important points from chris salih interview pt. 2 (the first set of points)
spoilers yo (full podcast here: https://soundcloud.com/21pilotspodcast/e09)
there was a lot of info, so i’ll make another post soon
I think you should read this/listen to the podcast. It’s got some valuable stuff that a lot of people need to hear, and it gets SUPER funny in some points. Sorry if it’s long, Chris gave us a lot of content. ALSO, everything below this point is taken directly from things Chris said on the podcast.
someone called the cops on Chris, Nick, and Tyler when they first rehearsed in the basement of their new house bc they played super loud, since they thought no one could hear them
they played music so loud their first night that a beer can fell out of the rafters (which was shocking because none of them had ever drunk alcohol)
Chris’s favorite concert moment was in Daten Ohio. Tyler found out his band had been pushed down to B stage. He reminded the highschool girl that he was supposed to be on the A stage list. “We are supposed to be on A stage…” he said. “Get better.” She said with a dead serious look on her face.
Chris thinks it’s hilarious that a random highschool girl said “get better” to the famous Tyler Joseph (before he was famous of course)
he thinks “Get Better” would be a good t-shirt design
chris thinks she was flirting with tyler (”the highschoolers never change”)
Chris’s favorite song to play live was Slowtown
Selling out the Newport venue was their biggest goal, and Chris quit just weeks before they finally achieved that goal (that’s 2k people if you’re wondering.) It had taken them two years to get to that point.
It wasn’t until probably two years after the Newport show that they could begin to afford to hire a crew
the fanbase wasn’t called the clique until after Chris was gone
Tyler came up with the “clique” term
the fanbase wasn’t so rabid until after Chris left. Now they “go to concerts like Tyler is a preacher and the venue is a church”
the fanbase after a show used to be super “laid-back and cool.” “It was fun to see people and it wasn’t… we weren’t a big deal. We certainly weren’t famous.”
It’s dangerous to “worship” Tyler and Josh. It isn’t cool to be obsessed. “Obsession of any sort is dangerous, I think.”
The kind of obsession that is healthy: loving the band and using the shows as a form of therapy.
The kind of obsession that is UNhealthy: full-out, crazed obsession. “There’s no rulebook to the fans. The fanbase has to police itself.”
they were asked to play at churches for a while, but they intentionally avoided it. twenty one pilots was never meant to be a christian band.
he talked about Switchfoot (AYYYYYY IM GEEKING OUT)
Chris is still a musician, and does exclusively worship music.
Christian music is painfully behind the other genres and Chris gets embarrassed because it sheds bad light on the religion (me too, Chris. Me too.)
Tyler writes what is on his heart. If it helps people, that’s a good thing, whether or not they believe that it is about God.
They don’t want to push their religion, and also believes limiting themselves to a Christian band will shed bad light on the band and make it less popular.
Church should never be a chore. (Agreed).
Chick-fil-a Christian music is cheesy and stale
*long tangent inserted about how annoying it is when Chick-fil-a is closed on Sundays*
Chris is annoyed by old traditional Christians that think Christian music has to be old musty elevator music, and leave no open mindedness towards newer, more popular forms of Christian.
Popular Christian Radio is excruciatingly painful to listen to
(not in a mean, vindicative way. he just loves to debate)
TYLER HATED THAT JOSH WAS NOT AN ARGUMENTATIVE PERSON
“dude, josh won’t argue with me at all. he won’t EVER fight back.” -Tyler
Tyler wanted to use wingding font on the band shirts (thank you Chris for saving all of us from that horror)
Tyler Robert Joseph wanted a Twenty One Pilots shirt with a PENGUIN on it.
“what does a penguin have to do with the band?” -Chris
“NOTHING that’s the GENIUS OF IT” - Tyler
(i shudder to think what would have happened if Chris hadn’t talked him out of such horrendous merch designs)
“his mind just… works different than other people’s minds” - Chris
*long rant about Brandon Rike* (whom I adore)
right at the end of Chris’s time with twenty one pilots is when they came out with I-/
Mark just messed around with his computer and suddenly came up with I-/
Mark was messing around with the shapes in photoshop, and suddenly it made the band logo for the first time. “WAIT. STOP.” said Tyler. Thus it was born. Thanks Mark! (all credit to Mark for the symbol)
Mark is basically the third member of the band.
“[Mark] is one of the biggest reasons Twenty One Pilots is as big as they are now” -Chris (thanks Chris, excuse me while I go cry out my EYES)
Mark has just as a big role on TOP as Josh and Tyler (man i love mark)
(they literally went on a huge mark praising tangent and I LOVED it. Mark is an amazing man.)
Chris’s advice to starting bands: “Live together. Find someone who can create video and media content for you (i.e Mark)”
the accordian music video was shot on an iphone.
Chris wants you all to watch the Five14 church service (check it out! Chris will be playing on Sunday mornings! Link the livestream in the shownotes of the podcast.)
fans sometimes come in to church there, but thankfully they are respectful
“i don’t remember contributing to Regional At Best at all, but I may have unintentionally”
he vaguely remembers Clear. They never played it live. (*sob*)
Be Concerned was never a Twenty One Pilots song.
he remembers hearing Kitchen Sink for the first time, and remembers thinking “what a weird set of lyrics, but man, what a cool song.”
Chris remembers seeing Tyler in his loft bed smashing the keys on the keyboard with new notes, but he couldn’t hear any of the music bc Tyler’s earphones were plugged in, so all he heard was “TAT TATATAT TAT”
Chris works at a lumber yard & builds awesome custom furniture
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