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“I can die happy now, “a St. Petersburg teen professes.
“I’ve finally seen Emery live, nothing else matters!” She
announces as she wraps her sweaty arms around me. I don’t
take offence to the attack of the sweaty fan girl; I just must
have been in her line of sight, coming from her good eye the
one that isn’t clouded with smeared mascara. She releases
me and goes on her merry way, I assume to give more
sweaty hugs to innocent bystanders.
Emery the band out of South Carolina, the band of
contrast black and white, loud and soft, dry and sweaty.
Trust that they have dealt with worse than sweaty hugs.
“Just last night some drunk guy got pissed off, because we
wouldn’t let him on the bus. So he tried to piss on our front
tire.” Tobey Morrell recalls scratching his woolly mammoth
of a beard. “But we had to get off the bus because all of
these kids from the show wanted to kick his ass.”
Emery formed in 2001 when recent college grads Tobey
Morrell (Lead Vocals/ Guitar) Matt Carter (Guitar/
Keyboards/ Background Vocals), and Joel Green (Bass)
united with Devin Shelton (Guitar/ Background Vocals) Josh
Head (Keyboards) and Seth Studley (Drums). From the first
practice these Southern Boys by birth knew that music is
what they wanted to do with their lives. It was abundantly
clear that South Carolina wasn’t the best place for a
“Screamo” band to succeed. At 7:30 am on September 11,
2001—the same day that the al-Qaeda operatives hijacked
four commercial airplanes and inhumanly attacked the World
Trade Center and the Pentagon, The southern boys of Emery
loaded up and headed out for the West Coast, Seattle ,
“I’ve finally seen Emery live, nothing else matters!” She
announces as she wraps her sweaty arms around me. I don’t
take offence to the attack of the sweaty fan girl; I just must
have been in her line of sight, coming from her good eye the
one that isn’t clouded with smeared mascara. She releases
me and goes on her merry way, I assume to give more
sweaty hugs to innocent bystanders.
Emery the band out of South Carolina, the band of
contrast black and white, loud and soft, dry and sweaty.
Trust that they have dealt with worse than sweaty hugs.
“Just last night some drunk guy got pissed off, because we
wouldn’t let him on the bus. So he tried to piss on our front
tire.” Tobey Morrell recalls scratching his woolly mammoth
of a beard. “But we had to get off the bus because all of
these kids from the show wanted to kick his ass.”
Emery formed in 2001 when recent college grads Tobey
Morrell (Lead Vocals/ Guitar) Matt Carter (Guitar/
Keyboards/ Background Vocals), and Joel Green (Bass)
united with Devin Shelton (Guitar/ Background Vocals) Josh
Head (Keyboards) and Seth Studley (Drums). From the first
practice these Southern Boys by birth knew that music is
what they wanted to do with their lives. It was abundantly
clear that South Carolina wasn’t the best place for a
“Screamo” band to succeed. At 7:30 am on September 11,
2001—the same day that the al-Qaeda operatives hijacked
four commercial airplanes and inhumanly attacked the World
Trade Center and the Pentagon, The southern boys of Emery
loaded up and headed out for the West Coast, Seattle ,
Washington precisely. “It wasn’t like we have to go to Seattle .” Morrell explains, “When we moved there we only got a six
month lease, so if it didn’t work out in six months we’ll go somewhere else.” Morrell concludes. “We didn’t want to go
somewhere really big like New York or LA, but there were other places like Chicago and Boston .” Shelton adds. “It’s just in
South Carolina there’s just no scene,” Morrell explains, “We really got get out of here if we want to try and make our music
something. Let’s go somewhere where all we have is the music, and that’s it, somewhere where we have no friends, family or
security.” Morrell continues. It just happened to be a weird turn of fate that the day of the attacks. “It wasn’t until like 10 or 11
in the morning we found out what was going on, when we stopped to get something to eat. At first we didn’t really know what
had happened, we heard people in the kitchen talking about something, and our waitress came out and said that tourist had
attacked New York , and we’re like you mean Terrorist. ” Joel explains. “It was a crazy time, we didn’t know how serious it
was, and the morning that we left we were thinking this is crazy that this is happening. . But then it didn’t really hit everyone in
the whole country for another 3 or 4 days, which this is serious, that we are being attacked. By that time we were halfway out.”
Morrell says, “The funny thing about it is that we were supposed to leave a week earlier, it’s just so weird that we picked that
month lease, so if it didn’t work out in six months we’ll go somewhere else.” Morrell concludes. “We didn’t want to go
somewhere really big like New York or LA, but there were other places like Chicago and Boston .” Shelton adds. “It’s just in
South Carolina there’s just no scene,” Morrell explains, “We really got get out of here if we want to try and make our music
something. Let’s go somewhere where all we have is the music, and that’s it, somewhere where we have no friends, family or
security.” Morrell continues. It just happened to be a weird turn of fate that the day of the attacks. “It wasn’t until like 10 or 11
in the morning we found out what was going on, when we stopped to get something to eat. At first we didn’t really know what
had happened, we heard people in the kitchen talking about something, and our waitress came out and said that tourist had
attacked New York , and we’re like you mean Terrorist. ” Joel explains. “It was a crazy time, we didn’t know how serious it
was, and the morning that we left we were thinking this is crazy that this is happening. . But then it didn’t really hit everyone in
the whole country for another 3 or 4 days, which this is serious, that we are being attacked. By that time we were halfway out.”
Morrell says, “The funny thing about it is that we were supposed to leave a week earlier, it’s just so weird that we picked that