| MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE - Breaking down barriers, or rules, or burning the rule book. |
| Written by Shahlin Graves / Q&A: SUPPLIED |
| Wednesday, 10 November 2010 10:04 |
 PART XIX l PART XX Breaking down barriers, or rules, or burning the rule book... GERARD WAY: We have been listening to Sleigh Bells a bit, but, I, we were just having dinner that... all of a sudden I drifted off in the conversation. I think it was... from England that, we were talking about [the] Klaxons and a bunch of electro bands, I think. And then, I just drifted off and I just, I remember standing up and going: I think I got something. And we just kind of ran back, and then I just played that opening note and we looped it and then that was literally it. RAY TORO: Yeah. From there, the song came in. GERARD: Uh huh. We did. And then, I was like: all right, then let's have the drums come in - and, it was cool. It's indicative of the whole recording process because anybody that had an idea would just then grab that guitar and do it, be it anybody in the band or Rob or anybody. Like, I think [I] played guitar on that one for a good solid five minutes before we then started fixing stuff, you know? MIKEY WAY: Yeah. That song creates some - when I listen to it - just an insane landscape where it's like you're flying and you could just let go and it's just very colorful. And it's another one of those things that we've always wanted a song like that. GERARD: It's very psychedelic, which you'll like. It's like kind of this new form of something psychedelic which the band has never gone near. And when, that was a song that really helped me realize that we were kind of maybe trying to emulate 'Magical Mystery Tour' with this whole record and the fact that that wasn't a concept either but just a loose art experiment. MIKEY: Summertime, it goes along with the idea of... of us, breaking down barriers or rules or, burning the rule book. It was just a riff I had had maybe for a year or two and I, I just never felt that it fit with the band. I was like: it's cool. Let's keep it around. I'll play it every now and again. And one night, I mean, Rob has so many amazing guitars that I just pick some up, play them. And I'd start playing the riff and somebody I think, it was Ray that heard it and he was like: we could use that. I was like: whoa, really? And it just kind of like, it was like... and yeah, that's kind of how it came about. RAY: Yeah. That was cool too because that song, we didn't finish it really towards the end but we started working on it very early. Like, every, every month, like I'd say as months passed by, every couple of weeks we would come back sort of working on it, work on it a little bit, come back to it and, you know? And then at the end, once Gerard had written all the lyrics for it, that's when the song really like, it's like: oh, that's such a solid song. That's so good. 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. |
