It's my favorite band-history story ever. Gerard was a comic book artist who had graduated from the New York School of Visual Arts and got a job with Cartoon Network. When he saw the crash, it moved him to the point where he decided to completely change his life and do something that would matter to the world. He quit his job, wrote a song about 9/11 called "Skylines and Turnstiles" that is beautiful and one of my favorites, and had started his band within a week. Within a year, they had released their first album.
It's amazing to me because he wasn't like most people in bands, who've never known anything else. In his heart, he's first and foremost an artist (he drew the cover and tray art for Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, their second album. It's gorgeous). He had graduated from college, he had a degree and a job and he gave it all up to make a difference. And, perhaps most amazingly of all, he accomplished exactly what he set out to do.
Sorry, this feels like another soapbox, but I just love this band and this man with all my heart.
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Date: 2007-06-01 11:18 pm (UTC)It's amazing to me because he wasn't like most people in bands, who've never known anything else. In his heart, he's first and foremost an artist (he drew the cover and tray art for Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, their second album. It's gorgeous). He had graduated from college, he had a degree and a job and he gave it all up to make a difference. And, perhaps most amazingly of all, he accomplished exactly what he set out to do.
Sorry, this feels like another soapbox, but I just love this band and this man with all my heart.