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发表于 2012-1-17 10:33:34
原作者OhHell

CDM：‘Danger Days’专辑录制过程中似乎有很多重写的歌 - 比如‘Bulletproof Heart’这首歌是从一首叫‘Trans Am’的歌演变过来的 - 你们怎么知道一首歌写到什么程度算是完成了？
Mikey：这个比较奇怪。。对我们来说，写一首歌，当我们写到没时间再去改的时候，就算完成了。。我们会一直耗到最后通牒的时刻，因为大家对待细节和微调比较执念，一定会反复掂量琢磨。
'Bulletproof Heart'是一个比较有趣的案例 - 是的，它原先叫做'Trans Am' - 关于这首歌逐渐演变的有趣之处是，它像一个小生命一样和我们一起生活了一段日子，在我们决定重录专辑之前一年它就一直存在，所以这首歌真的有足够的时间去演变，这点来说并不常见。通常，你写歌的时候更像是 “这首歌就是为了放入这张专辑而写的，就是这样。”然后一年之后再看，你也许会说：“呃，要是换作现在，我可能会在这里改动，在那里也有和之前不同的想法。。” 所以这次，我们真的享有了反悔和改良先前决定的机会，这对乐队来说真是个奢求。这真的很棒，因为我们得以从新的出发点重新制作一些'Danger Days'的歌曲。在当时的一年半之前，我们决定叫它'Trans Am'，而然后，我们找到了新的方向，想添加些新风味进去，于是它听起来便更像是'Bulletproof Heart'。
对于乐队来说，这类事不常发生 - 在歌曲面世之前有机会重新开发，重新加工。
CDM：当你们在写 ‘Planetary (GO!)’这首歌时，脑子里在想些什么？
Mikey：'Planetary (GO!)'是我们从乐队最早期就一直想要追求的一个目标。第一张专辑里有首歌叫'Vampires Will Never Hurt You'，它有种舞曲的感觉，但是比较微妙，并不明显。之后随着歌曲越来越多，总会有那么一首歌，越来越接近一首彻底的舞曲。比如在'Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge'专辑里，我们有'To The End'，在'The Black Parade'里有'The Sharpest Lives'。'The Sharpest Lives'几乎要成就为一首舞曲。。然后终于出现了'Planetary (GO!)'，最彻头彻尾的一首。
我们一直想要写这么一首舞曲，我们想要一首传递欢乐和派对气氛的歌，给力的刺穿你们的音响，我们还想把自己的一点影响注入嘻哈世界 - 最终这一切，我们通过Planetary (GO!)这首歌实现了。

