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🗓️ 24 September 2025
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Aaron Gillespie is a musician, singer, and songwriter best known as the drummer and clean vocalist for the Grammy-nominated band Underoath, and the lead vocalist/guitarist for The Almost. With a career spanning two decades, Aaron has become a driving force in the post-hardcore and alternative rock scenes, praised for his passionate performances, lyrical honesty, and dynamic musicianship. Beyond his band work, he’s collaborated with artists across genres, played for Paramore, released solo material, and built a reputation as one of the most influential voices in modern rock.
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| 0:29.2 | every home. When the final line came out in 06, it sold 100,000 copies in five days. So much |
| 0:33.8 | of drumming is like, and singing is a muscle number. Did that time off from Under oath think you want to get back into it? |
| 0:39.3 | Yes, yes. |
| 0:40.3 | Maybe we, why don't we? |
| 0:43.3 | If you're out here for half an hour |
| 0:50.3 | And we missed your beat again, it's my way. When Under oath was broken up, I played drums For Paramour for five years Renovating your exit Boy Brush Red Those songs always go off live We got paid $200 a day To play work tour Was that profitable for you? No What's up? Everybody John John John John John Oh God What's up? My name's Joe to the Lightwaste podcast. I just want to give a quick shout out to our sponsors, Aonic and Fandle. Your performances are so high energy. They are. They are. Tell me about it. How do you get into that mindset before you're about to perform? Because you kind of just get thrown right into it can i be honest with |
| 1:27.6 | you please i turned 42 last month which you look incredible thank you um it's hard my wife's an |
| 1:34.3 | esthetician when i was younger it was normal let's fucking go let's do it right now and i'm not much of a |
| 1:39.8 | warmer upper like i just feel like it's a mental game what we do a little bit because if you think about what you're going to do, you're going to go burn 3,000 calories and like almost throw up and get sweatier than you ever been every day. That's what it really is. Right. If you think about it too much, it'll mess your brain up. Like, I heard, I don't remember what singer it was, but he was talking about, I think it was Bono. |
| 2:04.3 | Anyway. I don't remember what singer it was, but he was talking about... |
| 2:01.6 | I think it was Bono. Anyway, he was talking about, like, someone was asking him, what's your warm-up like? Do you do this thing? Like, I use this warm-up. What do you do? And he's like, I don't do any of them. And it might not be Bono, so don't come after me, internet. He was like what voice I have I want to save for the show. |
| 2:20.9 | So. Don't come after me, internet. But like, he was like, what voice I have I want to save for the show. So he's like, it's all mental. And then I had this vocal coach in the early 2000s. Her name is Melissa Cross. She's like a famous. She has a thing called Zen of screaming. I don't scream, but she does other vocalists. She's amazing. And she was like, what you do is 99% mental. The singing out of breath |
| 2:36.6 | while playing drums, while doing your thing, it's so mental. You know what I mean? Like, |
| 2:42.2 | so I really try not to think about it, but as I've gotten older, I'm kind of scared of it sometimes. |
| 2:48.2 | Like, I don't know how to say it. Like, I think about it like, is something going to happen tonight? |
| 2:52.9 | I used to never think about that. |
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