BiograpH My Chemical Romance

Band Role: Vocalist, Lyricist
Hometown: Newark, New Jersey 
Birthday: April, 9th 1977
Musical Influences: Iron Maiden, The Cure, Morrisey, The Misfits

Fun facts:
- Gerard practically lived in his head, which further lead on to his love for comics and art.
- His favorite superhero is Wolverine.
- He owns the cartoon "The Breakfast Monkey" which didn't really work out.
- Undoubtedly afraid of needles.
- Gerard is known to sport dark, heavy make-up.
- Used to suffer from alcoholism and drug abuse. He celebrates His sobriety every August.
- His new year's resolution for 2007 is to stop smoking. 

Quotable Quotes:
-"If for one minute you think you're better than a sixteen year old girl in a Green Day t-shirt, you are sorely mistaken. Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about."
-"Be Yourself, Don't take anyone's shit and never let them take you alive..." 
-"If you don't go to high school you will definitely go to jail."
-"Were not a festival band, playing during the day was something we had to get over, I was like uhh this sun stuff kind of sucks"

Band Role: Bassist
Hometown: Newark, New Jersey
Birthday: September 10th, 1980
Musical Influences: Smashing Pumpkins, Oasis, The Misfits, Radiohead, Blur, Anthrax, The Smiths

Fun facts:
- My Chemical Romance for a band name is his idea (taken from Irvine Welsh's novel; Ecstacy) while working at Barnes and Noble
- Mikey learned bass just to play in his brother's band
- He's near sighted. 
- Loves sushi. 
- Ditched his glasses when he underwent Lasik Eye Surgery in mid 2006
- Is engaged to a guitar tech

Quotable Quotes:
-"This band is metal in that we have a lot of metal in our instruments, and there's quite a lot of metal on my belt buckle as well."
-"I like Popsicles."
- "I'm the spiritual advisor of the band."
-"We all have very humble backgrounds and very geeky interests." 
- "Who's that sexy beast? It's Bob Bryar!" [Mikey on LOTMS]

Band Role: Rhythm Guitarist
Hometown: Belleville, New Jersey
Birthday: October 31st, 1981
Musical Influences: Black Flag, The Bouncing Souls, American Nightmare, Beasite Boys 

Fun Facts:
- Frankie is heavily tattooed.
- Fronted his last band, Pencey Prep.
- Has his own clothing line, record label and publishing company -- The Skeleton Crew.
- He's what you call an 'accident-prone' person.
- Is engaged to his long-time girlfriend.

Quotable Quotes:
- "This is a band that will save your life." 
- "I can't imagine any other bands having better kids than ours, and if they do at least I know our kids can beat up their kids." 
- "We've mutilated, killed and disemboweled rock 'n' roll clichés!” 
- "If I revealed my secret identity, the world would go to shit."

Band Role: Lead Guitarist
Hometown: Kearny, New Jersey
Birthday: July 15th, 1977
Musical Influences: Stevie Ray Vaugh, Jimmi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Tony Iommi, Jimmy Page.

Fun facts:
- Ray wears contacts
- The most physically active in the band
- Can't cook
- Doesn't like slash fiction
- Ray and his girlfriend have a pet turtle named Sammy

Quotable Quotes:
- "We were birth control." (On Gerard’s and his days in high school)
- "Stop making us have sex with each other" (Ray on slash fanfiction)

Band Role: Drummer
Hometown: Illinois, Chicago
Birthday: December 31, 1980
Musical Influences: Black Sabbath

Fun facts:
- Replaced Matt Pelissier.
- Bob was an awesome sound technician for The Used before he teamed up with MCR.
- According to his band mates, Bob is very hardworking :)
- Like Frank, he's quite 'accident prone' [earned a busted nose, and got pushed out of a bus]
- Dislikes the camera [as seen on Life On The Murder Scene]
- Bob is a cat person.

Quotable Quotes:
-"I get these urges to fuck off sometimes." 
-"People think that moose are really gentle and goofy but they aren't; they're fucking animals."