#spaceyraygun

[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)

[vriska-serketboard]

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

[spaceyraygun]

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

[spaceyraygun]

I know what you were talking about 🖤

[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 :(

[maleclownenemyofthestate]

“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

[wav48k]

🤭

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

[lifeless--cold]

2002 VERSION OF THE VAMPIRES WILL NEVER HURT YOU MV UPLOADED BY SPACEYRAYGUN???

[jdmara]

starts listening to a spaceyraygun bullets mcr recording and immediately bursts into tears

[smeagles]

happy new spaceyraygun recording day to all those who celebrate

[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

[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!

[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

[wav48k]

everyone say thank you spaceyraygun and deadhoarse

[spaceyraygun]

Places to go, people to see.

My Chemical Romance Live Recordings and Interviews

YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/spaceyraygun

Twitter: https://twitter.com/jklmnop

Deadhoarse: https://www.youtube.com/user/deadhoarse

[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