Tim's interview

Venti sei anni Rise Against il frontman, Tim McIlrath è cresciuto nella 'sobborghi di Chicago, ragazzo punk-rock e si mise in attesa di trovare una band.


"Penso che la mia più definitiva introduzione al punk-rock è stato, quando me ne andai al campo estivo, nell'estate del mio ottavo grado e uno dei consiglieri mi ha dato un mix tape. E 'stato completamente privo di etichetta per cui non avevo idea chi fosse quella band. Oh, si dovrebbe verificare tutto questo, ti potrebbe piacere '. Ho amato tutto il nastro, tutte queste canzoni erano così diverse, ma non avevo idea che le band erano così; ho trascorso l'anno successivo della mia vita a guardare intorno questa musica e cercando di scoprire chi erano queste band. E 'risultato essere Minor Threat e Jawbreaker e Black Flag, Screeching Weasel, Fugazi, Naked Raygun, Social Distortion. E 'risultato essere tutte queste band che alla fine ho capito e sono cresciuto mando quella musica e che era la musica che ho veramente identificato, perché era qualcosa di diverso da quello che ho sentito alla radio. Non potevo davvero identificarsi con qualcosa nel mainstream e che la musica era cruda ed era vera ed e onesta.


"Questi gruppi avevano un motivo dietro la loro musica e un sacco di band che è venuto dopo di loro aveva i messaggi. Penso che nella metà degli anni novanta abbiamo goduto di una scena hardcore davvero, socialmente attivi e politicamente, attiva. C'erano un sacco di grandi band come Snapcase o addirittura Earth Crisis, band che in realtà hanno parlato di quello che stava succedendo. Tutta la loro musica era la musica che veniva introdotta, non conoscevo ogni altro tipo di punk-rock e non ho mai considerato uno qualsiasi di questi gruppi politici, li considerava punk-rock. Ho pensato punk-rock era politico, questo è quello che era lì per. E 'stato lì per essere un riflesso di quello che stava succedendo nel mondo intorno a voi e come le persone reagivano a essa e così quando la gente avvicinarsi alla nostra band e like their' Oh ... sei Rise Against, sei band che politico ' , noi non ci vedono come una band politico sai? Perché io ci vedono come una band che semplicemente raccolto dove band come Minor Threat e Black Flag e Dead Kennedy lasciato. Queste erano le bande che sono state sempre a parlare di politica, e questo era il punk-rock e non mi ci vedo come un gruppo politico che ci vedono come una band punk-rock. Ma che cosa punk-rock è diventato al giorno d'oggi è così straniero. E 'un concetto estraneo, è così diverso da quello (che cosa) è stato, la gente non capisce quello che è. E 'destinata ad essere politico, è destinata ad essere qualcosa che parlando di quello che sta succedendo nel mondo, qualcosa che ha sempre un messaggio e vedo un sacco di queste bande là fuori che semplicemente non hanno un messaggio a tutti. È una specie di triste sai? Ci sono ancora alcune band come noi là fuori che sono messaggi dietro quello che facciamo, il che è incoraggiante, ma è triste vedere queste bande là fuori che sono semplicemente rock band con mohawk e è una specie di punk-rock impostore.


"Mi sono ispirato a fare il gruppo perché ero a testimonianza di una scena punk rock che ho sentito stava lentamente morendo. Mi sono trovato sempre più spesso a questi spettacoli dove le persone sono appena stati a guardare queste band indie-nessuno si stava dentro, nessuno stava facendo niente, tutti erano lì per essere visto. E 'stato molto di moda e quelli mostra solo mi ha fatto perdere mostra vecchio hardcore punk e spettacoli vecchio. Mi sono ammalato di essere il membro del pubblico seduto lì con un drink in mano, annuendo con la testa e battendo il piede a ritmo. Ho continuato a desiderare, 'Accidenti, vorrei essere in uno spettacolo in cui tutti erano a lungo gridando i testi, tutti si salta tutto tra di loro e si camminava in un sudore e di vestiti strappati di dosso e si uscì sentimento così bene si può solo affrontare un'altra settimana al lavoro oa scuola '. Mi mancava questa sensazione e quelle bande. Non ho potuto trovare alcuna di quelle band a Chicago, in modo che quando l'occasione di fare Rise Against ero come <u>'Facciamo Rise Against e facciamo una band che è in realtà è aggressivae divertente e dà alle persone un motivo per gridare la testa fuori '. Perché è quello che voglio fare, è quello che mi manca e questo è quello che mi sento come se ci fosse un vuoto nel mondo di oggi e voglio essere parte per riempire quel vuoto."



