Gerard in Rock Sound

[ofyourdeath.livejournal.com]

MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE
Interview: Andrew Kelham

Have you thought about how My Chemical Romance will reintroduce themselves to music fans in 2010? Do you ever wonder if your band is still needed in music?
Says Gerard Way (vocals):
"It's funny because the musical landscape is ever changing, but I think there's always a place for us and I think we're absolutely needed, especially now. I don't say that with any arrogance, I just really believe in my band and I believe that our band does what it does better than anybody else. There's no one that can do this like us. I feel a gap when we are gone and I hope people do too, if they don't then we're not doing our job properly. I think we're absolutely needed, but I'm glad we're coming back in 2010 because, as much as people need us, I think they needed a break from us too. I hope we got the balance of that right."

What have you tried to achieve with your forthcoming fourth album? How is it different from you past work?
"With this record we tried to ignore all the cosmetic nonsense and focus on becoming a truly great rock band. We felt that the world needed a really straight and pure rock band, you're hard pressed to find a lot of those these days. It was less about the theatricality and more about how we become the greatest young American rock band musically."

How are you adapting to fatherhood?
"It's great, it's amazing. Obviously we just wanted a healthy baby, but I was excited to have a girl as there are things I can see myself helping a girl with that I could never do with a guy, things like picking out clothes and stealing eyeliner, all that sort of stuff!"

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Comments

[yekith.livejournal.com]

No problem and thanks! Maybe you should always use Tinypic so your Photobucket bandwidth is not murdered.

[ofyourdeath.livejournal.com]

Tinypic recycles the images after a while. We're working on finding a way to get a pro account so this doesn't continue happening.

[fleurdeliser.livejournal.com]

FTR, I would be willing to donate a dollar or two to a pro account fund.

[yekith.livejournal.com]

I know Imageshack does delete images a lot, Tinypic hasn't to me so far... (at least having an account) Recently I've been trying to find an alternative to Photobucket (since for some reason, once the one I had filled up, I can't upload to the other one I'd made anymore 'cause all pics give an error)and I couldn't find any good one. All sites resize images. At least with Photobucket you can just keep the image to less than 1MB and it won't. But yeah, bandwidth is a bitch.

[thebiologicshow.livejournal.com]

What if the comm had a paid account? You could use LJ's ScrapBook and not have to worry about that and paid accounts are pretty cheap.

[yekith.livejournal.com]

Yeah that might be cheaper than a Photobucket paid account, I think...