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Personally, I think Chris Carrabba has some of the most expressive, emotional (naturally) lyrics I have ever heard in a song. Ever since "Best Deceptions" entered my head, the works and feelings of Dashboard Confessional entered my heart. From the fabrication of an idea of the initiation of a relationship as said in "For You To Notice," to the halo around the perfect date felt in "Hands Down." From the feeling of being stuck in a relationship with the most horrible silence well expressed in "Saints and Sailors," to the rage of dealing with the unfaithfulness of a significant other explained in "Screaming Infidelities," Dashboard Confessional is a band to sit down and relate your every emotion with. Dashboard Confessional is a band started by Christopher Ender Carrabba while he was in the band Further Seems Forever. Coming from mid-southern Florida, and he started playing at fifteen years old, never having taken a guitar lesson. His first serious band was the Vacant Andys (1988-2000), and then Further Seems Forever (1999-present). While engulfed in all the FSF stuff, Chris started a less-noisy, less "decorated" side gig by the name of Dashboard Confessional. He said, "Before Dashboard Confessional, I was in a band that was very big, dynamic and blatenly math rock. We used all the tricks. And it got to a point to where I had to distance myself from that. I needed to think from a different spot. The acoustic guitar really suits my voice. I don't know why, but it does. And when you sit down in a chair with an acoustic and you feel the notes in your chest-I've always enjoyed that. I'm also a very percussive player, and there's a particular boominess about the acoustic guitar." (Guitar World Acoustic, issue no.56) I was first interested about Dashboard Confessional when my best friend Jon let me borrow a burnt CD with "Best Deceptions" being my first DC experience. I instantly loved it, but had lost the cd, so I never really got back into them until "Screaming Infidelities" was big, for lack of money to buy their album, much less burnable CDs. On October 29th, 2002, Jon and I went to see them in the Crystal Ballroom in Portland Oregon, marking the date of the best concert I have ever seen. Going from Noise Ratchet to the Rhett Miller Band, to Hot Rod Circuit (a band highly liked by Chris) this four hour concert left time for Dashboard Confessional to play for two hours. On this night, Dashboard Confessional composed of Chris Carrabba on lead vocals and rhythm guitar, Johnny Lefner on backup vocals, lead guitar and keyboards, Dan Hoerner on bass, and Mike Marsh on drums and percussion. From thinking the songs all sound the same to noticing what song is on because of the beat, Dashboard Confessional is a band I find myself relating to with virtually every song I hear. |
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