twentysixdays:

Patrick Stump playing with MCR, Warped Tour 2005

“I played with My Chemical Romance once, at Warped tour. I played a song with them on drums. It was awesome. I was really nervous though because I hadn’t played drums in, like, 5 years. I’m sitting in this little trailer, like a backstage room, and I’m sitting there and I’m practising my ass off and Gerard’s like, “dude! It’s OK, man, calm down!”, and I’m like “NO NO NO! I haven’t played in FIVE YEARS! YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND!”. I took it really seriously and the song’s, like, two minutes long.

Was it one of their really fast ones?

Yeah, it was…was it ‘Thank You For The Venom’? Can’t remember the name of it, can’t remember what song I played. But it was one of their fast ones.

That’s SO unfair. You wanna be doing one of their slow ballads.

I chose that song! And I did pretty well, except Bob Bryar, the drummer, likes to set his drums pretty far away, and he plays with his arms instead of his wrists. And so I couldn’t come up with some of the really fast fills, cos I don’t have the arm strength that he does. He’s a lot more buff than people give him credit for.”

(via micaelis)