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domingo, 3 de marzo de 2013

Mikey Way habla de sus heroes del bajo, "momentos Bowie" y de su Squier.


Matthew Parker. Febrero 28, 2013


My Chemical Romance es una banda que tiene opiniones polarizadas, periódicos enojados, formó un ejercito de muy fieles fans en todo el mundo y logró mantener la cabeza en el proceso. Pero a pesar de su formidable reputación en vivo, su musicalidad es a menudo pasado por alto en favor de cualquier controversia que la prensa decida atribuir a la banda en ese mismo mes.

En un intento de corregir esta situación, hablamos con el bajista Mikey Way y recogió sus sesos acerca de sus primeras influencias, sus preferencias de equipo y el desarrollo de su Squier Mustang bass.

Cuál es tu primer recuerdo de un bajo?

"Mi primer recuerdo de un bajo - tenía unos tres años de edad y escuché Another One Bites The Dust de Queen en la radio. Se me quedó grabada en mi cabeza desde ese momento, y se convirtió en un punto de referencia para lineas de bajo en mi mente."

Recuerdas la primera vez que hiciste un gran avance con tu forma de tocar el bajo - la primera vez que pensaste: 'Esto es para mi'?

"Mi primer gran avance tocando el bajo fue durante una de las primeras practicas de MCR en diciembre de 2001. Gerard y Ray me dirigieron, ya que no había tenido mucha experiencia con el bajo hasta ese momento. Cuando llegue al momento final de la pista de Our Lady of Sorrows", tuve un momento 'wow' y no solo supe que me gustaba sino que tocaría el bajo para siempre."

Gerard ha hablado antes acerca de "momentos Bowie" - las experiencias de "pellizcarse a si mismo" que la banda de vez en cuando llega a disfrutar. Cuáles han sido tus momentos Bowie favoritos con MCR?

"He sido muy afortunado al haber tenido muchos de esos momentos en nuestra carrera hasta el momento. Algunos momentos 'Bowie/pellizcame' han sido el estreno de The Black Parade en Londres allá por el 2006, encabezar el cartel de Reading and Leeds en 2012, ser la primera banda estadounidense en 30 años en tocar en Vietnam, y ser la última banda en tocar en el Times Square antes de que balón tocará el suelo."

Alguna vez has conocido algunos de tus héroes del bajo? Quién te inspira en la actualidad?

"He podido conocer a muchos de mis héroes de bajo a través de los años por suerte! El bajo de Matt Sharp en los dos primeros álbumes de Weezer nunca deja de inspirarme."

Qué pasa con el bajo Mustang que te llevó a ese modelo? Qué características estuviste dispuesto a incorporar?

Me sentí atraído por el Mustang porque, en pocas palabras, son un infierno de diversión al tocar - especialmente en un entorno en vivo siempre quise un Mustang, con un hambucker y una franja de competencia (es clásico y con clase!). Siempre he estado enamorado de acabados en escamas/brillos también. Así que si revuelves todo en una sola - tienes mi modelo firmado.

Qué otro equipo de bajo usas? (Amps. pedales, etc) Y por qué?

"En cuanto a otro equipamiento del bajo - uso el Fender Super Bass Man. Desde el momento que lo saco de la caja me enamoré, y no usaré nada mas. No solamente suena ENORME, si no que también la gama de sonidos y tonos que puedes obtener es sorprendente. Altamente recomendable."

"En cuanto a pedales, siempre me ha gustado el Memory Man y Bass Big Muff/regular Big Muff de Electro-Harmonix. He estado usando un Big Muff de distorsión desde que empecé a tocar la guitarra eléctrica y confió en el."

¿Utilizas tu bajo firmado en el escenario?

"Si, absolutamente. Es mi arma de elección, la insignia de honor y mi amuleto de buena suerte, todo en uno."

Fuente: Music Radar.

miércoles, 7 de septiembre de 2011

NME Scans - Reading Review / Gerard Way Interview [Text]

Killjoys' Revenge
Last time around it ended in piss, broken glass and ignominy. In 2011 My Chemical Romance come back fighting and prove they Know how to throw one hell of a party.

MAIN STAGE
LEEDS, SATURDAY


"So I come out, I look like a super creep, I have white hair, everything about me says, 'Throw piss at me'." You can call Gerard Way many things, but don't accuse him of not being self-aware. He's talking backstage at the mindpoint between two career- defining shows at Reading and Leeds 2011, remembering the last time his band, My Chemical Romance, played here, back in 2006. He can laugh about ir now.

