Post by rachel on Jun 13, 2008 12:37:43 GMT -5
Say Anything
State Theatre, St. Petersburg, FL
April 6th, 2008
Review by Meghan Kearney
ST. PETERSBURG, FL - "Q&A With Say Anything"
This weekend, the weekend of my birthday, I was lucky to score some Meet-and-Greet passes to Sunday’s Say Anything show in St. Petersburg, Florida at the State Theatre. In addition, it was also lead singer Max’s birthday. After a few failed attempts at setting up an interview with the band, I decided to take things into my own hands. The bands tour manager Josh (who for the record was a super cool and nice guy), met up with the eight of us with meet-and-greet passes, and took us single file through the rowdy crowd and up to the dressing room with the band. The guys seemed excited to have us and spent some time introducing themselves and making some small talk. This is where Josh gave me the go ahead to do a quick Q&A with the guys. Noticing their obvious exhaustion, the loudness of the band playing on the other side of the wall, and the 10x10ft dressing room that was packing 15 people, I decided to cut my questions in half and make it quick for the guys, especially on Max’s birthday.
First, if you guys could please say your names and what you do in the band.
Max: I’m Max, I sing in the band
Jake: I’m Jake, I play guitar
Coby: Coby, Drums.
Alex: Alex, Bass
Parker: Parker, keyboard, guitar
Jeff: And Jeff, guitar.
What made you guys pick the artists that you worked with on "In Defense of the Genre?"
Max: He’s one of my favorite comic book artists, so, it was cool.
Was there anybody that you wanted to work with that you didn’t get to?
Max: No he was the one that I wanted.
Coby: Wait, sang on the record or did the drawing?
No, the artists who sang on it.
Max: Oh! Who sang?
Yes the musical artists.
Max: Yeah, I think we got pretty much everyone we wanted.
Can you tell me a little bit about your album ‘Baseball’. I’ve heard that you refuse to play it or re-release it, would you guys ever consider doing that?
Max: Um, maybe! Maybe in like a few years, maybe.
Awesome! And how about the album you worked on with Chris from Saves the Day, how’s that coming along?
Max: It’s done. We’re probably gonna release it this year. Later on, like this Fall.
Also, on the Warped Tour chat that you guys did, you mentioned your own new album.
Max: Yeah, that’s true, yeah. We’re probably gonna record it this year and release it next year, which should be good.
Ok and last question, what are you guys listening to right now?
Max: We’re listening to this band called Jubilee. I like them a lot.
Ok, well that’s all, thank you very much!
After a little photo shoot with the guys and the rest of the giveaway winners, Josh walked myself and my accompaniment Brett back out to the stage where we snuck in a spot right by the front. After great performances by Weatherbox, Eli Reed and The True Loves, and Manchester Orchestra, we had pushed our way out to the center in front of the stage.
The 6 members of Say Anything marched onto stage and the crowd went absolutely nuts! The pit finally packed full and tons of pushing ensued. They opened with “Skinny Mean Man” and went right into “No Soul” from there. I thought for a split second they would actually play IDOTG in order. But third they played “Alive With The Glory of Love” in which the crowd got to duplicate the music video and sing like little 12 year olds locked away at camp.
Finally, Jake got the crowd to sing Happy Birthday to Max, during which Max stood humbly back on the stage with a huge smile on his face. I enjoyed sharing my birthday with such a talented musician. After this is about when the crowd picked up. I believe the following song performed was “Shiksa”, and surprisingly, I had the hardest most violent time in the crowd during this song.
After researching into the Smashing Pumpkins cover they had been playing on this tour and discovering one of the best albums I’ve ever heard (MACHINA), I was quite ecstatic when they broke into the “Stand Inside Your Love” cover. But the best part of the show was by far when Max grabbed an acoustic guitar and Jake requested that we all take out cell phones, lighters, or anything that had a light, adding that “this is in old one.” Once they let us know they were about to play “Walk Through Hell” the crowd ceased their rowdy moshing to hold up their cell phones and belt their hearts out. It seemed like every last person knew every single word.
After a few more songs of IDOTG and an energizing little encore, all the members of the opening bands joined Say Anything on stage for “Belt.” The guys finished up with the best possible closer choice “Admit It!!!” and Max didn’t hesitate to request that everyone be even crazier than they had been, begging for three mosh pits instead of one. Instead, the mosh pit tripled in size and before the song even started I got knocked ten feet to the right into a safe zone. Everyone went completely crazy during this song, and when it ended there wasn’t a single person in the crowd who had a single dry spot on them. Everyone smelled, everyone was drenched in sweat, and everyone was cheering. It was the epitome of a rock pit and the band was well deserving of it.
Setlist:
Skinny Mean Man
No Soul
Alive With The Glory Of Love
Woe
Shiksa
Baby Girl, I’m A Blur
Retarted In Love
Stand Inside Your Love (Pumpkins Cover)
Wow, I Can Get Sexual Too
About Falling
Chia Like, I Shall Grow
Walk Through Hell
We Killed It
Plea
_________________________________
Belt
Church Channel
Admit It!!!
