Final show before hiatus at Madison Square Garden

Rumors and misquotes led to confusion as to what such a break truly meant. Wentz preferred to not refer to the break as a “hiatus”, instead explaining that the band was just “decompressing”. Fall Out Boy played its last show at Madison Square Garden on October 4, 2009. Near the end, Blink-182 ‘s Mark Hoppus shaved Wentz’s head in a move Andy Greene in Rolling Stone later described as a “symbolic cleansing of the past, but also the beginning of a very dark chapter for the band”.