How did Dashboard Confessional come together?
CC: I was in another band, a heavier band (Further Seems Forever), and I spent a lot of time writing sort of simple, straight-forward stories on my own. I felt I kept getting drawn back into that. Some friends convinced me to get back into it. Well, basically they stole my tapes. Slowly but surely I found other guys. I found that it was a rotating cast, but soon I found the three other guys who play with me now. CG: How did you come up with the name? CC: I wrote a song that I called “The Sharp Hint of New Tears.” It says, “On the way home my car hears my confessions.” It’s about how you work things out, I don’t wanna sound too quasi-hippie here or whatever, but basically you live in your head a lot. But basically that’s where it came from – you get into a meditative state when you drive. I didn’t want to call it by my own name. I felt that was exclusive, and I wanted people to feel it was theirs. CG: Tell me more about not wanting the music to be exclusive. CC: I’d go out and play and
