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Michael James Way (born September 10, 1980) [1] is an American musician and songwriter, best known as the bassist of the rock band My Chemical Romance. [1] He also serves as the multi-instrumentalist and backing vocalist of rock duo Electric Century. [2] [3] Way co-wrote Collapser with Shaun Simon; it was released in July 2019 on DC Comics.
After hearing the demo and dropping out of college, Mikey Way decided to join the band. While with Eyeball Records, the band met Frank Iero, the lead vocalist and guitarist for Pencey Prep. Following Pencey Prep's split in 2002, Iero became a member of My Chemical Romance, just days before the recording of the band's debut album. [7]
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Way was born in Summit, New Jersey, on April 9, 1977, [4] the son of Donna Lee (née Rush) and Donald Way. He is of Italian and Scottish ancestry. [5] Raised in Belleville, New Jersey, alongside brother Mikey Way, he first began singing publicly in the fourth grade, when he played the role of Peter Pan in a school musical production.
Total Control was formed in 2008 by Eddy Current Suppression Ring band member Mikey Young and UV Race's Dan Stewart. The pair, who came together over a shared interest of early 1980s acts such as Devo, Gary Numan, The Screamers, and The Adolescents, recorded some songs using a sampler and synthesizers at Young's home studio.
The video features a strangely garbed outlaw gang called the Killjoys (Gerard Way as Party Poison, Mikey Way as Kobra Kid, Ray Toro as Jet Star and Frank Iero as Fun Ghoul), who are being pursued in the badlands around Battery City by the sinister executive Korse (Morrison) of Better Living Industries (BL/ind) and his vampire-masked henchmen ...
Greatest Hits received critical acclaim. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 82 out of 100 based on 4 reviews, indicating "critical acclaim". [20]
In 2009, Way announced his intent to create a companion comic series titled The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys. [40] He later announced at the 2012 New York Comic Con that he would co-write the series with Shaun Simon , the artwork would be done by Becky Cloonan , and that the first issue of the series would be released on June 6, 2013 ...