In August 2003, Reggie and the Full Effect went on tour with Midtown, Moneen, and My Chemical Romance. Gerard Way played Reggie’s bear onstage every night.
S+S: What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever done?
Gerard: Probably jumping over a 6 foot barricade to a 10 foot drop to concrete in a bear costume. In a bear costume is probably what makes it a little crazier. That was on the Reggie tour and they have a bear come on stage with them. They didn’t have their bear, so the first day James said, “Hey, bro. I got a job for you if you’re interested. If you want to, start our set and say ‘Let’s get it on’ then kind of do whatever you want.” I was like, “Alright.” So, I got in the bear suit, jumped, and nobody caught me. I’m thinking, “Dude, they’re definitely going to catch a guy in a bear suit. Who wouldn’t want to catch a guy in a bear suit?” I thought I was going home in a helicopter. That was the last time I did that. That was in Florida too, and Florida kids can’t catch for shit anyway. That’s been my experience.
“stay beautiful”
Additional fun fact: A friend of mine saw Reggie on this tour and was against the stage. He told me that the odor coming from Gerard was the foulest thing he has ever encountered.
After a heart-pounding fight to the end, we made it to the 5th round of MTV’s Musical March Madness: THE SEMIFINALS!!
We’re against Green Day, so this is going to be a FIERCE battle! We’ve made it this far the past couple years, we need to make it all the way this time!
Go vote and keep it up!
The fourth round of Musical March Madness ends tonight! Let’s make sure MCR stay in the race!
Earlier today, the official Metallica account tweeted, and they managed to get ahead of us; so, we need to continuously vote to secure our lead.
If they were to tweet again, I know—having witnessed how fast they got ahead earlier—that they could easily pass us again.
MCRmy unite! The official MCR account probably will not tweet; so, we’re on our own in this: All the better to show how fucking powerful we are.
DESTROY!!
Musical March Madness Round 4: My Chemical Romance v. Metallica
Voting will end March 30 at 12:00 a.m. EST (since midnight can be a tricky thing, that’s the one immediately following 11:59 p.m. EST on March 29)
At the time of posting, our percentage is declining rapidly. We are at 55.21% while Metallica is at 44.79%.
Yes, we are winning, but it is only by a small margin. Do not get arrogant—we must continue to vote mercilessly!
Remember that if you vote too much within a period of time, you will be blocked for two hours. So, pace yourself and vote continuously!
Please reblog this.
These match-ups have been easy-peasy (“pumpkin-peasy, pumpkin pie, motherfucker”) to this point.
However, we’re in the later stages now and we need all the Killjoy power we can get! The next round is going to be even tougher than this; so, keep rallying fans!
We’ve ALMOST won this the past couple years. Let’s make this year the year that we win. Let’s show the guys how excited we are about their recording and how much we believe in them.
VOTE!
