Mikey Way on X-PRESS Magazine [Scans]

Source: Gerard Way Brasil

Live @ Starland Ballroom - Sayreville, NJ, USA. - 7/05 [Videos]

Vampire Money




Destroya



Summertime




Planetary (GO!)



Famous Last Words

Q&A: Gerard Way on Vampires, Glee, And Liza Minnelli [The Village Voice]

What are your favorite post-apocalyptic movies?

Night of the Comet, Mad Max obviously--I actually prefer the first one. A Boy and His Dog. I think those are like the three main classics.

You've said the new album's "Look Alive, Sunshine" intro was inspired by A Clockwork Orange, but it also reminded me of Vanishing Point, have you seen it? It's a 1971 car-chase flick with a guy on the radio sending messages to the driver so he can escape the police.

Yes! Vanishing Point and The Warriors were two very big reference points for the album. I definitely wanted it to feel like there was this DJ out there like, inspiring these lunatics to drive around. And I also wanted it to feel a little bit like The Warriors as well. But yeah, I love both of those movies.

So what came first, Fabulous Killjoys the album or Fabulous Killjoys the comic book?

The comic actually. Me and my friend Sean Simon--who sold our merch and was a friend of ours who just kind of volunteered to do that, he was in the van with us from the beginning. We had the idea for this comic that really was in a weird way semi-autobiographical, although had nothing to do with us and we weren't in it. Just like, all the stuff we would make up and the way we viewed the world and all the metaphors we'd use for the world. So that was kind of the starting point. And then I didn't realize it until [comic book writer] Grant Morrison had pointed it out that we were in fact making that album, that was going along with the comic of us.

The band on "Vampire Money" sounds very different from the band that made "Vampires Will Never Hurt You." Are you bored with the oversaturation of vampire culture in general, or just Twilight?

You know, it's interesting because I really have no problem with the Twilight franchise, it's just not for me. And I think I'm mature enough now to realize when something's not for me, as opposed to attacking it. But the interesting thing about "Vampire Money" is it's about anything you don't want to do, like anything people assume you're going to do for the money and you don't want to do it. It's about saying no over and over and over again. Basically, saying no with a song. But you're right, when we started out as a band we very much used that horror-movie imagery. To me it was different imagery though, it was drawing upon bands like the Damned and the Misfits and the classic horror films.

I wanted to know if you're more of a Buffy fan.

Joss [Whedon] is amazing, I love Joss. I'm actually not that familiar with Buffy, my wife is. I've always had a very hard time watching TV; I still do, like I can't get on schedule to watch stuff. Not that familiar with it, but I'm very familiar with a lot of his work. And the Buffy episodes I have seen are incredible.

I love how after a whole concept record dealing with cancer [The Black Parade], you threw in this one line "And all the good times/ They give you cancer" on "Party Poison." I feel like each one of your albums is making fun of the one that came before it.

Totally! We're definitely a self-referential band, and like, I especially, always end up abhorring what we did in the past. And I don't know why that is, I think the only way I can move forward is attacking it. I like how bands growing up... like, the Beatles were extremely self-referential and at times poking fun at who they used to be. I think it's healthy because if you dwell on who you used to be and you always cherish it and you always talk about how amazing that was, then you're not gonna grow. You're always going to be like, "Remember when we were the Black Parade and we were blowing up pyro and we were playing 10,000-person arenas?" And if you get caught up in that it's no good.

Killjoys also contains lyrical references to "Search and Destroy" and "Ballroom Blitz," and a lot of the sounds in "The Kids from Yesterday" remind me of Bowie's "Heroes." Are there any other 70s bands you slipped in there?

The Sweet... oh, you got that one! A lot people don't get that one and think I'm referencing like, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, which is funny because he must have been referencing the Sweet. Mainly, it was cinema. So it was like, John Carpenter, or the sounds in Escape from New York, how he would kind of play his own music. That was kind of an influence for sure. And Bowie, with Danger Days, even the title itself was inspired by Diamond Dogs. And that was also a dystopian, kind of future-glam-punk record. Damned Damned Damned was a big influence on this record. Hmm, what else. MC5. Definitely Detroit-kinda rock.

"Sing" was recently used on Glee, which a few bands (Foo Fighters, Kings of Leon) have recently come out against. How do you feel about the show?

