My Chemical Freak: My Chemical Romance All The Time

Tony Pierce from the Los Angeles Times contacted us and is allowing My Chemical Freak to post the pictures he shot of My Chemical Romance.  The photos are from MCR’s appearance at South by Southwest Festival in 2006.  They were performing in a club called “Emos”. 

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By Geoff Boucher
For the LA Times

Gerard Way, the lead singer of My Chemical Romance and the author of “The Umbrella Academy,” is our featured contributor on The Essential Shelf, and this is the second installment of his Top 10 all-time graphic novels. You can find the first installment here. Below are Nos. 5, 6 and 7 on his list:

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By Geoff Boucher
For the Los Angeles Times

We’re starting a new feature here at the Hero Complex called “The Essential Shelf” in which we invite some esteemed talents to tell us about their favorite graphic novels. Our first guest is Gerard Way, the lead singer of the rock band My Chemical Romance and the writer of “The Umbrella Academy,” the wonderfully surreal Dark Horse series that (we hear) may be coming to a theater near you in the next few years.

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Music Saves Lives have posted some vintage photos of the guys.  They are from their performance at Skate Fest 2002.

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By Gary Hampton

 Here’s an interview I did with My Chemical Romance back in 2004. This interview was actually recorded and appeared in part on their first DVD, Life On The Murder Scene, which was pretty cool but at the same time strange because I wasn’t told about it so it came as a surprise.
This interview occured a few months after their major label debut came out while they were on their first tour promoting it, so it was a brief time before they became the huge machine they are now. Great guys, I had a great time, even if you don’t like the band take a 10 minute break from life and check it out below.

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Some additional “old” photos never seen by us or Mychemicalobsessionbrazil have been found!

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Eyeball Records is having a sale in their online store.

I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love CD can be yours for $5!

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Dark Horse just announced the following Saturday Schedule for Comic-con…
THIS is the SIGNING schedule for the Dark Horse Booth!

SATURDAY, JULY 26:

10:00 – 11:00 Stan Sakai: Usagi Yojimbo

11:00 – 12:00 Larry Marder: Beanworld

11:00 – 12:00 David Malki: Wondermark

12:00 – 1:00 Nicholas Gurewitch: Perry Bible Fellowship

1:30 – 3:00 Bruce Campbell: My Name Is Bruce
(*ticketed event, see Dark Horse employee for details.)

3:00 – 4:00 John Landis: Groundbreaking filmmaker

4:00 – 5:30 Gerard Way, Gabriel Ba, and Dave Stewart: Umbrella Academy(*ticketed event, see Dark Horse employee for details.)

6:00 – 7:00 Bryan Talbot: Celebrating 30 years of Luther Arkwright!

6:00 – 7:00 Matt & Shawn Fillbach: Roadkill

He is also slated to speak with Grant Morrison earlier in the day.  CLICK HERE to see those times.

In a recent interview for Rolling Stone, Linkin Park’s Chester Bennington and Chris Cornell comment on last year’s Project Revolution, Gerard Way and Lindsey (LynZ).

Excerpt….

How does being around all these different artists on the Projekt Revolution tour inspire you?
Chris Cornell: Being on tour can sometimes be less complicated than being at home because your day is regimented. You wake up in the morning, you warm up, you do a soundcheck, you play your show, you sleep or get on the bus – every single day is like that. There’s someone putting a sheet of paper under your door telling you what time you’re gonna do what. But a festival tour like this is very different. It’s much less predictable and a lot of different things can happen. And seeing other bands perform for me changes my whole mood in terms of what I end up bringing onstage. I’ve often watched live performance footage from any band before I go onstage just ’cause it gets me in that mindset.
Chester Bennington: What I like about doing a touring festival, especially Projekt Rev, is the fact these are bands that I can get really excited about since I’m part of the reason they’re there. For me, last Projekt Revolution was probably the best touring experience I’ve ever had. For me to be able to bring out Mindless Self Indulgence – a band that I’ve always liked and I’ve felt that they’ve never really gotten the love that they deserve – to see them show up and play with another band like Saosin and 5,000 kids are showing up at noon, just like, “Yes, it’s happening.” And I felt really proud that they got to do that and that Gerard [Way, of My Chemical Romance] and Lyn-Z [Mindless Self Indulgence bassist Lindsey Ballato] reignited their friendship and then ended up getting married backstage on the last show. I was like, “This is freaking awesome.” When we did Ozzfest I couldn’t go to the main stage because I had the wrong pass. I felt like I was segregated from everybody else. The main stage guys were in their superstar land and it was just like, “I don’t feel comfortable here.” Everyone needs to feel respected and everyone needs to be able to go wherever they wanna go and do whatever they wanna do.

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