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PropertyOfZack Interview : : Bayside
PropertyOfZack had the chance to chat with Anthony Raneri from Bayside just last week for a great interview. Anthony and I discussed the band’s method behind touring over the past year or so, Killing Time, a long solo tour, and an upcoming solo EP/album. Read up and enjoy!
The band’s co-headlining tour kicks off a week from today in Philadelphia with Saves The Day, I Am The Avalanche, and Transit. How excited are you for this run?
That’s definitely a tour that I have to keep double checking on to make sure that it’s real.
It’s sort of interesting – Around a year ago you guys did a co-headlining tour with Senses Fail and took out Title Fight and Balance & Composure. Is the idea of co-headlining and taking out two smaller bands that you feel deserve credit something you’re getting more and more into?
To me, it’s the only way to do it as far as a headlining tour goes. You can’t completely ignore the fact that you need people at the shows. We’ve been doing a lot of co-headliners this year. We like the idea of picking a band that is also going to help bring people to the shows. But we also want to pick awesome bands. A lot of packages are built around picking three support bands that are worth X amount of tickets. We want to go around that. Our way around it is to pick a band like Saves The Day, Senses Fail, or Silverstein that we’re on the same size with. After that, we can just pick bands that we like. We don’t have to worry about who draws what.
Obviously Avalanche have been around a long time, but this is really their first legitimate tour in years. Is it great to be able to help out old friends on a tour that’s shaping up to be huge?
When Vinnie started playing me demos four or five years ago of songs for the new record, I just knew instantly that I had to be a part of it.
POZ: How was doing guest vocals on a track?
Anthony: I did a guest vocal on one of the songs and I co-wrote two of the songs with Vinnie. For this to be their first tour that they go on when the record comes out, it’s really special to me. I think it’s one of the best records to come out in a long time.
And Transit is younger band that you toured with a little bit this summer, but what do you see in them and their future?
I think they have a huge future ahead of them. They’re a great band and they do everything right. The songs are really good. We’ve toured with them twice now, and we’ve seen how they operate on a daily basis. It’s music first. They want to make sure that they sound good and perform well and that they please the fans. They’re on a good road and they’re great kids. Bands want to tour with their friends and bands that they want to be around for six weeks. There’s proof in that in that this is the third tour in a row that we’re taking Transit on. They’re great guys and we want to have them around.
What’s the set list shaping up to be like?
It’s going to be a lot of Killing Time and a lot of very old. We were in Canada for a week and we were testing a lot of the old stuff. We had a lot of fun doing it. We try our best to blend everything. We try to give everybody what they want.
The band is obviously supporting the release of Killing Time, which came out earlier this year. How has the reception to the album been?
It’s been great. I think it’s the best reception we’ve ever gotten from an album. Everything usually gets mixed reviews, but everyone is pretty stoked on this.
Here is a cool video that our friend Neil made while he was out with us for a couple of days in Southern California. Check it out and please reblog. Help spread the word. Hopefully much more fun stuff from him in the future coming
““Dear Karen,
If you’re reading this it means I actually worked up the courage to mail it, so good for me. You don’t know me very well but if you get me started I have a tendency to go on and on about how hard the writing is for me. But this, this is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to write.
There’s no easy way to say this so I’ll just say it, I met someone. It was an accident, I wasn’t looking for it, it wasn’t on the make, it was a perfect storm. She said one thing, I said another, next thing I knew, I wanted to spend the rest of my life in the middle of that conversation. Now there’s this feeling in my gut she might be the one. She’s completely nuts in a way that makes me smile, highly neurotic with a great deal of maintenance required, she is you, Karen. That’s the good news.
The bad is I don’t know how to be with you right now. And that scares the shit out of me. Because if I’m not with you right now, I have this feeling that we’ll get lost out there. It’s a big, bad world full of twists and turns. And people have a way of blinking and missing the moment. The moment that could have changed everything. I don’t know what’s going on with us, and I can’t tell you why you should waste the leap of faith on the likes of me, but damn you smell good. Like home. And you make excellent coffee. That’s got to count for something right?
Call me.
Unfaithfully yours,
Hank Moody.””
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