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[WorryRock02]

Green Day inside the new Soundi Magazine

https://www.soundi.fi/jutut/soundi-1-2020/

 

[jengd]

Can anyone translate that?

[WorryRock02]

Green Day're also inside the  new Grazia issue ( ITALY )

IN THE NEW ALBUM, GREEN DAYS USE VERY HARD WORDS TO DESCRIBE THE NOWSDAY WORLD. BUT THEY DO IT BY COMBINING PUNK AND IRONY
They are the punk-rock masters of the 90s and boast five Grammy Awards. In more record sales, over 85 million records, without forgetting the ten billion plays and views.  Green Day are about to return with Father Of All ..., a fast and tight album, which focuses on the hard times we are experiencing. "Today there is a lot of depression, but also a sense of humor. We write our songs inspired by the crap we see every day, "explained the leader of the band, Billie Joe Armstrong. The three" bad boys "have released a new powerful single, Oh Yeah. And they are preparing for the Hella Mega Summer tour, which will arrive on June 10th in Milan and 11th at Firenze Rocks

 

 

[Rumpelstiltskin2000]

American Idiot is No 1 on this Telegraph list of "50 Punk Albums Every Music Fan Should Own":

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/what-to-listen-to/best-essential-punk-albums-time/

50 punk albums every music fan should own

It can surely only be a matter of time before the question "what is punk?" enters the lexicon of philosophical head-scratchers. It’s a sound, for sure, as anyone who has heard the Ramones' first album will know. But it’s also a quality, something that might loosely be termed "attitude’" a nebulous vapor that can be attributed to many, from Billie Eilish to Dominic Cummings. What a puzzle.

Considering the game was up for 20th Century English punk at the moment Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols called Bill Grundy a “dirty f_____” live on television in 1976, the genre worldwide has proved to be both enduring and adaptable. Capably nurtured by our American cousins, in 1994 it even cracked the US mainstream for the first time with the multi-platinum success of both Green Day and The Offspring. Spin magazine called it "the year that punk rock broke… again." 

This list, then, spans both decades and continents; not only that, it also swings from the breeziest punk-pop to groups whose music registers on the Richter scale. Inevitably, a number of worthy artists failed to make the cut – from Siouxsie and the Banshees to Television, TSOL to the Adolescents – while for our successful entrants, we had just one rule: only one album per artist was permitted space on our list. 

Finally, in writing about such a wide array of bands, we were reminded of the words printed on a t-shirt by that great philosopher of the punk age, Wattie Buchan from The Exploited, who wrote succinctly, if ungrammatically, "Punk’s not dead… bollocks is it." So without further adieu, hey-ho let’s go: 

1. Green Day, American Idiot (2004)

Prior to the release of American Idiot, Rob Cavallo called a meeting at the headquarters of Warner Bros. Records in Burbank, California, for the company’s press officers and sales team. As well producing Green Day’s seventh album, Cavallo was also the president of the label.  

“Okay, we have an album that we’ve made,” he said. “It’s a punk rock opera and I think it’s the greatest piece of music that we’ll put out this year… We’re gonna sell one million records in the first week, and we’re gonna sell 10 million records by the time it’s done.”

As it turned out, Rob Cavallo’s figures were wrong; by the time the cash registers had stopped ringing up copies of Green Day’s latest album, the Oakland trio’s one true masterpiece, American Idiot had sold more than fourteen million copies. Not only is it the last true blockbuster of the rock age - with sales that will surely never be matched - it is also the highest-selling punk rock album of all-time.

And it is a punk rock album, just as Green Day are a punk rock band. Despite the group’s aged army of determined detractors – cries of “that’s not punk!” have resounded since their breakthrough album, Dookie, sold in similar quantities in 1994 – when the group decide to floor it, there are few who can touch them. 

Partly political, conceptual, supple, ambitious – the record features not one, but two nine-minute songs – catchy and complete, American Idiot is the sound of a group testing both themselves and the boundaries of the genre they so capably represent. 

[Beerjeezus]

This popped up as new on youtube for me, I didn't watch it so idk if it's any good (look at the thumbnail and guess why) but here it is if someone wants to look

 

[That Dude]

uuuuuuuh.   Can't read any of that.   

Pssh.  

[Lenny]

3 hours ago, Rumpelstiltskin2000 said:

 

As it turned out, Rob Cavallo’s figures were wrong; by the time the cash registers had stopped ringing up copies of Green Day’s latest album, the Oakland trio’s one true masterpiece, American Idiot had sold more than fourteen million copies. Not only is it the last true blockbuster of the rock age - with sales that will surely never be matched - it is also the highest-selling punk rock album of all-time.

