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06/10/2004 north star bar in philadelphia, PA, US

NEW (2004) spaceyraygun recording!

spacey recorded the band during it's early years and I wanted to post their new video and talk about their work. mcr referred to spacey in an interview on their channel "sweet dude, sweet hair, bootlegger"

they have released uploads of these early shows and have the best quality audio you could find- because they are originals. you may have seen mcr archive and myself post about these recordings but I don't think enough people know about spacey. they recorded the 2003 seton hall interview, djrosstar, loveline interviews. they recorded the first sister to sleep, jack the ripper, among other things. their yt about:

"Four of my MCR recordings were used on four official releases and other promotional uses: * Like Phantoms Forever CD-r - Jack The Ripper [Morrissey] (live) * Headfirst For Halos CD and 7” - Our Lady Of Sorrows (live) * Thank You For The Venom 7” - Jack The Ripper [Morrissey] (live) * MySpace Music Player - Sister To Sleep (soundcheck) * UnleashTheBats.com exclusive download - It’s Not A Fashion Statement, It’s A Fucking Deathwish (live)" - spaceyraygun

@spaceyraygun didn't realize you had a tumblr! just wanted to show appreciation

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That was the soundboard recording. Here’s the audience recording.

new jersey pop punk archives instagram - flyer

spaceyraygun - audio

06/08/2003 bomb shelter collective show

@spaceyraygun thank you for recording this all those years ago

some background on bomb shelter collective the diy production company:

12/2008 punk rock confidential (left) & 06/2005 - guitar world (right)

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NSFW, Trigger Warning: A classic and horrifying homage to Takashi Miike's Audition (1999).

On the left is the original version that was publicly available on the website in 2003 as a QuickTime file download/stream.

On the right is the version released with the reissue of I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love in 2005.

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Side by side comparison of the original Vampires video with the one from the reissue of Bullets!

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everyone say thank you spaceyraygun and deadhoarse

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👀 From that time @deadhoarse and I tag teamed MCR at North Star Bar in Philly 2003-05-14. Rare occurrence for me to hold a camera. Not so rare for deadhoarse to juggle two recorders for audience & soundboard.

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I know what you were talking about 🖤

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This is neat, great work! Here’s some errata, so I’m reblogging for some corrections. There may be more corrections to come, but here’s what I noticed on first glance.

LPF was not released in July. It was specifically made for that Rutland, VT show in September 2002. So yes, “released” after Bullets.

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Missing reference to tour with Pencey (not sure if exact dates have been unearthed, but I believe they happened in May). One such show was at The Fire in Philly where they were booked by Santigold who worked there before she became famous and billed them as The Chemical Brothers. 😂

https://twitter.com/jklmnop/status/1565006877477462020?s=46&t=RvxrkIwKxP2K6XCkOUTLrw

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The “unknown” Philly basement is Funarama.

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44 Sicard Street venue is Zen Frathouse

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Missing a flyer for this show from 2002 🙃

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Missing a link to the Trocadero show audio from 2002-12-18

🎄 My Chemical Romance, 2002-12-18, Trocadero, Philadelphia, PA, US [EARLY RECORDING]

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Here is a resource I stumbled upon when trying to straighten out some of the unlabeled master recordings. Use it with a grain of salt, but it’s somewhat comprehensive with key events and gigography.

hello, mcrmy! it is day 35 since an mcr concert, and as such i have had to resort to Drastic Measures in order to please the special interest gods. as a verified List Autistic (tm), my only recourse was to, obviously, make a colorcoded timeline of every single notable picture, audio, video, event, flyer, blog post, and more from the bullets era. obviously. this was the result of a couple of weeks in a fugue state with nothing better to do over my winter vacation. feel free to use for any of your personal mcr-induced-autism needs.

the majority of credit obviously goes to @themychemicalromancearchive , who catalogued the majority of this information - i just organized it in as close to chronological order as i could manage with information readily available through google search. setlist.fm was also a big help for listing shows undocumented in the way of video, audio, or photographs.

some of the events listed were very difficult for me to find exact dates for, forcing me to use approximates. if anyone has more exact dates for these, please feel free to reach out! in addition, if you feel that there is anything that is missing or if there are any errors that you see, id love to hear it to further edit this document for better accuracy!

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“This song goes out to ME because I’m home off-tour and I get to hang out with that cute girl (Jamia) right over there.”

- Frank right before Headfirst for Halos, recording by spaceyraygun

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🖤 Happy Holidays!

Spaceyraygun on YouTube just uploaded another 2002 mcr show (which took place exactly 20 years ago today)!!

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🎁 MCR @ Irving Plaza, NYC, 2003-12-14

Happy 19th birthday to the infamous My Chemical Romance show at Irving Plaza w/ Mindless Self Indulgence!

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MCR north american tour full youtube recordings masterpost ✨

here's all the recordings/compilations of full shows i could find on youtube (some might be missing a few minutes/a couple of songs), plus a tiny bit of info on each video. ik these are probably all on the my chem archive dropbox but i didn’t have anything better to do lmao so here they all are in one tidy list. thank you to all the people who filmed these i owe you my life. (btw when i say right or left side of stage in this post i mean from the audience pov :D)

Oklahoma: Tony: filmed from ga

San Antonio: JYeahJasonJude: filmed from near barricade, with great zoom. Tony: filmed from seats, full stage view

Nashville: The Academy is My Beautiful Romance: compilation of different videos, streams, clips etc. ur internet boyfriend: filmed from back of the arena seats

Cincinnati: The Academy is My Beautiful Romance: compilation of different videos!

