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This is all information stolen- I mean "borrowed" from the site'Extreme Sum41'. Most of the information was submited by fans, so dont belive all that you read.
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Some former members of Sum 41...
Grant*
Twitch*
Mark M.*
Jon*
Mark S.
Marc C.
Sergio
* were members of the band 2 different times
Greig Nori of Treble Charger is their manager
Cone's real name is Jay
Deryck and Steve started the band in 1996
They are called Sum 41 because the band started 41 days into the summer
Deryck has been cutting his own hair with kitchen scissors for about 5 years
Mark Hoppus, from Blink 182, said the CD Half Hour of Power was his second favorite album of 2000
Steve's favorite food is sandwiches...with mustard only
Steve plays drums without shoes on
Dave is Guyanese
Ages: Deryck - 21, Cone - 20, Dave - 20, Steve - 19
Favorite Snack Foods: Deryck - cookie dough, Cone - wine gums, - Dave - curry-flavored potato chips, Steve - sour patch kids
Deryck is 5'5"
Deryck's favorite movie is Dog Day Afternoon
Deryck favorite band to watch live is Green Day
Deryck used to really like LLCoolJ, which influenced him to start a rap group with 3 other kids when he was 11 called the Powerful Young Hustlers
Deryck's 5 favorite albums: 1. Elvis Costello - My Aim is True, 2. Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape, Nirvana - Nevermind, 4. Weezer - Weezer, 5. Guns n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
The first song ever written by Sum 41 was called Five-O Grind which was about being hassled by a security guard while skateboarding. There second song was called I Love Meat.
Deryck only takes one pair of pants on tour and about 4 or 5 shirts because the first time they toured he took just about everything he owned (clothes, tv, cds) and it all got stolen on the third day
The most that Deryck has ever paid for an article of clothing is
Cone and Dave are taken but Deryck and Steve are single
Cone uses an Ampeg 8x10 bass cabinet and also a Ampeg SVT Bass head
Sum 41 is from Ajax, Ontario (in Canada)
DMX was in Sum's video for Makes No Difference
Deryck's mom works at Ajax-Pickering Hospital
Dave's favorite animals are penguins, Stevo and Cone like monkeys, and Deryck hates all animals
Dave was in a Rage Against the Machine cover band
Deryck used to love basketball but stopped playing when Michael Jordan quit
Steve and Dave have '41' tatooed on their right arm
Deryck, Steve, Dave, and Cone were all in rival bands in high school
Deryck uses Orange .66mm Tortex picks
Their first EP was called "GASINGEE", which was named after a kid in Kenya that they sponsered for World Vision (most likely a joke)
Deryck shops at Goodwill and Thrift Stores
Birthdays of the band members
Cone: Sept. 3rd
Bizzy D: March 21st
Dave: July 26th
Steveo32: July 23rd
The song Makes No Difference is in the movie Bring It On, Fat Lip and In Too Deep are in American Pie 2, and What I Believe is on Dude, Where's My Car
Fat Lip was #1 on TRL July 16, 2001
They are going to start a clothing line called "Evil Dwarf Clothing Cult"
Dave was in all of these bands: A.N.D.P. • Anatomy • Embodiment • Doors Of Draven • 747 • Glenn Dogg and P Real's Punk Hop Explosion Fo Yo Mind • Freight Train Robbas • Empty Chamber
Deryck's favorite breakfast food is French toast
Shoe Sizes: Deryck - 7, Cone - 9.5, Steve - 10.5, Dave - 8
The song Crazy Amanda is about one of Deryck's exgirlfriends from four years ago
Deryck is not dating Michelle from Destiny's Child
There was never a song called 'Tomorrow' by Blink 182 that is sung by Deryck
Dave uses a PRS McCarty guitar with SIT strings and a Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier amp
Deryck uses a Gibson Marauder guitar with SIT strings and a Marshall amp
Cone got his nickname from Deryck and Steve in school because he ate ice cream cones everyday at lunch
Cone's dad's name is Paul
Cone was once in a group called Outside Opinion
Steve once shit in a bag and they threw it at the hotel room door of some military guys that were making fun of their hair.
According to Steve, and he was probably joking, Bizzy has to write a note for him claiming he's the drummer of the band so he can get some action from girls
They once filled condoms with old milk and water and threw them off the balcony at some sunbathers in an LA hotel
Max, former bassist of the band Bigwig, left his band to be a roadie for Sum 41
The song "Summer" is on the Tony Hawk 3 soundtrack
Steve's dad is in a Christian rock band called Covenet
Cone's favorite hardcore CD is Ride the Lightning by Metallica
Deryck's mom's name is Michelle
Steve uses Vic Firth American classic 5A drum sticks and Orange County Percussion drums
Dave's picks have the sum 41 logo on one side, and on the other side it says "brown sound" and has a stick figure with a mic beside a dog
When recording Pain For Pleasure in the studio, Deryck fell out of his chair laughing when he first heard Stevo say the line "Satan in his name"
Cone has 2 sisters, one named Kate and one named Allison
Steve's Mom almost got arrested once because she was trying to go backstage and the security guards didn't believe she was his mom
The song Makes No Difference is in the movie Out Cold
Sum 41 has had random girls make out on stage on more than one occasion
The members of the band don't really like the name Sum 41 but it is too late to change it
Once at a show in Philidelphia, Stevo was drunk and fell off the stage
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