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Win Josh’s Guitar & New Jeremy Interview
– Want to win the guitar that Josh is using for the Jimmy Eat World/Paramore tour? Head on over to www.paramore.net/fender . Contest ends May 5th and the winner will be picked May 9th.
– Jeremy very recently did an interview with Mercury News. Here is a little snippet of the article. (If you want to read the full article, click here):
Davis knows something about an age gap himself. He first played in a funk cover band with Williams, four years his junior, when she was about 13. A couple of years later, she approached Davis about joining a new band she was starting with her friends Josh and Zac Farro. Davis was taken aback when he showed up at the first rehearsal and found that drummer Zac was 12.
“I had very, very, very little faith in everyone in the band because of their age,” says Davis, who was already an experienced musician with some Nashville session work under his belt. But he was quickly won over.
“Some of the ideas that come out of Josh and Zac and Hayley’s heads - it astounds me at times, because I remember how young they are. I just feel like they’re super-creative.”
Because of their history together, Davis has a unique perspective on Williams’ talents.
“I still feel like no one in this world has heard Hayley sing like I have,” he says. “Really, she holds back so much. There’s like a big Aretha Franklin inside of her that is just powerful, and just crazy, and no one’s really heard that side of Hayley.”
Even “holding back,” Williams has impressed nearly everyone who has come across her music with a powerful voice and stage presence. Many have speculated that the band’s recent problems stemmed from the attention Williams receives from the press at the expense of her bandmates, particularly her songwriting partner, guitarist Josh Farro.
Davis scoffs at that idea.
