{"id":36665,"date":"2019-01-04T10:30:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T23:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/?p=36665"},"modified":"2019-01-03T21:05:38","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T10:05:38","slug":"adam-lazzara-of-taking-back-sunday-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/2019\/01\/adam-lazzara-of-taking-back-sunday-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Lazzara of Taking Back Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“…we\u2019ve all been a little like looking back retrospectively and we\u2019ve been reminded a lot recently just how lucky we are and how fortunate we are to be and just kind of that we\u2019ve been able to do what we do…”<\/p>\n

From Release: If you can’t believe that Taking Back Sunday have been around for 20 years, you’re not alone, because they can’t either. From the band’s landmark 2002 debut “Tell All Your Friends” to their most recent full-length, 2016’s “Tidal Wave”, Taking Back Sunday have evolved from a key player in the early 2000s emo scene to a genre-defying rock band who have three gold albums without ever ceasing to push the limitations of their sound. This fact is evidenced on “Twenty”, a 21-song collection set for release in January 2019 that spans all seven of their full-lengths and solidifies them as an act with a catalogue that will undoubtedly outlive them. Further celebrating the twenty years since their formation, Taking Back Sunday are hitting the road showcasing their prolific recording career performing select double album plays, including their iconic debut “Tell All Your Friends”, sophomore smash hit “Where You Want To Be” and fan favourite “Louder Now” along with a couple of other favourites and quite possibly a new song or two in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane this January.<\/p>\n

While at home Adam of Taking Back Sunday gave us a call to talk about the band\u2019s new compilation release \u2018Twenty\u2019, as well as their upcoming Australian tour, new music, and much more.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a good six and a half years since we last chatted, so let\u2019s catch up, how have the last six and a half years been for you?<\/strong>
\nOh well hey *laughs* well if I had to sum them up I\u2019d say pretty great *laughs*. Yeah man, with everything that\u2019s coming up or everything in the past little bit I think we\u2019ve all been a little like looking back retrospectively and we\u2019ve been reminded a lot recently just how lucky we are and how fortunate we are to be and just kind of that we\u2019ve been able to do what we do and so I would say if I\u2019m looking back on the past six and a half years *laughs* that\u2019s kind of the biggest observation that I would make.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re about to release \u2018Twenty\u2019 a compilation spanning the bands career, when you have to pick songs for a release like that is it tough to narrow down what will get released?<\/strong>
\nWell it is, yes, because when they first brought it\u00a0 up I just figured we\u2019ll just put everything on there and just make it a giant box set and we can call it a day, but we wanted to have it a little more focused and thankfully we do everything pretty democratically in the band so what we did was we just all made our own individual lists and then put them together and what we found was that they were all very similar. There were only a few songs here and there that we had to just kind of sort out, for one of the early releases we have a separate record that will come with it and we\u2019ve just called it \u2018Artist Picks\u2019 and it\u2019s some of the songs that we thought should\u2019ve been on there but aren\u2019t and it\u2019s all explained in the liner notes and looks real nice the whole deal.<\/p>\n

With the two new songs on this release, in the two years since your last album, were these written specifically for this release or are they songs you\u2019ve had around for a while?<\/strong>
\nNo they were written specifically for the release, there\u2019s \u2018A Song For Dan\u2019 Mark our drummer had started working on that, he has garage band on his phone so a lot of the time when we\u2019re travelling he\u2019ll just be on his phone all the time *laughs* and you\u2019ll think he\u2019s on social media or going down some internet wormhole but he\u2019s not because he really doesn\u2019t have any other apps on his phone other than garage band because he has so many ideas on it so he needs the space. Anyway, that was one that he started working on probably right around the time we started touring for \u2018Tidal Wave\u2019 and then so when we came together and just we throwing ideas around together that\u2019s one of the ones that really stuck out so we worked on that first and there really wasn\u2019t much, I mean he had the whole form and everything there it was just a matter of putting words and melody to it which then John happened to have an idea that just fit perfectly in there. Then with \u2018All Ready To Go\u2019 was another one, Mark and Sean got together because they live in New York and John and I live in North Carolina so Mark and Sean went to a studio at a friend of theirs and recorded basically the bass and the drums like the general idea like the bones of the song and then sent it down here and John and I threw out ideas into it and then so a couple of weeks later we got together in the studio and just fine tuned the details and that\u2019s how they came about.<\/p>\n

So are there plans for another full release soon or are we just going with these two tracks for a while?<\/strong>
\nWell we haven\u2019t had a chance to all get together like really start nailing things down but I\u2019ll say through the process of working through these two songs that are on \u2018Twenty\u2019, \u2018All Ready To Go\u2019 and \u2018A Song For Dan\u2019 I feel like that sparked something in everyone and so I would imagine as we\u2019re travelling being as there\u2019s a busy year ahead of us during the down time we\u2019ll spend a lot of time talking about those ideas and developing them more and that way when we have time off we can get together and start working on new things.<\/p>\n

