Bayside<\/a> is still around to celebrate its 25th anniversary may be the teenage version of himself, the one from Queens, NY, who knew he wanted to be a rock star.<\/p>\n\n\t\u201cI was just so sure it was gonna happen,\u201d Raneri, 42, tells Billboard<\/em>. \u201cYou could ask me (at a different age) and I would be shocked there was a version of me still doing this. But at 15 or something, I was just so sure. I started this band so young that reality never factored in. I was a kid. I was a dreamer. Bills weren\u2019t part of my life. It was all hopes and dreams at that point. I was too young to know better. And now fast forward\u2026and it\u2019s actually happened.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\tRaneri and Bayside \u2014 which still includes first-album member Jack O\u2019Shea on guitar, with Nick Ghanbarian on bass since 2004 and drummer Chris Guglielmo since 2006 \u2014 will be celebrating the group\u2019s overall 25th anniversary this spring with The Errors Tour. The three-leg outing kicks off March 29 in Buffalo, NY, and all but one of its 23 stops will be two-night affairs with completely different setlists; the first show will feature songs from Bayside\u2019s first four albums, and the second from the subsequent five titles, leading up to last year\u2019s There Are Worse Things Than Being Alive.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\t\u201cWe conceptualized this years ago, and we decided the 25th anniversary was the right time to put it into place,\u201d Raneri explains. \u201cEvery tour we try to shake things up a little bit. It can\u2019t just be the same show all the time. At this point in our career, with the back catalog we have, so many singles over the years, it\u2019s hard to get songs into the setlist. That means track eight on our first record or track five on our fifth record, when do you ever get to that? So this way, if we can dedicate an hour and a half to just the first four records and then the next night to the next five, we get to those deeper cuts and songs that have been left out, which makes it more interesting for us and, I think, for the fans.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tNot surprisingly, Raneri says preparations for the tour have been \u201cvery intense\u201d for the quartet. In addition to its own choices Bayside solicited fan requests via social media, which yielded surprises such as \u201cIndiana,\u201d a B-side from 2014\u2019s Cult<\/em> that also appeared as a bonus track on a deluxe edition of the album.<\/p>\n\n\t\u201cWe\u2019ve bought into the concept,\u201d Raneri says. \u201cThe cool thing about our band, and something we\u2019re so insanely lucky with, is that we can pull something like this off. There\u2019s a lot of bands that exist that have as many records as we do that couldn\u2019t dedicate nights of a tour to newer albums. But we\u2019re lucky that people like and buy and still enjoy our new albums. Our anniversary doesn\u2019t mean we have to go out and just play old records.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tBayside has, of course, scored some must-play hits from its nine albums as well as EPs, including \u201cDevotion and Desire\u201d from its self-titled 2005 set and \u201cSick, Sick, Sick,\u201d a top 40 Alternative Airplay chart hit from 2010\u2019s Killing Time<\/em>. \u201cThe second night might not have \u2018Devotion and Desire,’\u201d Raneri notes, \u201cbut \u2018Sick, Sick, Sick,\u2019 it\u2019s crazy to think that\u2019s in the second half of our career, and \u2018Already Gone\u2019 and \u2018Go To Hell.\u2019 I think there\u2019s plenty to keep people happy either night, if you don\u2019t come for both.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\tRaneri feels he and his bandmates have become \u201cmore proficient\u201d players during the intervening years, while diving deep into the catalog has given him a perspective on why Bayside has been able to maintain a loyal following for all this time.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI just think there is an honesty in what bands from our world have always done that\u2019s different than other genres,\u201d he explains. \u201cWhat we do, it\u2019s not image stuff. With other genres, there\u2019s a lot of things that are of their time. You look at A Flock of Seagulls or something like that, and it\u2019s just so \u201980s; they look like the time, they sound like the time, the lyrics are of the time. Same thing with hair metal: [Cinderella\u2019s] \u2018Hot and Bothered\u2019 is a bad-ass song when you\u2019re in high school, but when you\u2019re 40 or 50 does it still connect like that? Do you still wear your hair like that? Do you still dress like that? Of course not. I think our scene, it\u2019s earnest as a pillar of its identity. The emotions are more timeless and not as much about the moment the (songs) were made in.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tRaneri and company plan on adding to Bayside\u2019s catalog soon. The group is concentrating on The Errors Tour for the time being, but the frontman promises that \u201cthe day after our big, final 25th anniversary show on Long Island (Sept. 26), I\u2019m writing the new record, and that will be our main focus. All of next year we\u2019ll be working on a new record.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI always start with finding influences,\u201d Raneri explains, \u201cso I\u2019m just listening to a lot of music, and I\u2019m writing down ideas. When I hear a song that I think would be a cool inspiration for something, I write it down. I have notepads around my house with my ideas, notes apps in my phone, playlists that I\u2019ve made of songs I want to take inspiration from for the next record. I\u2019m not at a stage where I know what that inspiration turns into, but I\u2019m shaping. It\u2019s almost like I\u2019m making this very large Pinterest board in my head, and then when it comes time to actually put pen to paper, I\u2019ll have that board to reference.\u201d<\/p>\nBayside <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\t
\n\t(with Sincere Engineer)
\n\t(with Smoking Popes)
\n\t(with The Sleeping)
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