Fall out boy

The history of the group began in 2001, when two guys from Wilmette, IL - Joe Trohman and Pete Wentz decided to start playing together.

Starting as a metal project, they've quickly understood that this is not their type of music, and inspired by the success of Green Day they turned to pop-punk. A little bit later Partick Stump (guitar and vocal) and Andy Hurley (drums) joined them.

After several concerts they still had no idea about the name of the band, so they decided to ask the audience at one of the concerts. Some guy from the public screamed "Fall out boy"! The band liked it, though they had no idea where this name came from. (It actually came from "The Simpsons" - it was the name of one hero of a comic book Bart liked to read).

In 2001 the group has recorded a demo-tape, containing 3 songs, and in 2002 there appeared a record label ready to release an album, containing several tracks of FOB and Project Rocked - former band of Andy Hurley.

The group was not very optimistic, but the effect of their first album has overcome their brightest dreams - when the group has returned to the same recording company half a year later, the situation has changed, and after their next release "Fall Out Boy's Evening Out With Your Girlfriend", which received positive responce in local press, the group became a target for several big recording companies. Their first EP album was published by Fueled By Ramen label, founded by Winnie Balsano, ex-drummer of Less Than Jake. In may 2003 "Take This to Your Grave" album adds up to FOB discography. It appeared in Top 10 of an independent sales rating and became an important arguement for Island Records label, which for already a long time has been interested in the group. Take This to Your Grave has received a positive responce with many critics.

That was a high quality set of punk punk songs, which combined romantics and irony, powerful guitar riffs and a parody of common pop cliches. Musicians were obviously no more under the influence of Green day, whose music used to inspire them in the beginning.

Peter Wentz called FOb's sound "Softcore" - something in between hardcore and pop-punk. A long concert tour brought this young Chicago band to public.

The public was happy with what they saw and heard. In May 2004 the band has released an acoustic minidisk "My Heart Will Always Be the B-Side to My Tongue" which included a classic remake of Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart.

The release was popular in punk-community.

Finally, in may 2005 the band has released their second studio album "From Under the Cork Tree", produced by Neal Avron, a soundman of A New Found Glory. A huge concert experience and good promotion guaranteed intence interest to the disk. It was sold in more than 70 thousand of copies within the first week, entered the Billboard 200 and became three times platinum.

The single - Sugar, We're Goin' Down was the FOB's first 100% hit, becoming #8 in Billboard Hot 100. The clip was in rotation on MTV2 and received an MTV2 Award at MTV VMA 2005. The second single - Dance, Dance was also high in the charts, Which brought them Grammy's "Best new Artist" nomination. The main event of 2006 was a tour called "The Black Clouds and Underdogs Tour". Being the headliners, Fall Out boy picked several bands as support for them - The All-American Rejects, Hawthorne Heights, From First to Last, The Hush Sound and October Fall. Young bands took turns in opening the concerts all across the Northern America and Europe. Despite very tough schedule of 2006 the band managed to record their third album - Infinity on High - which was released in february 2007. It was produced by Jay-z and a well-known orchestra man Babyface.

Brilliant guitar solos were recorded by Ryan Ross (Panic@ At The Disco) and Chad Guilbert (A New Found Glory). In an interview to Billboard Magazine Patric Stamp noticed that despite that they use pianos, strings and winds, they tried not to get really into it. "All in all, there are simply four guys in the band - two guitars, drums and bass. These are just rock-songs. They change from song to song, but have one image alltogether. They all have something in common, but in general there are a lot of voices, perspectives, styles. It would be unfait if we would hold back any of these elements" Singles This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race and Thnks Fr Th Mmrs became instant hits and the band is now on next world tour.