My Chemical Romance Put Desolation Row For Purchase Online

My Chemical Romance's cover of 'Desolation Row' is online as frontman Gerard Way blogs about the track's creation.

Posted Tuesday, 27 January 2009 in

My Chemical Romance's cover of 'Desolation Row' is now available for purchase online, frontman Gerard Way posted a lengthy blog about the song online. In it he said:

''Firstly, I'd like to point out that we have never recorded a song for a film. We have allowed a couple of our songs to be used in trailers or end-credits, but since we are usually pretty busy with either recording or touring there has never been time to do something like this before, and even this was kind of tight, as we started it before even finishing our last tour. There have been other offers to do this kind of thing, and usually the timing always made it impossible, but more often than not the project never seemed to fit the band, and we have always passed. But when the chance came to do a cover of one of my favorite artists, Bob Dylan, for a film version of my favorite work of fiction of all time we had to jump at the chance.''

The singer also gave some insight into how they trimmed the original into its current form:

''We then started playing the song at sound check, and had so much fun doing it that we decided to play it live, to get warmed up for the recording. We did some initial tracking in Nashville and then just lived with it for a while. When crunch time came, and after seeing some of the film, I became increasingly unhappy with my vocal performance, and we felt we could get more out of the guitars.

So we asked our friend Rich Costey to help us finish the track and get some new sounds, which he did, in NYC at Electric Ladyland, with the addition of some sweet old Marshall Plexi's, to get a kind of Sex Pistols tone, and we had a blast.''

To read more about the song click here.