No Fun Mondays

[Little Boy Named Booze]

Yeah Longshot drawing!

[Squashie]

Here is the youtube link:

Edit: Special guest appearances by illustrated Kevin Preston & David S. Field

[jengd]

12 minutes ago, Beerjeezus said:

The longshot art style is back!

And Kevin and David in the video!  And possibly Jeff.

[pacejunkie punk]

Where does he find these bands?  This is a great song and theme appropriate once again.  Love this.  Would be a great live cover for The Shot.  I really hope these all get uploaded to Spotify eventually as an album

Just now, jengd said:

And Kevin and David in the video!  And possibly Jeff.

lmao  Hard to tell when his head is cut off 😂

Anyone familiar with this song?  

[jengd]

Great song, it and the band are new to me but it suits Billie’s voice very well, another cracker!

[That Dude]

Another band to check out. Thanks, Billie Joe! 

 

[pacejunkie punk]

For anyone who's curious, Starjets are an Irish band from the 70's.  Here's the original:

 

 

[jengd]

The man seems to have heard every song by every band ever! I couldn’t believe it when GD covered the Skids song, most Scots had never heard of the Skids!

[Lenny]

10 minutes ago, jengd said:

And Kevin and David in the video!  And possibly Jeff.

Jeff Matika and the Quarantines 

[BillieJoe’sEyelids]

23 minutes ago, Beerjeezus said:

The longshot art style is back!

That means Billie drew all of these, right?

[pacejunkie punk]

2 minutes ago, BillieJoe’sEyelids said:

That means Billie drew all of these, right?

No it was a fan art video that Longshot first shared back in August 2018 from the account fuzzy66_music

[DookieLukie]

Billie clearly loves the lo-fi, Longshot-style classic rock production. I think it suits him. Odd he went the opposite way on FOAM.

[pacejunkie punk]

This was the origjnal post

 

[BillieJoe’sEyelids]

Just now, pacejunkie punk said:

No it was a fan art video that Longshot first shared back in August 2018 from the account fuzzy66_music

Oh thanks.

[pacejunkie punk]

1 minute ago, DookieLukie said:

Billie clearly loves the lo-fi, Longshot-style classic rock production. I think it suits him. Odd he went the opposite way on FOAM.

I suspect that was not entirely his decision

[Montclare]

Laughing at Kevin and David getting closeups and Jeff being cut out.   Just a random bass player now.

[Beyza]

18 minutes ago, pacejunkie punk said:

Where does he find these bands?  This is a great song and theme appropriate once again.

I think it’s because he is a musicologist and master of general history of rock and familiar with all the good bands from past and today so feel like he is kinda nerdy about it.

[GreenDayItaly]

The video looks familiar 😏😏😏

 

[pacejunkie punk]

I would love to hear him perform this on Corden tomorrow.  Catchy song, I can't stop playing it.  This might be my new favorite (and it was last week's before that)

[dallasthemenace]

this is def my favorite so far..

[pacejunkie punk]

Lyrics: (I think these are the official ones though it sounds like he changed a few)

 

Snow falls and we make our way

To frontiers we are sent

Delay can be dangerous

Danger till the end

Back against the wall

Young men heed the call

Prisoners taken oh oh

Soon be going home

Chorus

War Stories Sergeant Fury

War Stories Captain Hurricane

War Stories Johnny Red

War Stories This is it, This is it

Night falls as the tanks roll by

I signal but in vain

Scared but I'm prepared to die

I smile to hide my pain

Gonna save my soul

It's the all-time low

Generals keep the score

Soon be going home

Repeat Chorus

V-E is near they say

Liberation Holiday

Invasion ally day

We're in sight of victory

Back against the wall

Young men heed the call

Prisoners taken oh oh

Soon be going home

War Stories

War Stories

War Stories Johnny Red

War Stories This is it, This is it

 

[DookieLukie]

3 hours ago, pacejunkie punk said:

I suspect that was not entirely his decision

Who else?

[pacejunkie punk]

18 minutes ago, DookieLukie said:

Who else?

Mike and Tre?  Otherwise the songs Billie wrote at the end of 2017 would have gone into a 2018 Green Day album instead of The Longshot.  My theory is he wanted to do more power pop and wary of the trilogy they did not.  Just a theory of course but why else would the Longshot have happened and FOAM went off in an entirely different direction.  That was a side project that came out of nowhere just when it seemed as though Green Day were full steam ahead.  I think to the extent Green Day is still a democracy, Billie was overruled.  And it was kind of a shame because power pop is clearly where his passion currently lies and he's great at it.  He said in the new Alt Press that doing the Longshot was the most fun and inspired he'd felt in a while.  Not Green Day.  Longshot.

[pacejunkie punk]

And does anyone want to talk about the amazing guitar riffs at the end of this song?   Sounds like something out of Insomniac era to me.

[Virginia Lot Lizard]

Love you @pacejunkie punk I love what you said there. It’s interesting to think about. I love this band. So passionate and interesting and obviously they all care. It’s amazing.

Also. Longshot. And also. When FBHT was going on during the writing/recording of 21CBthat was what made him happy too. FBHT. I think he even said he didn’t like being in Green Day at that point. He likes the smaller rock’n’roll power pop exciting side projects with the wickedly great songs and songs that seems to have more feeling. Personal feelings it seems like. Green Day is a monster. A beautiful monster but kind of difficult to deal with maybe. American Idiot changed things a lot. And it’s like the Trilogy was trying to take the small special type of writing and themes and feed them to the monster. I don’t know what happened there. The Trilogy was a beautiful idea and all that stuff but it wasn’t executed as well as the Longshot or FBHT. That’s weird. Should have been the opposite. 

Does anyone have a link for the new Alt Press where these things are said?

I am so behind!