CDM：如果2012世界末日的预言成真了，你被困在末日灾难后的世界里，你计划怎样保护家人？
Mikey：这个问题的标答我想肯定是：带足罐装食物，带上家人，找防爆掩体躲起来。（笑）然后在那里等待一切灾难结束，或者想办法让大家逃到一个安全避难所去，我估计这样是最合理的操作程序。
CDM：你认为MCR每位成员各自象征的动物，或者说守护神都是什么？
Mikey：这个很欢乐啊～我们还真专门一起讨论过这个问题，因为这和我们各自的Killjoy角色有联系。Gerard象征的动物就是瞪羚（gazelle） - 他每次回答这个问题的答案都是这个；Frankie绝对是狼獾（wolverine）；我是鲨鱼（shark），因为我坐不住很多动。。Ray的话，他应该是。。我觉得他是那种很智慧的，清晰明确一丝不苟。。所以，应该是猫头鹰（owl）。
CDM：上 Yo Gabba Gabba 的节目表演感觉如何？！
Mikey：简直是梦想成真啊！我们从一开始就是这个节目的忠实粉丝，因为Yo Gabba Gabba 有种70年代儿童节目Sid and Marty Krofft的感觉 - 这样的节目在如今的电视上太少见了，它不仅让孩子们喜欢，还能让成年人们从中得到怀旧和回到童年的感觉。而且歌曲本身也很棒！我记得应该是Frankie在飞机上遇到了节目工作人员，聊了起来。“哟！如果你们有什么开场活动需要请乐队，我们非常荣幸非常愿意为你们的节目演出。” 然后Yo Gabba Gabba 也对邀请我们上节目很感兴趣。大家相互赏识，一拍即合，于是MCR便出现在儿童节目里了。更好的是，他们让我们自己写歌，于是我们写了这首自己的圣诞歌 ['Every Snowflake Is Different (Just Like You)'] 。这段经历太不可思议了，Yo Gabba Gabba 摄制组的气氛非常让人非常舒服，全体工作人员都非常友好、非常愉快。一切都是很积极向上，当你在电视剧组工作时往往情况并不都是如此，但这里的确就是如此，大家人都非常好，也都非常聪明。
CDM：有没有计划发行一张继‘Life On The Murder Scene’之后的DVD？
Mikey：这个话题我们也经常谈起，'Life On The Murder Scene'需要一个精神上的继承人。要是打赌的话，我会说‘绝对’。后续DVD迟早是要出的。
CDM：MCR是如何庆祝乐队的十周年纪念的？
Mikey：我们在巡演中重演了'Skylines And Turnstiles' - 这首歌大概已经6-7年没唱过了 - 并且我们把这首歌稍微改动了一下。那是在和Blink-182一起巡演的途中，我们以这种形式纪念了那一天发生的事（911袭击），也庆祝了乐队的历史。
CDM：你们已经开始筹划和着手创作下一张专辑了吗？
Mikey：其实我们一直都在写歌。可以说我们一直都在计划着接下来的事，所以答案是肯定的。我们一直都在尝试着创作新东西，所以，等到最后这轮Big Day Out的演出结束，我们将会马上进入新旧转换状态。

CDM：告诉我点没人知道的秘密，关于乐队成员，包括你自己。。
Mikey：这个问题好狠毒啊！我自己。。有件关于我的事没人知道，就是，我非常讨厌鸡蛋，它们能恶心死我。从小时候我就一直受不了鸡蛋，也说不上来为什么，但就是觉得很恶心。关于其他几个人事，我想不出来了，我觉得大家已经把我们的底细都看透了！（笑）总之对我来说，就是讨厌鸡蛋。
CDM：显然你是个公开的英伦乐粉 - 在过去和现在，最喜欢的英伦乐队有哪些，为什么？
Mikey：那可有很多啊！我最喜欢的。。非常经典的乐队有 Blur，Oasis和Pulp, Suede和The Charlatans, The La's, The Smiths, The Cure 等等这类。在我十几岁的时候，这些英伦乐队是我生活中极大的一部分，有些我从当时一直听到现在。他们对当时的我影响很大，那些是我曾经最喜欢的音乐，直到现在，仍然是我最喜欢的一部分。
CDM：如果你在新西兰有一整天空闲，哪件事是你第一个就会去做的？
Mikey：我非常想去看指环王的拍摄地！这是我们几个一直念念不忘的一件事，但就是一直没时间去。也许这次我们能挤出点时间过去。。总之，每当我们来到澳洲大陆，脑子里想到的第一件事就是指环王。
CDM：最后，你想对新西兰的歌迷说点什么？
Mikey：非常感谢大家等了我们这么久！我知道你们很想念我们，因为我们也同样想念你们 - 我保证这漫长的等待是值得的，我们已经等不及和你们再见。
。。。就这样，和Mikey的通话结束了。我们谢了他，他说：“别客气～！嘿，我们对这次卷土重来真的满怀期待。好了，先这样，8！”


Interview: MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE's MIKEY WAY talks Big Day Out 2012.
Written by Shahlin Graves
Sunday, 08 January 2012 17:09
MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE commemorated their ten-year anniversary on September 11th last year, which was followed up by the announcement a couple of weeks later, that the band would finally be returning to New Zealand - for the first time in five years - as headliners on the 2012 BIG DAY OUT.
Bassist MIKEY WAY gave
Coup De Main a call while doing some last-minute Christmas shopping in Los Angeles at the close of last year...


