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4 hours ago, Smalls said:

Oops I watched the wrong down video. The non acoustic one he changes the whole chorus.

edit: the acoustic one sounds good and I like the change

I tried to make sure to word it very specifically so people wouldn’t get confused lmao. 

Acoustic one is the good one, other one is not. That is subjective, but the non-acoustic sounds like drunk karaoke night compared to the acoustic one.

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33 minutes ago, jlx9 said:

I tried to make sure to word it very specifically so people wouldn’t get confused lmao. 

Acoustic one is the good one, other one is not. That is subjective, but the non-acoustic sounds like drunk karaoke night compared to the acoustic one.

Yea I was hungover and didn’t read thoroughly lmao. My bad!

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Speaking of Matt Skiba, I'm digging up this thread because I think this is the right place to talk about him (?). Anyway, today he was a guest on Toby Morse's podcast and here's the 1h and 22 minute interview: 

I haven't listened to it yet, but I'll do it tomorrow. I'm sure he will also talk about blink so I had to share it in case anyone wants to check it out. 

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That podcast was great (blink talk around ~55:00). My notes:

 

-Saw social distortion and knew what he wanted to do

-Mom forced 3 years of piano, family dinner at 5

-Captain of varsity soccer as a Freshman, had scholarships to Utah, Iowa, BIG 10 schools

-Thrasher magazine found out about punk rock 

-High school bands wrote music but played drums

-When to art school, wanted to design album art

-was bike messenger, made him work really hard in the band cuz didn’t want to do that full time 

-Alk3 comes, got a van played in Dayton Ohio

-Matt came up with Alk3, used dictionary

-Wanted band to start with A to be at the top of every list 

-Lived in gang territory, friend got shot, only white kids

-Mom had PTSD, was triage nurse at war

-Has younger twin sisters

-Fav trio record currently ITTC

-Dan and him working on Setlist 

56:00 Blink talk

-Toby had to hold a secret with blink first meeting 

-Was worried about the quick guitar parts 

-Kids talk shit, he says I didn’t write the song I’m  trying not to bastardize it too much 

-I’m not gonna try to be Tom, I’ll do my best to play how it was recorded 

-Was fan of EOTS, Finn played him that before it came out. Before that didn’t really speak to him, thought they were cool 

-Wasn’t until a year ago that he stopped being nervous for shows

-Says he still screws up Alk3 songs, is gonna make mistakes

-No regrets, things not proud of

-Writes everyday, hits gym 4x a week, meditates twice a day

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6 minutes ago, Russel Coight said:

Thanks ry!

What does this mean? Toby had a meeting with blink?

Skiba told him about meeting with Mark/Trav that first time when they asked him to be in the band, and Toby couldn’t tell anyone and said it was hard lol 

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22 minutes ago, Ry-Bread said:

That podcast was great (blink talk around ~55:00). My notes:

 

-Saw social distortion and knew what he wanted to do

-Mom forced 3 years of piano, family dinner at 5

-Captain of varsity soccer as a Freshman, had scholarships to Utah, Iowa, BIG 10 schools

-Thrasher magazine found out about punk rock 

-High school bands wrote music but played drums

-When to art school, wanted to design album art

-was bike messenger, made him work really hard in the band cuz didn’t want to do that full time 

-Alk3 comes, got a van played in Dayton Ohio

-Matt came up with Alk3, used dictionary

-Wanted band to start with A to be at the top of every list 

-Lived in gang territory, friend got shot, only white kids

-Mom had PTSD, was triage nurse at war

-Has younger twin sisters

-Fav trio record currently ITTC

-Dan and him working on Setlist 

56:00 Blink talk

-Toby had to hold a secret with blink first meeting 

-Was worried about the quick guitar parts 

-Kids talk shit, he says I didn’t write the song I’m  trying not to bastardize it too much 

-I’m not gonna try to be Tom, I’ll do my best to play how it was recorded 

-Was fan of EOTS, Finn played him that before it came out. Before that didn’t really speak to him, thought they were cool 

-Wasn’t until a year ago that he stopped being nervous for shows

-Says he still screws up Alk3 songs, is gonna make mistakes

-No regrets, things not proud of

-Writes everyday, hits gym 4x a week, meditates twice a day

Hell yea. Glad to hear social distortion was what initially inspired him. I have so much love for that band and encourage anyone here that hasn’t to try and dive in to their catalogue 

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3 hours ago, Elisa said:

Speaking of Matt Skiba, I'm digging up this thread because I think this is the right place to talk about him (?). Anyway, today he was a guest on Toby Morse's podcast and here's the 1h and 22 minute interview: 

I haven't listened to it yet, but I'll do it tomorrow. I'm sure he will also talk about blink so I had to share it in case anyone wants to check it out. 

Thanks for posting this. I listened to about half of it today at work, and I'll probably finish it tomorrow, but I love stuff like this and I've enjoyed it so far! I wish Mark still did his podcast.

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