we're going to turn back time to the good old days to talk about how
twenty one pilots became, well twenty one pilots
before we take flight let's break down each half of twenty one pilots
future lead vocalist of the band
Tyler Joseph was born on December 1st in Columbus Ohio
he was home-schooled and play basketball for a bit
my parents didn't really see me being an international pop star now but
to be able to go to college
the best way of doing that is getting some sort of scholarship which of course
it was going to come from academics
so what about athletics so a lot of the plan was to get a scholarship playing
basketball and that was actually the case
I decided to play the piano instead
oh and he also likes singing national anthems
and lip-syncing
next up Josh Dun
the band's drummer was born on June 18 1988 also in Columbus Ohio
and he taught himself how to play drums
I started playing drums when I was probably about 12 and I would have used to
skateboard to the my local record store and just find the most tattooed guy that
I could find in there and and have recommend me an album
kind of like one a week or every one every couple weeks and then I would walk
across the street and put that my little CD player and then and then walk across
the music store and and go in there and and play their drums and I would play
until they kick me out and said that other people need to come in and
buy drums and i remember when i first learned my first the first beat that
kind of like made sense
I thought my head that's something that I wanted to do forever
now that we've got that established how did these two come together to become
the adorable goofy hilarious duo we've come to love
twenty one pilots was formed in 2009 but there were actually three pilots at the time
Tyler Joseph, Nick Thomas and Chris Salih, why the name?
I was studying a play and in that play
someone made a decision and they sent out faulty airplane parts during the war
and twenty one pilots died because they set them out then that person who sent
them out as the main character he tried to justify why he sent those parts out
and he ultimately ended up committing suicide at the end of the play and it is
a constant reminder how we apply it kinda to our band and every night that
we play the constant reminder that you have to make the right decision even though
it may be the hard decision
it was in December of 2009 that the band released their debut self-titled record
a year later they uploaded a cover of christina perri's jar of hearts and
their original time to say goodbye to their soundcloud account both of which
are no longer available for free download
seriously though Tyler is really good at that whole cover thing
and that whole talent thing
here's where things start to really come to fruition in 2011
band members Thomas and Salih both left the group
like they say a door closes another opens in walks Josh Dun
former live drummer of house of heroes who struck up a friendship with tyler
after being invited to a twenty one pilots show by then drummer
funny how things work out together Josh and Tyler are now collectively the
twenty one pilots we have come to know and love in such a short period of time
the pair started to play local shows that birth one of their staples
those masks
it was always our our goal to try to get the the bartender or the people who
worked at the venue to stop working and and look up at the at the stage for just
a moment at least
and you have to do you have to do some things that catches their attention and
as much as the masks in the outfits and stuff
we're kind of just an attention grabber
it also kind of represented this idea of i know were two guys that get up on
stage and it's it's a it's very it's a very interesting thing to balance this
idea of of being a band that has faces that are represented by individuals on
stage but then also trying to create something that is a little more faceless
that can kind of represent a group of people or have people relate to it
in 2011
Tyler and Josh released the band's second album regional at best
all by themselves the release resulted in a sold out show at Columbus's newport
music hall which ended up attracting the attention of a crap ton of record
labels then walks in fueled by ramen
no we're not talking about every university student diet
or justin timberlake's old do
we're talking the record label who beat out the many other labels looking to
sign the boys
the duo signed to the label in 2012 the same year they first had their song play
on a radio station close to their hearts
I i don't know if i remember too much but what I know is it sep tember 6 2010
michigan at Wayne State University yeah it's just right
yeah we remember
into I yeah I have a video on my phone of like the first time you ever played
our song and we were all like we like I think for some reason all of us got on
our phones or computers and went on the krock website
yeah and we're just like oh my gosh ok rock is playing our song in LA and it
was the first time we ever heard our song on the radio
yeah there's a big big deal the boys went on to drop their record vessel in
2013 which reached number 58 on the billboard 200 among a bunch of other charts
it only made sense for fall out boy to ask them to join their save rock and roll
arena tour the following fall
it was also around this time that Josh was dating debby ryan you probably
recognize her from disney shows suite life on deck and Jesse
the duo parted ways around 2014 but don't worry they're on good terms
now josh is enjoying being single and hanging around with his super cool
friends like Halsey emphasis on the word friends they're allowed to be just friends
it was in may 2015 that things really took off
they dropped three singles fairly local and tear in my heart
oh and also that India underrated gem stressed out
okay you got us stressed out peaked at number two on the
billboard hot 100
the boys release blurry face on May 15 2015 with over 134,000 sales in the
first week it became their first number one album on the Billboard 200
these boys are anything but stressed out they're just taking their time on their ride
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