{"id":139,"date":"2010-11-06T23:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-06T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shadowedplaces.net\/theblackparade\/i-met-gerard-way-in-glasgow-at-the-end-of-2006-not\/"},"modified":"2010-11-06T23:11:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T23:11:00","slug":"i-met-gerard-way-in-glasgow-at-the-end-of-2006-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shadowedplaces.net\/theblackparade\/i-met-gerard-way-in-glasgow-at-the-end-of-2006-not\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>I met Gerard Way in Glasgow at the end of 2006 not long after the release of The Black Parade by his band, My Chemical Romance.<\/p>\n<p>The video for the single &ldquo;Welcome To the Black Parade&rdquo; had seemed to me a perfect articulation of a kind of, let&rsquo;s call it &ldquo;necrodelic,&rdquo; current I was hoping might show up in popular culture, so I was eager to catch up with him. Those punk, post-apocalyptic echoes of Sgt. Pepper, the elegiac chiming guitars and doomed young soldiers, the Freddie Mercury bravado that compressed the polar extremes of emo and military macho together into a perfect synthesis: the blend was thrilling and showed a pop group with ambition, a vision, and a reach that immediately attracted my attention.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Parade played relentlessly while I was writing psychotic Joker prose for the 663rd issue of the Batman comic, and on all through the endless, cold, dark nights and cigarette-burn days of the miserable Scottish winter.<\/p>\n<p>So by the time Gerard and I sat down together it was already a mutual admiration party. He had the iconic silver crop then but the dye was making his scalp crawl and he&rsquo;d started to talk about ditching the look. We got on like old pals and spent the afternoon before the band&rsquo;s sound check talking about comics, travel, rock &lsquo;n&rsquo; roll, life, death, Malcolm McDowell, and all that.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'> Grant Morrison, Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite foreword.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met Gerard Way in Glasgow at the end of 2006 not long after the release of The Black Parade by his band, My Chemical Romance. The video for the<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn button-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shadowedplaces.net\/theblackparade\/i-met-gerard-way-in-glasgow-at-the-end-of-2006-not\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","crio-premium-page-header-override":0,"crio-premium-page-header-select":"","crio-premium-page-header-background":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,28,29],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gerard-way","tag-grant-morrison","tag-umbrella-academy","post_format-post-format-quote"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowedplaces.net\/theblackparade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowedplaces.net\/theblackparade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowedplaces.net\/theblackparade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowedplaces.net\/theblackparade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowedplaces.net\/theblackparade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowedplaces.net\/theblackparade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowedplaces.net\/theblackparade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowedplaces.net\/theblackparade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowedplaces.net\/theblackparade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}