Pensieri contorti, probabilmente alcuni di essi li ho già sentiti pronunciare, ma queste sono parole vere. Penso che sia un'origine che accomuna molte altre band, quella della scoperta del punk, ma i risultati sono sempre differenti. Mi piace il suo modo di pensare, è vero. Le ultime frasi sono pazzesche, posso dire che quello che mi stupisce è che quello che ha detto Tim è semplicemente vero! Una band che è nata con molti obbiettivi e incredibilmente si sono avverati tutti!

Quoto in pieno Giulia ^^

Un'altra intervista a Tim appena dopo l'uscita di ATR.

Jim McDonald: How are things with Rise Against?

Tim McIlrath: Things are great man, thanks for asking. After a break to do the record, we're back in the saddle right now, rolling around the country with Alk3, Thrice, and Gaslight Anthem, which is a treat. We've dusted the cobwebs of our gear and we're getting back into the swing of the things with all of the shows. The break treated us well and we're re-energized to bring the new record all around the world this year.


JM: The music of Rise Against progresses with each album. How are fans reacting to the new songs?

Tim: So far so good, to be honest, I don't read a lot of the reviews. I talk to kids here or there or maybe get some emails, but when you have all of these contradictory reports of what your record sounds like to people, how the hell are you supposed to keep up? It's a race I dropped out of years ago. I figure as long as there are still kids there every night we must be doing something right, and realistically, we'd still be doing it even if there wasn't all those kids there every night too.

JM:. Did you work with producer Bill Stevenson again on "Appeal To Reason"? What's it like to have a punk legend in the studio?

Tim: Yeah this is our third record again with Bill and Jason at The Blasting Room. They are just the best team. It's perfect. I can't say enough good things about them. Bill is a punk legend, but you would never know it. He's just a good guy, a great producer, a family man, and a brilliant arranger and songwriter. Every once in awhile we can pry a Black Flag story out of him, but he's not one to go around talking about it.

JM: This is the first release featuring guitarist Zach Blair. Did that change the recording process?

Tim: Zach is a shredder at the guitar so it was fun to watch him really hook up some of the leads on the record. He also does a lot of the back up vox on the record, which sound great.

JM: Rise Against is often compared to other punk bands with a political message, such as Bad Religion. How important is a message in a Rise Against song?

Tim: To me, it's why I do music. I don't do it to entertain people or become famous and rich or whatever. I do it for the message behind it. I owe so much to the punk and hardcore bands of my past and all I'd like to do is pass that on. I love songwriting of course, I love a great riff or a catchy chorus. But without the message, that can be so empty to me.

JM: I see Rise Against has posted new tracks on the band's MySpace page. Do you think MySpace has changed the way bands communicate with fans?

Tim: Yeah for sure, it seems like that’s all kids care about nowadays. Seems like people go to the MySpace page before they go to the website, it's crazy. It seems to bring people together, which is always a good thing.

JM: "Long Forgotten Sons" is an amazing song. It's an example of how Rise Against reaches outside the boundaries of punk rock. Where does the band pull its diverse influences from?

Tim: Joe wrote that song, and we all described it as Fugazi meets the Cure. It kind of has that sort of Joy Division/Fugazi bassline, and then some frilly guitar stuff over it that gives it an 80s feel. We're into all kinds of bands, including the ones just mentioned. So the stuff just seeps into our songwriting and then we make it our own.


