Gerard Way Performs Original Songs 'Television All the Time" and "Dasher" [VIDEO]

Gerard Way is currently on a small U.S. tour to promote his debut solo album Hesitant Alien, and he performed original songs "Television All the Time" and "Dasher."

Due to the fact that he has only one release to his name, he is filling time with Jesus and Mary Chain covers, along with B-sides, according to AltPress. He dusted off one of those destined-to-be-forgotten tracks — "Television All the Time" — in Philly Friday, Oct. 17. Check it out:

And just for good measure, here is a performance of "Dasher":

Earlier this year, Way worried he was scaring Warner Bros. with his new music.

"Me doing fun stuff freaked people out," he told Kerrang! "Some people almost recoiled from the more fun songs. Like, 'God, we can't sell this stuff! He's become happy! What are we gonna do?'"

Needless to say, it ended up working out.

"The best part of this whole record is that I never really started making music seriously," he said. "I think that's what I liked about it.

"I never thought about what I was doing. I never thought, 'What's this going to mean to somebody?' And thank God I didn't take it too seriously, because it was fun just sitting there and plugging in the fuzz pedals and trying stuff out. I think that's kinda when I'm making my best music. Like, with 'The Black Parade,' I was laughing the whole time. I didn't take any of that seriously. I thought it was super funny," he said.

Of course, Way also had to address the — temporary? — break that My Chemical Romance is currently going through.

"If My Chem never had success, I'd have probably called time at the same point," he said. "I felt it was time. I could play for 70,000 people or seven. And I really mean that."

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