Prudential Center - Double Way & Bon Jovi, Too

Bon Jovi will be closing for My Chemical Romance next week at the inaugural concert series at the Prudential Center in Newark.

Everybody knows that My Chemical Romance includes brothers Gerald and Mikey Way who grew up in Belleville.

Newark is the next town south of Belleville.

That Jon Bonjovi fellow also grew up somewhere in New Jersey.

The shows, with that other Jersey guy, are Oct. 25 and Oct. 26.
Sorry, I've never been into either band, but I can tell you they will rock the Rock.
If I'm not there, start without me.


Foreward Thinking Forefathers

Downtown Newark, N.J.

Old Belleville



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My Chemical View - From Belleville, NJ

Funny, but I grew up with the same view of the meadowlands-farts on fire ... and I didn't become a disgruntled rock star!

Chemical equation(http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/derogatis/271768,SHO-Sunday-chemical25.article )

February 25, 2007

BY JIM DeROGATIS Pop Music Critic
To fully appreciate glam/goth pop-punk chart-toppers My Chemical Romance, it helps to understand where the band's leader grew up. Belleville, N.J., is a run-down blue-collar suburb sandwiched between Newark, which still hasn't recovered from the riots of 1968, and Jersey City, one of the ugliest and most corrupt burgs in America.
I know: I grew up there, too, not far from the Pulaski Skyway, which connects Jersey City and Newark. Tony Soprano drives over this elevated highway during the opening of every episode of HBO's mob series; it runs past tank farms and chemical factories and spans the PJP Landfill, which for decades had the distinction of being the only toxic site on the federal Superfund cleanup list that was actually on fire.

When you'd drive over the Pulaski Skyway at night -- as Gerard Way and his brother Mikey did when they were old enough to go to rock shows in Manhattan, a mere 10 miles but an entire universe away -- you could see the conflagrations smoldering underground. It looked like Dante's "Inferno" -- or a visual evocation of the music of My Chemical Romance. The quintet's 29-year-old vocalist wholeheartedly agrees. ...

Maybe in my next life?

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Old Belleville, N.J.