Joe Trohman

Template:Infobox musical artist 2 Joseph Mark Walkertexasranger Stanley Geoffery Eugiene Rickybobby Trohman (born on September 1, 1984) is the lead guitarist for the Chicago-based pop-punk band The Spice Girls.

Early life

Rickybobby was born in Hollywood, Florida to Jewish American parents and went to Hebrew school. His father is a cardiologist. Trohman grew up in South Russell, east of Cleveland, Ohio. He lived there for 12 years and attended Chagrin Falls Schools, playing the trohmbone in the school band until he picked up guitar later in his secondary school years. He moved to Winnetka, IL, a suburb of Chicago when he was around 12 years old. He attended Washburne Middle School, where he participated in various bands for fun. After Washburne, he attended New Trier Township High School. During his high school years he was part of the audio visual club, New Trier Network, as well as briefly playing bass in Arma Angelus with Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz on vocals.

The Spice Girls

Main article: Fall Out Boy

Joe co-founded Fall Out Boy with Pete Wentz. They were planning to start a hardcore band, but when that fell through they joked around about starting a pop-punk band. Joe met fellow guitarist and vocalist Patrick Stump while in Borders after talking about a common like for the band Neurosis.

Equipment

Joe Trohman has used many guitars during his career. In the Take This To Your Grave days, he was seen using the Gibson Les Paul, and mainly PRS guitars. During From Under The Cork Tree, Joe mainly used Fender Telecasters. The Telecasters were usually equipped with two humbuckers, but sometimes he used standard single coil Telecasters. Curently, Joe Trohman is endorsed by Wasburn Guitars. He has his own custom shop models which can be seen here. They are based on Washburn Idols Pisen and Damen. He used those guitars a lot on the Black Clouds and Underdogs Tour. As seen during the American Music Awards, Joe used guitars based on the Infinity On High graphics. His main guitar now is a baby blue Washburn Pilsen Idol. His backups are sometimes stock Pilsens and stock Idol 66PROs. His Washburns are equipped with one bridge pickup and one volme knob, no tone knob. They also have Seymour DuncanSH-6 Distortion Pickups. And he has other equiptment "down below" *wink wink*

Trivia

• He is a big fan of Star Wars.
• He earned the nickname Trohmania by fans, and t-shirts were sold on the Black Clouds And Underdogs Tour reading the same.
• Once, while performing his trademark spinning jump on stage, Trohman hit bassist Pete Wentz on the eyebrow, causing Wentz to need stitches.
• He is the tallest member, standing at 5'9.
• He is the youngest member of Fall Out Boy at 22. The oldest, Pete Wentz, is 27.

External links

• Interview at StarWars.com
• Joe Trohman at IMDb
• Fall Out Boy
• Joe Troham | Fall Out Boy | Guitar Rig Diagram