Theory of a Deadman
10.06.2008
NEW SITE CHANGES!
You may have noticed that over the past few months quiet changes have been made to the site. First we gave you new artist pages. Check out your favorite and you'll find widgets, videos, music, and much more. Plus they look great.
A few weeks back we also updated our Artists page. You'll see highlighted artists up top in blue. These change as artists are updated with news, video, and music. This is a great page to make your first port-of-call after the news section!
Today we've relaunched three other pages. Music and Video are all new. You can now embed all of our music and video posted to the site in your blog, web site, or MySpace/Facebook profiles. At the right of these pages you'll see charts driven by what YOU do on our site. You can also leave comments at all songs and videos, rate them, and favorite them in our new profile system (more on that in a sec).
The Releases page has gotten a huge makeover. Every album now has its own home page where you can see the available tracks, rate it, leave a review, or comment on others' reviews. Snazzy huh?
Finally, we just launched our new profile pages. If you're a subscriber to our email newsletters, you can log in, add your own picture, keep track of the latest updates on our site (and partner sites), follow your favorite videos and music, and tell us what bands you want to hear about.
Of course, many of these new features require that you be a member of the site to use them, so please join today!
We are, of course, in a beta phase and need your help to make the site work the best for YOU. If you see any problems or want to suggest changes to the new features, please send an email to webmaster@roadrunnerrecords.com with "NEW SITE REPORT" in the subject line. If you receive an error, please be as detailed as possible, including what page you were on, what browser you are using, and copy any error message you receive into the body of the email.
Please feel free to leave comments here below!
Cheers!
Jeremy Rosen
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10.03.2008
CHECK OUT THE NEWEST TELL TYLER ENTRIES
Tyler Connolly, resident love doctor and frontman of Theory of a Deadman, has been doing his civic duty and answering YOUR bad girlfriend stories. Check out the newest installment by going HERE. Let me tell you, folks, this batch will have you laughing, crying, and peeing your pants! Check 'em out and keep writing in. Who knows? The next one Tyler answers might be yours!
10.01.2008
THEORY OF A DEADMAN ON ROCKLINE!
Theory Of A Deadman will be the featured guests on the nationally syndicated radio show ROCKLINE with host Bob Coburn on Monday October 6th at 8:30pm PT / 11:30pm ET. Call to speak with the band toll free! 1-800-344-ROCK (7625).
For a station near you go to www.RocklineRadio.com
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08.28.2008
FIND YOUR THEORY HERE
If you're a user of the new popular service imeem, you'll want to get a load of the Theory of a Deadman profile. Just in time to rock back to school!
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08.18.2008
ARE YOU/ DO YOU HAVE A BAD GIRLFRIEND?
GO HERE and take the Theory Bad Girlfriend (Explicit Version) quiz now!
Theory of a Deadman had a simple but daunting goal for its third album: to make the greatest record possible.
"I always try to remind the guys and myself that there are 20 bands lined up behind us just waiting for a chance to take our place," says frontman Tyler Connolly. "So that means we had to go in there and make a great record." With Scars & Souvenirs, the Vancouver trio has hit its mark.
The balanced 13-track effort is the polished and passionate testament to seven years of hard work, heavy touring and diligent attention to its craft. From the swirling grind of "By the Way" to the nasty snarl of "Crutch" to the soaring melodicism of "Not Meant to Be" and "Wait For Me," Scars & Souvenirs is a broad-reaching endeavor that puts Connolly, guitarist Dave Brenner and bassist Dean Back high in the rock pantheon, achieving creative growth without sacrificing the hard-hitting power that got them here in the first place.
"We really dug hard on this one," Connolly notes. "The longer you're in a band, the more you write songs, the better you get. We've had such a great opportunity to figure out what to do better, how to write a better song and keep building and building. That's exciting for us."
Scars & Souvenirs began taking shape in February of 2007, as Theory was winding down from touring to support its second album, 2005's Gasoline, a slump-defying sophomore outing that launched the hits "No Surprise," "Say Goodbye," "Santa Monica" and "Hello Lonely (Walk Away From This)." The group returned to Grammy-nominated producer Howard Benson, who in turn issued marching orders that set the tone for the project.