COUP DE MAIN: My Chemical Romance are playing Big Day Out 2012!
MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE - MIKEY WAY: Yeah, we're super excited! Big Day Out is one of our favourite festivals, it's such an eclectic mix of so many different things and it's really about music - which is what a good festival should be about. The reaction from the fans in that part of the world rivals our greatest territories and the kids are always very rabid and very appreciative of us being there, so we're super excited to get back.
CDM: Are you planning to bring any of 'The World Contamination Tour' stage set-up with you?
MIKEY: We're going to bring as many of the elements as we can - the stage permitting - because bringing production to a festival can be tricky sometimes, but I think we've found a middle-ground. There's definitely elements from that first stage-show, that are going to be present at the ones coming up.
CDM: What will your setlist be like?
MIKEY: Every tour is different. We like to give people a piece of something... as fans that go to shows ourselves, we like going on a journey of a band's career, and so that's kind of how we work out setlists ourselves. We give people a taste of different eras of us, it's kind of like a mix-tape of us. We make a mix-tape of our songs every time we make a setlist, so that older fans have something to love on there and newer fans still have something to love, and we even throw a surprise or two in.
CDM: Do you think you'll play 'Bulletproof Heart'?
MIKEY: That's a strong possibility! We haven't gone through the setlist yet, but that's a song that we skipped on the Summer tour, so that coming back for this tour is highly probable.
CDM: Belatedly, congratulations on 'Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys' - it was my favourite album of 2010.
MIKEY: That's nice of you! Thank you so much.
CDM: Do you have any special plans for these upcoming shows, as they'll be the end of the 'Danger Days' touring cycle?
MIKEY: I think we're going to - us and the fans - we're both going to have a good time. We've waited just as long as they've waited for us to get there, we've been waiting to play for them! We still talk about our tours in New Zealand and Australia, we still talk about them all the time, like oh how great they were! We can come to the UK and have the most rabid fanbase, but they [NZ/AUS] give them a run for their money, so it's going to be something special and a good way to say goodbye to 'Danger Days'.


CDM: It see***ike there was a lot of re-writing of songs during the 'Danger Days' recording process - e.g. how the song 'Trans Am' turned into 'Bulletproof Heart' - how do you know when a song is complete or finished?
MIKEY: It's weird... with us, it's like a song is finished when we run out of time and we can't work on it anymore... we'll go down to the very wire, because that's how we are about the little details and fine-tuning. The interesting thing about a song like 'Bulletproof Heart' - it was [originally] called 'Trans Am' - the interesting thing about the amalgamation of that song was that the song also lived within us, like we all got to live with the song and it was around for about a year before we recorded it again, so the song got to really transform, which you don't really get to do. Usually, when you write a song it's like: "Oh it's going right on the album and that's the way it is." And then like a year late you're like: "Well I would have done this different and I would have done that different." So we were actually given the opportunity to amend things that we decided against, which is a luxury that bands don't normally get. So that's what was so cool, [in] getting to recycle some of those 'Danger Days' songs, was that we got to change them to how we were feeling about them at that time/minute, instead of the year-and-a-half prior, how we felt at that moment when we wrote it and it was called 'Trans Am'. Then we found a new direction and we found a new flavour to add to the song, so it sounded more like a 'Bulletproof Heart'. It was a rare thing that bands don't normally get to do - to re-explore a song before anybody's gotten to it yet.
CDM: When you were musically experimenting with writing 'Planetary (GO!)', what was running through your mind?
MIKEY: 'Planetary (GO!)' is something that we've been going for since the very beginning of the band. We had a song called'Vampires Will Never Hurt You' on the first album ['I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love'] and that had kind of a dance-feel to it, like very subtly. And then as we got more along, there was always a song that was closer and closer to being a full-blown dance song, like on 'Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge' we had 'To The End', and then on 'The Black Parade' we had 'The Sharpest Lives'. 'The Sharpest Lives' is almost a dance-song, and then 'Planetary (GO!)' is full-blown. We wanted to go for it, we wanted to make a dance song, we wanted something to convey fun and a party-like atmosphere shooting through your speakers, and we wanted to channel some of our influences in the hip-hop world - and I think we finally accomplished that on 'Planetary (GO!)'.
CDM: Why does your Killjoy character KOBRA KID have "Good Luck" written on his helmet?
MIKEY: That's a nod to an old Nintendo game called 'Star Fox'. When you hit the 'Start' button there's this dog that shows up like a captain and would say "Good Luck" and it was just something that stuck with us for a long time. The game came out when we were teenagers [and] we always thought it was really interesting how the animals talked in that game. It also just means 'good luck' as well, but it's also a nod to Nintendo and 'Star Fox'.