JM:. "Audience of One" surprised me. This one song encompasses aspects of a ballad, an anthem and straight ahead punk. Is it difficult to pull such songs off live?

Tim: I guess we'll find out when we try it! We haven't added that one in the set yet. But we rehearsed it and it went pretty well so I don't envision any problems. Some songs are harder to pull of than others, especially vocally, for me. I can do pretty much anything we've written, but some are easier than others.

JM: What's next for Rise Against?

Tim: We're on tour now with Alkaline Trio, Thrice and Gaslight Anthem, then we head to Canada in December with Thursday and Sage Francis. We'll go home for a minute then head back out to the UK with Anti Flag and the Flobots, and then over to continental Europe with Strike Anywhere. When we get home from that, we'll do Australia. We also have a song on the Nightmare Revisited soundtrack, and we're hoping to get to Japan somewhere in there.

JM: Do you have any parting thoughts for our readers?

Tim: Eating meat is the #1 cause of global warming. MeatsNotGreen.com. Now go vote!




That's why they're the best band in the world. That's why I love them! ç_ç

Non sapevo fosse stato Joe a scrivere Long Forgotten Sons *-* Soprattutto ispirandosi ai Fugazi!

Lunga D: *modalità pigro*

Quest'affermazione mi ha davvero shockato! : o

shredder? è negativo o.O ?

No.. affatto... in pratica uno shredder sarebbe un chitarrista abbastanza veloce.. anzi velocissimo e comunque impeccabile ovviamente... tipo Petrucci (se lo conosci)
Mentre Zach... bhe Zach... xD

Si lo conosco... beh dai.. Tim cerca di incoraggiare la ciurma

Beh non poteva mica dire che Zach faceva schifo scusa

Ahahahah però l'ha detta abbastanza grossa! xD

Vabbè, Zach tecnicamente è molto bravo, se lo merita

Una vecchia intervista ^^ 2005...In realtà parla anche Joe, ma dato che prevalentemente intervistano Tim, la posto qui^^

Rise Against: "A Crazy Year For Me"

How important is the next generation? According to the guys of Rise Against, it is extremely important. The Chicago four-piece was in Toronto recently for Edgefest 2005. I had the chance to sit down with singer Tim McIlrath and bassist Joe Principe before their set to talk about several things including the importance of passing on the legacy of punk rock to the next generation.

Truth.Explosion: Anything changing happen to the band recently?


Tim: Something that's been significant or changing in the band, I guess the big thing in the band right now is I have a 1 year-old daughter and it's been a crazy year for me. Our drummer is having a kid and Joe is getting married, so a lot of things are happening in the band right now. I guess that goes along with growing up and it's strange because we definitely don't consider ourselves grown up. I mean we consider this band to be an extension of our adolescence and we managed to make it this far in our lives, we are still goofing around and playing music which is something we thought was only possible to do in our spare time, so it's definitely an interesting point in this band's career. To get to this point and to be still doing it, but thinking of your life outside of the band and your future. For me personally, I don't ever want my band or what I do to really be the definition of myself. I want there to be more to who I am regardless of whether or not this band ever started. If I met someone in the street I'd have something more to tell them then just "hey I'm in a band!" because I'd like to think that that doesn't matter. So things in your life like having kids or getting married, that's more about your personal life.

TE: How has the experience of having a child changed you and maybe even changed the music in the band?

Tim: I don't think it has changed the music too much but has changed my perspective on things. It gives me a whole new reason to be out here and a whole new reason to care. I love Rise Against because I love what we bring to a lot of kids who are just getting into punk rock. Like if you got into punk rock and you can choose from anywhere between like 20 huge bands right now to listen to and what they would bring to you and what they would be able to give to you, and there are just a lot of bands that aren't offering a lot. I like playing in Rise Against because I feel we are instrumental and really giving kids a message to listen to whether they agree with it or not. So it's been a privilege to do that. When you have a kid, it makes you think entirely differently about that next generation.

TE: Which is what?

