#from spaceyraygun

[earlycuntsets]

you'll have to forgive me. this is history to me

gerard: frankie's mouth was all over my hair. that was like really gross but at the same time it's still kinda hot. yknow what I mean?

audience: 🦗

link

edit: @vriska-serketboard brought up that it also sounds like "frankie's mouth was all over my hand" honestly I can hear both.

show recorded by spaceyraygun 12/18/2002 trocadero theater philadelphia pa

[raytorosaurus]

i think it's really cool and interesting how many echoes of bullets you can pick out in remember the laughter. i wonder if it was intentional or entirely coincidental or a result of bullets having been the album he'd written with the fewest other people involved but like. concept album about death and legacy with brief mood-setting instrumental tracks, only one love song, six-minute closing track about dying with a loved one hand-in-hand at your side (demolition lovers was also almost titled i brought you my bullets, you brought me your love, even). but where bullets is frantic and morbid and concerned with leaving a mark on the world, rtl is calm and reflective, looking back on a life in which the only thing that mattered was bettering yourself for your loved ones and hoping to leave the world having made it a better place for them. it's corny as fuck and tips over into triteness on occassion but also. it's sweet :(

[wav48k]

🤭

wait ok do people know whats on the back of the "i fucked mick jagger" shirt? because its really awesome

[smeagles]

First ever live performance of Early Sunsets Over Monroeville by My Chemical Romance from their Halloween 2003 show at Club Krome in South Amboy, New Jersey.

[recording credit: spaceyraygun]

[photo credit: Drew Guarini]

[themcrarchive]

7/19/2002: My Chemical Romance play their Eyeball Records Record Release show for Bullets at the Loop Lounge in Passaic, NJ. They were just four days away from the official release of their debut album 🦇

📸 by Lauren Dwyer

Full audio via spaceyraygun on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbH60yfOwEA

[slimedryer]

^ I'm telling y'all to engage with spacey! You can find him active in some fandom spaces and (to this day!) he genuinely seems to enjoy unearthing rare/ancient My Chem footage from his own archives. Literally he's a real Day 1 OG - you can hear him shouted out (at 19:05) in the famous 2003 WSOU Under The Stars Interview (link).

https://m.youtube.com/spaceyraygun < his YouTube channel https://www.reddit.com/user/spaceyraygun < his Reddit user page

(edited to add) spaceyraygun.tumblr.com < tumblr, new to me but active since 2022 lmao hey spacey

i haven't seen anyone post about this so i'm gonna do it

the highest quality recording of MCR playing Sister To Sleep back in 2003 has been re-rediscovered!

(idk why we keep losing her someone needs to buy her a collar with an airtag in it)

[earlycuntsets]

the time gerard cut his balls trying to shave the stench from his body

interviewer: alright you ready? i heard someone in your band cut themselves while shaving their balls. is this true?

frank iero: hahaha that is completely true. (completely true)

interviewer: who was it? it

frank iero: wahahaha oh man. heh uh I guess he's not like whatever about it because he told the story on stage but. alright well, we were on tour one time and uh gerard was like in the bathroom for a long ass time somebody brought up the fact that when you're on tour yknow it's like.. when you're on tour and you haven't showered in a month yknow? or like gerard doesn't shower at all. hardly. he really stinks. and the hair on your nuts it's like- really keeps the smell in yknow so he figured like if he got rid of the hair, yknow he might cut down on some of the reeking uh so he had like a buzzer and he shaved himself and I guess he cut some- his balls and it just started bleeding everywhere

interviewer: this is terrible man

frank iero: what's that?

interviewer: this is a terrible question i'm gonna go to the next one

frank iero: alright

interviewer: thank you for telling us that though, revealing private information

frank iero: hey it's not my thing

interviewer: it's not your balls

audio from spaceyraygun on youtube! spacey was a fan when the band was just getting started. check out their about! their audio was used in some official mcr stuff.x

[earlycuntsets]

"at the recent bloomfield ave show, me and my friend steve were waiting in line for the bathroom. gerard comes over and gets in line with us. we were talking about various things such as his lack of leather, the scene, etc. meanwhile, the rest of the band were halfway through setting up. when it's steve's turn for the bathroom, gerard was like

"dude, i really gotta be on stage, but i don't want to seem like a rockstar or nothing by cutting you in line.. do you think i could piss in the sink while you go?"

well, needless to say, i was very careful about my business when it was my turn, so i wouldn't have to use that sink.

a month later, at hellfest, i caught gerrard on his way to the port-a-potties. and informed him that there were no sinks to urinate in."

2003 fan account from bradleyxchaos on livejournal

08/06/2003 bloomfield ave cafe montclair nj - taken by brian woodard

(audio of this show - spaceyraygun)

[earlycuntsets]

8.14.02

Suprise! I'm sick again! I may look like a boatswain and smell like a corpse, but the shows are still a go for the weekend. Please try and check us out at Maxwells this Friday with The Lawndarts and The High School Sweethearts. We're very excited to be playing Maxwells and it's been a personal dream of mine ever since I was a kid going to shows there. There are some people flying out and travelling many miles to see us so keep them company and meet some new friends. Click SHOWS and get the skinny on where it's going down.

We're also trying a first this weekend for My Chem- 2 shows in one day. This Saturday we have the pleasure of playing Alissa's Basement at 6:00 and then we hop in the van to make soundcheck at The Loop as soon as we finish. Eyeball label-mates, Little Joe Gould are coming out all the way from Indiana for this show so we've decided to risk health and safety to play both shows. If you've seen the shape of us after just one set you're probably curious what we will be like at the second show - so are we. I can assure you a night of "hot male action" and "stinky boys".

Also check out our good friends in The Ghost and The Exit in our links section. We had the good fortune of seeing both bands play 2 nights last weekend and they were great. Drinking in The Ghost van outside of CBs with Jordan and T-Top was definitely a plus.

I need a shave, a new dye-job, and some decongestant so I'll leave you with the image of me sitting in my house watching Mad Monster Party, moaning, sweating, boxer-clad, and trying to hit the high notes in Headfirst For Halos. - g

flyer from notoastghost

gerard's memo about the alissa's basement show from mcr's 2002 website

recording from spaceyraygun

[spaceyraygun]

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!

[earlycuntsets]

earlycuntsets archive it's just an organized collection by era - photos/recordings organized by show, videos, audio, interviews, merch, flyers, practically all magazine scans, DVD & TV appearances, old internet MCR, high (er) quality DVD pulls from LOTMS (including all content outside of the doc) and hellfest 2003 available to download. All audio downloads are at the bottom of the page.

I am open to feedback and suggestions for what you all would like to see. I made this thing for fans like me and I wanted it to be a way for us to see the whole picture. But I am new to tumblr so again let me know if there's something you'd like to see fixed/or more of on the site. the frank archive is also becoming a substantial wip - if you like frank. really excited to share this with people that love mcr. bullets (2002, 2003) revenge (2004, 2005, 2006) black parade (2006, 2007, 2008) danger days (2010, 2011, 2012) swarm solo

button by the amazing @xxv4mpyf4ngzz

sources:

mcrhollywood.blogspot.com (all scans)

theydrewblood.blogspot.com (most all flyers)

spaceyraygun (all 2002-2005 mcr recordings)

the immortality project fansite 2005

mychemicalromance.com 2002-2008

(many more linked in the filenames)

[raytorosaurus]

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

[themcrarchive]

NEW 📻  @WVAU Interview with Gerard from 2003! via spaceyraygun on YouTube, Interview by @DJRossstar

full interview can be found here