Green Day's recording process

[deleteduser7593]

Has anyone enough knowledge to give me a few ''details'' about Green Day usual recording process? I've always been curious about it that everytime I see 'em in a studio I can't help myself getting shivers. I also remember a clip from 1997 where Billie Joe was (in the studio) listening to a song destined to end up in Nimrod, months later. I don't know... How many guitar, vocal tracks... And similiar. 'Cause I'm quite sure they have a sort of standard modus operandi while creating albums. Thanks!  

[WhiteTim]

Watch Cuatro or HLAHG would be the best bet no one here has probably never been in the studio with them to talk about their process 

[deleteduser7593]

1 hour ago, WhiteTim said:

Watch Cuatro or HLAHG would be the best bet no one here has probably never been in the studio with them to talk about their process 

Thanks, I've seen both 

[LaughingClock]

2 hours ago, WhiteTim said:

Watch Cuatro or HLAHG would be the best bet no one here has probably never been in the studio with them to talk about their process 

Was about the same. Can’t thibk of a bank with more studio footage.

[WhiteTim]

3 hours ago, LaughingClock said:

Was about the same. Can’t thibk of a bank with more studio footage.

I know Billy Corgan has tons of video footage of Mellon Collie sessions tho not professionally taped just a video camera set up on a desk pointing at the band clips of it has aired of course Metallica has all of the St Anger sessions filmed i know several others who film at least home film sessions if only more bands would publicly share video like GD has 

[Spike]

There's a very in-depth article about the recording of Basket Case here.

No doubt things will have changed since then but it's a cool insight. 

[deleteduser7593]

14 minutes ago, Spike said:

There's a very in-depth article about the recording of Basket Case here.

No doubt things will have changed since then but it's a cool insight. 

Oh yeah, I read it tons of times in the past 10 years, thank you, too! 

[Todd]

I recently interviewed Ken Allardyce, Nimrod's engineer. I will try to get the interview up soon  

[deleteduser7593]

57 minutes ago, Todd said:

I recently interviewed Ken Allardyce, Nimrod's engineer. I will try to get the interview up soon  

I read you mentioned it in a Nimord thread, thank you 

[Billie Joe's Fender]

On 12/2/2017 at 1:05 AM, Spike said:

There's a very in-depth article about the recording of Basket Case here.

No doubt things will have changed since then but it's a cool insight. 

In that interview it says that Billie used multiple guitars. What other guitars did he have, i thought Blue was the only electric he had back in 1993.

[Spike]

1 hour ago, Billie Joe's Fender said:

In that interview it says that Billie used multiple guitars. What other guitars did he have, i thought Blue was the only electric he had back in 1993.

No idea but since they were touring he must have had at least one backup. Plus he didn't necessarily own what was used on Dookie. If I was to guess he probably just used different Strats. 

[WhiteTim]

1 hour ago, Billie Joe's Fender said:

In that interview it says that Billie used multiple guitars. What other guitars did he have, i thought Blue was the only electric he had back in 1993.

Studios have instruments on hand that musicians can rent to use 

[DanPak]

It's quite hard to really say what their recording process is really, I'm studying sound engineering right now so from experience I know it most likely changes drastically between songs and albums. The only thing I can really say for sure is that they start by recording drums, with all of them playing live in the studio, and from there they'll overdub all the bass, guitar and vocal tracks.