Born: 10/09/80 in Newark NJ Height: 1.78 m Marital status: Married (Alicia Simmons)   Michael James Lee Way, better known as bassist Mikey Way is the group My Chemical Romance and younger brother of singer Gerard Way . Born and raised in Newark, New Jersey. Mikey and Gerard are second cousins of comedian Joe Rogan, and a descendant of Scots and Italians. He is responsible for the name of the band, which came from the book "Ecstacy: three tales of Chemical Romance" (in Spanish: Ecstasy), by Irvine Welsh; he found the book in a bookstore where he worked. Mikey learned to play the bass guitar to be in the band of his brother. He plays with a "Highway 1 Precision Bass," and a "Standard Fender Precision Bass." It is shortsighted and addicted to caffeine. A short time ago I had a laser operation to cure his myopia, and also had a change of look pretty sharp, which was changed the hair color and cuts, and put on eye shadow. He married the bassist and technical Alicia Simmons March 8 2007.El April 23, 2007 was announced that Mikey would leave for a while the banda to spend time with Alicia. Mikey's brother, Gerard referred to this in his official website: "We have decided to give it time to him and his wife, a great need to start a new life and to have a proper honeymoon and do all some things that newlyweds should do. I'm very proud to give this new information about my brother. Verlo grow and find love a brother makes me very happy. I know that disorder with this news, since he plays with us, but continue traveling with a temporary replacement until it falls into their new life. " Mikey is temporarily replaced by Matt Cortez, a technician and friend of the band. In Amsterdam before a concert on June 5, Gerard told a fan that Mikey would return during the Projekt Revolution 2. On August 15, 2007, Gerard announced in the Projekt Revolution that Mikey was back and he dedicated the song Helena. Mikey for its part issued a message which read: "hey bro-wats up Mikey." However Mikey returned to the stage with the banda, during the shows in Mexico.