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Hi, we're in Downey, California, shooting the second video off the Black

The director is Sam Baer, and there's fire everywhere, and this is gonna

rip.

That's great. Can you guys kind of play in there?

Do it!

Hi, I'm Frank.

You may know me from My Chemical Romance. I play guitar.

We are about to blow up a set right now for our new video.

Oh, wait, we don't know the name yet, so whatever.

For our new video.

Basically, I don't know if you guys have seen the Black Parade.

We did that with...

Sam Bayer, who is an amazing artist and director, yells at us a lot and gets

great performances out of us.

We

decided

to take everything that we did for Black Braid and burn it to the ground,

basically.

That is our concept for insert name here.

We are starting yet another video.

Brought some stuff back from a previous video, which is the Black Parade. And

there's a float out there and there's fire everywhere.

It basically was earlier, it was this big empty, just pretty much an empty

parking lot pretty much. And now...

We were kind of gone for a little bit. We came in and all this is going on, so

was pretty shocked when we walked in.

And I'm excited because there's going to be explosions and fire.

And they told me that they were going to have to cover my back in some sort of

jelly so I didn't catch on fire.

My name is Jeremy Hayes. I'm with the effects group, and I'm doing the

pyrotechnics on My Chemical Romance, that there's going to be fire effects

around the float and in front of it, and we have fireballs going off behind the

float.

while the band's performing on it, and then eventually we'll take the band off

the float and burn the float to the ground.

Mostly the concerns for tonight's activities is actually just the wind and

obviously keeping the band safe from the heat that comes off the fire.

But for the most part, we've got a good crew here, and we're going to surround

the set with water and CO2 extinguishers, so we should be pretty

All right, guys, just so everyone knows what's going on, obviously we're going

to have the band set up in front of this debris and rubble.

Our pyro technicians have set up some propane mortars in the back, and they've

treated the wood. There's going to be fire that's happening during this.

In a few minutes, we're going to start testing levels, setting fire levels and

exposures. Myself and my guys have control of the flame levels on the float

stuff in the background.

So we can raise and lower those levels accordingly when we feel that we need

whether for safety reasons or when there's cut.

There is some debris in here that we've begun fireproofing most of that stuff.

The concept is we're going to light everything on fire that we just

on. And a lot of the pieces from the set will also be lit on fire.

It's our first ever sort of straight performance video.

We've never actually just had a performance video, so we're actually

excited. Sam's the best at that.

You're going to have just the performance.

You want that guy doing it.

I want to try to get the video done in about two hours.

Okay. To be a world record.

Great. We can get through this beginning, and I feel like I'm covering

when I start really burning the float. Okay. For that last, like I'm stopping

three and a half minutes in, so I think, what's the song, five?

Yeah, five. So the last minute and a half, we'll cover later tonight when we

really burn this float and feel consistent.

Hey guys, it's Sam talking. Listen, everybody just quiet down a bit.

Be safe. I don't want anyone to get hurt. I think what we'll do on this next

one, three cameras, let's burn them up.

My name is Chuck Seeley. I work for the City of Downey Fire Department.

We're the agency having jurisdiction here at Downey Studios.

This particular music video is going to have some special effects, specifically

some fire techniques that's going to involve some propane flame, some

and actually going to have some flaming pot deflammable liquid that will fly

up in the air.

It's kind of a finale out here in the field.

The thing that, um...

The guys that nobody really knows about me is I had a real problem with fire

when I was a kid.

I wasn't afraid of it, but I lit a lot of things on fire and I got in a lot of

trouble.

I haven't ever, like, it's just this thing to it. I stare at it for hours, so

was right away into the idea.

Everybody, like, they got goosebumps in the meeting.

You're talking to this guy, we talk about the black braid video, and then he

says, yeah, now we're going to light it all on fire.

Everybody just got goosebumps, so.

That's when he knew it was the right idea.

We're shooting two videos at once. The first song, it's called Welcome to the

Black Parade. It encompasses the theme of the entire record.

It's very much the concept of the record captured in a nutshell in one video.

