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My thoughts on Ballyhoo: First listen: Meh, don’t know… Second listen: Hm, wait, maybe… Third listen: YES! Love it!!! And even if it was recorded about six months ago, I think it was written at the same time as the Saviors songs, covering similar topics as Dilemma and Goodnight Adeline.

Agreed. People can't have much going for them. I see it with other bands too and it's sad and laughable at the same time. When you don't have anything good to say why do you keep spending your time talking about them.

Finally got round to listening to the east Bay Yesterday podcast about Murray Bowles. An interesting listen, GD get a few mentions, including thanks for taking care of the print cost of $30,000.

HAPPY BIRTHDAYYYY via Green Day instagram

Ballyhoo is somewhat kinda The KKK Took My Baby Away from the Ramones

I hear a lot of Plimsouls influence on Ballyhoo. I like it.

My mum told me Mark Hoppus was on Something For the Weekend (UK Sunday morning tv show) yesterday to promote his book and was talking about Blink's "rivalry" with Green Day, and he compared it to the Beatles and Rolling Stones

I prefer these deluxe editions to a throw away EP, and I have a feeling that's what Green Day are thinking as well. Why put out an EP that nobody's going to pay any attention to when you could do a few more songs and do a full on album cycle. These bonus tracks are a lot like 1972 in that way. Remember all the hype - "Green Day have 6 songs, aaaaagh!" But this time, it's adding to the album, giving us fan a more satisfying conclusion to the Saviors era, may it continue so far that it overlaps into - and yeah, I don't leave without doing it- ALBUM 15 ERA, oh yeah!!!!!

Interesting observation on Spotify: GD are up from 31,6 million monthly listeners before Coachella to 33,8 million now. They seem to have made an impact there!

Ballyhoo sounds just like a ¡Tré! song to me. I still like Smash It Like Belushi more right now tho

1,881,413,741 streams in total for American Idiot on Spotify.

I have to give it a second and third listen then

I'm also open to anything! Either before or after the shows and I also don't mind where

The band Turnstile is to hardcore music as to Green Day was to punk music.

Happy birthday Mike!!!!

Sounds like a plan. 🤗 I'll join if it's after the concert(s).

Thank you!😀 Café Kriemhild and Brauhund look nice. Kriemhild is open until midnight, so would be good for meeting before the show. Brauhund is open until 1 am, but closed on Tuesdays. Sometime in the next weeks we should decide when to meet and then book a table. I don’t mind where, would prefer before the show (or shows…?), but basically I‘m ready for anything…🙃

There are actually a few places in the area of Stadthalle I can recommend. For example Brauhund, Café Kriemhild. One to skip is Bieriger, which is lowkey right wing. There's also Lugner City around the corner with shops, well known fast food and other restaurants/bars.

Bouncing Souls, Hüsker Dü, The Replacements. Also pretty much all the bands on Epitaph, Fat Wreck, and Lookout which by name have been mentioned here already. Even hardcore stuff like Token Entry (iykyk).

Loving Ballyhoo, like it better than Smash It Like Belisha I think.

Agree on both points, I loved Mike shouting her out for that. And Billie going off on a tangent about writing songs about Adrienne lol Yeah he just didn't seem like the best choice since he only met them recently and all he really had to say was he was glad he could use Good Riddance on his film . They probably asked him because they got on when they met him and know he's a good/funny speaker and he did fine but without being a big fan there was only so much he could do with it. Shame Serena wasn't there to do some real fangirling! Rob's speech is really good, he mentions he's replacement for Serena and as always he's full of enthusiam and pride for the band.

I've been catching up with the this today. I loved their speeches and excitement. The highlight for me was Mike mentioning Billie's mom and thanking her that was so sweet. On the other hand, not a big fan for Ryan Reynold's speech 😶 The bit about Billie Joe's skin care routine was funny, but other than that... I don't know, it just didn't feel very heartfelt to me. I think it would have been nicer to have Serena Williams (btw, I wonder what happened that she missed the event in the end). Still haven't seen Rob Cavallo's speech, but looking forward to that.

Really loving Ballyhoo. After Smash it Like Balushi I was expecting these to just be rejected Saviors songs, and maybe that's what this is -- but it's a very strong one IMO. With Holy Toledo, Saviors and these new tracks it feels like the guys have really found their footing again, with a sound that's still *new* Green Day but with enough of what we love left in. I've spoken a few times about how Saviors feels like a taste of all their previous albums: I feel like this one could have easily sat somewhere on Saviors as the trilogy inspired track.

To me it sounds like a common topic recently which is how he feels with his on again off again up and down struggle with a harmful habit. Reach for a knife, let it go, live it up, give up, it’s a curse, the worst, mama raised a bomb.. it’s in his nature to be a hellion but he fights against it. A couple of images I love are “useless as a … crippled ballerina” and “waiting on the sun like a star that’s blowing up”. It’s like another way of describing himself as a dead man walking. Like disaster has already struck but he doesn’t know it yet. He might write a lot about a short list of themes but no one captures the human condition and describes feelings in a simple yet relatable and emotional way like he does. He somehow always avoids sounding too self indulgent or self pitying. Like with Smash It Like Belushi the message is when you’re feeling this way just keep your head down keep going and rip shit up. It’s empowering 💚

This isn’t exactly true. Celebrities don’t just “buy a star” when they want one. They need to be nominated and, if selected, there is a cost required in order to make and maintain the star as well as safely hold the ceremony and invite fans for free — this is usually sponsored by a studio, record label, etc. It makes sense you have to pay for it since it’s a chamber of commerce-run initiative — they’re not going to foot the bill themselves to do this for wealthy celebrities. But it’s a nomination and selection-based process, and only people who are deemed worthy based on a bunch of factors get one. So it’s definitely earned, not bought. Here’s an article about the process — says they get 200-300 nominations every year: https://variety.com/2020/film/news/hollywood-walk-of-fame-cant-buy-star-1234758589/

YouTube sepubscribers are up to 7.1M too, been rising steadily since I started paying attention soon after Revrad was released I think, haven’t been taking records so sorry to be vague.

The thing I find funny is the number of people insulting them on fanpages. Not the band/members pages, but like Green Day Italy, etc. It's sad enough to be on the official page of someone you hate, but how empty does your life have to be to hate obsess on a fanpage?

Awesome, thanks both. I thought there was probably some function other than protection, but just wanted to check.

Exactly. It also keeps out distracting background noise. Back in July 2023, in the beautiful Quebec City, the band played live first song from Saviors, 1981. Unfortunately, technical issues caused Billie Joe's ear device to temporarily lose contact with other band's instruments. Risking losing his place in song along with timing. You can see Billie Joe touching his ear part way through. But, like the true professional he is, there's no panic, the connection is soon restored, and he keeps pace and carries on. That's what makes live music so unique and special, especially when it's GD.

As I understand it, such an ear-in helps a musician to hear his own voice and instrument better while the other instruments are in the background. Some kind of filter I guess…

It's from a poem by Rumi. The full quote is, 'Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.'