Talking about travelling, you\u2019re also heading back to Australia in January for Unify and for some special album shows, what was the idea behind doing these special nights on this tour?<\/strong>
\nWell for us to be completely honest when the idea was first getting kicked around of putting \u2018Twenty\u2019 out and doing a tour I wasn\u2019t too excited about it because I never wanted to get stuck in this cycle of relying on nostalgia because I feel like we still a lot more songs in us and a lot more to do, but then it wasn\u2019t until our manager Jillian we were talking about it one night and she says well Adam I think you\u2019re looking at it wrong. Think about it, the band changed the course of your life and look at everything we\u2019ve all been able to accomplish and do through that, and it\u2019s all the people that have been listening that have made that possible so let\u2019s go to them and let\u2019s have a celebration and be like hey look what we did together everybody kind of thing. So that was the motivation behind the tour like that.<\/p>\n

The last time I saw you guys was when we had a chat backstage and you were laid up with your leg injury so I\u2019m yet to see you on stage in full force. So for someone like me who hasn\u2019t seen that, how would you best describe a Taking Back Sunday show?<\/strong>
\nBlissful chaos I think. The thing I\u2019ve always loved about going to shows that for however long you\u2019re there you leave the world at the door, your worries or whatever at the door and you can go in there and get lost. I\u2019ve been fortunate enough to where I can be on stage and make that an even bigger part of my life. One of the things too is I\u2019ve noticed with a lot of these songs over the years that as we\u2019re playing them the separation between what\u2019s happening with the audience and what\u2019s happening on the stage that just kind of goes away and we\u2019re all part of this communal electricity together and I just always look forward to that. So I think if you\u2019re planning on coming to a show that\u2019s what you can expect.<\/p>\n

Being in this band now for almost twenty years, what\u2019s left on your list of things you want to do that you haven\u2019t yet had the chance to do as a band?<\/strong>
\nThe biggest thing is we\u2019re always trying to chase the perfect song *laughs*, the best thing that we can write. Something going through getting the songs together for \u2018Twenty\u2019 well for me at least I\u2019m really proud of each one of those records because I think they\u2019re a really great snapshot, the two new songs included as of where we were at that time. So I would just like to really keep seeing it grow in that way and just being able to see the musicians and people that we\u2019re capable of being, that\u2019s real exciting to me. So I would say that\u2019s at the top of my list.<\/p>\n

So over your time together it can be easy to say what\u2019s changed but what would you say is the one thing that\u2019s stayed the same in your time together?<\/strong>
\nMan, I think at the core of just individually everybody\u2019s pretty much the same person, which there\u2019s times that maybe we\u2019ve veered off course but for the most part we\u2019re still these kids, when they joke about being in a band there\u2019s like the Peter Pan syndrome like that\u2019s very true like veer through all the years and ups and downs I\u2019m still that same kid that joined the band and still want a lot of the same things and same for the other guys.<\/p>\n

Lastly let\u2019s look ahead to the future, finish this sentence for me, in 2019 Taking Back Sunday will\u2026<\/strong>
\nTour extensively. Very busy. It\u2019s very rare that we have a whole year mapped out like we do now. It\u2019s crazy because you spend so much time planning and getting ready for it that when it gets close it\u2018s hard to believe it\u2019s happening just even talking about it so much, I guess with Christmas coming up there\u2019s all that lead up to it that when it\u2019s about to happen it\u2019s hard to believe like man, it\u2019s happening so soon. It seems so far away.<\/p>\n

Thanks for your time, Adam, I\u2019m looking forward to seeing you guys in Sydney and seeing you in full force.<\/strong>
\nYeah I\u2019m looking forward to being there with both my legs intact that will be great *laughs*.<\/p>\n

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TAKING BACK SUNDAY<\/strong>
\n20 YEAR ANNIVERSARY TOUR<\/strong>
\nWITH SPECIAL GUESTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

HQ, ADELAIDE<\/strong>
\nWEDNESDAY JANUARY 9
\nPERFORMING: TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS \/ LOUDER NOW<\/em><\/p>\n

170 RUSSELL, MELBOURNE<\/strong>
\nFRIDAY JANUARY 11
\nPERFORMING: WHERE YOU WANT TO BE \/ LOUDER NOW<\/em><\/p>\n

METRO THEATRE, SYDNEY<\/strong>
\nMONDAY JANUARY 14
\nPERFORMING: TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS \/ LOUDER NOW<\/em><\/p>\n

METRO THEATRE, SYDNEY<\/strong>
\nTUESDAY JANUARY 15
\nPERFORMING: TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS \/ WHERE YOU WANT TO BE<\/em><\/p>\n

THE TRIFFID, BRISBANE<\/strong>
\nWEDNESDAY JANUARY 16
\nPERFORMING: TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS \/ LOUDER NOW<\/em><\/p>\n

THE TRIFFID, BRISBANE<\/strong>
\nTHURSDAY JANUARY 17
\nPERFORMING: TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS \/ WHERE YOU WANT TO BE<\/em><\/p>\n

ALSO APPEARING AT UNIFY GATHERING, JANUARY 12<\/strong><\/p>\n

For complete tour, ticket and VIP Experience information, visit:\u00a0<\/strong>
\ntakingbacksunday.com<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0&\u00a0livenation.com.au<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Essential Information<\/strong><\/h2>\n

From:<\/strong>\u00a0Long Island, New York, USA<\/p>\n

Band Members:<\/strong>\u00a0Adam Lazzara – vocals, John Nolan – guitar\/vocals, Mark O’Connell – drums, Shaun Cooper – bass<\/p>\n

Website:<\/strong>\u00a0http:\/\/www.takingbacksunday.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Forthcoming Release:<\/strong>\u00a0Twenty (January 11 \u2013 Craft Recordings)<\/p>\n

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