Tim: I've always been thinking about it in terms of kids that are listening to the music that are five or ten years younger than us and now I am thinking about it in terms of a newborn kid that's going to be growing up in an entirely different world, than I grew up in. So it changes your perspective on a lot of different things and it's been nothing but an absolute positive impact on me.

TE: Does that make it any harder for you guys to tour?

Tim: It's harder, especially having a kid. It's just one more girl to miss. It's definitely difficult. She's getting older and she has more of a personality and she doesn't necessarily understand why I am leaving so it makes it a little more difficult. In the long run, I am glad that I am doing it and that I am out here.


TE: You guys still tour pretty extensively, I bet sometimes you must want to just go home...

Tim: Definitely.

Joe: It's like Tim said, we like what we do but after a while if you do too much of any one thing then you are going to start missing what you don't have at that time. You know we love our families obviously and it would be nice to have them with us, but you can't always. For me, there are two things that make me, one's the person I love and one's the band.

TE: Do you ever try to have those two things together with you, like bring your wife or daughter out on the road with you?

Tim: Yah, that happens whenever possible. It is difficult though sometimes.

TE: Does your daughter know what daddy does yet?

Tim: I don't think she's figured it out yet (laughs). I play guitar for her all the time and she loves trying to play guitar. She hasn't really even seen a show yet because of the volume, but I just got her some giant headphones. So next time we play in Chicago, I will have her come out and see it. She is extremely musical. I am not around a lot of kids as musical as she is. She loves anything that even resembles music; if I start whistling she will just start dancing. That's something that I can tell. I am always playing music around her, so I think she will be a very musical person.


TE: Rise Against makes music with a positive message, would you say that is even truer now?

Tim: I think it will have an impact as far as thinking about the future generation. This band has always thought about passing on the legacy of punk to the kids that are just getting into it now. It makes you think of it in whole different terms. It just shows you how important that generation really is. There's only a certain degree of importance you can understand when you are talking about your fans and kids that you really care about that are out in the crowd. But when it's your own daughter, all of a sudden it's like wow, "this next generation is extremely important", it just hits you in a way that nothing else can possibly hit you.

TE: Do you think you have a responsibility as an artist to talk about what is going on around you, to fill kids in on certain things...?

Tim: I don't know as an artist because there are a lot of artists that have nothing to do with what is going on but in Rise Against, yes and simply being a part of punk rock, yes.

TE: How does Rise Against do this?

Tim: Giving back to the scene I grew up in. The people that showed me what it is to grow up with the world around you, showed me to put a certain message or substance into music, I need to repay that. They did a great thing in giving that to me, so the worst thing that I could do is just let it stop there. I want to be one of the bands that I saw growing up. If we don't pass it on and the next band and the next band doesn't pass it on, then punk rock won't be available to kids. The only thing that's going to be available is what Hot Topic what is going to sell you or whatever this whole commercialization of punk rock is going to sell you. I feel a personal responsibility not as an artist because the word artist just conjures up all these ideas of some David Bowie slash Picasso kind of guy; just some artist. I am the kind of kid that can scream my head off and play guitar and some people enjoy it. It's a whole different world.

TE: You were talking about making music with substance...do you think that a lot of bands today lack substance?


Tim: There's always been lot's of bands who have never had a substance it's just getting harder and harder to find some that do. There's still amazing bands out there like Anti-Flag, Boy Sets Fire or Good Riddance...we just saw them last night.

TE: Yah, I went to see them too...they put on a really good show.

Tim: Yah! That band has always been political or like Bad Religion or Pennywise, they talk about politics. There's so many good bands out there that some people tend to overlook. When you think of a band like Pennywise you don't necessarily think of a political band, but just look at the lyric sheet. Jim's not just singing about girls and drinking (laughs). He's singing about really cool and important stuff. Even like playing today at Edgefest, that band Killradio, they've got a message.

TE: My last question...I want to know if you can tell me what the "truth" is about Rise Against?

Tim: We're all woman! (laughs)



Joe: That's a very interesting question...I think what you are going to get from us is sincerity because everything we do is heartfelt because or else we wouldn't be able to do this eight or nine months out of the year.