It's a show about music, and we're not ever opposed to that sort of thing. In a lot of ways, it's the radio. So if it gets your message across, to use that kind of platform, then we'll use that kind of platform and still say no to Twilight. 'Cause to me that's not a platform, that's hawking a lifestyle whereas this is a show about music. It's really racy and it pushes a lot of things--I know it bothers a lot of Republicans too.

It's interesting because a lot of bands come out against it in certain ways, but I end up hearing a lot of these same bands using their songs in car commercials and stuff like that. I find that very interesting--where do you draw the line and with what? Get your music out there and get it heard, I thought that was always the point. And still you want to do that with a tremendous amount of integrity, too. Something like Glee, we don't have any control over how they're going to use it, but we knew that they would try and do a great job with it, so we knew it was in good hands--

Good jazz hands.

--but you might end up doing other things you feel gross about, you know?

Any plans to follow Green Day to Broadway?

That came up very early when Black Parade came out. There were a lot of offers for Broadway, for animated versions of the songs. Lots of different things came our way, and we said no because it wasn't right for us. American Idiot it's right for, it's very topical. I think it works well being a young record that got that, whereas Black Parade needed to be something that lived for a long time before that happens. Or, rather than do something on Broadway I'd much rather see Black Parade be a show the way Roger Waters went and did The Wall.

What's the story behind getting Liza Minnelli to sing on The Black Parade?

There was a line that was the only spot on the record that I wanted a guest vocal--I wanted a voice to finally talk back to me. And I wanted somebody kind of motherly, but who was also a survivor, had been through a lot, but was rooted in theater. And so... she was in! She was the first person that came to mind, and then [producer Rob] Cavallo had made a phone call to her assistant, and that was it. She did it for free and she was happy to do it.

What's the future of your hair color?

It's definitely uncertain. I have days where I love having it; it's the maintenance that's a pain in the ass. But it's funny... having just turned 34, and having people wanting to fit us into thirtysomething rock culture, my only form of rebellion left is to fuck my hair up and look like a 16-year-old. So, it's kind of all I got.

Source: The Village Voice

Live @ The Fox Theatre in Oakland - 31/03 [Videos]

Vampire Money




Summertime




Famous Last Words




Sing




Teenagers

My Chemical Romance Live @ Oslo, Norway - 16/03 [Videos]

Bulletproof Heart



Cancer



Famous Last Words



I'm not OK!



Mama



Na Na Na



Planetary (Go!)



SING



Teenagers



Vampire Money



Welcome To The Black Parade

My Chemical Romance Live @ Hamburg, Germany 14/03 [Videos]

Na Na Na



Hang'Em High 



Planetary (Go!)



I'm not OK! / Famous Last Words



Vampires Will Never Hurt You

My Chemical Romance Live @ Toulouse [Videos]

Cancer



DESTROYA



Helena



Mama



Na Na Na



Planetary (Go!)



Sing



Teenagers




Vampires Will Never Hurt You



Welcome To The Black Parade




Vampire Money

Frank Iero es Entrevistado Por Una Fan - Parte 2 [Español]

Fan: Entonces, otra pregunta sobre Bulletproof Heart. En la segunda parte de la canción, hay estos coros, creo que Ray los hace...

Frank: Si lo hace. Quiero cantarlos también, pero no puedo, siempre los enredo. Es solo 'we want to rock, to rock, to rock, let’s go!’, no puedo hacerlo bien.

Fan: Oh, eso es lo que es! Yo decía ‘Gerard, Gerard, Gerard, Gerard let’s go' y antes de eso escuchaba algo como ‘shoo-wop’.

Frank: Oh, pero es así, es sentir el 'shoo-wop' detrás de ella!

Fan: Una vez que oi Gerard, Gerard, no pude dejar de oírlo.

Frank: Ah, se a lo que te refieres, como con la foto de la anciana...

Fan: Oh, si se lo que quieres decir, una vez que lo vez...

Frank: Si, una vez que lo vez, no puedes dejar de ver eso.

Fan: Exacto!

Fan: Se que antes han dicho que no piensan en los fans cuando están haciendo un álbum, porque no funciona pero cuando estaban a punto de sacar Danger Days, se preocuparon de lo que pensaríamos? Porque es muy diferente del anterior, era mas oscuro.

