Jamie is featured in our Music Industry issue! Jamie Muhoberac is an accomplished keyboardist who has worked with artists such as My Chemical Romance, Gerard Way, and John Mayer, on multiple albums. With a musical background, he started playing the keyboard at a young age and since then, he has played on tours and built his own recording studio. What inspired you to want to become a keyboardist? I kind of decided I wanted to be a musician then. I bought a cassette machine and started making things using sound that I recorded all over the place like on the street, and I made these sound collages.
That inspired me to start playing with synthesizers and recording. Also, my father was a session musician, so I ended up doing what he did.
He was a keyboard player and played with a lot of people including Elvis Presley. Artists from his generation have a lot more technique than I do. My thing is all about feeling and sound. I've only toured a little but over the years. The first tour I did was with a group called Was Not Was. They had a hit song and we went out on a club tour. Then we joined a tour with a lot of other artists and played arenas.
One of the things I've learned is to walk everyday if you can. I think that groups that tour break up on the tour bus, or by being bored in the studio and I've seen that happen. How did you start working with John Mayer? He does change bands quite a bit. I started working with him because an engineer producer named Jack Joseph Puig was producing his album Heavier Things and asked me to play on that album, so we flew to New York to record it.
Heavier Things was recorded with a lot of tracking and a few overdubs. The album was produced by Thursday frontman Geoff Rickley after the band became friends with him while playing shows in New Jersey. Iero played guitar on two of the tracks, one of which was "Early Sunsets Over Monroeville.
My Chemical Romance offered free downloads through PureVolume [8] and the social networking website MySpace, where they gained an initial fan base. In , the band signed a deal with Reprise Records. Following a tour with Avenged Sevenfold, the band began working on their second album, entitled Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge. Released in , the album went platinum in just over a year.
At the beginning of , the band was featured on the first Taste of Chaos tour, and was also the opening act for Green Day on their American Idiot tour.
It included one documentary DVD chronicling the band's history, and a second DVD with music videos, the making of their videos and live performances. The DVD does not actually feature any My Chemical Romance music clips or performances, but contains interviews with those who knew the band before much of their fame. It features information on their beginnings right through to their third album, The Black Parade. My Chemical Romance started recording their third studio album on April 10, with Rob Cavallo, producer of many of Green Day's albums.
On August 3, , the band completed shooting the videos for their first two singles from the album, "Welcome to the Black Parade" and although not released until January , "Famous Last Words".
Way suffered torn ligaments in his ankle, and Bryar a burn to the leg which caused a severestaph infection that needed constant monitoring in hospital. While these injuries were reported by several news agencies to have been the result of a car accident, a statement released by the band on their website and MySpace page confirmed that these injuries occurred on the set of the video. On August 22, , the band played a special one-off show at the capacity London Hammersmith Palais.
The show sold out in 15 minutes, prompting tickets to be re-soldon eBay well over the tickets' face value. The name of the album was announced and 20 people dressed in black capes with their faces obscured paraded around the Hammersmith, followed by a large group of fans and street team members with signs saying "The Black Parade". Later during the show, the album title and the UK release date were confirmed. Before the band took the stage, it was announced that My Chemical Romance were unable to play, but they would be replaced by The Black Parade.
After initial crowd hostility it became clear the band were simply performing under a pseudonym in keeping with the theme of the album. Since then, the band would often perform under the alias "The Black Parade", wearing the costumes seen in the album's music videos. Gerard Way would adopt the persona of the leader of the marching band, The Black Parade, and vary his behavior and performance accordingly.
In April , it was announced that Mikey Way would temporarily leave the tour to spend time with his new wife, Alicia Simmons-Way. Way's temporary replacement was Matt Cortez, a friend of the band.
The band announced in a blog on their website that they would be going on a final tour in the United States before taking a break. It was recorded to feature as the end credit track for the film Watchmen , an adaptation of the graphic novel of the same name.
The release came on a bullet-shaped flash driveand also contained exclusive photos of the band from the show. It was released on April 29, On May 27, , My Chemical Romance's web designer, Jeff Watson, announced via the band's website that the band was headed to the studio to record their fourth full-length album.
In an interview with NME , Gerard Way said the band's next record would be a rock album, saying, "I think the next album will definitely be stripped down. I think the band misses being a rock band. There's more of a garage feel and more energy. I'd like to capture some of that, finally.
That's the goal for the next one. The shows were the first concerts the band had played since Madison Square Garden in May The band also premiered several new songs said to be from their upcoming fourth album during the shows, one reportedly titled "Death Before Disco", a song that Way said he was particularly excited about. Way explained further in a Rolling Stone interview that "it's a completely different sound for the band — it's like an anti-party song that you can party to.
I can't wait for people to hear it. It brings back, lyrically, some of that wonderful fiction from the first album. Gerard Way also said in a November interview with Rock Sound that the fourth album would be their defining work. I took it as a compliment, the next thing you should always make the last thing seem unimportant and I think that will happen when we finally release this album. On March 3, , Iero announced on their official website that Bob Bryar had left the band, writing:.
I'm actually kind of excited about that. It's kind of 'anything goes' at this point, but I'm so happy with the songs. Maybe some sort of event, something fun, something soon. During the San Diego Comic-Con , Way announced that the band had finished recording the fourth studio album. Notable comic book author and the band's personal friend, Grant Morrison, makes a special appearance, in the role of an enemy and leader of a band of masked characters.
Michael Pedicone joined the band as a touring drummer late in , replacing Bryar. During a performance at Wembley Arena on February 12, , Way announced that the band would be appearing at a UK festival later in the year, [42] later confirmed as the Reading and Leeds Festivals, which they headlined. On September 2, , Frank Iero posted a blog on the band's site stating, "The relationship between My Chemical Romance and Michael Pedicone is over" and explaining Pedicone was sacked because "he was caught red handed stealing from the band and confessed to police after our show last night in Auburn, Washington.
On September 4, , it was revealed through various sources that Jarrod Alexander will be the new touring drummer for the remainder of the Honda Civic tour. In an interview with Rolling Stone in October , guitarist Frank Iero revealed that new music could be out "by summer". On December 18, , the band appeared on Nick Jr.
This was part of a Christmas special for the show. The special included other famous guests such as Tony Hawk and Tori Spelling. In February , members of My Chemical Romance revealed that they had been building a studio in Los Angeles to record music for the band's fifth album under the working title MCR5.
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