Rolling Stone’s New Critic: Fall Out Boy’s Patrick Stump
Rolling Stone’s New Critic: Fall Out Boy’s Patrick Stump
Erica Futterman
2/4/09, 6:08 pm EST


Fall Out Boy frontman Patrick Stump has been in Rolling Stone before — he’s even been on our cover. But the Sean Penn issue hitting newsstands today marks the first time the singer-guitarist has written for the magazine: Yes, Stump reviewed the forthcoming CD/DVD The Ultimate Peter Tosh Experience under the byline P.V. Stump for Issue 1072.

“It’s insane to say, but I never planned on being a singer,” Stump tells Rolling Stone. “The thing I really wanted to do was write about music; it’s what I planned on doing when I went to college.” Stump says he grew up with a subscription to Rolling Stone and spent hours listening to radio shows hosted by Chicago critics Greg Kot and Jim DeRogatis.

When Stump visited our offices late last year, he confessed he’d always wanted to review albums for RS — so we put him to work. Why Peter Tosh? “I had a huge ska and reggae phase in junior high, so he’s always been a background character in my study of music,” Stump says. In his four-star review, Stump writes, “If Bob Marley was reggae’s Bob Dylan, Peter Tosh was its MC5: less accessible, more cocky and a whole hell of a lot more dangerous.”

Even though Stump is currently overseas with Fall Out Boy and the band will be hitting the road Stateside in the coming months, he’s already got his next assignment. Check back to follow Stump’s budding career as a critic, and enjoy his first review here:


Review: The Ultimate Peter Tosh Experience

If Bob Marley was reggae's Bob Dylan, Peter Tosh was its MC5: less accessible, more cocky and a whole hell of a lot more dangerous. This two-DVD, one-CD set captures Tosh in all his confrontational glory. The CD is a somewhat random collection of hits and rarities: Hard-to-find gems like "Babylon Queendom" (a superior demo of "Mystery Babylon") and the raw early single "Arise Blackman" sit next to classics like the revolutionarily funky "Downpressor Man" and "Get Up Stand Up." Neophytes would do well to simply pick up Equal Rights and Wanted Dread and Alive. The real attraction here is Nicholas Campbell's artful 1992 documentary Stepping Razor: Red X. Tosh's story, narrated by the man himself from his homemade "Red X tapes," is one of intense struggle. It began in a poor town in western Jamaica and ended in Tosh's murder during a robbery attempt in 1987. Along the way, he co-founded the Wailers, one of the most influential bands in pop history, but left, feeling confined by a shared spotlight. Tosh wanted to change the world and get all the credit for doing so. The truth is, he did change the world — he brought a political intensity to reggae that wasn't there before — and Ultimate Peter Tosh shows you how he did it.

P.V. STUMP



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