               
Frank: Este.. bueno, la razón por la que no podemos pensar en eso mientras hacemos el álbum es porque nos detiene. Empiezas a pensar: 'Ah podemos hacer esto, lo podemos sacar adelante?' De modo que simplemente no funciona. Pero al final de hacerlo, si ahí si empiezas a pensar en lo que los fans pensaran, pero solo nos preguntamos si lo amaran tanto como nosotros lo hacemos.

Fan: Porque conozco personas que no les gusta o no los escuchan mas a ustedes porque este álbum es demasiado feliz, o demasiado corriente para ellas.

Frank: Ah bueno es así como separas a los idiotas de los verdaderos fans ya sabes *sonrisa* Los fans lo entenderán. Y cuando la gente, los críticos o los aficionados, quieren que vayamos en una dirección determinado, nosotros vamos por el camino opuesto.

Fan: Me gusta eso de ustedes, sin embargo, es diferente, pero sigue siendo mucho My Chem.

Frank: Y bueno... este álbum puede parecer mas feliz, pero en realidad es un disco realmente sucio.

Fan: Oh no estoy completamente de acuerdo, lo es. The Mad Gear and Missile Kid EP también, me encantan esas canciones. Son impresionantes.

Frank: Oh gracias! Hemos hecho muchas canciones como esas por ahí, así que vamos a ver que hacemos con eso. Si vamos en tour con esas canciones, no vamos a hacerlo como MCR, no funcionaria.

Fan: Tienen que tocar esos shows en Europa, de otra forma nos enojaremos si no lo hacen.

Frank: *sonrisa* Ha, lo entiendo, lo haremos.

Fan: Asi que siguiente... Es un poco paranoica, pero nos hemos dado cuenta de que Wal-Mart tiene algo de semejanza con.. (en ese momento le entrego un pedazo de papel que tenia el logo de Wal-Mart Live Better y la carita sonriente que esta junto a eso).

Frank: Ah, he oído hablar de esto! Es espeluznante, la cosa de Live Better.

Fan: Si, y ustedes tienen una carita también.

Frank: Si, eso es extraño así... La cosa es, Wal-Mart ya es una empresa del mal.

Fan: Ja, lo entiendo. Oh! Ellos venden la versión censurada de Danger Days! Oh por cierto la versión censurada de Vampire Money es hilarante. La forma en que Mikey solo dice 'Ready', ay hombre. Parece que alguien tomo su lugar.

Frank: Recuerdo que cuando estábamos haciendo la versión censurada, porque tienes que hacerlo en estos dias, tuvimos que llegar a una alternativa para '3,2,1 we came to fuck'. Así que pusimos 'we came to suck' y dijimos, wow esto es mucho mas sucio!

Fan: Jaja, eso es exactamente lo que pensé cuando lo escuche.

Frank: Si, así que lo mantuvimos así.

Fuente: Tumblr

My Chemical Romance Live @ Tilburg 26/02 [Videos]

Na Na Na




Thank you for the Venom





Cancer




Teenagers



SING




Bulletproof Heart



Planetary (Go!)



Vampire Money



DESTROYA



Summertime



I'm Not OK


Mama



The Only Hope for me is You



Teenagers

My Chemical Romance Live @ Yokohama Arena 2/06 [Videos]

Sing




Welcome To The Black Parade





Helena




Cancer





Vampire Money




Summertime




Party Poison

My Chemical Romance on Lopez Tonight [Sing & Vampire Money]

Enjoy!

Vampire Money! [Pega tanto en este momento no se por qué] xD

Para los que viven en Ecuador, especialmente en Guayaquil, sabrán que el clima no esta muy amigable que digamos, por ratos hace calor, otros ratos llueve, poniendo a muchos de muy mal humor, la siguiente canción tiene el poder de sacarnos de ese mal humor, claro, la lírica no tiene nada que ver con esto pero que importa, la canción rulea y mucho mas en estos momentos cuando nadie quiere trabajar después de haber almorzado.

My Chemical Romance escribió cancion en contra de 'Twilight'

 

My Chemical Romance después de haberse negado a grabar una canción para una de las películas de 'Twilight', escribió 'Vampire Money' como una reacción en contra de esta saga.

A nuestra querida banda se le habría pedido colaborar con una canción para la banda sonora de "New Moon", a lo que Gerard Way se negó a pesar de que se le ofrecía una gran suma de dinero.