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Just now getting around to listening to all the new stuff (I'm a patient fan, I like to take my time). I thought it was interesting that more of the demos were written in first person. I always wondered if was referring to the band itself. It just seemed like such a pointed line to write at that point in their career. They were in such a vice at the time. The subgenre you helped pioneer is still popular but you need to evolve as artists and if you go back and make Dookie Pt. II it might be well received but it's an implicit admission that 'yep, these are all the tricks we have in the bag'. Especially after making such a musically expansive record as Nimrod. Warning didn't set the world on fire but they'd be damned if they'd play to type and do what's been done. That's why they've had staying power in the long term.

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Do you know that feeling when you wake up and have the urgent need to listen to certain songs? It’s RevRad day today here!🥰 Besides I remembered that about this time two years ago I bought the tickets for the GD Berlin show of 2024. (Because I wanted to see the opening band, shame on me…😅) How could I know then what a fascinating journey would begin this way? Bit sentimental today, sorry… Have a nice Sunday, all of you!

I think awkward humour is just their thing and always has been lol If it's specifically about that recent interview I think the most awkward thing was the interviewer constantly complimenting them and saying how amazing they are, along with the film promotion stuff it just wasn't the most natural conversation. But in general they've always used awkward humour. They don't need to be fake and press trained

When it's Thanksgiving "Today's the Macy's Day Parade...."

They should get media un-training and just start being wildly chaotic every interview.

Glad my thread resurrected, hahah! Wow I haven't posted anything on here in a hot minute...I guess I'll give an update I have gotten three more guitars (two electric, one acoustic). One of the electrics were gifted to me, and the other was on sale at Guitar Center. The acoustic electric was a used guitar at Guitar Center, but I have to buy a new battery slot for it because it was gone when I got it . So yah, two Epiphones, one Cort. I got a new amp as well because the one I got from a pawn shop was trash. Its a fender rumble 25. Great amp . The Guitar Center near me was so fun when I went a year ago. Now the employees are trash, except for one guy who was the only one helping me. I wasn't planning on buying anything, but I started to play American Idiot on guitar, and this random guy just joined me on bass. We both started singing too, hahha. Magical. Glad there's still some cool people near me, haha .

I don’t know… I really love Ballyhoo, Belushi and Underdog. So for me the deluxe was worth it. As for the live show I so much hope for a Saviors live album plus DVD! Maybe for Christmas…?

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Speaking of chaotic I enjoyed Billie's teeth and Mike's moustache here

In my opinion it’s allowed to be silly at any age. And why should they care. Not doing the expected / appropriate things is punk… I loved this so much:

At some point in the early 00s I got a bootlegged set, probably from the P2P file sharing platforms everyone used back then. The show was small if I recall - probably from the early 90s pre-Dookie. During a lull in the show when they're doing a bit of audience chat, the quiet murmuring is interrupted by a man in the crowd very loudly shouting "YOU CARPET BASTARD," to which Mike replies - and I'm paraphrasing here - "Me? I've got nothing to do with carpets. I play music" My friend at the time and I used to regularly call each other carpet bastards as a result and every now and then it'll pop into my head. Carpet bastard. That bootleg was lost and I've never heard it since. I wonder what carpet bastard guy is doing nowadays? I'm probably the only person on the planet who regularly thinks about that particular moment in time, and I wonder whether he's aware his insult that day lives rent free in my head?

I actually looked at some music schools here in town. But then I really didn’t like the thought of having to go there every week at a fixed time. It’s so unflexible. And expensive! Then I went to YouTube, there seem to be millions of guitar lesson videos there. And in all this chaos I found two „guitar teachers“ I like, Marty and Stuart: Marty‘s lessons feel comfortable to me because he‘s so calm and reassuring. But the second one, Stuart, is simply hilarious. I could watch his videos just for the fun of it. Both have a bunch of videos on YouTube (also tutorials for GD songs, I hope I will come to them some time in the future 😅). And they have beginner courses you have to pay for (not too expensive I think) which I have bought. I try to practice every day for some time, and I really like it!🥰 Edit: Maybe I should have written all this in the guitar thread…😅 Sorry!