 

Dookie

[pacejunkie punk]

14 minutes ago, Beerjeezus said:

This popped up as new on youtube for me, I didn't watch it so idk if it's any good (look at the thumbnail and guess why) but here it is if someone wants to look

 

Well that was odd, it was a history of the band told at breakneck speed that is current enough to include clips from the Oh Yeah video, yet the history stops with the American Idiot musical and goes no further. Bizarre. The thumbnail was from iHeart 2012 but they never even got to 21CB in the telling. Needs a part two but there doesn’t seem to be one.

[desertrose]

Billie Joe Armstrong Reveals Which Green Day Song Is Too Hard To Perform Live

https://alt1037dfw.radio.com/blogs/alt-producer/this-green-day-song-is-too-hard-to-perform-live

There are just some songs musicians can’t perform live.  

Green Day has tons of songs from their music catalog to pick from; oddly enough they can’t play some of them live. 

Frontman, Billie Joe Armstrong posted a video of a young band performing a cover of ‘Macy’s Day Parade’ on Instagram. In the comment section, one fan asked why Green Day doesn’t play ‘Panic Song’ from the groups 'Insomniac' album.

Armstrong replied with a very simple answer.

“It’s too hard, and I’m too lazy.”

50 punk albums every music fan should own

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/what-to-listen-to/best-essential-punk-albums-time/

[Rumpelstiltskin2000]

2 hours ago, desertrose said:

Billie Joe Armstrong Reveals Which Green Day Song Is Too Hard To Perform Live

Thanks for posting that one. I couldn't access it over  here in the UK.

[jengd]

It’s funny to me how many mags etc picked up in the exchange about the Panic Song, I took it at the time to be just a throw away joke from Billie but I’ve seen it reported again and again now. Wonder if it will are him revisit it, I love that song.  Good article about AI.

[Beyza]

I was not really sure where to post this but this remix song that Billie will appear in its video has a little Boulevard of Broken Dreams reference, I guess. (Sometimes I don't share, I smoke alone lol)

 

[HAPPY ZOMBIE UNICORN]

7 minutes ago, Beyza said:

I was not really where to post this but this remix song that Billie will appear in its video has a little Boulevard of Broken Dreams reference, I guess. (Sometimes I don't share, I smoke alone lol)

 

Oh my god that bit is awesome 😂 I guess we know when Billie appears in the video 😄

[Thatsername]

11 hours ago, Rumpelstiltskin2000 said:

American Idiot is No 1 on this Telegraph list of "50 Punk Albums Every Music Fan Should Own":

Thanks for posting this @Rumpelstiltskin2000. I mean yeah we know how great AI is, but it's nice to be reminded of its greatness once in a while. I'm so proud of them. Gotta listen to American Idiot now, bye.🤗

[pacejunkie punk]

5 hours ago, Beyza said:

I was not really sure where to post this but this remix song that Billie will appear in its video has a little Boulevard of Broken Dreams reference, I guess. (Sometimes I don't share, I smoke alone lol)

 

And the royalties just keep rolling in 😄 Nice!

[Hermione]

I moved some posts, there's now a thread for the Tyla Yaweh video with Billie in it, all posts about it here please:

 

[Joe K]

On 1/23/2020 at 3:30 PM, jengd said:

Can anyone translate that?

I could but I cannot make out the actual thing from that scan. Only the headline which translates to "no tolerance for bullshit"  and a the quote "we're still the same dickheads as before, we still like to have fun and party" 😄

[The Grohl]

28 minutes ago, Joe K said:

I could but I cannot make out the actual thing from that scan. Only the headline which translates to "no tolerance for bullshit"  and a the quote "we're still the same dickheads as before, we still like to have fun and party" 😄

You've translated the most important parts!

[Rumpelstiltskin2000]

Article from Rolling Stone about how Tre ended up playing with Willie Nelson the other week:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/tre-cool-green-day-willie-nelson-942729/

How Green Day’s Tré Cool Wound Up in Willie Nelson’s Band

Fans were shocked when the Green Day drummer played two full shows with the country legend this month. Cool tells us how it happened.

Fans who attended Willie Nelson’s show at San Francisco’s Fillmore earlier this month were surprised to see an unexpected guest onstage: Tré Cool, the longtime drummer of Green Day. According to reports, Cool was onstage for almost the entire show, playing bongos and a washboard, without being formally introduced. Cool appeared again onstage in California a few nights later; the site Saving Country Music quoted one fan who observed, “I’m sure 99 percent of the arena had no idea who the dude playing a washboard was.”