"It's not simply, 'We got bottled because everybody in the fucking world hated us.' We had to play after goddam Slayer! 'The Black Parade' hadn't come out and nobody had heard it. So we came out and there's about 15-20 kids who were diehard metalheads saying stuff, and I am in an extra combative mood and I say... 'Alright Reading, fuck it, give me all you've got!'"

Most people in that situation  might have a little cry and move on. Not Gerard Way. Gerard swore to his brother Mikey that he wouldn't come back to this festival without headlining. He then made sure his band became amazing and popular enough to one day get booked to headline.

So when that dream came true, he did the logical thing under the circumstances and referred to Queen. Queen, you see, were famously bottled in Paris one year.

A defiant Freddie Mercury had sworn to returns as the biggest band in the world. Gerard made the only rational decision one could make in that situation: he pinched producer Rob Cavallo's phone book, copied down Brian May's email and sent a whoring message out, explaining their dilemma. A dialogue developed. Gerard posited the idea of Brian joining them onstage at Reading. Brian had various questions. It was nailed with Brian's immortal line: "Now we've got the costume sorted, the rest is easy."

Saturday afternoon, Leeds Festival, and Gerard Way is describing Reading 2011 as the greatest show of his life. So we push him for expansion. "The best shows are the ones where there's a lot riding on it and everything to lose and the unknown, you don't know what's gonna happen. All we focused on for six months was making that as bright and brilliant and wonderful and colourful as we could. I remember that last interview we did I said when the temperature is up for us, then that's when we shine and so to come out to that reaction, and to give 'Danger Days...' the proper show that it deserved - that was what was in my head when we made the record, to give it the colour and the party and the danger, just to colour up on the world."

And so it was. Having made such a big pre-show of their Fabulous Killjoys alter egos, MCR had spent their entire touring campaign playing them down. But now, Party Poison, Fun Ghoul, Kobra Kid and Jet Star make their fist ever public appearance, and yet stuttering behind the stage, smoking ill-advised pre-show fags whilke hoiking his arse-crack-chafing leather pants into a comfortable space, Gerard confesses: "We played at T In The Park and I went to see Deadmau5, and there were kids with road-flares and laser pens, and I was jealous. Because that was what I had envisaged the whole of 'Danger Days...' as being, just colourful anarchy. And that's what we got last night."

Colourful anarchy works for MCR, judging on the fireworks and pink smokebombs that greet 'Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na)' as it boings into 'I'm not OKay (I Promise)'. But what's remarkable is how they maintain that level of adrenaline after the initial expensive flourish, and everything falls wildly into place. Because pyro exists only to support the song.

Witness further comic-book-stadium redemption of 'Famous Last Words', the idiotic punk of 'Teenagers' and, for its live debut, the post-nuclear thunder-ballad 'S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W'. And that's the truth of it. At the end there's the 'Cancer' song and 'Welcome To The Black Parade' and confetti cannons. Confetti cannons!

Always good.

But what really shines is that we have truly never seen any band, ever, try and give so much to any performance ever. And that counts.

To witness Gerard, as he leaves for the bus: "I want youth, I want chaos, I want love affairs, I want people falling in love, I want people proud of their favourite fucking punk band they saw in a basement. It's what I wanted. And I got it."

Dan Martin

You can see the scans here!

NME scans: Reading review and interview with Gerard


Source: Mcr_unofficial

domingo, 28 de agosto de 2011

Kerrang! Podcast: My Chemical Romance

My Chemical Romance Bring 'Danger Days' To Leeds Festival 2011



My Chemical Romance brought 'Danger Days' to Leeds festival as they closed the second night at Bramham park (August 27).

The New Jersey band, fronted Gerard Way, played a hit-packed set with tracks from from their latest album 'Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys'.

Opening their set with 'Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)'; followed by 'I'm Not Okay (I Promise)' 'Planetary (Go!)', My Chemical Romance seemed delighted to be back in front of the UK festival audience.

Speaking to Gigwise, earlier in the day, Gerard Way called the Reading and Leeds festival headline slots: ''the greatest of our lives''.

He added: It's great to be back now after what happened in 2006. We said we would never play again unless we were headlining in style. And it's so amazing''.

