it's like i just looked like before that it's okay if you want to care bella wants to know what the craziest thing is that's ever been screamed at you at a show a lot of smaller venues they didn't have barricades or secured or anything so people are pushed right up against the stage some of the uh females in the crowd sometimes were a little grabby in places they shouldn't have been grabby it was in st catharines ontario she would not stop so i kind of called her out like over the microphone and i was like hey you know and i kind of like i try to make a bit of a joke of it well the music's like quiet and everything and i'm talking all i heard her literally scream was i want to have your babies no that is definitely not happening you're like you sexually assaulted me that sounds great right dorna weirdo5 wants to know how much of the industry dictated your style and was there a time you wanted to you know stray away from the emo scene but felt pressured to keep the genre for for the fans zero zero zero dictation zero percentage no record labels breathing down your throat or anything never and that's like such a funny thing i think that that will happen like a band will be on a label for a while and then they'll sign to a new label and people will say like the label made them change their sound i'm gonna tell you right now that pretty much never happens there are a few labels um that are a little more hands-on that might say to a band like hey why don't you know you write maybe try a song like this or whatever but for the most part in our experience we never had a label tell us what to do oh most of our labels didn't even want to hear our records until we until we turned them in oh nice so so you always freedom to do whatever anytime your music changed it was because you guys wanted to put out something different yep every every step of the way we kind of controlled everything at one point our label wanted to you know make edits to make it more digestible like and take screaming out and stuff and we're like that now like we don't care about stuff like that which album were they trying to chasing safety they're trying to take they didn't really understand it yet you know like wow and we were just like no we're good i can't imagine that album without yeah well it was like certain songs they thought like oh this would be great for your career we're just like now yeah we don't care and they saw it as a bad decision but at the time it was a great decision because if then we would really would have been stuck playing the same setting you feel we're never going to be outgrowing so fast mariana leon wants to know if you could delete one song from your band's entire existence and no one would ever remember it would there be a song that you would delete down set go down set go why oh it's so cheesy i love that song i like that song some really cheesy vocals on that one all right fine a tiny bit [Music] oh wait i'm a half whip boy he's like yeah that's a lyric and it's awful did you write that no i think i think aaron is responsible have you seen the american idol clip where the dude came on and sang your song oh my god lost my throat oh i've seen it what do you think about that so i found the guy his name's ryan hart i found him on myspace and this dude was getting like eaten alive so i sent him a message i was like hey man i think it's really cool like what you did and we started like chatting he's from las vegas and the next time we played las vegas he got on stage with us he did the song yeah we we remained friends we were buddies you know has being part of a band ever affected any of your relationships i'm sure all of them been your whole life right we're gone all the time you know and for most of my life i put the band first yeah it wasn't until recently to where i learned how to balance having a personal life in the band yeah it's hard right you know i'm in a great relationship now but i'm ready to be in one as i was younger it was i was so invested because it's like my words it's my like it's it's like me oh yeah oh yeah i'm like your band represents you yeah people me and aaron yeah yeah and like i would come home from tour and literally look at the count and like all right i've got this much time to the next underoath event i wasn't really a living at home yeah and that's where a lot of the drinking and drugs came in at that time too because it was just passing time so did you feel most alive when you were tough with the band yeah always yeah that was like my life you know it still is a huge part of my life but it's not i don't consider it my only life anymore what's been the most insane thing you've experienced while on tour when we were on tour with fall boy you just said you say that so casually we had a dressing room here they had a dressing room here connected by a door and we were pretty deep into the tour at this point we were pretty friendly i mean i've been friends with pete for a very long time we were just silly at that point whatever and honestly to be fair we were on a head like a tour that was completely sold out arenas every night you know we're all getting a little you know big headed like right somehow this food fight broke out in between dressing rooms through this normal single food fight whole table of food like vegetables fruit we're just like whoa whoa like through it it's just it looks like bullets coming through and wes is like this there's a whole garbage can like the full-size big ones you know like they're like this tall and it was full and he takes it and goes woof and throws it through the door you hear it