3. The Story Of Redemption (A megváltás története) 2008-11
The band Falling In Reverse was imagined, invented, organized and prepared by Ronnie Radke during the 2,5 years prison time. He composed at least 20 songs in his head, humming the tunes, working out the beats by hitting his knees, imagining guitar chords and figuring out the lyrics for all of them. He created the name and the image for his newborn band and collected the prospective band members with whom he was keeping in touch during the time spent in prison.
The reason of his incarceration was an organized fighting which unfortunately led to the death of a 18 year old child. Ronnie got arrested for battery, which was considered a misdemeanor in the state of Nevada. (⬇⬇⬇)
While Ronnie was escaping authorities and urging the release of There's No Sympathy For The Dead EP, the other members of Escape The Fate, including his best friend and drug accomplice, Max Green agreed on replacing him in the band. Ronnie was presented the situation and he obviously wore it badly. The most painful for him was Max's betrayal, he turned all his hate and anger against him and later against the new singer of ETF, Craig Mabbitt, which led to the writing of two diss songs to the forecoming album: "Caught Like A Fly" referring to Max and "Tragic Magic" referring to Craig.
In prison he experienced the living hell. As the said it afterwards, it was like the descent in Dante's "Inferno". Those 2,5 years spent behind bars left him with a massive PTSD, social anxiety and an uncontrollable anger (⬇⬇⬇)
He kept contact with the outside world mainly with the help of a guy called Nason. He was like a manager to Ronnie, searched for the potential bandmates Ronnie marked before, conveyed his will and his musical ideas to them and helped arranging studio works for the album they planned on Ronnie's release. Jacky Vincent and Derek Jones engaged to Ronnie from the first moment and stayed by his side all along the 2,5 years. Jacky came from England to join FIR, Derek quit the band A Smile From The Trenches for Ronnie.
They made a Christmas announcement video right after Ronnie got released (12/16/2010) about FIR being founded and soon dropping an album, which was uploaded on Stickam.
A külvilággal leginkább egy Nason nevű srác segítségével tartotta a kapcsolatot. Olyan volt ő Ronnie-nak, mint egy menedzser, felkutatta a lehetséges bandatagokat, akiket Ronnie előre kijelölt, közvetítette akaratát és zenei elképzeléseit számukra, és segített megszervezni a stúdiómunkákat az albumhoz, amit Ronnie szabadulása idejére terveztek. Jacky Vincent és Derek Jones első pillanattól kezdve elköteleződtek Ronnie mellett, és végig mellette álltak a 2,5 év alatt. Jacky Angliából csatlakozott a FIR-höz, Derek otthagyta bandáját, az A Smile From The Trenches-t Ronnie-ért.
Készítettek egy karácsonyi bejelentő videót a FIR megalakulásáról, alig pár nappal Ronnie szabadulása (2010.12.15.) után, és feltöltötték Stickam-ra.
Together with Nason they recorded the band's first song, the renewed "Listen Up!" and put it on the radio to announce the band's establishment and outcoming first album. Their name was "Behind These Walls" first, by Nason, but then Ronnie dropped it for "Falling In Reverse". Finally they put together 5 songs and uploaded them on MySpace, but later none of these songs were used on The Drug In Me Is You or any FIR albums.
When Ronnie was finally out of prison, they all rushed to producer Elvis in Virginia to record the musical material stored in Ronnie's mind. Though there were songs enough for two albums, they decided to make only one first. Label producer Brett Gurewitz suggested only Ronnie and Jacky for the records, but Ronnie insisted on having Derek too by his side.
Amikor Ronnie végre kikerült a börtönből, mindannyian a producerhez, Elvishez rohantak Virginiába, hogy felvegyék a Ronnie fejében tárolt zenei anyagot. Bár volt két albumra elegendő dal, úgy döntöttek, hogy először csak egyet készítenek. Brett Gurewitz lemezkiadó producer azt javasolta, hogy csak Ronnie És Jacky vegyenek részt a felvételekben, de Ronnie ragaszkodott Derekhez is.
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Nason The final version of FIR/ A FIR végső felállása |
Nason was fired because of getting more and more haughty, and Mika Horiuchi took on the bass. Ryan Seaman, who Ronnie already knew for a longer time, joined the band too, and made Falling In Reverse line up as a regular rock band.
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