Redundant and Prosthetic Head both got “wide mixes” back in the day and it always puzzled me. Why in 1997 would you create a mix specifically dedicated to a wide soundstage mix? Car stereos. Mid-late ‘90’s is when CD players in cars started to become prevalent and unlike most hi-fi setups or even computer speakers, car stereos are wide by their very nature because of the speaker’s position in the doors. Makes sense to experiment with mixing towards that at the time.

Agreed, and the whole k pop thing was deliberately awkward too. I think they just don’t buy in to all the nonsense at award shows etc.

I think that's the best thing because unless you happened to have seen the film and remember it really well you'd have no clue so like 99% of the audience there probably had no idea . They thrive on awkwardness lol I wish I could find the clip (I think it was only on Instagram) but one of my favourite recent awkward humour moments was in one of the red carpet interviews last year when the interviewer asked Billie if he had any advice for someone looking for love and he immediately started singing his song from when he was 5 years old "Look For Love" and then told people to google the song lmao

I think they have likely had some media training, no record label would have let them get this far without it. Whether they pay a lot of attention to it, that’s different. I think they are just themselves and relish the weird interviews. Imagine how odd it would be if they suddenly became super slick spewing sound bites….yeuch!

I've never had an issue with their interviews, but I do understand where the comment is coming from. I hope they never get any media training though, keeps it more genuine, even if a lot of the time they are just joking around to get out of giving a serious answer to a question. This was gold! I choose to believe Mike and/or Tre wrote that and Billie was reading it for the first time I especially love the "you know"

It was a bonus clip from the Broadway Idiot DVD

It's from an interview around the time of Broadway Idiot if I remember correctly. Someone is asking Billie about how he feels about the the album being made into a musical (if I remember correctly the whole scene) and he's struggling to find the words, and Mike comes to the rescue, gives him a hug and a peck on the cheek while answering the question for him. It lives rent free in my mind, but I cannot remember the source interview right now, so I'm having a hard time finding another link for it

This bass looks fantastic but I don’t think I‘ll try it.😅 A few weeks ago I started with guitar and it’s challenging enough. But it’s fun and I love it!

I love bass you should try it, it's such a fun instrument. I want it, but it's pretty expensive I am just now watching that video, and that bass is crisp

I think 21st Century Breakdown will be the best anniversary release…maybe we get Olivia? Or Dreamcatcher? They wrote over 40 songs and the live at fox theatre where they played the full album would be sick. High quality version of restless heart syndrome?!?! Can’t wait.

The next albums will probably be out in Late March / Early April of 2027. I guess whenever the first rumblings start, either by illicit l-e-a-k-s or the band themselves mentioning something. Mike might say "we're firing on all cylinders". Billie would say "ya know, writing, ya know ya know ya know ya know" and tre would say "Sometimes ninja's do the doo whop in the chocolate rain. Sometimes they do it at the make out party"

The documentary series is really cool. The songs totally fits the intro. And very happy that you hear quite a bit of it in every episode.

imo rather than only releasing Prosthetic Head in Germany and making Nice Guys its own single for some unknown reason, they should have just made Prosthetic Head and Nice Guys 1 combined single with like, 1 or 2 studio outtakes (Full band Alison and DUI?)

Oh!!! Thanks for clarifying! I did not get the reference at all. That's hilarious though

It's from the film Boogie Nights when Mark Wahlberg's character accepts an award for being a pornstar

i like to think that billie used to follow the hanky code. like he is openly admitting to being a bottom its a little funny to think of. but it's a dotted bandana... and he stopped using putting it in his pocket a while ago anyways, i doubt it actually is for that purpose

I know EXACTLY what this feels like lol! I love that .

