I'll translate it, but I'm not that good at spelling, so don't expect it to be perfekt =)
Dark, strange and dagerous. That's how other bands like The Killers and Kasabian has described My Chemical Romance. The english newspaper, The daily mirror, says that they're making kids hurt them self.. Sounds like really dangerous guys, but Impoc magazine took a sneak peak behind the scenes and talked to Ray, Frank and Mikey, who all showed up to be really good guys. All they really want to do is to sit home and read cartoons. My Chemical Romance is out with their latest album: The black parade, which has allready sold over 11 millions around the world.. (it's from November).
You recorded your first albun in nine days. Did you work this fast this time?
Ray: No, not at all. This time it tok over 6 months, but what's was really awsome, was that this time we colud work with the songs to they were truely finnished. Some of 'em didn't fit into the album, and they are on the B-side. We didn't do that with the two other albums.
Mikey: Our first album, it was 10 songs. That was all we had that time. We wrote the songs while we recorded them, and all came in the album.
I've heard that you read a lot of cartoons when you were younger..
Frank: We still do. We havn't grown up yet.. hehe..
Do you get some insperation from the cartoons?
Mikey: I think that all your experience gives you inspiration. People you meet, what yot read or even what you see at tv. Everything affects you and the music. Even this cup of coffee.. maybe it also gives a kind of inspiration?
What is your favorite cartoons then?
Mikey: I like "The Punisher". "Fabler" is really good too.
You went on tour with Green Day for a while, and now you've used theirs producer, Rob Cavallo, to your own album. Do you have a secret plan of get Green Day out of the spot light and take the place yourself?
Ray: Oh shit, you got us! No, it was actually under the tour we got to know that he wanted to work with us. The guys in Green Day thought we were a cool band, and told Rob that he should work with us.
Frank: Exactly, and we read it in a mag ourself. The journalist asked Rob which band he wanted to work with, and he answerd My Chemical Romance. We had thought of him earlier. He prosuced the "Jawbreakers" album, "dear you" and that's just amazing! It was their first album, and it was Rob that made them known! When we read that he wanted to work with us, we didn't belive it. It was the best thing that's happend to us!
Have you ever heard about/seen any norwegian band?
Ray: Norwegian bands? No, not exactly. Death metal, that's tha only thing I know avout Norway.
You're from New Jersey. Bon Jovi're also from there and have also recorded a album named "New Jersey". Do you think the album is worthful to be from your hometown?
Ray: Haha.. Yes, abselutly. Bon Jovi is the superhero at home. Bruce Springsteen too. If you don't like Springsteen and Bon Jovi when you're a kid, you'll get locked inside a closet.
Is it true? Who did that?
Frank: My parents. They are giant Sprigsteen fans. They took the speekers against the door and turned the volume to max and played album after album. It started to bleed out of my ears.
Ray: It's actually not allowe to not like Bon Jovi and Springsteen in New Jersey. It's true! It's like drive to fast with your car.
Frank: Exactly. And now I love 'em. Tha album "Nebraske" is a wonderful album!
What kind of music do you like, besides of Jovi and Sprigsteen?
Which tree albums would you take with you on a desert island?
Mikey: I would have taken.. "OK computer with Radiohead", "the Queen is dead with The Smiths" and ""Blurs, The great escape".
Frank: It would have to be.. "the Sergeant Pepper album with the Beatles", "Nirvanas in utero" and "Enter the 36 Chambers with Wu-tang clan".
Ray: I'll take "Pink Floyd - the wall" and...
Frank: Hey, that's a double albun, that means he's only to choose one more, right?
That's true, sorry..
Ray: Fuck it, then it'll be "Pink Floyd - the wall" and "Riel Alex'".. that'll be mine choises..
You're touring very much and spends then really much time in the tour bus.. Do you have some funny stories from the life on the road?
Mikey: You'll get dissapointed.. but we ain't a band that gatheres up stories like that.. We don't fight.. we're actually very kind small boys =)..
Ray: BUT.. I can tell you about our first tour to europe!.. We were suppose to get a tourbus with our own driver and all, but somthing went wrong, and we ended up spending the whole tour in a van. AND the only ones that could drive was the old drummer and the tourleeder.. It was horrible! We almost sat on each others in the back, and everyone went sick, couse noen of us had ever been to europe before.. Our phones didn't work neither, and we couldn't find a place to get this special card to them.. We coldn't even call home!
Mikey: We had almost nothing! Not even money to food!
Ray: That must have been the worst tour we've ever been on! The band we were touring with had (of course) a bus with two drivers and could without any troubles drive 13 hours at once.. And the whole tour was planned out of that all the bands would have a bus and driver! But we went the same trip in a van, without an extra driver..
Mikey: I still have physical scares from that tour. They'll never dissapear!
Do you still use the same van?
Ray: Very funny.. No, never. I would never gone inside that van again! A stone on tha pedal and down a hill, that wold be what I'd done with it!
What is the best moment you've ever expirienced on a tour?
Mikey: It has always been amazing to stand on a scene and play tha songs you've written at home in your basement, to thousand of kids! But it's even cooler to go to another place, a place you never thought you'd ever go to, just to see that it's many kids that loves your music there too! That feeling is not esay to beat!
Ok, here comes the most importan question: Which ringtones do you have on your phones?
Ray: I've got "Blue Öyster Cults - Don't fear the reaper".
Mikey: "Oasis - Wonderwall".
You don't have your own songs?
Mikey: No.. we were all ecited when the first tones came, and we all downloaded them. But the we understood that it was stupid to go around with our own song as the ringtone, specially if everyone in the band had it! So we decided to don't..
So.. that's it.. it's probarly some wrong spelling, but you did understand it, right??
I wonder what happend to Frank.. he just like, dissapeared..
