website memo from ray about the release of mcr’s first cd
bullets release show 07/19/2002 loop lounge nj
photos by lauren dwyer from her 2003 website
Category: bullets era
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gerard talks about 07/2003 spin shoot
gerard talks about his first spin shoot:
“they were calling me speed stick because I smelled so bad. and um basically he’s like "I want you to go to my cd collection. I want you to pick out whatever you want and I’m gonna give you a microphone and you’re gonna basically karaoke it. since I was like "yeah- you can’t fake singing and so we put on black flag and I was singing "nervous breakdown” and this guy comes over with a beer and just starts spraying me with water. and this is like shit i’d never.. let people do. and I was super into it. just got me soaking fucking wet. headbanging and singing. and it’s one of my favorite photos. and it ran in a page I think the guy from stellarstar was in it. and that was the first spin thing"
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06/08/2003 bomb shelter collective show montclair nj
new jersey pop punk archives instagram – flyer
spaceyraygun – audio
06/08/2003 bomb shelter collective show
@spaceyraygun thank you for recording this all those years ago
some background on bomb shelter collective the diy production company:
12/2008 punk rock confidential (left) & 06/2005 – guitar world (right)
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That was the soundboard recording. Here’s the audience recording.
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2002 merch suitcase shared by frank on instagram
THE 2002 merch suitcase (from frank’s instagram)
“When my dad would drive, he’d 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 – 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.” – Frank Iero
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funny answers from 08/2002 sayrah.net interview
08/2002 sayrah.net interview
their top fives are like a guess who half the time but the answers still make me smile
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“mcr’s first big break” as they say
