Saves the Day

By the end of the decade, emo, we'd already been calling that for a while, started experiencing wider success.

Jimmy Eat World, Alkaline Trio, Dashboard Confessional, Saves the Day.

And this set the stage for the main event, the emo explosion of the early aughts.

And while some of the many original bands continued to do their thing, one group in particular is doing better than ever.

What was the best show you saw? Or which one was your favorite? Because last week you told me there was one that was like, who was it where you were like, best show I've ever seen?

You know, Saves the Day, Thrice, Taking Back Sunday.

I think that's probably still number one that I saw for this month.

And it was still amazing.

I had agreed to do a tour with him.

It was them, piebald, and saves the day, and it was like a 10-day run or something up the East Coast.

And I had done little things here and there to help them out, because he would, like, hey, help us out, because, you know, I was mostly friends with Chad because of Shia Lude, you know, and he, in the scene and he was around and we would hang out in our group of friends or whatever.

And I had done a couple of things like I helped them with an MXPX show once.

When I first moved to California, he got his tonsils out on a Euro run.

It was like only eight or nine shows.

I toured with Saves the Day in 2001.

They supported H2O with Anti-Flag.

So good to see you.

You know what it is, I wrote down Chris STD for Saves the Day.

I was like, "Fuck."

[laughs]

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in Louisville, Kentucky.

And uh, just seeing, I hadn't seen any footage of Saves the Day in a while and then I saw that and I was like, it was so, it was so beautiful man, the reaction, all the kids diving and fucking-

Dude it was so cool.

...

they were playing with Thrice and Saves the Day.

And-

Hell yeah.

And then-

Amazing

... and, and then when Taking B- and, you know, really enjoyed, uh, Thrice, really enjoyed Saves the Day.

And then when Taking Back Sunday went on, we're like, "Let's fucking get as close to the stage as we can," and that was not difficult.

And I wasn't, I think I got it wrong.

Cause I thought that saves the day was influenced by the Strider.

But I think Matt said, Fat fact checked that and saw that the Strider record had actually came out before Saves the Day stuff.

And then we piggybacked that into Matt was like, dude, have you checked out Lifetime? I was.

I think one other band we played a ton with that would be on our top eight is a band called Gimp.

And to JB's point, they were not pop punk.

I don't know what they would be kind of like alternative jam band influenced, but we played with them a ton and they were good friends as well.

And they later rebranded as The Better Gimp because there was another Gimp.