Once you know guitar, bass is sooo easy hahah. I see why it may seem a bit more challenging, thicker strings, etc etc haha. I started out on guitar and used Marty to learn my first Green Day song heheh. But before that I printed chord charts and it helped sooo much. Once you know chords you can play any song you look up in minutes, and not sit through a 30 minute long guitar lesson. I am glad you're liking it .

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I think the boys need a little media training. I’m sure they are at a point in their career where they don’t care about press stuff, and I respect that, but I feel like every interview with them nowadays is so awkward to the point where I can’t even watch

Who remembers the Billie Joe-Avicii colab? I just randomly remembered that today.

As a huge fan of a good Billie-Mike bromance moment, I can say this is true, but also that bar is not very high

Lights Out lives rent free in my head sometimes for some reason. It is not a favorite Green Day song of mine, but it sure if an earworm...

but then how else would they juice the sales numbers for Saviors???

I‘m quite sure this was the case, he seemed to have problems deciphering it…😂 And I think Billie maybe lost a bet against them and had to do this. His „Okay okay, I‘ll do it“ at the beginning. 😆

Maybe this is unpopular, but I like 21st Century Breakdown more than American Idiot.

Resurrecting this to put it on the record: Misery does nothing for me.

do keep in mind that there were some tapes that were damaged also those 3 unheard of songs that we've heard for a while that werent in the box are closely tied into Cigarettes and Valentines, so theres that as well overall, im glad it isnt Anthology 4 (which was a fucking shitshow)

100%

As someone from Denmark this is wild to see!

I don’t play bass and don’t want to buy one. But watching Mike talk about it is nice…

Am I in the Minority *ahem* in thinking that the Macy's Day Parade Otis mix is really disappointing?

Today I caught my husband singing Warning to himself (the song, not the whole album 🤣). He admitted that it’s a good song! Now I am proud! It’s a long way but we’ll get there…

Randomly found this article about one of Billie's bikes that's sold recently https://www.visordown.com/news/green-day-singer-billy-joe-armstrongs-t120r-sells-song

Such a perfect ending to an era. This video changes the song for me. I've always felt like it was an incredibly sad song, but now its feel nostalgic, peaceful and almost happy.

Yeah if I had seats I'd definitely choose the 7-11 thing every time 😂 But it's not even about face time with them or getting a pick or drumstick, though that is super cool too. It's also not about the possibility of getting on stage, because I'm terrified of stage diving so I haven't even tried to volunteer for that (although the girl he brought on stage at this show didn't have to stage dive... I guess maybe the distance between the catwalk and barricade was too big? If I had known that beforehand I would have wanted to go on stage lol). It's hard to explain, but it's like being first row right in front of the stage, first you catch so many details that you wouldn't otherwise, how they interact with each other, how they respond to something happening, etc. So to me it feels much more personal and genuine than a Punk Bunny type of event, even if you are further away and more like an spectator. Then you also feed off their energy so much more, even if I know Green Day can make people in the worst nose bleed seat feel like a front row, but being in front row you feel almost like you are part of the show, and you can kind of feel them feeding off your energy as well. I don't know, it's like something magical happens there. Also I'm so into Green Day because their music speaks to my soul, which I know is also the case for 99.9% of the fans, but so them as individuals in the way you see them at these Punk Bunny Coffee type of events it's not the huge turn on for me that it is for many other people. In that context, to me, they are just these 3 middle age guys discussing coffee (sorry!!!). I understand the hype, I just don't feel it. It was something similar when Billie stood right in front of my section when he was waiting to be handed the giant hat. The girl next to me was screaming her lungs out for the excitement of having him right in front of her, while I was not like "oh my gosh, Billie is right in front of me!!" I was more like "how amazing it is that this moment is happening right in front of me and I can soak up every detail?" On the other hand, if they had played like just 1 verse of a song at the 7-11 thing I would have probably just dropped dead. If I had 5 min just to chat 1-on-1 with any of them I would also dropp dead... if it was with all 3 I'd die even faster 😂

Billie was great when he played that drunken, violent, foul mouthed vandal. Oh, wait.