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Peter Wentz Profile |
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Birth Date: June 5, 1979
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Birth Place: Wilmette, Illinois, USA
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Birth Name: Peter Lewis Kingston Wentz III
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Height: 5'7"
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Biography |
Peter Lewis Kingston Wentz III (born June 5, 1979) is the
bassist, frontman, back-up vocalist, and primary lyricist of
Chicago-based band Fall Out Boy.
Wentz was born in Wilmette, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago,
Illinois. He is the oldest of three children and he attended
New Trier Township High School and North Shore Country Day
School where he was an all-state soccer player. After
graduating from high school in 1997, he attended DePaul
University, where he studied political science, dropping out
one semester shy of graduation to focus on music.
Wentz was primarily involved in the Chicago hardcore punk
scene and was in several bands in the late 1990s. This
including First Born, Arma Angelus (alongside Tim McIlrath,
frontman of Rise Against), Yellow Road Priest, Racetraitor
and many other relatively unknown bands. In 2001, he
co-founded the pop-punk band Fall Out Boy with Joe Trohman
and Patrick Stump, with Andy Hurley later joining the band.
In 2004, Arma Angelus, the band in which Wentz was the
vocalist, played its last show.
In 2002, Fall Out Boy released a EP called Fall Out
Boy/Project Rocket Split EP. Soon after, in 2003, the band
released Fall Out Boy's Evening Out With Your Girlfriend on
Uprising Records. This album would later be digitally
remastered and reissued after the bands second successful
full album release (Take This To your Grave).
Drummer Andy Hurley soon became a part of the band, playing
along side Wentz, bassist. Later in 2003, Wentz and the rest
of his band mates signed with Island Records, also releasing
an acoustic EP called My Heart Will Always Be the B-Side to
My Tongue and DVD, in 2004.
February 6, 2007 was the release date for Fall Out Boy's
fourth full-length album, Infinity On High. The album leaked
on the internet before the official release date.
In February 2005, in what appeared to be a suicide attempt,
Wentz took an overdose of the anxiety medication Ativan, and
as a result, spent a week in the hospital. Commenting on the
event to a magazine, he said, "I was isolating myself
further and further, and the more I isolated myself, the
more isolated I'd feel. I wasn't sleeping. I just wanted my
head to shut off, like, I just wanted to completely stop
thinking about anything at all." The suicide attempt was
soon put into song form, entitled "7 Minutes in Heaven
(Atavan Halen)" and was released on their album From Under
The Cork Tree. After this event, Wentz moved back in with
his parents.
In March of 2006, nude photos of Wentz were posted on the
Internet to the LiveJournal celebrity gossip community Oh No
They Didn't. The LiveJournal poster reported that she
received the photos third-hand, and that Wentz originally
sent the pictures to a woman in whom he allegedly had
romantic interest; Although, some say that he was
advertising for a CD. After the pictures spread across the
Internet, Wentz posted a response on Fall Out Boy's website
and blog asserting that the pictures were stolen from his
T-Mobile Sidekick, and that after "feeling badly about this
for about 24 hours, I am now ready to get back to laughing."
The video for the single "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms
Race" contains a scene that makes reference to the incident.
When asked about the incident in a March 2007 interview with
Blender, Wentz said, "It’s liberating! I have no qualms
about the gang showers that happen on arena tours, and at
photo shoots I’ll just change in front of people, and, you
know, when I meet girls, they already know what the
machinery is like…"
Wentz's tattoo on his pelvis, the Bartskull, is the logo for
Decaydance Records, Clandestine Industries, and Bartskull
Films.
In a recent interview with Blender magazine and a follow up
in The Advocate, Wentz admitted to being "a bit of a makeout
bandit," not discriminating much against who he locks lips
with, even guys. Wentz says, "anything's fair game above the
waist." When asked why he doesn't go any further his
response was, "cause honestly, I'm not a real big fan of
penises. Like my own, whenever I look at it, I just don't
find anything attractive about it. I can't believe girls are
into it." |
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Other Information |
He owns Clandestine Industries.
He wrote a book called The Boy With a Thorn in His Side.
He wrote all the songs on "From Under The Cork Tree".
Owns his own record label, Decaydance Records.
Was an all-state soccer player.
Plays bass guitar.
Still lives at home with his parents.
The eldest of three children. Has a younger brother and a
younger sister.
He wrote all of the lyrics on sophomore album "From Under
The Cork Tree".
Pete is "straight-edge" meaning he doesn't smoke, drink, or
do drugs. |
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Soo hot.
Clandestine is love
**Tru Fukin Luv Pete**
~Kayla~