MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE’s FRANK IERO Shares Touching Tribute To The Band’s Late Drummer BOB BRYAR

My Chemical Romance break up with drummer Bob Bryar in March 2010 and sadly by no means obtained to reunite. Bryar was found dead in his home on November 26, 2024 after not having been seen since November 4. My Chemical Romance has since issued a quick assertion on Bryar‘s dying, however guitarist and vocalist Frank Iero had much more to say on his Instagram.

Iero recounts plenty of the nice instances and inside jokes between himself and Bryar, although he finally regrets being the one which needed to fireplace him from the band. Iero additionally notes that he by no means completed a textual content dialog between himself and Bryar from this September, and yeah – that shit isn’t straightforward to recover from, both.

“i nonetheless do not feel like that is actual… folks your age, your friends, those you shared a lot time and expertise with aren’t supposed to only all of the sudden go away your life endlessly…however i suppose permanence is not actually an idea people are supposed to perceive.

“i’ve spent the previous few days fascinated about Bob lots and the particular person i knew him to be. These are a few of the issues that caught out:

“BC Bryar was plenty of issues. An enigma of types as a result of he typically inhabited each ends of any spectrum on the similar time. He was my buddy and my bandmate, however he was additionally a stranger to me for many of my life. We lived collectively for some time, on and off the street… however after the band we’d go months on finish with none sort of contact till i texted him a ‘glad birthday!’ or out of nowhere he would hit me asking how previous the youngsters have been lately or examine in on how my dad was feeling.

“Generally we would commerce a meme or photographs of lego builds we had carried out, however then somebody would go away the opposite on learn and an indeterminate radio silence would observe. Within the meantime i would hear rumblings of what he could be as much as or some shit he’d stirred up on-line, however that wasn’t ever the particular person i used to be acquainted with. Bob was extremely proficient and he knew it, assured sufficient in his skills to persuade us that he was the best drummer for our band with out us really ever listening to him play drums.

“Nevertheless, through the years i discovered him to be extremely self acutely aware and introverted each time he felt positioned outdoors of his consolation zone. Bob was eccentric as fuck and humorous as hell. He might be imply and troll you so laborious that it could reduce you in half, however in the event you ever actually wanted one thing he can be the primary one there to offer you no matter he had if it could allow you to out ultimately or put a smile in your face.

“Though thumbing his nostril and pissing folks off was at all times a favourite pastime and one thing he did not ever develop out of…(i suppose in the event you discover you do one thing effectively, you have a tendency to stay to it.)

“Bob typically obtained fixated on issues to some extent of obsession and he favored to make issues tough. In an odd approach i feel he discovered some consolation in it. His drumming was clear, at all times exact and distinctive, however i keep in mind whereas on tour for the black parade he obtained bored, and in order a sport he determined to place all of his drums flat so that there have been no angles pointing towards him. In flip making it extra uncomfortable to play and finally injuring his wrists. So far as i do know he refused to ever return to a extra snug place… however this was additionally across the time Bob refused to put on any form of footwear aside from walmart slippers as a result of he most well-liked consolation over any form of model.

“BC Bryar was at instances the one i associated to essentially the most within the band as a result of his humor was darkish as fuck similar to mine and we may giggle over our collective negativity with out ever worrying we would offend each other. We even had this plan to get semi matching tattoos that will say: Bob/Frank Hates _. after which we may fill them in with one thing completely different in mark every day once we undoubtedly discovered a brand new factor that obtained on our nerves. There have been additionally instances when i feel Bob disliked me immensely, and wished he may kick me out of the band.

“Perhaps some days he would have written my title in sharpie on the clean area of that tattoo.

“Bob actually did not like the corporate of individuals all that a lot, however he liked animals. i am fairly satisfied he would have been glad to look at the world burn if he might be promised not a single canine or cat can be harmed within the course of. At one level whereas we have been working and residing out in LA Bob and some mates obtained scammed by a canine coach and one in every of his canine was killed within the course of. It was an actual shady story and Bob ws devastated. It actually wrecked him emotionally and i do not suppose he was ever the identical once more. Issues actually went south with him and the band following that incident, he simply could not hold it collectively anymore, his unhappiness, anger and mistrust have been an excessive amount of to deal with and took over all features.

“I keep in mind telling him, please simply come to me with stuff first. You possibly can discuss to me about no matter shit is bothering you and not using a filter and collectively we are able to provide you with a method to both repair the scenario or determine a plan on methods to focus on this with everybody else…. However finally it was a bandaid that did not maintain, the harm was carried out and Bob was too far gone. Ultimately I used to be the one which needed to inform him he was out of the band. He remoted himself by design fairly quickly after that. I attempted to him a couple of instances through the years, however he politely made it not possible. I do not suppose i ever obtained to inform him i used to be sorry, i do not know if it could have mattered… however i do want like hell I completed the textual content dialog we had again in September.

“I hope you discovered some peace, BC. I am glad the universe let me know you for some time. xofrnk”

Bryar drummed for My Chemical Romance between 2004 and 2010, and was (to date) the band’s last everlasting drummer. My Chemical Romance has recruited Jarrod Alexander for reveals each this and final decade, however by no means had him as their full-time drummer.