HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY FOR BANDIT LEE WAY AND HER PARENTS 
Happy, Happy, Happy 33th Birthday Gerard!
Those waiting for My Chemical Romance’s latest album will soon be satisfied – but in the meantime, we’ve got an interview with the band’s frontman, Gerard Way, about his latest musical adventure.
Pick up an issue of NYLON Guys on stands now, and check out this preview of the story:
Gerard, on writing the new album: “Once you unlock something lyrically and aesthetically, then a flood starts to happen. Sometimes it takes a while to get that flood to happen.”
On Mexico’s “Emo Murders:” “Mexico was the worst case. It became an epidemic. I felt heartbroken. While I codemn the hate crimes, why would I tell someone to stop being who they are? That would be irresponsible.”
On their childhood garage, where the band started: “Fuck it was dark there. We had just slivers of sunlight, we were like mole people, me and Mikey. The neighborhood was kind of dangerous – you get a taste for using your imagination so you don’t have to go outside.”
+ Gallery Update: Photoshoot and Scans from Magazine:
(I’m sorry but gallery doesn’t work – I add this soon.)
My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way has admitted to “pandering” to his record company, Warner Music, on the band’s last studio album, 2006’s The Black Parade and making too many “safe decisions”.
“I started to feel on the last record like I was pandering, and that the money [we'd made] had put me in stasis,” he told US magazine Spin. “It’s like a trap: Stasis is death, and I started to make safe decisions.”
Way also added that he felt he didn’t go far enough for his fans on the band’s subsequent tours, too.
“We were going to these cities where there were hate crimes directed at the kids listening to us, the kids wearing all black,” he continued. “I retreated and stopped being on the crusade. I didn’t want anyone to get hurt.
“The light at the end of the tunnel was a friend reminding me I didn’t wear a Public Image Ltd pin on my jacket in high school because I wanted to get spit on, I wore it because I wanted to wear it. Our kids are the same way: It’s their fucking choice. I can’t protect them. I need to give them what they want.”
- Source
Hello Friends,
Are you finally ready for some good news? Let me hear you say, “Eh, OK but make it quick”.
Well my darlings, as I sit down to write to you, we are in the studio working on a brand new song. Ray’s laying down some guitar tracks and I must admit, it’s kicking my brain in the pants. I can’t wait for you guys to hear this stuff, the songs we ended up writing this past month are so far advanced from where I thought this record would end up, it’s not even funny.
Let’s put it this way… say you had a time machine, and used said time machine to go back in time 1 year, found me, and played me some of the songs we just wrote. I would absolutely say, “you’re a liar, and a full blown crazy person”… partly because the technology of a time machine doesn’t really exist, but mostly because these new songs are light years ahead of our creative head space last year.
What a journey this has been, arduous at times, but always resulting in the band reaching new heights. Which is how it should be with a band that is never satisfied with just “good enough”…if it doesn’t change the game, it isn’t My Chemical Romance. You as fans shouldn’t expect anything less. It feels as though everything we’ve ever done has been leading up to this moment. Like our entire lives have been a drill preparing us to stumble upon what Gerard has been referring to as “the new shit god-dammit.”
So lets get down to it, with these new songs, or “the new shit god-dammit”, plus the songs we’ve written over the past year, we basically have enough material for about 2.5 records now. However, we feel this past month has raised the creative bar so high that only the best of the best can live in harmony on the new record. But who knows…down the line, some of the songs we wrote over the past year that don’t make this record could possibly surface again as b-sides or fun movie soundtrack stuff. I think it would be kinda rad at some point to have you all hear the songs that led us to our new found creative enlightenment. Either way, I just wanted to keep you all posted and let you know the record is coming along swimmingly, and we’re working hard on making it the best we possibly can… can’t wait to wrap it up and give it to you.
OK, good news part 2 of 3: I don’t know if you knew this, but I like taking photos, and I’ve been taking quite a few pictures over the past months, trying my best to document the recording process. Some of which came out really good, and I’m pretty proud of. Recently, we’ve decided to take a few of these photos and share them with you in a really cool way. The past few days I’ve been staying up very late hand stamping, numbering and signing a set of 6 very limited art prints that will go up for sale on this site in the near future. The art prints will be released 2 per month for 3 months and are limited to 200 each. In the meantime, 2 new pics are up now and we will be posting new shots that aren’t included within the print set in the photo section every week. So keep checking the site for the release of these prints and the posting of new photos from the My Chem inner sanctum.
Last, but certainly not least, I am proud to announce the addition of two new members to the MCR extended family. Recently, my wife and I found out we will be having twins later on this summer. I cannot express in words how happy this makes us, it seems everything’s turning up Milhouse. I just can’t wait to meet the little ones, and may God have mercy on the world now that there will be 2 more Ieros wreaking havoc on the earth.
Until next time friends, let us drink to peace, love, and never taking any shit off anybody.
xofrank
CONGRATULATIONS FRANK & JAMIA!
Read Post on mychemicalromance.com (+ 2 new photos from studio) // and if You don’t know, Gerard are on cover new issue Spin Magazine – Read Here