Raleigh: Yordoom: filmed from ga (this one has a really clear and fun view of the floor crowd in my opinion). dallon: filmed from seats, right side

Elmont: Alê Morais: filmed from high up right side. Mothman Multimedia: not a full video but a playlist of videos from the whole show, filmed from high up, center

Philadelphia: Electronic Beagle: filmed from high up left side. markit aneight: amazing quality!! deadhoarse: another great quality one, left side

Albany: The Academy is My Beautiful Romance: compilation :)

Uncasville: ConcreteRose: side of stage, right side. Kelush: filmed from ga

Montreal: Finnyfresh: instagram live uploaded to youtube, mostly filming jumbotron

Toronto: Keandell Clyde Arcenal Pineda filmed from floor seating, full stage and jumbotron view. The Academy is my Beautiful Romance: compilation

Boston1: Full Sets: filmed from seats further away, full stage

Boston2: Cen's Jams: filmed from high up left side, stage and jumbotron in view most of the time. Blue Moon: Side/almost behind stage, frank's side. chaosangel42: filmed from seats on stage level, right side

Brooklyn1: The Academy is My Beautiful Romance: compilation

Brooklyn2: xZ3ROGRAVITYx: nice full stage view from the right side. Tom’s Archive: filmed from ga with a great zoom and some great quality shots from the jumbotron

Detroit: Sheep: nice full stage view from the left side

Saint Paul: Cool Concert Channel: filmed from ga, close to the stage

Riot Fest: Geoffrey Gardner: right-ish side of stage. phoenixrai: great quality. and kudos to both of these people for how stable the videos seem to be considering everything lol

Alpharetta: Blue Moon: close to stage, great quality

NJ1: phoenixrai: again, fantastic quality. deadhoarse: great quality, filmed from left side with a great zoom, so there’s nice variety in the shots. Tom’s Archive: close to stage, another great quality recording. Gothic Romance: just another great recording, more from the right side of the arena this time. nj1 had all the people with good cameras for some reason lol

NJ2: Tom’s Archive: Tom coming in with another banger. filmed from the pit, amazing closeups. ray toro is so beautiful. Andrea Warfel: filmed from further back in ga. Metal Love Collection: another great quality nj video, filmed from ga with a good zoom. Adams live: same on this one pretty much. good recording from ga

Firefly: alene b: good quality, just clips of last two songs. gems (loves frank iero): another nice quality one, good view of jumbotron most of the time

Sunrise FL: The Academy Is my Beautiful Romance: compilation!

Houston: Fredy Benitez: filmed from further back in seating

Dallas: phoenixrai: great quality, filmed from ga

Denver: Sudz’ Concert Recordings: filmed from further back but with a good zoom, nice full view of stage

Portland: couldn’t find a full recording/compilation :(

Tacoma: SquawkyJo: full stage view

Oakland: The Academy is my Beautiful Romance: compilation!

Las Vegas: hearmenearme: filmed from left side high up. phoenixrai: great quality!

Aftershock: Peace Squad: divided into 2 parts, link is to part 1 :)

LA1: phanfanisonline: divided into 4 parts, link to part 1 :)

LA2: JMetalHead: filmed from right side high up

LA3: ray: filmed from pit, link is to part A. JMetalHead: filmed from right side high up. i love this person's reactions to their favorite songs haha

LA4: ray: filmed from seats, right side, full stage view + occasional jumbotron, link to part A.

LA5: Tina Sharp: full view of stage from the left side. deadhoarse: great quality, filmed from the right

WWWY2: StayThicc: filmed from further back, jumbotron in view the whole time. The Academy is My Beautiful Romance: compilation!

WWWY3: PichyTheReefCoralTheReef: full stage and jumbotron view

MEXICO CITY: we got our professional recording! uploaded by a lot of people but here is one link

and obviously a reminder that there are also a ton of amazing quality individual song performances on youtube, these are just the full show recordings! please lmk if you notice any mistakes, it's late when i'm making this lol. i'll try to add on to this if new videos are uploaded :) happy watching!

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A new full video/audio hybrid from deadhoarse and some thoughts about resurrection of Sister To Sleep, Return tour, and my YouTube channel recording project!

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‼️ To all eligible US voters: VOTE! To those that cannot: encourage those that can to VOTE!

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i wonder how spaceyraygun is doing rn

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i haven’t seen this talked about on tumblr yet but this youtube account is uploading a lot of recordings of every bullets-era my chem content! it’s run by spacey (@spaceyraygun), an old friend of the band - you may know him bc he was mentioned in the pretty iconic 89.5FM WSOU interview featuring the uncle tt story, “how did you get yourself onto the cover of spin magazine?” etc. he went to a lot of my chem’s early shows and has high quality soundboard recordings of them, which he’s uploading to his channel one by one. there’s also my chem’s first ever radio interview, from a couple of weeks before bullets was released. i’m going through all the audios and uploading some of the most interesting parts to this tag, but go give spacey some likes and subscribes! please don’t repost anything from that channel without crediting him. also thank you to the lovely case @valleysofechoes for pointing these out to me <3

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it me 💃

“no one has bigger balls than us right now…i pulled out songs that like….can you rip a song like a song that we did in 2001 and never released? we demo-ed it but no one can find the fucking demo. and like the only like survivable recording anyone can find is a sound check at the knitting factory. that’s the only recording of it. so we had to go back, listen to that, and relearn what we thought was being played. and also like how would we play it now? and so the night before we played the song, which was the last show, i just rewrote parts for it that i thought would be, ‘alright this is what i think i would’ve played then, this is what i would play now and i think it works best.’ and we kind of rewrote the song the night before and then tried to rip it with songs we had been doing for like 6 months. and like that. you feel like a badass when you can do that. you feel like a musician then. like the musicianship and the artistry, that can’t be fucked with.”

— frank iero on sister to sleep