CDM: Your brother Gerard has said that: "You'll see in the future that the Killjoys are not good people." Will there be any more Killjoys music videos to further explain this?
MIKEY: I don't think we're going to be making any more videos, but something is definitely on the horizon, the Killjoys story is far from over. I know Gee's working with SHAUN SIMON on the Killjoys comic - and I think that will... I don't know if it's going to directly tie in with the story, but there will at least be a sense of what happened somewhere within the story I'm sure.
CDM: I interviewed Shaun back in 2010 about the comic - [click
HERE to read our interview] - so that's been a long time coming, right?
MIKEY: That's awesome, yeah! They're working on it, it should be relatively soon that you should hear something [new] about the comic.
CDM: Does the band still have any plans to release a THE MAD GEAR AND MISSILE KID full-length album?
MIKEY: Oh absolutely! That's something we talk about a lot, we just have to kinda find time. There's more songs we have that are Mad Gear songs and actually, there are more songs that Mad Gear have written that we are yet to discover. So sooner or later, that'll probably come to fruition as well.
CDM: If the 2012 doomsday prediction were to come true and you found yourself in a post-apocalyptic world, what would be the first steps you'd take to protect your family?
MIKEY: I think the safe bet would have to be: get canned food, you get your family, and find a bomb-shelter. <laughs> And then wait for everything to blow over, or try and come up with a solution from a safe haven, I think that would be the best course of action.
CDM: What do you think the spirit animal - or patronus - of each member of My Chemical Romance would be?
MIKEY: What's funny, is that we've all collectively talked about this, because it played into our characters of the Killjoys. Gerard's spirit animal is a gazelle - that's how he's always answered - Frankie would definitely be a wolverine, I would be a shark because of my inability to sit still, and Ray? Ray would be... I'm thinking super intelligent, super articulate, I would think owl.
CDM: What was it like performing on 'Yo Gabba Gabba!'?
MIKEY: That was a real dream come true! We've been huge fans of that show from its inception, because it had that feeling of those old Sid and Marty Krofft 70's kids shows - and there was a huge void for that in TV, for a kid's show that adults can enjoy on a different level. And the songs are always fantastic! I think FRANKIE [IERO] was on an airplane with someone that worked on the show and they got to talking: "Yo, if you ever have an opening, it would be an honour for us to be on your show."And they were also interested in us being on their show, so it was like one of those things where we both admired each other's work, and [then] we got to work together being on the show. And then they let us write our own song, which is even cooler, which was our own take on a Christmas song ['Every Snowflake Is Different (Just Like You)']. The experience was incredible, the atmosphere on the 'Yo Gabba Gabba!' set was so relaxed, and everybody on that set is really good friends and they're all just having fun. It's all positivity, which when you shoot television shows, sometimes that's not the case - but yeah, super positive vibes on that set, the nicest people and so intelligent.

编译：OhHell

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