go boom and then lamps are flying through dude i'm telling you oh my god you just destroyed that place oh dude it was annihilated so we both got fined 25 000 dollars [Laughter] what's been your most bizarre fan interaction the weirdest one we were playing chili chile and they the security guards have like guns oh and they were like came to our tour manager asked what the last song is because they're like we have to run you out like the bomb escape and i had to from the last note they were waiting and i came off and like i had to throw my backpack on and we had to run underneath and get in the van and leave and they're literally like zombie looking like chasing the van down the road like like banking on the windows like jump there was a guy riding on the back of the van it's the world war z up in here and we were just laughing i mean we thought it was you know this is it's crazy you weren't scared no a bit like it it's wild but you know in south america i feel like they don't get as much music and if they're connected to you like it's like a big deal oh yeah especially it's something that felt like an underground genre yeah so like there are i mean the shows are wild the show's incredible i mean those people are so happy to have you but they express it over the top and it's a little bit dangerous we're on tour with kiss so we're the only other band we had to open everyone hated us okay really well yeah because if we do the kiss no one wants to go see some brand new band they've never heard about a kiss show off the stage when you see kiss and go home yeah we want rock and roll baby i see this kid his dad's got his hand on his kids shoulders they're both wearing full makeup and this kid is just like this the whole show this is the whole show yeah stone cold face kiss makeup middle finger it was unreal i swear the whole time look at this kid like what is this guy's problem hey kid if you're out there [ __ ] you yeah [ __ ] you piece of [ __ ] yeah how does it how does it feel how does it feel yeah it feels bad what is it about being part of an emo band that has brought you the most joy i think it's how much the music really means to people you know i think like if we were in a metal band or something someone might be like yo man that riff was really sick like i banged my head like so hard to that riff like i like seriously i banged my head but like people don't really come up to our band and say that they come up to our band and say that lyric you wrote like i was literally going to kill myself the next like that day and i heard that song and something in your voice told me not to do it and told me to get help and here i am today and you know i've worked in my problems and here i am and like thank you for that what's crazy though is i'm sure like a lot i've heard a lot of other bands say that and it's become like almost cliche but i don't care because there's nothing more important i actually have a parting gift for you a best interviewer shirt which you could get at dildoshop.com but for you my friend i will ship this to you for free damn damn damn damn i know you always wanted a shirt that looks like it was designed by a five-year-old and i can provide that service to you for free yeah i'm wearing it right now just can't all right you got five seconds to shout out to promote anything you want directly in the camera go they're called neva niva they are a charity that's helping out venues that are having trouble because of kovid19 check it out twitch.tv smackdood with zeros i'm gonna do a show on there it's gonna start soon check it out under oathband on instagram mine is at ws chamberlain because my legally first name is william and i've always gone by spencer so don't call me william anthony padilla very very nice guy sweetheart his shirt is okay but he's really really good at this stuff and he really takes care of all of his guests and people he speaks to so let's just do everyone a favor in the world and just hit the subscribe button right now smash it smash it into pieces thank you so much matt i feel like i understand the world of being a legendary emo band leader a little bit more i'm glad to hear that dude one day we're gonna make you the next one it was my dream growing up let's make it happen i'll be in my 40s but it's okay yeah we'll do it we'll do it after spending the day with these legendary emo band leaders i've come to realize just how much they've taken great pride in consistently challenging themselves and expressing their abilities as musical artists these musicians truly deserve all the respect in the world for the impact they've made and just how much they've shaped so many of our lives see you later bye guys press a like how skinny are your jeans at the moment at the moment you know what you know what they're still you know they're still there i never quite grew out of them yeah you never will i don't think they ever will yeah i don't know if skinny jeans are falling out of favor a little bit or whatever so i'm like you know what i'm gonna go to the store maybe buy some jeans that aren't skinny jeans and i swear like they seem to think that my thigh is the same size as my calf yes yes what dude yeah yeah for some reason non skinny jeans are still are still tight in the thigh what the heck is going on man who's designing these things right i know i know yeah then you look like you got flares on and you're like it's not the 90s i can't do it anymore this is why you're only seeing me from the the tits up here you know yeah yeah hits up is how we like to keep it

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