Chris Carrabba

Formed in 1999 in somewhere in Florida.

Boca Raton by Chris Carrabba.

The name is derived from the song The Sharp Hint of New Tears off their debut album, The Swiss Army Romance.

So I was like, I've heard this band's name a billion times.

on.

Except that he looks like Chris Carraba and he plays the guitar.

Yeah.

And in that one episode, he played Screaming Infidelities.

I think I saw a picture online.

It was Chris Carraba from Dashboard Confessional with you guys in the pool at a hotel with Mike Dijon.

It was the craziest mix of people and Dashboard Confessional.

Yeah,

Well, the band ends and obviously you kind of continue the nucleus essentially of Strong Arm to start Further Scenes Forever.

You bring Chris Carraba in.

From your perspective, what was that like starting a new band, bringing Chris in? Kind of bring me through that, bringing him in.

And of course, I don't know if I asked Chad this, but where did the band name come from?

And not too far down from Dashboard Confessional, the place you've come to fear the most.

So Chris Carraba definitely getting some representation here.

So I was thinking also, as I'm looking at this, like...

You know, here's other things.

And I was kind of slowly diving in to the scene and trying to figure out who's who and what's what.

And I knew that Chris Carraba wasn't with Further Seems Forever anymore.

And he was starting Dashboard Confessional.

And, you know, he was there kind of in the crowd.

oh yeah same same just the the vocal tracking being in his closet and i think didn't he have like a mattress that he put up against the outside of the closet yeah and

he had it uh he had it like paneled and like thick wood um so that the sound wouldn't echo and to save his neighbors

yeah i just remember that being an incredible experience and thinking You know, he had just recorded, as Matt mentioned, recorded Dashboard Confessional and thinking like, oh, this is where Chris Carraba laid down his vocal tracks.

And he mentioned even we did the drums at some other studio.

No, I mean, I'm...

Dude, my buddy Chris Carrabba from Dashboard, him and The Frail, just did a concert and I went backstage.

All we did was talk.

I love Chris.

I was, I went to a concert a couple weeks ago.

Um, I'm friendly with, uh, Chris Carrabba, the lead singer of Dashboard Confessional.

They're opening for The Fray or with The Fray, and, and I like both those bands.

I also, I mean, I listen to everything.

... like kind of a mascot for the song, this visual of a alarm clock that's blinking eights.

When he, when Chris Carrabba sings it.

Mm-hmm.

Um, so I thought that was so powerful that I kinda wanna, like, you know, golly, I feel like people are, are not, the kids don't know who Dashboard is.