| MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE - 'Goodnite, Dr. Death' & not selling out to 'Vampire Money'. |
| Written by Shahlin Graves / Q&A: SUPPLIED |
| Sunday, 14 November 2010 18:18 |
 PART XXIII l PART XXIV 'Goodnite, Dr. Death' and not selling out to 'Vampire Money'... GERARD WAY: 'Goodnite, Dr. Death' - Steve [Righ?] had come up with a lot of that stuff. I think that there are some things I wanted him to say. But he got a real feeling for the character after the first bit. And he recorded that at home in a closet or at a friend's house in a closet and then sent it to us. And we just popped it in. We got our national anthem on there which was always the idea - 'cause classically a radio station or television station traditionally signs off with that. But then that last blast of sound just kind of lets you know that I think, much like the rest of the record, this is what we've done to it. This is what it sounds like to be free. It could have been anybody's anthem or word on the same thing. We just blasted that sound 'cause that's to me what the record is. It's a pure blast of sound that's very free and reckless, and it leads us right into our end credits, which is 'Vampire Money'. FRANK IERO: I love that song. GERARD: Oh, I love it, yeah. FRANK: That song was recorded one night. How many, we did maybe three takes? RAY TORO: Probably three takes, yeah. FRANK: Third take... GERARD: That's the magic one, yeah, the first live recording of a band on... of a lot of [a] band on an album. There's vocal overdubs, but in gangs, it's all the third take. And it comes from - and Rob had said - this song is pure anti-matter. He started [to] refer to us 'cause it's about of, it's about one of the most punk things I've heard in years, because it's about something very real. It's about, I mean, just to be honest... it's about being asked to constantly do a song for a fucking 'Twilight' movie. And there's no fuzz that we're involved, and it's not their fault 'cause I'm sure they didn't want us involved at a certain point. But other people trying to get you to do stuff, and we didn't want to do it. It just wasn't us, not our thing. So we wrote a very real song about it, like: give me some of that vampire money. 'Cause that's what we felt like everybody is trying to go for right now. They want that fucking vampire money. 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)' and the new single 'SING'. Find out how you could win signed My Chemical Romance posterboards at our ART IS THE WEAPON event HERE. View photos from our advance album listening party HERE. |
