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Mikey Way and Gerard Way talk about their biographical clip for “The Kids From Yesterday”.

Thanks to rosesong for ripping this video for me- this is a new part of this interview, in case you missed it.

This one probably isn’t going to come through in text alone, but there are some cool facts included, so I’ll try! It goes by really quickly; so, often it’s hard to tell to what they are referring, but I’ll attempt to make my annotations as accurate as possible!

Mikey and Gerard Way are watching and commenting on “The Kids From Yesterday” video as it plays.

Source: MTV Australia (via Youtube user carmesim
Date: January, 2012
Transcribed By: Cassie
Translations: Portuguese (via mcrbrasil.net)

Mikey Way: [waves] Hey, I’m Mikey.

Gerard Way: [waves] This is Gerard. And we’re from My Chemical Romance, and we’re going to watch our video “The Kids From Yesterday” and talk about it.

[video begins to play, screen is split, showing both the video and Gerard and Mikey watching it]

Mikey: The shot of me jumping up and down was from Taste of Chaos. [clip continues and transitions into a segment from the first “I’m Not Okay (I Promise)” video] That’s our old van—

Gerard: Yeah. That’s really early…

Mikey: That’s our old van, yeah…

Gerard: That’s a weird hand lick. [commenting on a clip from the Maxwell’s show from ‘The Black Parade Is Dead!’]. That’s a t-shirt that nobody bought. [smiles, referencing a fan shirt]

Mikey: [laughs] The “heavy metal killing machine” shirt! Yeah, nobody bought that shirt.

Gerard: [shot of a crowd] Japan. I think. That was—

Mikey: Summer Sonic, I think.

Gerard: When was that? [possibly referencing a shot of himself walking across the stage. It moves on to the next clip of a crowd.] Oh, was that Reading and Leeds? I couldn’t tell. I think, the ones with the crazy—

Mikey: [referencing an old live clip in which Gerard is wearing his “falling apart” leather jacket] That was Long Island. Yeah, you’ve have to have a Long Island. [grinning as the video plays] Let’s see what’s going on here…

Gerard: I don’t know where that one’s [inaudible]. [video shifts from live footage to them walking around then rehearsing] That was the day we had to rehearse before Reading And Leeds , because we were all very nervous about the show so we—

Mikey: We were in Chicago, right?

Gerard: Yeah, we were in Chicago, and we actually took a day off and we had to rent a studio to rehearse and put in extra time. [clip of Gerard’s middle finger appears onscreen] middle finger.

Gerard: You see, we’d never seen anything like this: that strung-together stuff we’ve done.

[video plays]

Mikey: [about a live performance clip] The kids were louder than our in-ear monitors.

Gerard: Yeah, well, they were louder than the— [points and trails off]

Mikey: They broke. I’m sorry. They broke the P-…

Gerard: They were louder than the P.A. The P.A. was clocked in at a certain number, and they were louder than that number.

[video plays]

Gerard: I don’t know where this stuff is. [Note: He has said this several times in reference to what I think are clips from their album release show in Los Angeles]. I can’t remember. Is it Germany? I can’t even remember.

Mikey: Not sure…

Gerard: It’s the Danger Days—… I literally don’t remember. Some of it’s Valencia, Spain. That was a really great show.

Mikey: Oh, yeah. The World Stage. That was such a memorable show [mumbles]

Gerard: Uhmmm…

Mikey: [a shot of the crowd hitting balloons] Those were the balloons from when we played “Planetary…” live. [clip shifts to a shot of Mikey playing in his Kobra Kid jacket] There was the Reading and Leeds show.

Gerard: Yeah, Reading and Leeds was probably my favorite show ever.

Mikey: Yeah! Same here. There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t about Reading and Leeds. [clip shifts to a shower of sparks falling over a backdrop with Japanese kanji on it]. That’s Summer Sonic. Sparks.

Gerard: Nice. Spark showers are great.

Mikey: Can’t go wrong with a spark shower [note: As Mikey says this, Gerard mouths it as well.]

Gerard: And then that. [sparks shooting up on both sides of the stage]. [mumbles about not knowing what it’s called] Comets.

Mikey: Yeah, comets. I’m wearing the shirt that’s in this video. [lifts the side of his beige shirt with black animal stripes]

[video plays]

Mikey: Yeah, I mean… Reading and Leeds—that was just the festival growing up that I just wanted to got to as a spectator, you know? Being able to play it in any facet was just icing on the cake.

Gerard: And we had Brian May.

Mikey: Yeah! And Brian May was there with us!

Gerard: Brian May was nice enough to come and—

Mikey: a living legend

Gerard: —play with us. After reaching out to him, so that was great. [clip from TBPID] That was Maxwell’s.

[video plays]

Gerard: [clip that can be seen in ‘Life On The Murder Scene’ of MCR receiving their gold records for ‘Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge’, Gerard mumbles inaudibly about it.]

Mikey: Yeah, we got gold records from Revenge

Gerard: That— I didn’t see that coming. I didn’t even know that— [mumbling, if anyone knows what he says here, please submit a correction]

Mikey: Yeah, they surprised us with that one.

[video plays]

Mikey: Oh! That’s from Summer Sonic, right! That was the— [referencing a clip of a huge, floor-spanning circle of fans holding hands and moving counter-clockwise]— they did like a circle. They were dancing in a circle.

Gerard: Oh, yeah yeah yeah. [video plays] You know why I think I like this and a video like that so much is because they’re so different. What I am tired of is like kind of these videos where it’s like a band pretending to play music and they’re not really doing that, and it’s kind of shot and it’s kind of glamour-shot-ish. I don’t know that we could ever go back to making videos like that. You know, not that we ever really have, but those sort of, let’s say, “traditional” rock and roll videos, I don’t think that we could make, but we could make truly narrative ones, or we could do things this that are really special, so I think from this point on in the band’s career, you’ll kind of start to see one-or-the-other type of music video. It’s never going to be just like a promotional clip.

Mikey: Oh, is that the end of the Reading and Leeds set? [referencing the video again]

Gerard: That’s the end of Reading and Leeds, yeah.

Mikey: Yeah, we had worn our Killjoys jackets during Reading and Leeds and I just— it was so warm and I had to take it off at one point, I remember. I was hyperventilating.

Both: Oh! There’s James— [referring to a sillhoutte shot of James at his keyboard wearing the Mouskat helmet]

Gerard: Dewees.

Mikey: He’s got the Mousekat head on.

Gerard: Yeah, he’s wearing the Mousekat head. It finally made it onstage.

Mikey: [shot of the guys walking off at Reading] That was us walking off at Reading and Leeds.

Gerard: Yeah, that was a great feeling.

Mikey: And here’s the message behind the album.

Gerard: … The mission statement.

Art is the weapon. Your imagination is the ammunition. Stay dirty, and stay dangerous. Create and Destroy as you see fit.

Gerard: [thumbs up] Right on.