The band's stage set brought 'Danger Days' to life with fire displays and characters from the album theme.

Other tracks in the set included hits from their 2006 album 'The Black Parade'; 'Mama', 'Cancer' and 'Teenagers'.

My Chemical Romance came back on stage for encore 'Welcome To The Black Parade'.

Source: GIGWISE

Live @ Leeds Festival - Leeds, UK - 27/08 [Photos]






















Source: Drowned in Sound 
              RockSound

sábado, 27 de agosto de 2011

Live @ Reading Festival - Reading, UK - 26/08 [Photos]








Source: Gigwise

My Chemical Romance se unió a Brian May de Queen en el Reading Festival


My Chemical Romance encabezo por primera vez el Reading Festival y se unió en el escenario con el guitarrista de Queen, Brian May.
 
May se unió a la banda en el inicio de su encore para tocar una versión de 'We Will Rock You' de Queen y luego se quedo para cerrar el set con 'Welcome To The Black Parade'.
 
Antes de la llegada del guitarrista, la banda habia tocado un grupo de canciones en gran medida de su cuarto álbum 'Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys'. Se produjo un show espectacular, con fuegos artificiales, rayos láser, una vídeo pared con multipantallas y confeti.
 
Way hizo alusión a los recientes disturbios en el Reino Unido durante el show. Dijo a la multitud:

"Se que algunas personas han hablado de los recientes acontecimientos de aquí, pero solo quiero decir esto. Es increíble estar aquí con gente que ama la música de una manera no violenta. Si estas enojado, no lances un golpe, no enciendas fuego sobre eso, no grites al respecto. Canta, es el arma mas poderosa que puedes tener."

Cuando tocaron en el festival en 2006 la banda fue víctima de botellazos de parte de la multitud. Pero este año, la respuesta fue bastante mas positiva, un miembro de la audiencia, Pete Smith, dijo: "Fue muy bueno, no esperaba tanto, pero me sorprendió lo buenos que estuvieron."

Otro miembro de la multitud, Andy Lilleshall, dijo: "Me sorprendió cuantas canciones de ellos sabia, fue muy bueno." Emma Grant también elogio al grupo y al invitado especial de la banda diciendo: "Me encanto y no puedo creer que he visto a uno de Queen en vivo, lo mejor de la noche."

My Chemical Romance tocó:

 
'Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)'
'I'm Not Okay (I Promise)'
'Planetary (Go!)'
'The Only Hope For Me Is You'
'DESTROYA'
'Mama'
'Sing'
'Vampire Money'
'The Kids From Yesterday'
'Famous Last Words'
'Teenagers'
'Dead!'
'S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W'
'Helena'
'We Will Rock You'
'Welcome To The Black Parade'


Fuente: NME Magazine

Live @ Reading Festival, Reading, UK - 26/08 [Videos]

Na Na Na



I'm Not OK



The Kids From Yesterday



S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W



Helena



Dead



Teenagers



Famous Last Words



Planetary(GO!)



The Only Hope For Me Is You



We Will Rock You / Welcome To The Black Parade Feat. Brian May (Queen)


viernes, 26 de agosto de 2011

MY CHEM HAVE IT ALL TO PROVE

ROCKERS My Chemical Romance have good reason to be chuffed at headlining the Reading and Leeds Festivals.

They want to wipe the memory of getting pelted with bottles of pee the last time they played.

The US stars were met with a hail of boos and bottles when they performed in 2006.

But they insist they will win over fans this weekend.

Speaking before their Reading slot tonight, singer Gerard Way, 34, told me: “We haven’t felt like we’ve had anything to prove in a long time, so maybe this is the right time to do that. We’re closing a festival where not everyone has approved of us in the past.”

He insisted “playing everyone’s favourite songs and putting on a show” will be enough of a way of closing the festival rather than trying to match the fireworks of fellow headliners Muse.

Gerard added: “We don’t grow up with these kind of festivals in the States so this amazing event that goes on for days where you discover amazing new bands all day and night long means a lot.”

Gerard said My Chem would not take as long between albums as they did in the four years between The Black Parade and Danger Days.

He promised: “We’ve got a lot of new songs already.

When we finished Danger Days we were sad in a weird way because we felt like we were just getting started.”

And he revealed the album they scrapped before Danger Days was finished may get a release.

He said: “Those songs might yet see the light of day.”

Sounds good to me, sir.

Source: Dayly Star