5 questions for Ryan Key

Hi guys!!
After all the rumours about the end of the band, Yellowcard is rocking on the new acoustic tour!
They're playing a lot of songs off One for the Kids, it's being crazyyy!!! The videos we're publishing here are just perfect! *-*

And this week the site DetroitFreePass published an interview with Ryan, the interviewer was Erin Podolsky. Very interesting, read:

Is the band roster different than usual for this tour?
Since the tour's acoustic, it's just going to be Sean Mackin, our violinist; guitarist Ryan Mendez and myself. And then we've hired a cello player - or cellist I guess you would call it. So we're just going over the stuff because we're playing it a little differently than we usually do. And we're also playing quite a few old songs off our first record, "One for the Kids," that we haven't played in probably three or four years. So they need some rehearsing.

What prompted you to do a lo-fi tour this time out?

(Drummer) Longineu Parsons had some stuff going on, and we didn't want to not tour. And we're not going to tour with another drummer, so we wanted to give him the time he needed and we figured it was a good opportunity to do this, something we've always wanted to do. It's kind of nice. It gives it more of the string section feeling, which is a lot like it is on the actual record, so it's good. And our fans have always wanted to see us in this sort of setting, so we just thought, why not throw it together and do it acoustic like this. We're pretty excited about it.

You've done a lot now with MySpace and iTunes. Why?

MySpace is something that while we were making our second record for Capitol, it sort of exploded on the music scene. We were so focused on making that record that we kind of missed the MySpace boat when it sailed. So we spent a lot of time getting ready for "Paper Walls" working on MySpace and answering messages. We did a series of Webisodes leading up to ("Paper Walls") letting the fans into the studio with us and that was really fun for both us and them. We've tried to catch up the best we can. iTunes is what it is, and I want to say at least people are buying music again somewhat. Doing the record, it was a cool thing; it's a new concept of releasing these digital-only albums. It's cool to be a part of it. I'm not exactly sure that's what the new medium of record sales is going to be, but it's cool to stay on the forefront of whatever that is going to be.

Do you have an iPod?

I do have an iPod. I have LimeWire on my computer but only because there was a song that I could not find on iTunes.

Yeah, right. Nice try, wise guy.

I've downloaded one song illegally probably in the last eight years! When Napster came out, we all did it for like five seconds, but then when we realized what it was doing, we as musicians said, "We should probably not do this." But a couple of months ago, I was looking for this certain song, and I couldn't find it. I'll admit my guilt in doing that. It was actually this Tracy Chapman song that a girlfriend of mine and I were into in high school; it was like this epic breakup-I'll-wait-for-you song called "The Promise." And I hadn't heard it, and we were talking about it, so I was like, "Oh I'm going to download that because I haven't listened to it since I was 16." But I couldn't find it, so I went on and illegally swapped it. Sorry, Tracy Chapman, like you care.