The second song, which is kind of unnamed right now, it was written at, I

say, the darkest period in this band's... career which was um staying in

haunted mansion people losing their minds people having really giant

problems mental issues uh in the middle of making this album writing this album

it was the bleakest time it was the darkest day so this song comes from a

pure pure place um and uh

It's undeniably powerful because of that, I feel.

So, guys, let's feel on back, please. If you're an observer of all this, you can

go to the monitors over there. Those are going to be up shortly.

If you're not, just go back behind these chairs over here just for safety,

please.

No, I know that I can make you stay.

But where's your heart?

But where's your heart?

But where's your... No!

There's nothing I can say to change that!

You know, we wrote the song.

It was a really hard time in writing the record.

And it was definitely a song that came together surprisingly fast and came

together really well for us. And I think we all got the shot of inspiration when

that song came together. And it gave us a new life, new hope.

And it really put us back in the mindset of making a great record.

They play me the record. I go, I got to do this other song.

So I put myself out there and said, I can do two videos in two days. And I did

it with Green Day last year with Holiday and Boulevard of Broken Dreams.

And, you know, it just put, you know, I need two or three days to do a video. So

I'm doing two videos in two days. So, you know, I'm going to pack it like a

One camera.

Slow -mo still.

Uh -oh.

Oh, no.

No, no, no.

No, I'm good.

They're in the pocket.

No.

Temperature's good. Your pulses are good. You want to go ahead and drop us

It just popped so loud.

I got you, Scott.

DMT had me on.

We're going for a third swell.

Then we'll be able to get the boot back on.

I don't feel it until tomorrow, probably.

You got tackled, you said?

I think so.

I think.

Who tackled you?

I think it was Frank.

He tackled me a lot, actually, back in the day. It was like old times.

This is a lot like old times, you know, except the pyro.

It's been a while since we played, and my

hands weren't used to it.

Once you get into the routine of playing every day, you kind of build

up callus and stuff like that.

but it's been a long time since we've played, so they kind of went away. And

then all of a sudden, it was like 12 hours straight of playing all day, and

kind of shocked them a little bit. I'm really dirty.

I've been breathing in ashes and dirt all day long.

Pretty rad, like being in Jersey again.

One of my best memories, too, of the recording was when the song really

have a chorus, and we all left.

And we come back, like, I don't know, like an hour later from being out. I

we went to coffee. We went to get coffee or something. We come back, and Gerard

had done this, like, just awesome layered chorus that was just, like, so

inspiring. Like, the words that he's singing and just the melody, it just

out of nowhere, really.

And it just ties this whole song together. I think it ties the whole

together.

And, you know, hopefully it makes people want to get out.

you know, their car and just go live life to the fullest. This song, I guess

more than any other song, just reminds us of why we get up every day and

us that how great our lives are and how much music means to us and how much this

band means to us and how much each other means to us. So that's what this song

means to me.

I don't want to do this stuff, you know, unless I dig the band.

I dig these guys, you know, it's like, they're cool.

I mean, it's like, he's going to love this record.

It's like, I felt this, you know, they're doing something really

We have one more take.

It's weird. Like, we all, like, hit the end of it, and we're just, like, in a

shot. But we've done it a lot of times.

Take number is this, Sam?

What take number is this going up?

I mean, you know, come on stop for two and a half hours.

Like, we're there.

Now. We play the music real low, and I'll talk about where I want you to hear

it. Play the music low.

Excited, guys?

I think

we should start a minute into

the song. Okay.

And let's give him a cue.

3 .15 in.

Let's burn the float.

Nothing you can say can stop me

going home.

Get it on Bob.

Get Bob.

All right.

Come on. Step on over here, Bob. Come here, Bob.

Let's get Greg.

Get right here, Bob.

Up with

Bob.

Got it.

We just wrapped shooting for our second video.

We lit stuff on fire. We broke guitars.

We broke our fingers.

And Bob's leg. And Bob's leg. He burned himself.

So I hope you enjoyed it. That's a wrap.

But where's your heart?

But where's your heart?

But where's your... I know there's nothing I can

say to change that.

But can I speak?

next to me with words I thought I'd never speak awake

and unafraid of sleep or dead

cause I see you lying next to me with words I thought

I'd never speak awake and unafraid

But can I speak with a heart

understanding I'm incomplete