Spring Break
Fall Out Boy rocks out on 'Die' tour
Brandon Weiss
Issue date: 4/24/09 Section: Arts & Entertainment
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The band just wrapped up an international tour in support of its latest record.
"The tour went over really well," guitarist Joe Trohman said. "The Asia/Australia/New Zealand one was first. That was packed and great. Same with the UK/Europe tour. Again, that was packed out and had a great response. We played places like Italy and Madrid where we had never played before. That had a great response and the turnout was incredible."
This was the band's first tour in support of "Folie A Deux."
Lately, the band's guitarist has been rocking long hair, a mark of many famous, classic guitar players.
"I actually used to have long hair before people cared about Fall Out Boy," Trohman remarked. "Our fans kept bugging me to grow my hair back out and I was like 'um yeah, sure, why not?' It is cool for playing live. I've always noticed that dudes that have long hair when they're head banging … it looks like they're rocking out harder than they really are."
The band has released two singles thus far, "I Don't Care," and most recently, "America's Suitehearts," which they have been performing constantly live on television and radio. So would playing a song over and over on TV get tiresome?
"When you're doing the TV circuit, you've got to go in and play your single," Trohman said. "I think the most boring part is that you get there early to sound check, and then you sit through a rehearsal of the entire show, then you sit around for the actual taping of the show. So you're there from like 10 a.m. till 6 p.m. just waiting to play one song. That's probably the most boring part of it."
Nevertheless, Fall Out Boy does what it takes to keep the crowds coming.
The guys in Fall Out Boy have been in the limelight more than usual lately. This is partially due to the fact that the band's bass player, Pete Wentz, likes to keep himself and his wife, Ashlee Simpson, in the spotlight. So how does the media effect Trohman's life?
"Sometimes it's a bummer when people have this really wrong perception of what your band is," Trohman said. "You get people sometimes and they assign rolls to people in the band, and they have nothing to do with the band and they don't even understand the band at all, whatsoever.
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