Hey I'm Brian Hyatt and this is Rolling Stone Music Now. Today I'm going to be talking with

Joe Troman, lead guitarist and co-founder of Fall Out Boy. I first met Joe in 2006 when I did a feature on the band and then spent more time with him the next year when I wrote Fall Boys Rolling Stone cover story.

And I've gotten to know him pretty well over the years, but Joe has a new book called None of this Rocks, and it's a very different kind of Rock memoir.

It's both very funny and very poignant, very revealing.

He talks about his struggles with mental health and drug use and sometimes just general

self-loathing.

The book provides a new look at one of the biggest bands of the 21st century

and also just a portrait of a really interesting guy

with a really interesting life.

Joe's also the guitarist in a hard rock side project called the damn things that's definitely

worth your time as well. But I'm happy to have Joe on the show today to talk about

his book, life and fall boy and a whole lot more.

So why did you want to write a book? So why did you want to write a book?

Well, I didn't want to write a book at first.

So I started in a very roundabout way,

kind of like writing in television.

And so through that I got a literary manager

for those listening that don't know the terms,

lit, short for literary.

So my lit manager one day was like you've had an interesting life you can write I think you should write a book and I said I absolutely never want to do that

And then he goes, yeah, you probably can't.

And then I said, yeah, I can.

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