My Chemical Romance at Vans Warped Tour, Seaside Park, Ventura, CA on July 7th, 2004 | original source unknown (pic src)
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Some of my favorite excerpts from Tom Bryant's Not the Life It Seems: The True Lives of My Chemical Romance (Part 8)
(in reference to Warped Tour 2004)
"Every year, there is a break out band, one act who will be the highlight of the day no matter what time they play, no matter what stage they are placed upon. In 2004, it was My Chemical Romance. They owned the place. Gerard would walk out onstage dressed in an increasingly stinky suit, black and white tie draped around his neck, and then deliver performances of such searing, white heat that people could only stop and stare. Like a demented preacher, he would scream and howl his way through the band's set, throwing himself into the characters he had created in his songs, his sweat-soaked hair clinging to his face.
Alongside him was Frank, ever the most physical player on My Chemical Romance's stage. He would spin, head-bang then collapse to the floor, playing while lying on the stage and pedalling his feet furiously. Mikey was at the back, feeling Pelissier's beat, while Ray was always to one side, keeping things tight and sending jarring riffs out to the crowd.
Anything could happen onstage. It would be nothing for Gerard to walk over to Frank and kiss him full on the mouth before spinning off to the other side of the stage and wailing into the mic. Increasingly, it became part of the act - until they noticed that people were beginning to write sexual fan fiction about them on the internet.
'The whole thing with me and Frank doing stuff onstage together was really just to irritate people,' said Gerard. 'And it was funny for a brief period. If you boil down the DNA of My Chemical Romance, the base would be this: what do you want us to do? - because we're going to do the opposite. But people started getting into it, so we stopped.'"
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warped tour - coors amphitheatre, chula vista, ca
07.06.2004 | source
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Warped Tour, Gorge Amphitheatre, George, WA | July 10, 2004 | from hyperspaz
[December 16, 2004]
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