Justin (the soical mess)

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92 songs

18 music videos

9 albums

4,211 days

601 weeks

138 months

12 years

1 band

1 fandom

Stay strong. Keep running.

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rAY?!

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9 years and a day...

(August 31, 2011 blog post by Frank Iero on the official MCR website)

hell (oh) friends, It’s been a little while…I’m having a good yet sappy night off in  the land they call Vancouver and I’m feeling compelled to drop you all a   public love note. Nine years ago tomorrow our band played its biggest   show of our young yet saucy career. It was the proverbial “big break”   moment that every kid in a band, in a movie, in a sitcom, in a real-ass life waits and drools for. A band (Coheed and Cambria in our story) can’t make it to the hugest   most awesomest show (which will be played by The Allentown Fair ,   Allentown Pennsylvania 8/31/02, possible attendance approx 10k - 12k… feels like a million) opening up for a band you love, listen to, have   every record by (in our story, Jimmy Eat World)….and goddamn it you   and your best friends get a magical phone call asking you to fill in.   The sky opens up, Angels start to sing, women swoon (just kidding there were absolutely no women) and somehow with little time to prepare you   rent a van with no money and shitty credit, and show up to a dream   sequence. Now for reality’s sake i must say this wasn’t “IT”. There was a  lot of hard work leading up to the ‘dream show’ opportunity, and god  knows a ton more of hard work after it, but it was a glimpse. A little  sliver of what could be…and sometimes that is all your lucky enough to  get. Anyway maybe I’m getting all ‘emo’ in my old age, or maybe i just  spent an amazing weekend playing some of the biggest most memorable  shows of my life, but for whatever reason these past few days I’ve been  getting nostalgic and thinking back…. …back to the beginning sitting at my grandmother’s kitchen  table looking through my Dad and my Grandfather’s date books, seeing all   their gigs penciled in… ….back to when i was old enough to travel with my dad to his  weekend gigs, helping out with load in and setting up his drums on  stage. The feel of people’s eyes staring at me, knowing i had no  business being in that fucking bar. That smell of old cigarettes and  stale beer that hung on the microphones and the foam in his  cases…..from those early experiences i knew what i wanted to do….i  day dreamt about being in a band and playing shows for a living nonstop. ….thinking back to when my dad first bought me a guitar, an  off-white Fernandes Strat copy he got from the guitar player in his  band. i learned 3 chords and then wrote a horrible little song with  them…I played it and tortured my poor mom with it until my fingers  bled. (yeah that’s right, that fucking Bryan Adams song was real to me  dammit!) …back to peanut league baseball when a kid asked me what kind  of music i liked. We both agreed that Nirvana was, and i quote, “the   fucking coolest” and so my first band was started. But he played guitar,  i had never been in a band before, and his hair was longer therefore i  had to play the drums…at least until we found a replacement, i   begrudgingly agreed. (we never found a drummer)… ….back to high school when i met a funny kid who wore a bow tie   everyday. He had a car and would give me punk rock mixtapes. We became   good friends and went to local shows together. We decided to start a   band and played our first show together a month later at a dance i   wasn’t old enough to attend…(we covered a Nirvana song)… ….back to working part-time at a Pathmark in Belleville NJ,  located conveniently in between the KFC and the ‘rape tunnel’. i was  payed a surely minimum wage and used every penny i saved to buy the 100  tickets my band needed to sell in order to play a battle of the bands.  Top prize, opening slot on the NJ date of warped tour. We lost to a ska   band who’s singer was fucking one of the judges, later my girlfriend   dumped me for our drummer…. ….thinking back to meeting, getting to know, and eventually  being lucky enough to call family some of the weirdest, kindest, most   talented people i have ever encountered in my entire life….and finding  out they wanted me to join their band and then months later jumping in a  van together and learning everything i know about life and the world by  their side…. I must say its been a strange ride so far. But y'know i think it  maybe human nature to forget how good you have it while the going is  good. But if you’re really lucky (and i mean really reeeeeeeeally  fucking lucky), every now and then life nudges you and reminds you of  where you came from. I know what it’s like to be young and have  dreams…I’ve had my heart broken and cursed the heavens when things  didn’t go my way…but i also know what it’s like to be lucky enough to  have those same hopes and dreams full filled. I wouldn’t be the person I  am today without the good and the bad and I am thankful for every  second of it. Tomorrow is an anniversary…and life was nice enough to  remind me of it. so thank you to all the people that were nice enough to help us out   along the way. From my family and my friends who always listened to   whatever shitty song i wrote and thought was the fucking greatest at the  time… to everyone who at some point over the years took the time to watch me play, maybe bought a record i made, or just fucking got it ….  I would like to say thank you, a million, trillion times, it truly  means the world to me. xofrank

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Leeds Festival 2006 - Ray Toro (being a ray of sunshine and having a great time)

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Some MCR facts that I never knew until like 10 minutes ago

