Frank Iero
Frank Iero
Frank Anthony Iero, Jr.is a musician who was the rhythm guitarist and backup vocalist of the alternative rock band My Chemical Romance as well as the vocalist of the post-hardcore band Leathermouth and electronic-hardcore act Death Spells. He has a solo punk rock project titled frnkiero andthe patience. He released an album under the previous moniker frnkiero andthe cellabration titled Stomachaches that was released on August 26, 2014. The first single off the album, called "Weighted", premiered on BBC Radio...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth31 October 1981
CityBelleville, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
Having kids had a big effect on me, but nothing more than when they started to get older- that really made me realize how fleeting each moment is.
When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground, and it's real, and it's written for the downtrodden in uncertain times.
Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!
This is a dream come true. I have wanted to tour with Green Day since I was 15.
To kill the misconception, I don’t think the songs we wrote before ‘Danger Days’ are bad songs by any means. In fact, I kinda think some of them are among my favorites we have ever written. A lot of them are kinda f—ing rad… they just so happened to have been created in the wrong place, at the wrong time, and we as their parents were not ready to raise them just yet… and so they sat and waited.
Anytime you put yourself in a creative box, it's going to stifle you; it's not conducive to the writing or recording process.
I have a split - of my real home-life side that's real-life, and then the creative side that is not necessarily real-life, but it intersects my real-life so much.
Normally you'll have a structure to a song. You'll have an intro to a verse to a pre-chorus to a chorus, kinda repeat that, maybe there's a bridge, then you'll go out on a chorus - that's the quintessential song structure - sometimes you might do a fake-out, re-do a pre-chorus but the chorus doesn't come until later, but for the most part you follow these tried and true structures.
I also remember the second band I was in ever. We were called Hybrid. We got a show at this local street fair, and we were playing on the back of a flatbed truck. There was an ad in the paper, and it said that 'Hybird' is playing. I was so mad.
Popsicles should be the new black and then everyone would have one.
I feel like you have to make art because you have to make it. But the end result of it- that last stage- you have to show it to somebody else to hopefully get a rise or reaction out of them- [to see] if it'll affect someone else.
If you lose count of how many cookies you ate, the calorie intake ceases to exist. True story.
I made songs really for myself - I didn't ever expect to put it out there and make this a record for mass consumption, this was really just a way for me to get out of my own situation and reclaim that part of myself - so when making the songs, I wanted a testament to what I'd gone through, I wanted a snapshot of those moments.
If you don't listen, you're never gonna learn.