My Chemical Romance A-Z Parte "2

Interview - My Chemical Romance - A-Z Part.2 

N is for...New album
The ‘The Black Parade'
Gerard: "We're really excited because I feel now more than ever we're going to get to make the record we've always wanted to make. The band has always had major growth spurts and we're in another one right now. Lyrically it's more natural. Not that the stuff before wasn't honest but I was using fiction as metaphor. These songs are just using real life, straight up. The poetry is still there but it's definitely more about social commentary. Some songs sound like they could have been on Pulp's ‘Different Class' or Blur's ‘Parklife'.

O is for...Other artists' opinions
When Dave Grohl loves your band you can't go wrong.
Frank: "I think Dave Grohl made fun of our make-up."
Mikey: "He really likes our band though, which is awesome. It's surreal because people you grew up listening to or saw on TV come to your shows and hang out with you. It's at the point now where if the Pope turned up at our show I'd be like, ‘Oh cool, but I'm really tired. Can I go to sleep?'"

And for...Oasis
Gerard: "I've really been getting into them. They write fucking amazing songs. Timeless, beautiful songs. I'd love to do a Brit Pop covers EP with Oasis and Pulp's ‘Disco 2000'. Maybe we can get on to that."

P is for...The Pipeline
The New Jersey hangout that provided a sanctuary for MCR in their youth.
Mikey: "That place was a big part of our musical upbringing. It was the first place I saw a show, the first place Gerard saw a show and the first place Ray's band The Rodneys played a show at in 96 or 97. It was just 100 person capacity but any day of the week there would be amazing bands playing - Nine Inch Nails, AFI, Bouncing Souls, Madball. Now it's a parking lot. I kind of wish it was still around."

Q is for...Questions
The more famous you get, the more outrageous they become.
Mikey: "Anything you can possibly think of, someone will ask. There'll be all sorts of crazy stuff coming out of fans' mouths like, ‘Are you dating so-and-so?' or ‘Are you guys millionaires?'"
Gerard: "How old my daughter is. That's the weirdest question. I don't have a daughter. I think people just read into liner notes too much."

R is for...Record label
Frank Iero is no one-trick pony, boys and girls.
Frank: "I've started something called Skeleton Crew. It's a record label, a book publishing company and we do clothing design as well. We're working on a 10-inch by The Mean Reds, a band from Tucson, Arizona. We're designing a jacket for Gerard and me. I'm going to write a book and so is Keith Buckley from Every Time I Die. Wes Eisold (Some Girls / American Nightmare) is doing an album. Right now it's just starting but you'll be able to find stuff at skeletoncrewonline.com soon."

S is for...saving lives
Some say music is as powerful as religion, including MCR.
Frank: "One thing we can say for sure is that the band saved our lives. I always thought I had something to offer and I wanted to have some importance in my life, so this band was the best thing that ever happened to me. Before that I was on a fast track to doing nothing. If there's a higher power, it was definitely looking out for me and I try to repay that every day. I think we offer our fans a sanctuary rather than salvation. The band is a tool to save yourself. We're like a support group - the AA of saving lives!"

T is for...Touring
Hardest working band on the planet? MCR are strong contenders.
Gerard: "Touring is the lifeblood of the band next to the fans. Occasionally we might come across as if we don't like it, but that's only because we do it so much. You get tired. But touring is the reason we write songs. We don't' write albums - we write songs; and we don't write songs for albums - we write them to play live."

U is for...Unicorns
We all know unicorns aren't real - just don't tell Mikey Way.
Mikey: "A friend has a company called Pretty Vacant and they make all sorts of clothes and random things like buttons. I have a white unicorn button on every one of my jackets. Maybe they do exist. Who knows? I guess it's become a good luck thing because I've switched this one I'm wearing from jacket to jacket. We're all kind of superstitious in this band."

V is for...Videos
The epic WWII-themed video for ‘Ghost Of You' cost an incredible $500,000.
Gerard: "Videos are extremely important in this band. This time we needed a departure. We needed to take the band to the next level and we needed to do something unexpected. Everyone expected a gothic video with ghosts so we expressly didn't do it like that."
Mikey: "I'm so proud of that video. Most of my friends who saw it cried at the end during my big death scene. There are some great USO scenes and awesome war snippets. The pain on everyone's faces in that video is real - we were in 80 pounds of gear, waist deep in water and explosions were going off. I think we had the right budget to pull it off properly."

W is for...Well-travelled
Want to know what Diet Pepsi tastes like Outer Mongolia? Ask Gerard Way.
Gerard: "In our first year we went to Europe and hit Germany, Spain, Holland and the UK. That was a huge accomplishment. No indie band did that. Now we're hitting places like Mexico, Latin America and Australia. So we really feel like we have a sense of the whole world. We don't just live in a bubble. We know what Diet Pepsi tastes like in London or whatever."

And for...Warped Tour
Gerard: "Warped is an integral part of our career. Kevin Lyman (Warped founder) really believed in us and put us on when everyone else was telling him it wouldn't work. It also has a huge role in building our fan base."

X is for...X-rated
Live shows don't get much raunchier than this.
Gerard: "There's definitely a trashy, x-rated vibe to our live set. It's mainly to put off homophobes, but also because as seriously as you take this, you can't take yourself that seriously. So it's like aggressive, soft-core gay porn. There's a little man love, maybe some smooching, definitely some crotch grabbing. I definitely used to fuck the monitors."

Y is for...Years together
It's four years and counting in MCR land...
Gerard: "We've been together almost four years which I never would have thought possible. We're almost on our third record. It's crazy. I don't think this band will ever stop feeling right or good. But when it's the natural time, it should die. We're very perceptive people so we'll accept it when it happens, and it's not necessarily when the chips are down."

Z is for...Zebras
And you thought Mikey was weird?
Frank: "Everything was zebra with Bob for a little while. He had little toy zebras in his bunk, a zebra blanket, his drum seat was zebra..."
Mikey: "He got to the point where he had so much zebra stuff he didn't know what to do with it. He says he's over it now but I think he's lying."

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