Andy Hurley?!


Question: Tell me anything and everything you know about perhaps the most underappreciated drummer in the business.


Answers: Tell me anything and everything you know about perhaps the most underappreciated drummer in the business.

Andrew John Hurley (born May 31, 1980 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is most notable as the drummer of the Chicago-based band Fall Out Boy. Prior to Fall Out Boy, Hurley drummed in Project Rocket.After his father passed away at age five, Andy was brought up in the Midwest by his nurse mother. Over time, Hurley became a strict vegan and an adherent to the straightedge style of living. He was inspired to pick up the drumsticks early on by Metallica's Lars Ulrich, and though he played in plenty of acts throughout the years including Project Rocket, Arma Angelus, the Kill Pill, and most notably the political metalcore unit Racetraitor.He became most well known as the skinsman for popular Chicago pop-punk group Fall Out Boy. He joined the band in 2003, after they had already recorded their first album, Fall Out Boy's Evening Out with Your Girlfriend. The group steadily built up a loyal fan base following around the country before exploding into the mainstream consciousness with their third album, From Under the Cork Tree, in 2005.
Andy attended University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, double-majoring in anthropology and history. He plans to finish both degrees whenever his touring and recording schedule permits.
Hurley has what some would describe as anarcho-primitivist views, and believes that someday civilization will collapse. When confronted about this in the February 2007 issue of Alternative Press, he claimed that his career contradicted his beliefs, but at the same time, he had to make a livingHe considered himself a rebel and trouble maker in his youth, drinking and refusing to listen to authority. But in his teens, Hurley decided to adopt the straight-edge life-style ,and became a vegan.Andy has 2,600 tattoos because he gets them all in little squares. He was 19 when he got his first one, which is the large heart in the middle of his chest. All his tattoos have stories behind them, sort of like a skin diary.Andy plays C & C custom drums and Sabian symbols. Andy is a fan of Jay-Z.In his youth, some of Andy's favorite bands/groups were Slayer and New Kids On The Block.Andy believes the fall of civilization is inevitable.Andy was not on FOB's 2003 release “Fall Out Boy’s Evening Out With Your Girlfriend.”Andy was inspired to start playing drums when he was 14 by Lars Ulrich of Metallica. The first albums Andy purchased were “Ride The Lightening” and “Van Halen.”FOB vocalist Patrick Stump calls Andy the “instrumentalist of the band” and believes that they were not a band until he joined.Andy was on Peta2's Sexiest Vegans poll for 2006.Andy is involved in many animal rights organizations, including PETA.Andrew has many tattoos, including one that covers his entire back and a heart with "Mom" on his chest.Fall Out Boy is the fourth band Andy has been in with Pete Wentz.While the other guys live in Chicago, Andy lives in Germantown, Wisconsin which is an hour away from Chicago.Andy loves comic books and is working on his own, called Post Collapse, with a friend. The comic is about the end of civilization. Andy is said to be the smartest member of Fall Out Boy.Andy attended UWM college in Milwaukee, WI and was a triple major. Andy drummed in the band Racetraitor. Andy is a vegan and lives a strict straight-edge, vegan lifestyle. In fact, Andy is so straight-edge that he either covers his nose and mouth with his shirt or he leaves the room when Joe Trohman smokes. Andy is the second oldest member of Fall Out Boy. Unlike the other members of Fall Out Boy who are from the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, Andy is from Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin.
Quotes
add Andy: (on Pete Wentz) What people don't realize about Pete is that Pete's always been Pete. People only seem one side of him, and I think the press magnifies some things that people would see as negative, maybe too cocky or something? They think that's because of our success as a band. If you see anything cocky about Pete, that's Pete.
Andy: (on if rock bands would ruin civilization) Probably not. Music would probably go. A lot of art would. That’s what I’m saying – I’m really into comics and movies and video games, and I don’t want to give that stuff up. At the same time, I think it’s filling the void for the stuff we’re missing. Andy: Ultimately I am an employee of a corporation, and that’s weird, and does contradict some of the things I believe in. But at the same time, I have to make a living. Andy: My whole thing is I’m not into civilization as a whole. The only actual solution is the eventual collapse and demise of civilization . . .I think it needs to happen, but I no one, not even me, really wants it to happen. Andy: I’m still this vegan straight-edge kid from Milwaukee who hates America, hates white people, and hates all this sh*t as much as I ever have.

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