awesome sea bass

New old photos by Jake Reinhart shared by bulletsmcrdaily:

The NJ Practice space shots were all made in November 2002. My band had just signed to Eyeball records that month. We drove from Pittsburgh out to Kearny NJ to hangout with Alex Saavedra and Mark Debiak and whoever else from the Eyeball family was in town.

We had just played with MCR a few weeks earlier. The show was at this DIY spot called “Planet of the Apes”. It was a three car garage behind a Chinese restaurant. It was MCR’s first show in Pittsburgh. Technically Planet of the Apes was located in Natrona Heights which is a suburb of Pittsburgh, on the edge of Allegheny County. MCR drove out in a car and only had room for the band and their guitars. So, they had to borrow all of the rest of the equipment. Since we were on Eyeball records, we lent them our amps, and drums. Mikey Way used my entire bass rig for that show (bass + amp + pedals).

On the way to the Eyeball house in November 2002, my band’s van started having transmission problems. That meant once we got to the eyeball house we couldn’t really drive any where. Gerard came over to spend the afternoon, he invited me and the guitarists (I played bass) in my band to come hangout at the MCR practice space. Frankie pulled up and we piled into his car. I remember we were blasting Black Flag while Gerard and Frankie chain smoked cigarettes on the way to their space.