State Theatre, St. Petersburg, FL
April 6th, 2008
Review by Meghan Kearney
ST. PETERSBURG, FL - "Q&A With Say Anything"
This weekend, the weekend of my birthday, I was lucky to score some Meet-and-Greet passes to Sunday’s Say Anything show in St. Petersburg, Florida at the State Theatre. In addition, it was also lead singer Max’s birthday. After a few failed attempts at setting up an interview with the band, I decided to take things into my own hands. The bands tour manager Josh (who for the record was a super cool and nice guy), met up with the eight of us with meet-and-greet passes, and took us single file through the rowdy crowd and up to the dressing room with the band. The guys seemed excited to have us and spent some time introducing themselves and making some small talk. This is where Josh gave me the go ahead to do a quick Q&A with the guys. Noticing their obvious exhaustion, the loudness of the band playing on the other side of the wall, and the 10x10ft dressing room that was packing 15 people, I decided to cut my questions in half and make it quick for the guys, especially on Max’s birthday.
First, if you guys could please say your names and what you do in the band.
Max: I’m Max, I sing in the band
Jake: I’m Jake, I play guitar
Coby: Coby, Drums.
Alex: Alex, Bass
Parker: Parker, keyboard, guitar
Jeff: And Jeff, guitar.
What made you guys pick the artists that you worked with on "In Defense of the Genre?"
Max: He’s one of my favorite comic book artists, so, it was cool.
Was there anybody that you wanted to work with that you didn’t get to?
Max: No he was the one that I wanted.
Coby: Wait, sang on the record or did the drawing?
No, the artists who sang on it.
Max: Oh! Who sang?
Yes the musical artists.
Max: Yeah, I think we got pretty much everyone we wanted.
Can you tell me a little bit about your album ‘Baseball’. I’ve heard that you refuse to play it or re-release it, would you guys ever consider doing that?
Max: Um, maybe! Maybe in like a few years, maybe.
Awesome! And how about the album you worked on with Chris from Saves the Day, how’s that coming along?
Max: It’s done. We’re probably gonna release it this year. Later on, like this Fall.
Also, on the Warped Tour chat that you guys did, you mentioned your own new album.
Max: Yeah, that’s true, yeah. We’re probably gonna record it this year and release it next year, which should be good.
Ok and last question, what are you guys listening to right now?
Max: We’re listening to this band called Jubilee. I like them a lot.
Ok, well that’s all, thank you very much!
After a little photo shoot with the guys and the rest of the giveaway winners, Josh walked myself and my accompaniment Brett back out to the stage where we snuck in a spot right by the front. After great performances by Weatherbox, Eli Reed and The True Loves, and Manchester Orchestra, we had pushed our way out to the center in front of the stage.
The 6 members of Say Anything marched onto stage and the crowd went absolutely nuts! The pit finally packed full and tons of pushing ensued. They opened with “Skinny Mean Man” and went right into “No Soul” from there. I thought for a split second they would actually play IDOTG in order. But third they played “Alive With The Glory of Love” in which the crowd got to duplicate the music video and sing like little 12 year olds locked away at camp.
Finally, Jake got the crowd to sing Happy Birthday to Max, during which Max stood humbly back on the stage with a huge smile on his face. I enjoyed sharing my birthday with such a talented musician. After this is about when the crowd picked up. I believe the following song performed was “Shiksa”, and surprisingly, I had the hardest most violent time in the crowd during this song.
After researching into the Smashing Pumpkins cover they had been playing on this tour and discovering one of the best albums I’ve ever heard (MACHINA), I was quite ecstatic when they broke into the “Stand Inside Your Love” cover. But the best part of the show was by far when Max grabbed an acoustic guitar and Jake requested that we all take out cell phones, lighters, or anything that had a light, adding that “this is in old one.” Once they let us know they were about to play “Walk Through Hell” the crowd ceased their rowdy moshing to hold up their cell phones and belt their hearts out. It seemed like every last person knew every single word.
After a few more songs of IDOTG and an energizing little encore, all the members of the opening bands joined Say Anything on stage for “Belt.” The guys finished up with the best possible closer choice “Admit It!!!” and Max didn’t hesitate to request that everyone be even crazier than they had been, begging for three mosh pits instead of one. Instead, the mosh pit tripled in size and before the song even started I got knocked ten feet to the right into a safe zone. Everyone went completely crazy during this song, and when it ended there wasn’t a single person in the crowd who had a single dry spot on them. Everyone smelled, everyone was drenched in sweat, and everyone was cheering. It was the epitome of a rock pit and the band was well deserving of it.
Setlist:
Skinny Mean Man
No Soul
Alive With The Glory Of Love
Woe
Shiksa
Baby Girl, I’m A Blur
Retarted In Love
Stand Inside Your Love (Pumpkins Cover)
Wow, I Can Get Sexual Too
About Falling
Chia Like, I Shall Grow
Walk Through Hell
We Killed It
Plea
_________________________________
Belt
Church Channel
Admit It!!!