Gym Class Heroes Working On New Album With Patrick Stump
Visit Gym Class Heroes in the studio as they work on their upcoming album called "The Quilt" with Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy.
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Since we last spoke to Gym Class Heroes about the recording of their third LP, the band has embarked on a college tour to debut songs from their new album The Quilt, due this July. When we caught up with the band this weekend at Bamboozle, frontman Travis McCoy and drummer Matt McGinley talked about their recent touring, as well as their recording sessions with Busta Rhymes and Daryl Hall.
“The college tour has been kind of a warm-up for us. We’ve been playing four or five new songs,” McGinley says. “We have more prepared, but we find that some songs almost don’t translate to the live show as well [right now].”
“Some of the songs are a little moody,” explains McCoy. “Not that this album has dark undertones, but this past year has been so crazy for us with success and personal things, like my cousin committing suicide last November. It bubbled to a point where I went out to record in L.A. and I freaked out. I was so excited, but I was going through so much shit emotionally so I jetted out of L.A. and went back to Miami.”
While in Miami, McCoy met up with Andre “Dre” Christopher Lyon, one half of production duo Cool & Dre (who worked on The Quilt). “Me and Dre are kindred spirits,” McCoy says. It was Dre who helped McCoy de-stress enough to head back L.A. and hit the recording studio — but not before hooking Gym Class Heroes up with a guest vocal from Busta Rhymes. In his best Busta voice, McCoy recalls Busta’s reaction after Dre played a demo for him on speakerphone: “Yo! I’m coming to Miami right now! If you don’t save me a verse on this song, I’m going to kill all of ya’ll.”
Though McCoy says he’ll never assign song titles until a track is complete — “That’s like naming your baby before it’s born, and what happens if you name it Scott but it comes out looking like a Michael?” — the Busta jam is tentatively called “Peace Sign.” “It was that hyped ‘95 animated Busta that I’ve been in love with forever,” McCoy says gleefully.
Another high point in recording was Daryl Hall’s guest session on the track “Live Forever,” about McCoy’s cousin. “Playing along to that track was a pretty surreal experience,” McGinley says.
“At the end of it he did this whole stream of conscious improv freestyle thing and we just let him go,” McCoy says. “I broke down in tears because he was saying all these things that were so relevant; I felt like I witnessed magic.”
By Erica Futterman, www.rollingstone.com
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GCH at Samsung Sound Check
So last night pretty much rocked. YAY for new Gym Class Heroes songs! The band’s new album, The Quilt, comes out this summer and is produced by my favorite Fall Out Boy - Patrick Stump. GCH is also one of the main stage headliners of this summer’s Vans Warped Tour. I am hitting up the Milwaukee and Chicago Warped shows - who’s with me?!
I can thank Samsung and U.S. Cellular for letting me have an absolute blast last night. Thanks to them, I got to see one of my favorite bands again in concert FOR FREE and sing my heart out along with Patrick’s backing vocal tracks. Samsung Sound Check is an exclusive music tour with leading musical acts, designed to provide consumers with rare, private concerts and the opportunity to experience the latest in music-centric mobile phones.
Gym Class played about three new songs from their highly anticipated third record, including a song written by guitarist Disashi Lumumba-Kasongo and another entitled Drunk Text Romeo. MC Travis McCoy finished off the band’s set down in the crowd among the fans in the “pit” before heading backstage to prep for the encore. I first saw GCH live on the 2006 Vans Warped Tour in Charleston, SC and have since seen them more times than I can count in Chicago.
Each Samsung Sound Check event features a one-hour high-energy performance by a headline band as well as music by Los Angeles-based DJ, Matthew Sullivan. Other highlights of the night included interactive sampling phone booths that showcased the music capabilities of Samsung phones and gave visitors an opportunity to win a number of prizes, including the featured phone, the Samsung/U.S. Cellular SCH-r610.
The Samsung SCH-r610 is a sleek slider handset with a minimalist design. The slim r610 is equipped with multimedia features including a 1.3-megapixel camera and camcorder, MP3 player and stereo Bluetooth wireless technology. The r610 also features multiple messaging capabilities, easyedge(SM) downloadable content, advanced voice recognition by VoiceSignal and a microSD external memory card slot.
All in all, the night was pretty sweet. Free concerts are simply THE BEST! Wouldn’t you agree??? Look out for Gym Class Heroes on this summer’s 2008 Vans Warped Tour and come find me at the Milwaukee and Chicago tour stops. Pick up the band’s new album, The Quilt, when it comes out this summer. Trust me, it’s going to be GREAT. Anything Patrick Stump produces and plays keyboards on is AMAZING!
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