October 2012
4 posts
“[Our fans] are very much like shy, quiet loners. You have to have some place you need to kind of get that out. Our shows were the place to do it. One of the things that’s a common misconception about the punk rock scene is that what’s cool about it is you could go and fit in, because it’s punk rock. But in actuality, you can’t. I don’t think enough people say this about it. It was the same as being in high school with jocks. I would go to punk clubs and get shoved by skinheads because I wasn’t like them, which was just like getting shoved by jocks wearing a Ramones shirt.”
—Gerard Way
“We don’t really think of ourselves as a New Jersey band. And we also don’t think of ourselves as an American band in a lot of ways. We felt more like a band of the world, or somewhere like the UK. We felt more like a British rock band than anything.”
—Gerard Way
September 2012
5 posts
- Ray: [writing his guitar part for To The End] I don't wanna go to C.
- Gerard: Why?
- Ray: 'Cause... no.
- Gerard: Just tell me why.
- Ray: BECAUSE.
- Gerard: Because WHY?
- Ray: 'Cause...
- Gerard: Can we do it somewhere else?
- Ray: Yes!
- Gerard: Okay. That's all you had to say.
- Frank: I tried to [propose to Jamia] really smooth. I - we were recording actually, The Black Parade out in Los Angeles and there's a road called Mulholland Drive, where you can kind of oversee the entire city. And there's a park, but when I took her up there it was really late so it was closed, so it was really on the side of a dirt road. Kinda like in a gutter, and uh... but it was fitting, she was excited and I was happy.
- Interviewer: Who cried? Did you cry? Did she cry?
- Frank: Nah, I think she just laughed at me.
“[My second band] was called Hybrid. We got a show at this local street fair, and we were playing on the back of a flatbed truck. There was an ad in the paper, and it said that “Hybird” is playing. I was so mad. Like, this is our big break! How are they going to know we ever played!”
—Frank Iero
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My first show was when I was a high school freshman, but it was at the junior class dance. My older friend and bandmate booked it. They had a DJ for the dance, but they also had an opening spot. We muscled our way into playing. It was 1995, and I’m pretty sure I have the show on video somewhere. The band was called Steve Weil And The Disco Kings. No one in the band was named Steve Weil, and we didn’t play disco. We were doing this kind of indie rock, pop-punk kind of thing.
I played guitar, and I got into the band… Well, it was one of those things where my friend from high school played guitar and he was dating this girl, and she was friends of this girl I was dating, so he found out I played guitar. So, we thought we should start a band. He came over, and we wrote a song. He found other people to fill out the band, and we started jamming at my house or his house, whatever. A month later, he booked that show.
” —Frank IeroAugust 2012
10 posts
- Interviewer: Mikey, why don't you ever eat?
- Gerard: When he was a kid, he was so fat.
- Mikey: But I eat food though.
- Ray: He eats Pizza Hut, he eats Popeyes.
- Gerard: Century Buffet, I was there and this kid here ate a lot. If the kid wants to eat, he eats.
- Mikey: I ate my weight in sushi today.
- Gerard: Like this kid just dropped so much weight one day and now he's skinny as hell. I used to be like 250 pounds.
- Frank: We were all fat kids at once. We were all fucking fat.
- Gerard: It's good now.
- Ray: See how Matt's staying quiet...
- Matt: Shut up, I'm 250!
- Ray: I'm 235.
- Interviewer: Frank, I have to ask you about your hair. What the fuck is up with your hair?
- Frank: It was supposed to be dreadlocks, but I'm a white kid so it's just there... It's fucking itchy and sucks.
- Interviewer: So when are you going to shave your head?
- Frank: I have a horrible shaved head, it comes into a cone.
- Gerard: Ha ha, his hair is fuckin' great!
- Ray: Like really.
- Frank: I think that's the only reason they asked me to be in the band.
- Gerard: Mikey is trying the James Dean hair, I'm trying the wolverine hair, it's working.
- Interviewer: Frank, how does it feel to be a new member of My Chemical Romance, after the break-up of Pencey Prep? How do you feel?
- Frank: It's like you're a fan of a band and one day they ask you to be in it and you get to be a part of it. I'm like a fucking kid up on stage, it's the fucking shit!
- Gerard: Having him up there I felt so complete... It made it so much easier. It felt like a fucking unit, like another person to throw out energy - it was fucking incredible, I love it.
- Gerard: Mikey had this [band] name and he wasn't even in the band, and we were like 'we need that fucking name dude!'
- Ray: So that's how we got Mikey in the band. We used him for his name... Haha, no no, now he's a fucking awesome bass player.
- Interviewer: Disney character that most represents you?
- Mikey: Donald Duck.
- Gerard: Yeah, Mikey dressed up like Donald Duck in 2nd grade.
- Mikey: It was a fuckin' rad costume, my grandma made it.
- Gerard: It was fuckin' hot and then the next year he dressed up as a stay puff marshmallow.
- Mikey: And it was also really hot.
- Interviewer: Best Valentine's gift you ever got?
- Gerard: I'm about to get one right now, but I haven't seen it yet. Shit. I haven't really gotten any... I got roses. I love roses. That was pretty cool.
- Mikey: You know what, I can't even remember getting one because there hasn't been a powerful female outlet in my life to give me a Valentine's Day gift.
- Interviewer: No little candy hearts from grandma or mom or anything like I usually get?
- Mikey: No way!
MCR - Small Petunia Of The Galaxy [NEW SONG DEMO]
Reason #3520985 why Gerard Way is the most adorable man in the world: this song he wrote for his daughter.
- Gerard: [drinking orange juice onstage]
- Gerard: ORANGE JUICE! I fucking love it. It's fucking delicious. This is how I fucking roll.
- Gerard: We were gonna bring the jug out and I was gonna drink it out the jug, but then I was like, I can't - I gotta class it up a little, put it in a cup, you know? But the jug IS available if you guys wanna see it...
- Crowd: [Screams]
- Gerard: WHERE IS THE JUG?
- Crowd: [Silence]
- Gerard: [talking to roadie] You don't have it? What, it's under there? Oh, there it is... THE JUG OF ORANGE JUICE!
- Gerard: Now you know all of our secrets.
- Ray: You can post it on your Twitter's and Youtube's.
- Gerard: And after that, GIMME ALL YOUR FUCKING MONEY!
- [Vampire Money intro]
- Interviewer: How do you feel about your gay fans? Seeing as two of the boys that we spoke to said they want to sleep with you...
- Frank: [high-pitched giggle]
- Gerard: Well, I think it rules. Um, actually, y'know, a lot of what we were doing in the beginning was about really pushing the boundaries and there's a lot of things that weren't accepted at shows and in the punk community, which is why we really kind of removed ourselves from it.
- Frank: Yeah.
- Gerard: Homosexuality is still, to this day, it's like 2007, it's still an issue with people.
- Frank: I will never understand that.
- Gerard: To me, the gay fans are actually some of the most special ones, because they are so bold and brave for coming out... I think they're some of my favourite.
Do you have a photo with an Mcr quote that would work for a facebook cover? I really need a new one
Any of those any good? :)
