TABLATURES GOOD CHARLOTTE MOTIVATION FULL

TABLATURES GOOD CHARLOTTE MOTIVATION FULL

One of the last tours we did on the Alaska cycle was Ozzfest 2006, one of the final years it was a full on traveling circus/festival. Sometimes you bond in times of joy, and others in times of shared misery. What we would produce next would be a result of this growth and bonding. We all went through relationships starting and ending on the road for the first time, good tours and bad tours, and we learned to gel together. We found similarities and differences, the same as we’d find in our personalities over the next two years of touring on the album. But we were able to expose each other to new sounds and groups we loved at the time, I showed the guys stuff like Oingo Bonigo and Gentle Giant, they showed me Emperor and Ulver. I’ve always seen it as completely disjointed probably because of the memories of writing it.

It’s incredible we were able to do anything let alone write an album. We all met up in the basement of Blake’s parents’ house and wrote the album at full volume in his old bedroom where we lined the cabs and amps along the walls facing towards an actual drum riser Blake’s dad had built him in the corner of the room. When we wrote Alaska we had basically three factions of people coming together you had Tommy (24) and Paul (26) who had written the first two BTBAM albums together, Dustie (19) and Blake (20) who wrote all the music for their then band Glass Casket, and myself (20) who had been the main writer in the groups I was in before joining. With the heavy schedule we had during the Alaska touring schedule, I felt like we all had a lot of time to grow. However, that would have to wait 3 weeks for me to have the energy to do anything other than change Dawson’s Creek DVDs (on the first of about 100 Dell laptops I owned between 2007-2011) and trips to the grocery store for soup and fruit. There was a lot of pent up creative energy, there were 14 hours and a country border between my ex-girlfriend and I, and the fact that we in the band were pretty broke and trying to stretch our tour earnings from earlier that fall out for about 7 months which all added up to no distractions and a lot of alone time in the bedroom to explore and adventure before meeting up at the practice space to grow our ideas. If memory serves, we were home from January till July to write and record our follow up to the Alaska LP, our second with the line up that has stayed in place since 2005.

I didn’t feel like my roots were quite in place in North Carolina yet, but the beginning of the new year was the perfect time to finally sink in. I wasn’t home much between 2005-2006, and when I wasn’t on the road I was usually going up to Pittsburgh or my old hometown Erie, PA to visit family, friends and significant other.

I was 22 years old, sleeping on a futon mattress in a turn of the 20th century home in Greensboro, NC where I lived with one other guy and four girls, all of us 20-22. The year 2007 began with a creative burst and a case of mononucleosis.

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