Frank Iero and Mikey Way's new guitars for the My Chemical Romance return show. (2019)
at 1:02 frank had to test the guitar on his knees why is he so cute? theres a chair right there but he had to practice his rock moves ™
mikey: "we left the venue and we forgot to lock the trailer and this dude (frank) went on the highway to try to get my bass back. He risked life and limb. yeah. everything fell out."
currently picturing frank hanging out of a moving van and nearly grabbing the neck of the bass as it ejected onto the interstate
Deaths Spells opened for The Architects at Knitting Factory in 2013 (November, 19) - and for some reason, Frank had to play bass for them. Y’all probably have seen these before but it’s the first time I've noticed him using the Mikey Way Fender Bass Guitar.
more pictures
I have managed some low- audio-quality videos of the show where you can clearly see Frank playing and vibing.
videos: One Two Three
If you don't remember, The Architects have opened for My Chem a bunch of times, Frank did a cover of Suspect Devices (Stiff Little Fingers) with them on stage during the World Contamination Tour in 2011. During the same tour, Ray also joined them on stage .
From Frankieromustdie instagram on August 23rd, 2023: Thank you Anna & @earthquakerdev and @mschulz83 @fender & @fendercustomshop so much for these amazing new pieces of gear. Y’all are the absolute best 🖤🙏🖤
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Fender Custom shop Telecaster through the Earthquaker devices Ledges pedal into my Fender Princeton Tonemaster combo.
From frankieromustdie instagram on October 26th, 2014:
Many many thanks to Eve aka @bydaysbreak for the thoughtful early bday presents. you have righted a terrible wrong and forever answered the question "am I ready for Freddy?" I am incredibly grateful. xofrnk
are you a Fender La Cabronita Borracha owned by gerard way girlfriend or a Frnkder Custom Build La Cabronita Boracha Offset (pre)owned by frank iero boyfriend. be honest
disclaimer: honestly i don't know much about guitars but i can provide some more visuals and context from some of their gear listed here and here. i can't tell you jack shit about some other ones they haven't used as regularly bc i won't have room for that and i'm not gonna go over acoustics.
prs guitars
both of them tend to lean towards prs guitars most of the time. there's a few ads and music videos of them using them among many live performances. during double dare, awsten used a seafoam green s2 standard 22 and geoff used an antique white s2 mira.
during entertainment, awsten tended to use that firemist purple s2 starla before switching to the jewel lime s2 mira during fandom.
during greatest hits, awsten used a custom s2 he spray painted himself.
geoff tended to use that s2 mira for a while until fandom when he switched over to his se santana which he used during greatest hits as well.
currently, he uses a charcoal cherry burst modern eagle v.
awsten's other guitars
his fender stratocaster is probably the oldest guitar he has. awsten has made every demo for waterparks (and likely some pre-waterparks) with it.
another notable one he used was his daisy rock stardust elite venus. daisy rock, otherwise known as daisy rock girl guitars, is a guitar company specifically designed and catered towards women for their feminine and lightweight designs.
awsten actually had two of these guitars: the stardust elite venus is the one that he tended to use during live performances even before waterparks all the way up to cluster while the stardust elite isis is the one he broke and is memorialized on the inside of the black light cds.
awsten mentions using a couple other guitars for recording since cluster: a suhr classic s and a gibson les paul.
(i cannot for the life of me find an image of awsten using a gibson les paul; there's a lot of old images of him using a les paul but it was an epiphone les paul because of course an emo kid is going to use the kind of guitar frank iero is known for)
the guitar awsten currently uses is his now refurbished gibson flying v also from when he was younger.
(it's so old that awsten doesn't have bleach patches and is wearing zebra print in that first photo)
geoff's other guitars
before the release of double dare, geoff tended to use a white epiphone sg g-310.
he also seemed to use a see thru blue esp ltd mh-203qm, mainly around 2013-2014.
bonus
here is awsten being a judgemental bitch about geoff's gear when they first met.
frankieromustdie: Around 25 years ago my dad bought me a Fender Jag-Stang, years later i sold it to fund a demo and I have regretted it ever since. Yesterday i opened my door to find my friends at Fender sent me a brand new one. Life can be crazy sometimes.
Thank you Dad
Thank you Kurt
Thank you @mschulz83 @hadji224 & @fender
Thank you Rock n Roll. 🙏
KTF 🖤 xofrnk
#AMGearstories: Frank Iero talks about his Fender Custom Shop "Frank"enstein Long Scale Jazzmaster
Alto Music | August 11, 2023
In this video we head down to Irving Plaza to chat with@frankieromustdie of @mychemicalromance and @lsdunesofficial talks about his Custom Shop Fender long scale Jazzmaster!
From frankieromustdie instagram on September 17th, 2014:
for the life of me I don't know why I didn't buy this record. and I know it will haunt me for the rest of my days. #goodwillvinyl #freddyfender #permanentregrets