Fall Out Boy speaks out: Pete Wentz on the promoter's ordinance

Formed in suburban Wilmette in 2001, Fall Out Boy rose from playing exactly the sort of shows that the Chicago City Council would like to outlaw to headlining arenas and selling more than six million albums in the U.S. to date.

An avid reader of this and many other local blogs — even as he prepares for a Hollywood wedding — bassist and songwriter Pete Wentz contacted me this morning and said he felt compelled to speak out about the promoter’s ordinance. We connected a few hours later after the law was tabled (for the time being). But the perspective of a mutli-million-dollar career that would not exist without small shows organized by independent promoters is invaluable.

( Srs Bsnss )

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Tales of Ordinary Madness
Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz is not the man he was. He's traded prescription pills for therapy, star-studded parties for settling down with his fiancée and depression for... Well, that one's on his to-do list...


( ...he fretted that each member was becoming cut off from the next, the lines of communication down. )

- from Kerrang! magazine, week 23-30 April 2008.