It turns out the appearance was a lifelong dream for Cool. He grew up a Nelson fanatic and connected with his band through Nelson’s son Micah, after attending one of Micah’s concerts with Particle Kid. Says Micah, “I used to bounce around head-banging on the school bus listening to Dookie on my Walkman, so it kinda blew my mind to see Tré doing the same thing in the front row of a Particle Kid show. We connected afterward about music, drumming, and our love for Bowie and the Blackstar record.”

Rolling Stone caught up with Tré Cool about the experience of playing (and smoking) with his hero, and what the rest of Green Day had to say about it.

You and Willie are from two different musical universes. How did you come together?
My friends Vintage Trouble opened up for him on New Year’s Eve in Austin one time. I was introduced to Lukas [Nelson], and he brought us on the bus and we met Willie and had a toke. I saw how the gig was: a family band, the brothers Paul and Billy English on drums, with just a snare drum and a lot of percussion. It was really interesting. I met [harmonica player] Mickey [Raphael]; my wife, Sarah, was pregnant with our son, who we incidentally were going to name Mickey. We started shooting the shit with Mickey, and then he’s like, “I’m playing with Chris Stapleton next week,” and he invited us to that show and we got to see him blow with Chris Stapleton, which was insane. Those guys can rock out, my God.

Then we were at the Fillmore and Paul English was out sick, and [they said], “Do you want to come jam?” Well, sure! So I just wound up walking onstage with him, unannounced, and playing the show in San Francisco. I just walked out there and played the gig. After Willie walks off, we finish the song, hug each other and walk away. “That was fun!” Then I found out they were playing in Ontario, [California,] so I said, “Hey, do you guys need a guy to fill in?” They said, “Yeah! Come on down.” It was really organic, just bros jamming.

Did you have to learn the setlist?
There’s no setlist with Willie Nelson. He just fires ‘em out, and you have about a half a second to catch up and be on time and figure out what song you’re doing and which instrument you’re gonna play. There’s just a plethora of instruments up there. So I was just kind of making parts up and trying to play along with different shakers, keep it interesting with different tambourines and bongos. Playing “On the Road Again” on bongos with Willie Nelson is kind of a surreal moment in my musical story.

“When Willie Nelson looks at you during a solo and smiles, giving you the nod, that’s pretty cool.”

Do you have a memory in your life tied to Willie?
I’ve always loved Willie Nelson. When I was a kid, I used to run around telling people that Willie Nelson was my uncle, for some reason, because I had an uncle who looked just like him. He had red hair and braids, the whole works. I used to tell people, “Yeah, my uncle’s Willie Nelson,” and people would say, “Oh shit, his uncle is Willie Nelson!” I’ve always loved him. On my motorcycle, I have a license plate that says, “God Bless Willie Nelson.” I’ve had that for a lot of years. It was a treat, and the family couldn’t have been nicer. I got to meet Willie’s wife, Annie. She’s momma bear, you know, she keeps everything real respectful and fun. Lukas, that guy plays all the time. It’s a musical family. They’re country music royalty.

What’s unique about that band?
The bass player and the drummer are just holding it down, and they’re communicating — they shoot each other looks and they know which endings to make. They’re winging it, and it’s so seamless and natural and rocking. There’s not a drum set, there’s not a high-hat or a kick-drum to be found. So you’re shaking and you’re slapping, and it’s really cool. It’s a human-sounding band. And man, Micah and Lukas are motherfuckers on the guitar. When Willie Nelson looks at you during a solo and smiles, giving you the nod, that’s pretty cool.

Did you try any of his marijuana brand, Willie’s Reserve?
It’s fantastic. But you just [need] half a joint. Don’t smoke a whole joint. You’ll be dropping your drumsticks.

Has Willie ever come up in Green Day practices?
Well, we sure talked about it when we went to band practice the day before I played the Fillmore. [Laughs.]

Were they surprised?
Well, yeah it’s very surprising: “You’re going to do what? You’re playing with Willie Nelson? That’s fucking awesome.”

[Give_Me_Novacaine90]

Green Day in this Japanase magazine

 

 

[WorryRock02]

Green Day inside the new Diablo Magazine

[Beerjeezus]

Green Day, Inc's CSR department going strong

[LaughingClock]

On 1/23/2020 at 4:24 PM, Beerjeezus said:

This popped up as new on youtube for me, I didn't watch it so idk if it's any good (look at the thumbnail and guess why) but here it is if someone wants to look

 

Dude said that because of his emotion they don't often play WMUWSE?  Hmmmm.

[Slave To The Network]

2 minutes ago, LaughingClock said:

Dude said that because of his emotion they don't often play WMUWSE?  Hmmmm.

Whether or not that's the true reason, I think that's sweet. 

[Beerjeezus]

Well they haven't played it for years since the Irving Plaza show. Correlation isn't causality, but it might have made someone assume there's a connection