You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison:  •Gerard recorded the song in his underwear  •It features backing vocals from Bert McCracken (The Used), who Gerard thanks in the album credits for being his ‘cell mate’  Hang ‘Em High:  •It features vocals from Keith Morris (Black Flag)… Frank actually stalked him to get him to sing on the record, because he is one of his idols  Demolition Lovers:  •Gerard dedicated it to his girlfriend at the time, Kat, in the album credits, saying “sorry I wrote all this stuff about killing you. I hope the last one makes up for it.”  Drowning Lessons:  •It is their least favourite song to play live. They’ve only played it live about four times, but according to the band, every time something has gone wrong  Summertime:  •Gerard wrote it for his wife, Lynz, who he married in the summertime of 2007 on the Projekt Revolution tour. Throughout that tour they wrote cryptic messages to eachother on their skin, and one day Lynz had “run away with me” written on her arm, and Gerard had “anytime you want” on his neck  The Only Hope For Me Is You:  •Gerard called it “a cousin to Famous Last Words” and said it was looking at the beginning of his life, which he considers to be 9/11  Party Poison:  •It was originally titled ‘Death Before Disco’, and at the time Gerard told the press it was the “best song MCR have ever written”  •They describe it as an ‘anti-party rock song that you can party to’  Vampire Money:  •Frank doesn’t know what he says at the beginning, because was “drunk” at the time  Planetary (GO!):  •“Fame is now injectable” is one of Gerard’s favourite lyrics he’s ever written  •The band describe it as ‘the dance song they’ve been trying to write for years  Kids From Yesterday:  •It is everyone in the band’s favourite song off the record  •Frank heard the final recording for the first time coming back from the hospital with his newborn babies in his arms  Na Na Na:  •Gerard wrote it with Lynz in the desert  •Frank came up with the guitar riff  The End:  •It used to just be called “Intro”  •The line “when I grow up I want to be nothing at all” is a direct response to people who used to tell Gerard he would never make anything of his life  Dead!:  •They started work on this song in 2005  •Frank pushed for the ‘tuba part’ in the bridge, and said “if you hate it, come see me about it. ****’s tough, I don’t care what you think!”  This Is How I Disappear:  •The song was the first time Ray and Frank wrote different chorus melodies and then smashed them into one part  The Sharpest Lives:  •Gerard told Frank to write a ‘spy guitar part’ for the pre-chorus, and Frank said yes (“because that’s what you say to a dude you love and respect.”) But he realised he was screwed as soon as Gerard left the room, because he’s “never seen a 007 movie”  Welcome To The Black Parade:  •Frank came up with the original title ‘The Five Of Us Are Dying’  •They started work on it in 2002 and re-wrote it four times before finally releasing it in 2006  I Don’t Love You:  •At the end of the ‘Life On The Murder Scene’ DVD there’s a clip of Gerard and Ray singing the original version of the song  Cancer:  •Ray played bass on the studio record, not Mikey  •It’s Frank’s favourite song MCR have ever written – every time he hears it, he has to “fight back tears”  Mama:  •Liza Minelli sings on the track, as does Donna Way, Donald Way and Linda Iero (and Frank found out his mom “sings like a gypsy, which is the coolest thing in the world.”)  •It’s Frank’s second favourite song on the album.  Sleep:  •The tape recording at the start was inspired by the night terrors Gerard was having in the Paramour Mansion, where he would wake up in the middle of the night and feel like somebody’s hands were around his neck, choking him. (“It feels like somebody’s gripping my throat and squeezing.”)  •And the recording creeps Frank out  Teenagers:  •Gerard wrote the lyrics when he was on a busy subway, to distract himself from a panic attack he was having due to the number of teenagers surrounding him  Disenchanted:  •It was originally called ‘Shut Up and Play’ and there are live versions of it on Youtube, from 2005  •It is Mikey’s favourite song on the record: he fought to have it on there. He used to go up to the guys in the band when they were sleeping and just whisper ‘Disenchanted’ to them  Famous Last Words:  •Gerard wrote the song for Mikey when he left the band during the making of The Black Parade. The line “I see you lying next to me” refers to Mikey sleeping on the floor in Gerard’s room in the Paramour Mansion (because he was too scared to sleep in a room alone)  •Mikey said when he heard it, he knew he couldn’t leave the band

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Ahhhh ❤❤❤

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Irving Plaza, 02/05/03, Photos by Justin Borucki

Found on an old version of MCR’s website

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:3

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With @beatrizmatallana in my dressing room, getting ready to take my pig for a walk / Con Bea Matallana, en mi camerino antes de sacar a pasear a Pig Floyd 🐷

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a thing

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Hope your Valentine’s Day Weekend has just as much spice and love as Han Solo Princess Leia 

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My day

So this is kind of out of the blue but I'm gonna use this kinda of my personal journal and also as a friend.