![]() Craig was like, 'I need you to do me a favor. "Bert introduced Gerard to Craig and he signed them. That was the first band that exploded and opened the door to Mandy Moore and Hilary Duff and Ashlee Simpson, into that world, because they were so successful at the Top 40 level." I say they're a pop band because they write great songs that are super catchy and stick in your head. I'd seen the Ed Sullivan Beatles' footage, but I'd never seen anything like it in person. ![]() I'd never seen any boy bands or anything like that but it was all girls just screaming, tinnitus style. I got off the plane, went straight to the venue and they're three songs in. I remember seeing them at the Congress in Chicago-a sold out crowd of 6,000 people or something. They didn't like being in the same realm as N'Sync or the Backstreet Boys, but ultimately they were super successful. I know that the band at some point definitely had their qualms with that. Good Charlotte was different because kind of promoted to me as a pop act playing guitars. The nuances really aren't that devastatingly different. "To my mom's ears listening to Mest or Good Charlotte, she wouldn't be able to tell the difference. I could make this crazy post-hardcore sound with these amazing pop hooks and Bert would give it his all, vomiting three or four times a session." That was what I knew I could make different. Michael Jackson was his all-time favorite. Nobody had these hooks like Bert wanted to do. Without me helping to really define the sound.there was such a thing as post-hardcore at that point but nobody sang. What are the symbiotic relationships with the whale sharks and the fish that attach to them? I was the fish attached, and without that fish the whale shark is going to get sick. ![]() They were the turning point in everything in my entire career and me for them. I listened to it and as soon as I heard his voice I knew exactly what was there. I just thought this annoying kid-you know when you're on the road you meet all these sorts of weirdos, it wasn't like he was absurdly creepy-he just ran onto our bus and threw this demo. Our tour manager literally picked him up and threw him on his face out of the bus. "Goldfinger was in Salt Lake City and Bert from the Used somehow weaseled onto our tour bus and chucked a CD at us. ![]()
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