"Before we even went into the studio, Howard wanted to gear this record up to sound huge," Connolly recalls about Benson's "all killer, no filler" approach to the record. "He said, ‘You have to go into a record with great songs. You can't make them while you're there. You can't just go in with one or two great songs. You've got to have 10.' So we just kept sending him songs until we had the 10 to 12 great ones, and then he said, 'OK, let's go.'"
Theory actually brought about 17 songs to Los Angeles' Bay 7 studios in August of 2007. Amidst low-key hijinks -- Brenner and Back grew mustaches, Connolly sported a fake one in the name of band unity -- the group and studio drummer Robin Diaz recorded 15 before choosing the 12 that ultimately comprise Scars & Souvenirs, which proved an apt title for the range of emotions Connolly sings about on the album.
"It's the Scars & Souvenirs of your life," he explains. "The songwriting on the record is really about someone's past or and present, their relationships and how they shape everything. It's more metaphorical than physical scars and trophies."
And while Connolly has certainly done his turn as a rock 'n' roll king of pain on Gasoline and 2002's attention-catching debut Theory Of A Deadman, he went into Scars & Souvenirs determined to show he could be more than the "callous bastard" Rolling Stone magazine called him in an early profile.
Here, Connolly explores broad new lyrical terrain, indicative of his growth as a person and as songwriter. "For awhile there, every song was, 'Get the f*&k out! I don't need women! Screw them!' That's kinda how I felt at that point," Connolly says with a self-effacing laugh. "But I've grown as a songwriter, and as a person. I wanted to write some different, nicer songs for a change."
He didn't have to look hard for inspiration. He wrote "Wait For Me," with its acoustic guitar underpinning and rich chorus, for his wife, paying tribute to her fortitude in being home alone while he's on the road. The piano-laden "All or Nothing," meanwhile, chronicles their relationship, which began as a good friendship before blossoming into romance. "It was kind of sick of me writing all these woman-hater songs before," acknowledges Connolly, whose mother left his family when he was in high school, providing rich source material for his earlier work. "People thought I was writing about my wife." While Connolly's lyrics have taken on a kinder, gentler pallor on Scars & Souvenirs, the band continues to keep the knobs cranked to 11.
Connolly also went into Scars & Souvenirs trying to write some songs that were "just for fun," and succeeded with tracks such as "End of Summer," an anthem about the bittersweetness of endings, whether that of a season or a relationship.
But even though the album mines a deeper emotional trough, it charges with the same potent force of its predecessors. When fans eagerly crank up the likes of "So Happy," "Got it Made" and "Bad Girlfriend," they'll end up with a set of blown out speakers, thanks to the firepower that crackles in these rockers, while "Sacrifice" bristles with the kind of primal, super-charged defiance that has long defined the best hard rock.
"A lot of bands, they grow older and they get grayer and they just can't do the rock songs anymore," Connolly says. "I don't see that happening to us. Fans are gonna hear our record and hear some softer stuff, but we're a rock band. I think it sounds bigger than the other two (albums) we've done."
Which is, not surprisingly, why Connolly, Brenner and Back are chomping at the bit to take Scars & Souvenirs out on the road. "We really want to take the band farther this time," Connolly says. "We want to get out there to places we have not been before - where a lot of our fans are --Asia, Australia, as well as reaching our fans in North America and Europe. We're just a hard-working band, man. We want to be out there for a couple of years and play these songs to everybody we possibly can."
With an album like Scars & Souvenirs, the fans will be lining up to listen.
