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Lead Singer Syndrome with Shane Told

Jon Mess And Tilian Pearson (Dance Gavin Dance)

Lead Singer Syndrome with Shane Told

Shane Told

Music, Music Commentary, Music Interviews

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2016

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Episode 32 - Today we have a 3 way! Jon Mess and Tilian Pearson of Dance Gavin Dance join Shane for a very honest discussion. Topics discussed include: Filling Jonny Craig's big shoes, bringing ex-members back for tours, being a "party band", vocal technique, and the story of how Jonny Craig left the band in 2007 while DGD was on tour with Silverstein. Also big shout out to Tillian's girlfriend Britney for being an avid listener of the show and getting the dudes on the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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sports ticket deals. Hello and welcome to another episode of Lead Singer Syndrome.

0:40.0

Great to have you with us as always. It's Monday or whenever you listen to this. I'm

0:46.0

feeling great. I hope you're having a great day as well, a great start to a

0:50.4

brand new week. As always I'm'm your host, Shane Told, I play in a band called Silverstein.

0:56.6

I have a side project called River Oaks, you should check out.

1:00.4

And this podcast is all about me talking to other lead singers about what it's like to be the front man or front woman of a band.

1:08.5

Now today we have kind of a special and kind of a different episode. I sit down with not one but two lead

1:15.1

singers of the great band Dance Gavin Dance. Now they have a singer, they have a

1:21.0

lead singer and a lead screamer, which is a little bit different.

1:25.4

Both of them are standalone, they don't play another instrument, so they really basically

1:30.0

have the same job as each other, just one is more on the gritty side and one is more on the

1:35.8

pretty side.

1:37.0

Now I have known Dance Gavin Dance for a very, very long time back when Johnny Craig was their singer Silverstein we took them on

1:45.5

one of their first ever you know real national tours and I've kept in touch with

1:50.7

those guys ever since John Mess who is their lead screamer and has come

1:55.7

and gone in the band actually.

1:57.6

Me and him have been friends for a very long time, so it was great to have him on board

2:01.2

along with their newest singer, Tilly and Pearson, who is an

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