Home   Band Bio   Members of the Band   News about the band   Pictures    Lyrics

                                        Taking Back Sunday...

    Started with Eddie Reyes back in Long Island in 1999.  Eddie found three good friends of his and who had the same huge musical interest, view, and passion as he did. He soon recruited a friend who lived farther away (Adam Lazzara). 

   Adam moved to NYC from High Point North Carolina and was originally the bass player of the band.  After their first demo circulated a sudden line-up in the band changed and Adam became the lead vocals.  Victory Records signed the band and put them in the studio with Sal Villanueva (Thursday). 

   The debut album "Tell All Your Friends" was released in March 2002 and Taking Back Sunday (TBS) continued to tour.  They were winning fans every show they played with their agitative, animating, appealing, arousing, arresting, astonishing, bracing, breathtaking, commoving, dangerous, dramatic, electrifying, exhilarant, eye-popping, far out, fine, flashy, groovy, hair-raising, heady, hectic, impelling, impressive, interesting, intoxicating, intriguing, lively, melodramatic, mind-blowing, moving, neat, overpowering, overwhelming, provocative, racy, rip-roaring, rousing, sensational, showy, spine-tingling, stimulating, stirring, thrilling, titillating, wild, zestful live shows.  By the summer of that year shows were selling out in advance and the word of this emo/punk was spreading everywhere.  Sharing stages with great bands like Boxcar Racer, The Used, Jimmy Eat World, and New Found Glory got them seeing less and less of home and more dedicated fans then they ever saw before. 

    Now in spring of 2003 TAKING BACK SUNDAY embarked on the Take Over Tour.  This tour is their first national head lining tour ever.  Playing to (insert synonym for sold out here) awash, brimful, brimming, busy, chock-full, clean, close, compact, crammed, cramped, crushed, dense, full, full house, full up, huddled, jam-packed, jammed, loaded, lousy with, massed, mob scene, mobbed, overflowing, packed, populous, sardined, stiff with, stuffed, swarming, teeming, thick, thickset, thronged, tight, topped off, wall-to-wall crowds in most of the US and Canada (2,200 fans in Toronto when the band had never stepped foot over the eastern border) helped the press take notice and features in Rolling Stone, Spin, Alternative Press (cover) and Revolver quickly followed.

"Tell All Your Friends" has passed 200,000 records sold.  The band wanted to go to Europe and return to the US for Vans Warped Tour 2003 but instead they welcomed in Fred Mascherino and Matt Rubano to the band.  Mascherino came to Taking Back Sunday from one of their FAVORITE bands Breaking Pangaea!