All upcoming tour dates
| Date | Venue | Address | Other Info |
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| 10.7.2008 | The Machine Shop | 3539 Dort Highway Flint,
MI 48507
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18+: The Rock Is Alive Tour: THEORY OF A DEADMAN headline, BLACK STONE CHERRY and THE PARLOR MOB support. Tickets: $22. |
| 10.8.2008 | The Whiskey Venue | 1101 West Main Cross Findlay,
OH 45840
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18+: The Rock Is Alive Tour: THEORY OF A DEADMAN headline, BLACK STONE CHERRY and THE PARLOR MOB support. Tickets: $22 Adv/$25 DOS. |
| 10.9.2008 | Wedgewood Entertainment Center | 1743 S Raccoon Rd. Youngstown,
OH 44515
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All Ages: The Rock Is Alive Tour: THEORY OF A DEADMAN headline, BLACK STONE CHERRY and THE PARLOR MOB support. Tickets: $15 Adv/$18 DOS. |
| 10.10.2008 | Crocodile Rock | 520-524 Hamilton St. Allentown,
PA 18101
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All Ages: The Rock Is Alive Tour: THEORY OF A DEADMAN headline, BLACK STONE CHERRY and THE PARLOR MOB support. Tickets: $15 Adv/$17 DOS. |
| 10.11.2008 | Webster Theatre | 31 Webster St. Hartford,
CT 06114
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All Ages: The Rock Is Alive Tour: THEORY OF A DEADMAN headline, BLACK STONE CHERRY and THE PARLOR MOB support. Tickets: $16 Adv/$18 DOS. |
| 10.12.2008 | Recher Theatre | 512 York Road Towson,
MD 21204
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All Ages: The Rock Is Alive Tour: THEORY OF A DEADMAN headline, BLACK STONE CHERRY and THE PARLOR MOB support. Tickets: $20. |
| 10.14.2008 | The Palladium | 261 Main St. Worcester,
MA 01608
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All Ages: The Rock Is Alive Tour: THEORY OF A DEADMAN headline, BLACK STONE CHERRY and THE PARLOR MOB support. Tickets: $18 Adv/$20 DOS. |
| 10.15.2008 | Northern Lights | 1208 Route 146 Clifton Park,
NY 12065
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16+ The Rock Is Alive Tour: THEORY OF A DEADMAN headline, BLACK STONE CHERRY and THE PARLOR MOB support. Tickets: $16 Adv/$18 DOS. |
| 10.16.2008 | Chameleon Club | 223 North Water Street Lancaster,
PA 17603
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18+ The Rock Is Alive Tour: THEORY OF A DEADMAN headline, BLACK STONE CHERRY and THE PARLOR MOB support. Tickets: $18 Adv/$20 DOS. |
| 10.18.2008 | Cohen Stadium | 9700 Gateway North Blvd. El Paso,
TX 79924
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All Ages: KLAQ Presents The Second Annual LocoFest Festival staring THEORY OF A DEADMAN. Tickets: $15. |
| 10.20.2008 | House of Blues | 225 Decatur New Orleans,
LA 70130
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18+ The Rock Is Alive Tour: THEORY OF A DEADMAN headline, THE PARLOR MOB and Crooked X support. Tickets: $18.50. |
| 10.21.2008 | Varsity Theatre | 3353 Highland Road Baton Rouge,
LA 70802
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18+: The Rock Is Alive Tour: THEORY OF A DEADMAN headline, THE PARLOR MOB and Crooked X support. Tickets: $19. |
| 10.22.2008 | Soul Kitchen | 219 Dauphin St. Mobile,
AL 36602
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18+: The Rock Is Alive Tour: THEORY OF A DEADMAN headline, BLACK STONE CHERRY and THE PARLOR MOB support. Tickets: $17 Adv/$20 DOS. |
| 10.23.2008 | Sammy T's | 116 Washington Street SE Huntsville,
AL 35801
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19+: The Rock Is Alive Tour: THEORY OF A DEADMAN headline, BLACK STONE CHERRY and THE PARLOR MOB support. Tickets: $25 Adv/$28 DOS. |
| 10.24.2008 | Floyd's Music Store | 666-1 West Tennessee St. Tallahassee,
FL 32304
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All Ages: The Rock Is Alive Tour: THEORY OF A DEADMAN headline, BLACK STONE CHERRY and THE PARLOR MOB support. Tickets: $18 Adv/$20 DOS. |
| 10.25.2008 | WXTB Guava Ween | 7th Ave. And 14th Street Ybor City,
FL 33605
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All Ages: WXTB Guava Ween feat. Puddle Of Mudd, THEORY OF A DEADMAN, BLACK STONE CHERRY and THE PARLOR MOB. Tickets: $15. |
