| MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE - Creative sparks, experimenting, & Rich Costey. |
| Written by Shahlin Graves / Q&A: SUPPLIED |
| Tuesday, 26 October 2010 09:45 |
 PART IV l PART V Creative sparks, experimenting, and Rich Costey... GERARD WAY: You know, we have finished something like 20-something songs. And they were almost, like more than half of them were mixed. I think it was during the mixing process with Rich Costey. We were sitting there and... FRANK IERO: Experimenting. GERARD: Yeah. We still are experimenting. It was nuts, 'cause we couldn't get it, the sound, how we wanted to, you know? And then I think one day, Rich brought over a... MIKEY WAY: And we started just picking stuff up and just trying things that we've never tried before. And then we started to - it's like the spark started happening and we started to see this other thing, and that was kind of where it started the whole, like, I guess the idea of what it will become. RAY TORO: You know, it's funny, too, to his credit, too, remember the first time he came to the practice studio... He said: you guys got to get yourself some pedals. It's got to get some different... like new things you never tried before. And... GERARD: He was dead right. RAY: ...the spark of creativity is dead right. GERARD: Rich set a lot of truth in that very first, he was the first person we met up with, and it's like... RAY: Yeah, to produce... GERARD WAY: He'd asked really hard questions, kind of like: where are you rebelling against, what's going on here? And everything he said was actually completely accurate. He wanted us to just do crazy things and try new stuff. And we wanted to strip away experimentation. So, then, the mixing process was really difficult. And I think that's when maybe on a subconscious level, it started to creep into our bones that, like: oh, God, maybe this isn't right. And then we got a little bit of a break. We're gearing up to release this thing, taking photos and everything... 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. |
