I had a bad day at work so I recorded myself singing ray’s solos in my car.
PRISON SOLOearlycuntsets – a capellaThree Cheers live @ the honda civic (my car)VENOM SOLOearlycunsets – a capellaThree Cheers live @ the honda civic (my car)
âWhen my dad would drive, heâd have this old, brown leather briefcase and would play drums on it in traffic. When he finally decided to get a new one, I went and fished the old one out of the trash and kept it. The lock code was the address from my childhood house â this thing just meant something to me. When My Chemical Romance got together, we had this idea of doing something cool with the merch with something we could pop open at every show. Gerard [Way] and I went to a fabric store, and we lined that old briefcase and it became our merch set-up.â – Frank Iero
Suprise! I’m sick again! I may look like a boatswain and smell like a corpse, but the shows are still a go for the weekend. Please try and check us out at Maxwells this Friday with The Lawndarts and The High School Sweethearts. We’re very excited to be playing Maxwells and it’s been a personal dream of mine ever since I was a kid going to shows there. There are some people flying out and travelling many miles to see us so keep them company and meet some new friends. Click SHOWS and get the skinny on where it’s going down.
We’re also trying a first this weekend for My Chem- 2 shows in one day. This Saturday we have the pleasure of playing Alissa’s Basement at 6:00 and then we hop in the van to make soundcheck at The Loop as soon as we finish. Eyeball label-mates, Little Joe Gould are coming out all the way from Indiana for this show so we’ve decided to risk health and safety to play both shows. If you’ve seen the shape of us after just one set you’re probably curious what we will be like at the second show – so are we. I can assure you a night of “hot male action” and “stinky boys”.
Also check out our good friends in The Ghost and The Exit in our links section. We had the good fortune of seeing both bands play 2 nights last weekend and they were great. Drinking in The Ghost van outside of CBs with Jordan and T-Top was definitely a plus.
I need a shave, a new dye-job, and some decongestant so I’ll leave you with the image of me sitting in my house watching Mad Monster Party, moaning, sweating, boxer-clad, and trying to hit the high notes in Headfirst For Halos. – g”
Frank Iero: Itâs similar to what happenedâŚI remember we were on tour once with My Chem. We stopped at a Walmart, as you do in a band in a van, you get your toiletries and whatever the fuck you need. And at that point we were really really poor. Ray Toro needed two AA batteries for some sort of shitty fucking 8-track that we had, like a traveling 4-track or something, you know what I mean? And so he went in and he opened a pack of batteries and took two batteries out, put them in his pocket, left the store, and got arrested immediately. Benny Horowitz: Oh, shit. FI: So I ran back in, I stole a fucking disposable camera, took pictures of him in the car, and thenâ BH: I love how your instinct in this situation is to be like Bob Woodward, and just, like, let me get this down! FI: I was the Ansel Adams of my friends getting arrested. So, not only did I steal the camera, but then I ran back and I stole the sign from the wall that said âShoplifters Will Be Prosecuted.â And then we picked him up from the fucking police station and I gave it to him as a gift. BH: Wow. Thatâs pretty gangster! Fi: Right? BH: Thatâs pretty gangster.