| 10.26.2008 | House of Blues | 1490 E. Buena Vista Dr. Lake Buena Vista,
FL 32830
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All Ages: The Rock Is Alive Tour: THEORY OF A DEADMAN headline, BLACK STONE CHERRY and THE PARLOR MOB support. Tickets: $18 Adv/$20 DOS. |
| 10.28.2008 | The Bottling Company | 126 Market Street Hattiesburg,
MS 39401
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18+: The Rock Is Alive Tour: THEORY OF A DEADMAN headline, BLACK STONE CHERRY and THE PARLOR MOB support. Tickets: $20 Adv/$25 DOS. |
| 10.29.2008 | Scout Bar | 260 Crockett Street Beaumont,
TX 77701
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All Ages: The Rock Is Alive Tour: THEORY OF A DEADMAN headline, BLACK STONE CHERRY and THE PARLOR MOB support. Tickets: $20.50 Adv/$25 DOS. |
| 10.30.2008 | Scout Bar | 19134 US Highway 281 North San Antonio,
TX 78259
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All Ages: The Rock Is Alive Tour: THEORY OF A DEADMAN headline, BLACK STONE CHERRY and THE PARLOR MOB support. Tickets: $20.50 Adv/$24 DOS. |
| 10.31.2008 | Nokia Live | 1001 NextStage Drive Grand Prairie,
TX 7505
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All Ages: 97.1 The Eagle Freakers Ball feat. Mudvayne, Puddle Of Mudd, 10 Years, THEORY OF A DEADMAN, Snot and Five Finger Deathpunch. Tickets: $49.75. |
Roadrunner Discography
Format: CD Release Date: 04.01.2008
Scars & Souvenirs
Every body tells a story. Every life leaves a mark. April 1st, hear Theory of a Deadman's new story, Scars & Souvenirs.
Tracks:
1 So Happy [ listen/comment ]
2 By the Way
3 Got It Made
4 Not Meant To Be
5 Crutch
6 All or Nothing
7 Heaven (Little by Little)
8 Bad Girlfriend
9 Hate My Life
10 Little Smirk
11 End Of The Summer
12 Wait For Me
13 Sacrifice
Format: CD Release Date: 03.29.2005
Gasoline
Gasoline, Theory of a Deadman's second offering, is immediate and urgent without sounding the least bit rushed. Throughout, the band is inventive and precise, drawing influence from decades of rock and recontextualizing them into personal and passionate songs that range from acoustic-based ballads to electrified anthems. In addition to coming up with colorful, spontaneous riffs and melodies, singer/songwriter Tyler Connolly penned his most heartfelt and narrative lyrics to date. Produced and mixed by the team of Howard Benson and Chris Lord-Alge respectively, Gasoline moves the band's career a great deal forward. This production team is responsible for some of the biggest rock and modern rock records of the day, including Hoobastank, Papa Roach, P.O.D., My Chemical Romance, and Cold, to name a few. Recording with such a seasoned producer and his team brought out the best in Theory of a Deadman, who pushed themselves to their creative limits and beyond.
Tracks:
1. Hating Hollywood2. No Way Out
3. No Surprise
4. Quiver
5. Santa Monica
6. Better Off
7. Say Goodbye
8. Hello Lonely (Walk Away From This)
9. Me & My Girl
10. Since You’ve Been Gone
11. Hell Just Ain’t The Same
12. Save The Best For Last
13. In The Middle
Format: CD Release Date: 09.17.2002
Theory Of A Deadman
Tyler Connolly (vocals, guitar), Dave Brenner (guitar), Dean Back (bass) and Tim Hart (drums). Welcome Theory Of A Deadman.
Interesting Story: Back in 1999, as Nickelback was fast becoming one of Canada's most popular bands, Tyler just happened to show up at a party in his native Vancouver that was also attended by Chad Kroeger. A mutual friend introduced the two. Chad ended up listening to Theory's demo, and ended up being down with it. Next thing you know, Theory is in the studio recording, and Chad & Joey Moi producing. This is the first band on Chad's imprint 604 Records.
This is the next great Canadian rock.
Tracks:
1. Invisible Man2. Nothing Could Come Between Us
3. Make Up Your Mind [ listen/comment ]
4. Point To Prove
5. Leg To Stand On
6. What You Deserve
7. The Last Song
8. Say I’m Sorry
9. Any Other Way
10. Confession
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1. 666 MAGGOT SAID...
so who else is gonna answer the questions submitted, apart from Tlyer?
October 3, 5:56 PM
666 maggot
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