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Article: Concert review: My Chemical Romance delivers manic shtick to Oakland faithful.(Concert review)
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- Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA)
- Article date:
- March 16, 2007
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Byline: Tony Hicks
Mar. 16--You have to hand it to a band that builds its entire body of work on its absolute blind faith that it'll someday fill arenas.
In other words, My Chemical Romance was born for a loud, theatrical, Queen-meets-Tim Burton type of musical storytelling. Few bands can get away with this stylistic grandiosity, let alone excel at it. But the band delivered Thursday night at the Oracle Arena in Oakland.
Splitting the show into halves, My Chemical Romance sliced through its new concept album "The Black Parade," acting as its own Sgt. Pepper's-type of alter-ego band, albeit dark and twisted, named after the record. They even ...