“Their most famous record may be known as “The Black Album,” but veteran metal unit Metallica have triggered a wide palette of aesthetic visions. This Friday, Los Angeles’ Exhibit A Gallery will host Obey Your Master, an art exhibition featuring works influenced by the group’s output over the last 30 years. In addition to works created by such acclaimed names as Shepard Fairey, Travis Louie and Gail Potocki, the curators also enlisted the participation of Metalli-fan rockers as Black Veil Brides’ Andy Biersack, Slipknot’s Shawn “Clown” Crahan and My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way.”
“We’ve been going over all the memories and different keepsakes that we’ve acquired over the years, walking down memory lane together” guitarist Frank Iero explains.
As we all know James Dewees is the beloved keyboard player for My Chemical Romance. After a stint in his own band Reggie and the Full Effect and other ventures, he turned over his mic and turned to his keyboard to bring a whole new element to MCR’s already massive successful list of music.
PunkNews.org sat down with Dewees and got an in-depth interview with one we know so little about. Or at least that is the case for me.
“ So how did this all start? Forced piano lessons when you were a kid?
I actually wanted to take piano because my older brother took lessons; I think I was 7 when I started. I decided to play drums at 11 in the Lewis and Clark elementary school band. I carried a concert snare drum back and forth for a year, and drove my parents nuts. “
“MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE commemorated their ten-year anniversary on September 11th last year, which was followed up by the announcement a couple of weeks later, that the band would finally be returning to New Zealand – for the first time in five years – as headliners on the2012 BIG DAY OUT. Bassist MIKEY WAY gave Coup De Main a call while doing some last-minute Christmas shopping in Los Angeles at the close of last year… “
“Drug addiction, highway accidents, destroyed instruments, a death hoax and a thieving drummer coloured a tumultuous 2011 for My Chemical Romance. But the band’s silent linchpin, Ray Toro – who plays guitar like Randy Rhoads and sports an afro that has multiple fan-founded Facebook accounts – is celebrating. The year that tested their tenacity more than ever is the same year that marks MCR’s decade anniversary.”
“My Chemical Romance are a band constantly progressing in both sound and image as they search for musical enlightenment. Bass player Mikey Way tells Lindsey Cuthbertson about the US punk rock group’s most positive changes yet.”
“Danger Days didn’t just provide My Chemical Romance with an opportunity to break free from The Black Parade’s heavy rules and restrictions. The freedom the quartet experienced throughout the creative process gave them space to not only reflect on their career, but also gain important insight into fundamental decisions they made along the way.” — Interview with Gerard Way by Nova FM
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