![]() “We kept losing them,” says Tim, laughing. It also proved to be the only Rise Against album with guitarist Dan Wleklinski the band went through four more before hooking up with Zach Blair in 2007. The Unraveling was a world away from the jokey pop-punk that was Fat Wreck’s staple fare. I was finding my scheme in the whole thing.” /o:p Joe and Brandon were running the ship in terms of music and stuff. “I didn’t realise the singer only does stuff after the music is laid down, so I spent days in a dark room, watching movies. “It was my first time in a professional studio,” he says. I remember thinking how great it was to start something with a sense of hope.” /o:pįor Tim, it was an entirely new experience. “Most of the bands we knew had broken up, leaving this hole in the scene for faster, more aggressive punk rock. “Things got a little grim in Chicago in the late ’90s,” says Joe. With drummer Brandon Barnes on board, the band entered the studio with a real sense of purpose. the newly christened Rise Against recorded their debut album, The Unraveling, in Lafayette, Indiana with producer Mass Giorgini. I thought, ‘Wait, that > makes me Jimmy Cracked Corn – there’s no way I’m doing that…’” One > of them was Jimmy Cracked Corn And The I Don’t Cares. But Mike had some terrible suggestions himself. “None of us were dead set on it, so > changed it to Rise Against. “He > said, ‘Dude, that name sucks,’” says Tim. Mike offered Transistor Revolt a deal on one condition: they change their name. One of these was Fat Mike, NOFX frontman and owner of punk rock label Fat Wreck Chords. They released an EP, drawing the attention of out-of-town movers and shakers. Transistor Revolt found they were hitting a nerve with local punk fans. It was, like, ‘Let’s go scream in people’s faces.’” /o:p The stuff Joe was writing was the sort of the stuff that wasn’t cool to do in Chicago any more, the unrefined punk stuff. Some were good, but most of them were poor. “I was doing the classic ageing punk thing and moving into indie rock,” says Tim. ![]() The music they were making was down-the-line punk rock – a reaction to Chicago’s increasingly introspective rock scene. Tim joined Joe’s new outfit, Transistor Revolt. Fingers Louie, who had reached proper ‘local hero’ status on the Chi-Town scene and were being touted as The Band Most Likely To… But by 1999. Tim fronted Baxter, who were the classic early doors opening band for any punk rock tour passing through Chicago. By the mid-’90s, both had their own bands. Punk had been a fringe concern in Chicago in the ’80s, but by the early ’90. There was something legitimate about their anger and angst.” /o:p ![]() “A band like The Sex Pistols were this gnarly, nihilistic punk band there wasn’t a clear message apart from one giant middle finger,” he says. It was their political and puritanical zeal that grabbed young Tim’s attention. For Tim, it was Minor Threat’s Complete Discography, a posthumous compilation from the Washington DC straight-edge pioneers.
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