Tim: We are a bunch of punk rock kids that have been given the opportunity to play punk rock shows around the world and it's as simple as that. Everything we do is for that, we don't have hidden agendas, we are not trying to get you to buy into something, we just sing about what we love and we are not trying to be everybody's favorite band. We are trying to be out there for the people who understand what we have to say and we hope we can find each and every one of those people.

Ecco svelato il segreto! o.o Erano troppo intelligenti per essere uomini u.u

E che cazzo u.u Tim parla troppo!

Questa è interessante.

Decider: Rise Against has become much more “political” in recent years. At this point, do you consciously avoid writing songs about girls?

Tim McIlrath: I’m 30 now, and married with kids. I’m not breaking up with girls every day. And we live in a more tumultuous time, even from when the band started. Rise Against has weathered almost the entire Bush administration, so it’s an interesting time to be a punk band. There are songs on the new record—like “The Dirt Whispered” and “Audience Of One”—that are more personal, but there are also some of our most political songs. Those probably overshadow the songs that aren’t as fist-pumping.

D: Your audience is mostly younger than you. Do you think you’ve helped shape their worldview?

TM: We do have a predominantly high-school-aged audience, and we’ve had fans tell us we opened their eyes to how the other half lives, or to what the news is saying versus what’s really happening in the world. Every time you talk to one of those kids, it validates everything we’ve done. The band was started to have fun, but we also wanted to pass on things we learned from the punk scene. When I was a 15-year-old kid seeing bands like Los Crudos or Earth Crisis, they brought literature with them. I played benefits for East Timor and had no idea where it was. It was a huge learning experience, because that wasn’t being talked about in my school. It was empowering to see that there were no adults there. It was kids putting on these shows and putting out records. Inevitably, a lot of our lyrics are going to fall on deaf ears, because some kids are just at the show to mosh. I’ve had kids tell me that they play Rise Against CDs at football games

D: Do you ever encounter fans who disagree with what you’re saying?

TM: That definitely happens more often than it used to. I think it’s cool that a fan feels they can disagree with their favorite band and not be lost in admiration and follow them like a sheep. I’d rather have people speaking their minds.

D: Being on a major label and doing bigger tours, do you find it’s more difficult to keep an open dialogue with your audience?

TM: It’s harder and harder, that’s for sure. I’m not going to say that there aren’t shows where I don’t meet a single kid and then we play for 2,000 of them. We do meet and greets whenever we can. We get e-mails where people say they disagree with us about the war, but they love our band. I look forward to that dialogue, because that’s what it’s all about.

D: The video for “Re-Education (Through Labor)” shows kids planting bombs at buildings in downtown Chicago. Do you worry some might get the wrong idea?


TM: Art is about taking risks. To be clear, that video starts with a JFK quote: “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” That sums it up. There’s a reason people do crazy things. They feel like they have no other option. We live in a country where the more you strip our civil liberties and have things like election fraud, people are going to get sick of making Michael Moore documentaries, and they’re going to start doing crazy things. The government has taken for granted that Americans will swallow any pill they’re given. It’s not our job to hold the hand of the viewer.

D: The song is also being used for WWE’s Friday Night SmackDown. Does Rise Against also support professional wrestling?

TM: WWE came to us initially about “Drones” from The Sufferer And The Witness about a year ago. I remember playing a show and getting a flurry of text messages saying, “Dude, your song is the official theme song of the 2007 Royal Rumble!” I made sure to note all of the names that were texting me, thinking, “Wow! All of these people are watching the Royal Rumble!” Very incriminating texts. Wrestling is something that I don’t personally get, but it’s so freaking huge!

D: Like punk rock?

TM: Exactly.





Che cazzo di domanda eh?


Woops..in questo sbaglio alla grande o.o

Da Ondalternativa.it

L'avevo letta un macello di tempo fa, ma non mi sono mai ricordata di postarla xD

Quest'altra la linko, poichè non riesco a copiarla...
http://www.outune.net/livetune/interviste/...se-against/1051