| MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE - Short shorts, 2019, & 'Vampire Money'. |
| Written by Shahlin Graves / Q&A: SUPPLIED |
| Friday, 29 October 2010 21:20 |
 PART VII l PART VIII Short shorts, 2019, & 'Vampire Money'... GERARD WAY: I think the mandatory uniform for Mad Gear is short shorts. <laughs> So, it's only 'cause I was in this fucked up short shorts kick for like two weeks, 'cause it was so hot here. We had a heat wave and I was just wearing the short shorts. RAY TORO: The shortest shorts. GERARD: The shortest... they make people uncomfortable and then I eventually stopped wearing them. That's awesome. What would we sound like in 2019, 'cause I did think of that when we, we're gonna start saying that this was set in 2019. 'Cause I was definitely like, well, this isn't what we'd sound like in 2019. But, it's a guess. But, I don't know. It really... FRANK IERO: I don't think, yeah, I think [after you] hear it, you just play it into your arm and you experience it. <laughs> There's nothing actually going through your ears. GERARD: Yeah. It's hard to say, because we take a long time to make records. And I'm actually now really proud of that. I don't think that'll ever change. And I think, but because of that, I think [when] the fans of the band and other people listen to it, they get a high level of quality from that. So what year is it now? FRANK: Maybe 2011. GERARD: 2011? We might be on, we might be two records ahead at that point. We might be on our, well, if this is the fourth, fifth, maybe we'll be on the sixth. So I don't know. It's really hard to say. Going through such a creative slump together and turmoil, I think really brought us so close in such a way where you started to really realize how much you valued your friends that were in this band with you and the people around you and how much you realize they were all artists, and truly artist[s] first before musicians and geniuses. Like, I think that, and it's this child-like genius quality where we're also untrained, but yet, I would watch anybody in this band pick up a chord and just make a sound and then the sound, 20 minutes later, was on the song. And that's anybody at any given moment was doing that, or picking up weird drums that they'd never touch before and just doing it. And that was so important to me. I remember the night we were doing 'Vampire Money' and we're doing all this come-on's together and we're just yelling with such an intensity it was like a fight for our lives. And, you know, that was just what happened to me. I realized that not that I never doubted this, but we had toured so much and ['The] Black Parade' was so hard that you just, you lose clarity. 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. |
