Tokyo Rose

Ryan From Tokyo Has A Chat With Me

Me: well the first questions is what made you deside to play punk and emo style music

Ryan: well after listening to pop punk bands like mxpx and no use for a name and the ataris

Me: ah i see

Ryan: i started listening to bands like the get up kids, lifetime, and jimmy eat world

Ryan: cause they were similar in style

Me: yeah i see

Ryan: and having a background in music

Ryan: it was natural that i would write songs and they’d be heavily influenced by such bands

Me: yeah most punk bands are like that

Ryan: that and a combination of not being too good at guitar or singing, led me to write punk and emo

Ryan: haha

Me: well yeah most punk bands can not play instraments but crappy sum 41 jumped on the bandwagon

Ryan: well actually, i’ve seen those kids live

Ryan: and they’re pretty good musicians

Ryan: but i’m not too fond of their music

Ryan:like they’ve got a good command of their skills

Ryan: even if they’re mainly skilled at playing power chords

Me: everyone says good charlotte are punk i don’t think they are

Ryan: good charlotte is manufactured pop music

Ryan: in my opinion

me: don’t say to one of my friends he loves them i think they are manfactured pop music as well

Ryan: they write songs with the intention of making them marketable to a mainstream public who has a short attention span for musical integrity and is overly interested in simplicity and cliche

Ryan: i feel the same way about sum 41, even though i think they’re much more talented musicians

Ryan: we’ve played with good charlotte

Ryan: and they are nothing but a bunch of showboats with guitars that are more consumed with their appearance than their art

Me: check out weston instead they are much better shame they broke up tho

Ryan: weston was amazing

Ryan: weston’s last album was magnificent

Ryan: most people shunned their last few albums

Me: yeah it was so is maintee i need to get there first album and ep’s and stuff

Ryan: but they really matured and their music developed into a much more meaningful kind of punk

Ryan: the older albums are more pop punk, more similar to your green days and offsprings

Me: yeah
Ryan: but my friends all prefer the old stuff to the new

Me: what has been your favourite band to play with

Ryan: hmmm

Me: good charlotte

Ryan: haha

Ryan: well in the local nj scene…our friends welcome home travis are incredible live

Ryan: they get soooo into the music and thus get the crowd going

Ryan: but in terms of more known bands,

Ryan: the stryder on equal vision records is my favorite band of which we’ve played with

Me: cool

Me: what has been your favourite gig you have played at

Ryan: hmmm fave gig

Ryan: ummm

Ryan: we played at the birch hill nite club recently
Me: was that good

Ryan: and the sound there is amazing and the kids are very responsive and the show promoters are the finest an most responsible organization

Me: what is happening next for tokyo rose

Ryan: well we just finished our new 4 song demo that we plan to shop to record companies

me: well best of luck

Ryan: in an attempt to get some financial and promotions assistance in putting out a new full length album by the end of the summer

Ryan: *promotional