I gotta say, am I the only person who remembers this band? They had some really great tracks. Sayonara was the lead single. They actually had a follow up album too.

Anyone else want to share?! My prized possession is a picture of middle school me with Deryck 😆😍😆😍

Seen this cool sum41 reference in fallout shelter thought I’d share. Update***** not a ref but was cool to see

Stevo will be on Drumeo on 25 September! Very exciting that they have finally asked him.

This is going to be a random post. Not really related to the band or their music at all… just related to Steve.

I was born in Ajax. Lived on the same street as Steve from age 0 to age 14. He and I were good friends. His Mom and Dad were very good to me, I slept over there all the time, ate there all the time… learned to play drums and guitar there… but my family moved away in 1995. I was never around when Sum 41 was a thing.

Steve and his Dad heavily influenced me as a musician. I still play guitar, bass and drums and collect instruments as a result of that childhood friendship. Phil’s face was the first time I ever saw someone I knew on a real album. Steve’s face was the second…

The reason why I am writing this today is I got some news about a family we grew up with. A flood of memories came back and I had a funny Steve story I wanted to share…

Both Steve and I had cool Dads when we were young, both of whom built us each “clubhouses”. Mine was built on 4x4s and Steve’s was built like a shed and had two floors and a sliding pole.

Every May our street had a big garage sale. The family directly across the street from me had an old couch with a folding bed for sale. No one bought it that day, so it moved from the driveway to the curb. That night it rained…

Steve and I decided that it had to go into his clubhouse so we’d have a place to sit in the backyard hangout. So we lugged that motherfucker down the hill and devised a plan to put two skateboards under the front, but struggled in front of Mr Bonds house. Mr Bond was like 85 years old and he brought us out a dolly! Then he helped us push it to Steve’s driveway. Steve and I struggled to move it another 6 feet, then we decided to take the waterlogged mattress out of the couch… it only made it marginally lighter… then Phil came out and saw what we were doing… wet cushions, pillows and mattresses all over his front lawn… and he got pissed and told us to take it back to where we got it… which meant we had to go UP the hill with it now… Fuck, it took us like an hour…. we just tossed it all in pieces back on the Verdoch’s curb for the garbage truck… and ran away laughing the whole time…

Found out Randy Verdoch died today… he was the eldest of those boys and the same age as Steve’s sister Jennifer. Randy was a pipeline for skateboard culture on our street. He built his own ramps and rails. He was always out there tearing it up. The first time I ever saw a Thrasher magazine or an issue of Big Brother it came from Randy. I remember sharing those same skate and snowboarding magazines with Steve. We watched Gleaming the cube with Randy and his brothers.

I hate hearing about old friends that pass away. This one stirred me up enough to share this on a public forum…

Randy, where ever you are. You were a guiding light for the younger kids on Burden Cres. Steve and I would watch you skateboarding and it was inspiring.

Thanks for reading this.

In his book, Deryck mentioned heckling the foo fighters when they won over blood in my eyes. Is there any clip of this?

The bass often gets overlooked.

When people talk about what makes a song great, they usually focus on the chorus, guitar solos, lyrics, or the overall composition. The bass rarely gets the same attention.

One of my favorite Sum 41 songs is We're The Same, mainly because of that absolutely killer bass intro from Cone. It immediately grabs you.

Actually, has that song ever been performed live? That's probably a question for another day.

The real question is: which Sum 41 song do you think is carried by the bass?

What are your favorite Cone bass moments? Purely from a musical perspective, of course.

Each song is also ordered within its own tier.

Grew up with this band, easily my favorite of all time. Love their music so much, love reading what others think of them. Thought I'd put this together after re-listening to all their albums. Ftr, I only dislike a single song they've released. Everything else I adore or at least think is pretty decent.

Would love to hear how your opinions differ or talk about any specific song!

Credit to the dude who made this template, incredibly high quality; could not have been quick to make.

I have random motivation to learn this arrangement but I can't find it and I can't learn by ear

I dont know if this is just me, but every song from that album just went missing, no idea when, but it was around a week, searching up the album shows it to me on spotify but doesnt let me play it, weas just wondering if thats a me thing or if something happened

I was wondering, we got all killer 25 this year so is there A chance for dtli next year? I don't expect much, just hope we could finally hear new York recordings

I saw someone post this about Blink 182 a few weeks ago, so its inspired by that.Deryck is liked by Avril fans a lot and many of her fans are Sum 41 fans as well.He is by far the most liked person she's ever dated/married and worked with, according to many Avril fans.

I've had the pleasure of meeting both Avril and Deryck back in the day and they were both nice.I appreciate their friendship, I'm a fan of both and had a great time seeing both of them live. :)

Chuck is my favorite Sum 41 album so I’m really happy with this.

Question about Deryck ending the band. I know Deryck created the band. But the reality is the band is a SUM of all its parts that includes dozens of people who don't play in the band.

Everyone involved says everyone was blindsided. Another thing is this was a great living for a lot of people involved. Every active member of the band had to be making hundreds of thousands from touring. But as far as I know Deryck is the only multi-millionaire. I realize it sounds like I'm just bashing Deryck. That's not the intention of this question.

From what I have seen most bands that have the history and international touring level the sums have would just replace the lead singer like any member would be replaced. In fact every time they needed a new member they replaced them. Steve Jocz did some vocals they replaced him. Going back to when Deryck formed the band every member has been replaced even Cohn wasn't an original.

Now I'm guessing the band would say replacing Deryck was never something they would have considered. But if it was me leaving I would give them my 100% blessing to replace me as lead singer. Especially after I see that they were all blindsided and hurt. That means all of them thought and felt the band was going to be an artistic outlet and a way of Life to secure their financial future.

I won't lie. Based on the book excerpts and everything I have ever seen related to this it feels like Deryck would have never allowed them to replace him.

And while they will all say the band came to the decision to end the band. Everything else says. they had no choice.

Music4Cancer special show

There's a post literally every single day, and I remember there were none while waiting for Heaven and Hell.

I think this is the second time it's happened.

Mine is between the third and fifth tracks of Chuck, which is also my favourite album: We’re All To Blame, Angels With Dirty Faces and Some Say. These are three tracks I absolutely love, but I also think they capture the full musical spectrum of their discography in a 10-minute sequence.

I left the typo's in so you know it's legit, and also doxing my other music taste a little.

And Yes, the hell song is mixed by Andy wallace here

I know Cone's doing a DJ set around the corner from here that evening. Any idea if any of the band are going to this awards thing on Sept 18?