Stranded in L.A. with a sinus infection while his band tours Australia, My Chemical Romance guitarist Frank Iero spoke to The Muse via conference call about his band's upcoming tour, promoting The Black Parade - an album Iero calls "an epic battle between life and death set to music."
Muse: How has your approach to performing live changed?
Iero: The hardest thing about playing shows now is that it is totally different connecting with 1,000 people versus 100 people. Going into an arena, with people in the rafters, it's a different mindset. It has taken a long time to perfect, and it's something we've been able to try a bunch of times. It's an incredible feeling seeing these people and looking in their eyes and having them walk away thinking not that it was a great show but an experience. We're MCR but on a larger scale.
Muse: How have your fans changed over the past year?
Iero: There are a lot of new faces in the crowd, which is cool. We got into music and punk rock because we didn't fit in. We weren't the cool kids at parties. We were searching for acceptance, and I found that in going to shows. Starting this band was kind of that idea-this band that didn't fit in anywhere else. The old fans have been really great at letting these new people in.
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