Sick Frank Iero

Tours of Europe followed – all five of the band cramped into a splitter van with their equipment, merch, a merch guy and a guitar tech. “I was really sick on that tour,” remembers Frank. “It was hell. Only two of us could drive a van with a stick-shift gear and the fucking steering wheel was on the other side of the van, so we didn’t know how to deal with that. We didn’t know our way around, we had no map. I remember the lowest point was in Spain somewhere. We were sick, in the middle of nowhere and we couldn’t read the signs because they were in Spanish. The only map we had was of the UK. On top of that we were in a British van in Europe so the steering wheel was on the wrong side. It was fucking terrible.”

As you all noticed when you attended the shows full to the doors, Frank was not there. He was sick...like Gerard explained to you with a help of the translator on the stage. Actually he came to Japan. According to the company staffs, he'd had 4 of his wisdom teeth pulled out right before he left for here. Having one wisdom tooth pulled is already enough to make a grown man wail at the pain, you know. How reckless of him! and what is more, the high atmospheric pressure on the plane often causes a toothache. As a matter of course, Frank went through a dreadful pain throughout the long flight and when he arrived, he was totally exhausted. At that night he went down with a fever of 40 degrees Celsius and the following morning he had to go back to America with their manager. He returned to the airport looking very miserable and the only word he could say to the Japanese record company staffs was "I'm sorry...". He looked so blue that they even hesitated to talk to him. Probably he found it difficult to consult a dentist in Japan during their long and busy tour. Everyone felt very sorry for him...