| MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE - Weekends, California 2019, & The Mad Gear And Missile Kid. |
| Written by Shahlin Graves / Q&A: SUPPLIED |
| Thursday, 28 October 2010 18:01 |
 PART VI l PART VII Weekends, 'California 2019', and The Mad Gear And Missile Kid... RAY TORO: We make sure to take weekends off now, which is like a new thing. I think when we first started the band, I think Howard had mentioned that... FRANK IERO: Oh, the weekend. That thing, yeah. RAY: ...like Howard Benson or, maybe he and we were like: why, bands don't take weekends? You don't, you know, screw your family. You don't need any of that. GERARD WAY: Right. RAY: But you know, definitely, now that's changed. But it still doesn't change, that we go in, usually like around noon or 1:00 or 2:00 and don't leave until like 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning. It really depends on what's going on that day. Family definitely though, I think helps you through. You have people to play the stuff for and get honest opinions [from], like little bullshit opinion about what you're doing. And it's like, that helps guide you, through what you're doing in making sure you're on the right path and doing your best work. FRANK: And in addition to recording a major record like in a studio, we did some other stuff, too, just on our laptops. And that's gonna be like something that goes along with it. RAY: Oh, yeah. That was funny. FRANK: You never lose that attic recording mentality, you know? It's fun to do that kind of stuff. GERARD: There's a 'California 2019' edition of the record. It's awesome. <laughs> And it's filled with all the art and then this replica of one of the guns and it's got all this really cool stuff in it. But one of the things that's in it is, we have all these great songs that didn't make the record but we still thought that they're amazing songs and they scratched a real good itch for us. I think a lot of the reasons, 'cause the last track 'Vampire Money', didn't sell well, that there was gonna be no other song really, on the record like that. 'Black Dragon' had a go because, but only because 'Vampire Money' was much better to us, you know? So we said: what we're gonna do with this stuff 'cause it's so fun? So I've made up a band name called The Mad Gear And Missile Kid 'cause we've been playing 'Final Fight' a lot. There's a gang in that called Mad Gear. MIKEY: The evil gang, yeah. GERARD: And we just recorded these super trashy songs and so you're gonna get a little, it's a little EP that you get within the box-set from this band called The Mad Gear And Missile Kid, which if you look at the trailer, their show fliers are up on the diner and in Doctor G's lair. I think Rob loved The Mad Gear stuff so much he said: why don't you guys do a full-length next year? And then, I was really excited about that, because [it's] one of the things you don't get to do, you get disconnected sometimes if all you're doing is playing arenas. At a certain point, that's all that happens 'cause you're - your tour is big, but I would get bored. And we'd have days off and I'd be like: oh, it'd be great if we had a fake band or another band that we could just play clubs in or bars. And, so I think that'll happen. 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. |
