| MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE - 'Danger Days' live, quality control, & old friend Rob Cavallo. |
| Written by Shahlin Graves / Q&A: SUPPLIED |
| Monday, 25 October 2010 19:07 |
 PART III l PART IV 'Danger Days' live, quality control, and old friend Rob Cavallo... GERARD WAY: One of the cool things right now is we've been away so long that it's really, I think, the first group of shows will be about reconnecting with the audience and less about costuming and things like that - and I think that's great. 'Cause the songs, when we've been rehearsing them in a live sense, they sound way more aggressive than anything else we played. It actually sounds like Rob Cavallo had described, like this is [a] party, that's what it sounds like. And so that's what I would expect live. And then later on, we could think about - we have plenty of time - we could think about how we can make this fun, a fun live experience. I mean, we're talking about bringing the car out on the road and just having it [in] whatever city we're playing, having it drive[n] around all day, and just do fun stuff like that. It was awesome. <laughs> FRANK IERO: Yeah. It was like we're committing with an old friend, you know? MIKEY WAY: And it felt like when we had... [with Rob Cavallo] it was kind of like a homecoming, and it felt really great. GERARD: He's a friend and he's an artist. And that was really important, and he's like a fifth member. It felt like he, it felt like we're all kind of like in this pit of fire, reaching our hands out, and he kind of helped us all get out of it. <laughs> It really did feel that way. And he believes in the band so much. We had really amazing conversation when we got there. It was a very emotional conversation, where he had told us how he had felt like the situation we were in was a shame because he believed we're one of the greatest rock bands in the world. And he couldn't believe that it gotten to this point where we were in stasis creatively, and it made him upset. And he, I think just seeing somebody be so honest about how much they love your band on an artistic level, was enough to make us redo this entire album. RAY TORO: He's like a partner. And he's ready to go put himself through that journey too, with you. And it's hard on everybody, but we're all there for each other, getting through it. GERARD: His quality control too, is just as severe as ours, which is awesome, which makes him a great match. He's always pushing us. Even up to the end, I think the last couple of days of tracking was me going back and re-tracking lyrics that he had felt were up to par with the rest of the album. And out of the whole process, luckily, it only happened like on two lines, but it was the hardest two lines to write because of that. I think, well, I think what we realize is, albums and the ambition of the band is much different than its ambition [in] life. I think they're two separate things entirely. And I think writing great songs first, then you can translate them however you want in life. Yeah, I mean, we're just talking about this in the break, like when you listen to that first attempt, it literally does sound like a band - and just strip everything away. I know lyrically, I just stripped everything away. I don't even know what to sing about anymore and 'cause there was nothing left. And that's kind of what it sounds like. And we love a lot of the songs, they're really special to us, but that's all you hear is so much nakedness that there's nothing to the band at that point. MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE's new album 'Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys' is released in New Zealand on November 22nd - features the lead-single 'Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)'. Find out how you could win the chance to hear the new album eleven days before it hits stores HERE - as well as about our ART IS THE WEAPON event. |
