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Pete Wentz Fender Signature Model? Really?

#41
it stands for **** **** up. They are a hardcore skin outfit and wear seminoles stuff. I have heard of an affiliation with DMS (Doc Marten Skins) but I was never a member so I can't say for sure. The local chapter in Portland ME was running a club called the asylum back when I was a kid where all the good Boston and NY hardcore acts came through. After the disaster at the Blood For Blood show (99 or 2000ish) and some other legal troubles they left the scene and some out of state bunch got the Asylum. It has been crap ever since. They were rough guys but brought in a ton of unsigned local bands to play with some fairly big names. Gangsta Bitch barbie played a show in their first (possibly only) tour, as well as Chimera before they got big, Shadows Fall (in their early days) and a few others. Sam Black Church and several other Boston area bands had huge FSU followings and they were there a lot.
 
#43
TDR1138 said:
FWIW, I was in GC the other day to kill some time, and there were some 16-ish year old kids in the bass room playing very sloppily on a Marcus Miller Jazz.

Kid 1 (playing): "This is what that guy from Rush plays."
Kid 2 (watching): "Who?"
Kid 1: "You know, Rush."
Kid 2: "Um... [shrugs] Where's the one Pete Wentz plays?"

Obviously a market...
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Kids these days... I can say that cuz I am one. I'm gonna be 18 tomorrow but I can say that guys like Duck Dunn, James Jamerson, Geddy Lee, etc. inspired me to play, NOT Pete Wentz. :D
 
#45
yeah, but hes got tattoos, a pop tart wife and a signature sandwhich at Denny's. Duck Dunn has none of that.

thank you for the sig opportunity. I was a punk in a place where punks were not very cool. I made my own gear, patches, jackets etc and so forth. I studded stuff by hand. took hours. I wore that crap around the house, not just when I went out to a concert. Hot Topic pretty much took the work out of punk and I moved on. I shaved my head..........
 
#46
Guys, I just gotta come clean.. I love me some Pete Wentz.

Can I be the founding member of the Pete Wentz Uber Love Club?

We'll meet on wednesday nights at the Y. Make sure to let me know you're coming, so there will be enough generic chips and warm root beer for everyone. :)
 
#48
lousybassplayer said:
it stands for **** **** up. They are a hardcore skin outfit and wear seminoles stuff. I have heard of an affiliation with DMS (Doc Marten Skins) but I was never a member so I can't say for sure. The local chapter in Portland ME was running a club called the asylum back when I was a kid where all the good Boston and NY hardcore acts came through. After the disaster at the Blood For Blood show (99 or 2000ish) and some other legal troubles they left the scene and some out of state bunch got the Asylum. It has been crap ever since. They were rough guys but brought in a ton of unsigned local bands to play with some fairly big names. Gangsta Bitch barbie played a show in their first (possibly only) tour, as well as Chimera before they got big, Shadows Fall (in their early days) and a few others. Sam Black Church and several other Boston area bands had huge FSU followings and they were there a lot.
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This is mostly correct sorta. They started as anti nazi punk crew, whos name is really Friends Stand United. Then it all spiraled. Theres a 2007 article in rolling stone on their website. for anyone who wants detailed info.
 
#49
GregC said:
OK, I wasn't going to post again, but this was too much to handle. I saw Black Flag in a dive bar--that was a wild, rough, loud, punk rock show. A Fall Out Boy show may be a lot of things, but having read reviews of their shows, it sounds more like Disney World than that. I recall the review of their show in Chicago--each band member got into some transparent glass thing and changed shirts or something, while the tween girls squealed. If that sells tickets for them, great. I don't see myself ever going to a show like that.
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Amen to that. I remember at my first Sick of it All show (1992/1993ish at Club Babyhead in Providence) I got kicked in the face by a skinhead, and I remember thinking "Golly! This is fun!" I also remember the day it all died--I was at a show in Syracuse at Chuck's (I think it was Orange 9mm/Quicksand) and we were killing people in the pit, and some hippie-type grabbed me and yelled, "DUDE, YOU MUST CHILL." The last pit I ever saw (let's face it, I'm getting old, and the last show I saw was Ray Davies) was at Trail Of Dead--I never saw so many sport coats a scarves in a "pit" before.

I'm getting a little reminiscent and off topic, but I was at a Bosstones show two years ago where 75%of the audience was 17 or younger, and dickey says, "this one is off our first album, this is for the old school! Who's old school here?" and everyone raised their hands. What? Put your hands down junior--you weren't even BORN the first time I saw these guys!

So yeah, I would sell my soul to be a teen heartthrob bass player in a crappy band, just like Pete Wentz.
 
#50
yeah as I recall they were originally formed as a SHARP type of thing, but things went south. I must confess I know the history of the chapter where I was from, so they may not have had any affiliation at all with any national chapters.

knigel, you think thats bad go to a Dropkicks show. Bleck. Having been going to their shows since 97 (around the AL Barr switch), I gave up on them St patty's day 04.
 
#55
GregC said:
OK, I wasn't going to post again, but this was too much to handle. I saw Black Flag in a dive bar--that was a wild, rough, loud, punk rock show. A Fall Out Boy show may be a lot of things, but having read reviews of their shows, it sounds more like Disney World than that. I recall the review of their show in Chicago--each band member got into some transparent glass thing and changed shirts or something, while the tween girls squealed. If that sells tickets for them, great. I don't see myself ever going to a show like that.
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Haha, yeah, don't get me wrong, I'd never confuse the crowd at a Fall Out Boy show for the crowd at the Bad Religion and Bosstones shows I've been to, but this wasn't their mega-huge stadium show; just them on a (small) stage with ~300 very excited teenagers singing along, dancing, shoving, getting hearing-loss, etc. Kind of a "back to basics" thing for them. What's not punk rock about that?
 
#56
TDR1138 said:
FWIW, I was in GC the other day to kill some time, and there were some 16-ish year old kids in the bass room playing very sloppily on a Marcus Miller Jazz.

Kid 1 (playing): "This is what that guy from Rush plays."
Kid 2 (watching): "Who?"
Kid 1: "You know, Rush."
Kid 2: "Um... [shrugs] Where's the one Pete Wentz plays?"

Obviously a market...
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:p Oh man, that is funny. I'm a teacher with 25 students.

You gotta realize that some of these kids, they just want to play a song, ANY SONG, that all important first-song that we hope will lead to an entire repertoire of great basslines. But, as you know, it all starts with that first song.

I'd love for my beginners to learn "Xanadu" or ANY Rush song right out of the gate, but it just isn't going to happen. Geddy, even at his simplest, is too accomplished and complex, and kids know it. They'd rather learn a FOB song, just to prove to themselves and anyone listening that they CAN play the bassline to a complete song start to finish.

To their credit, most of my students stop asking for FOB (and similar bands) after the first song. I think they realize rather quickly that this is pretty easy stuff, and they're ready for something a little more challenging. :)
 

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