Guest Hayley Posted April 29, 2009 Posted April 29, 2009 cool, I'll give the scans to my sister to translate them for me.
gmcloughlin Posted April 29, 2009 Posted April 29, 2009 From whats been translated so far, sounds like an awesome artiicle Thanks for posting :wink: Those pics are really good
fashionvictim86 Posted April 29, 2009 Posted April 29, 2009 From whats been translated so far, sounds like an awesome artiicle Thanks for posting :wink: Those pics are really good I've already uploaded most of the pictures into the GDA Picture Vault....they are scattered amongst the Green Day Pictures forum.
rage-love-life Posted April 29, 2009 Posted April 29, 2009 Cool picture on the cover. And I wish I could understand what they're saying..I'm in German but when I looked at the scans, I was like, I need to learn more of it.
Ingrid Posted April 29, 2009 Posted April 29, 2009 Yes, somebody please translate the article..! You know we'd all love you for it. You could just leave out all the boring parts about things we already know...
Hermione Posted April 30, 2009 Posted April 30, 2009 Already posted in another thread . I just descovered this one too late.Tré:Question: What can we expect from the upcoming world tour?Tré: Expect everything! I would repeat the act with the flag in due time...Question.: The act with the flag?Tré: A.: When we were at Norway last tour, we met an old friend, James, who's really a giant. Sometime at night we climbed onto the roof of the hotel, took the Norwegian flag and hoisted one of Jame's incredibly huge boxershorts instead. There was a picture of it in the newspaper, with the comment: "Green Day are in Town..." So dear readers, if you ask yourself, in which hotel we're stayin' just look, what's waving on the roof of any hotel!" Btw: Special thanks to xXMaggyXx . She translated this part, cause my english sucks.Hahaha that's brilliant!What keeps the band together?Tre: We love each other.(pause)That’s nice.Yeah. It may sound weird to say it. Nobody of us could imagine to do something different, now or in the past.Is friendship more important than ability?At all points. That‘s my tip to all readers, that want to make a band in the future: play with persons you like! Play with friends in your group, not just with a random guy because he has better equipment. Just make music with your damn friends- even if you suck badly. At the end of the day you suck badly together and it‘s not half as bad. It‘s as simple as that.The most band members that play together for over 20 years need sooner or later at least private distance. You never moved away from each other.Where should we go? People frown when we enthuse about Oakland and ask us why we didn‘t move to Hollywood. My response is the same every time: „ I‘m not in the film industry, so that‘s not my business.“ I mean, there‘s nothing wrong with LA… Okay, actually there‘s much wrong in LA. (laughs)You don‘t feel the need moving somewhere when you are in the studio or on tour for months anyway. Coming back home again after that is absolute luxury. We are all fathers and weren‘t always successful husbands. I have two ex-wives and with both one child. One lives in NYC one in San Francisco and I live in Oakland. It‘s already hard enough to manage this all from here.more coming soon.That's so nice, reading that made me smile. Thanks for these cool little snippets, makes me want to read the whole thing even more!
Anja Posted April 30, 2009 Posted April 30, 2009 Anjaaaaa, I know it's a lot to ask, but is there any chance of a translation? All the German I knew back in highschool is long gone. *groan* I WANNA KNOW WHAT IT SAYS! /petulant childKaaaaaaat...I can translate it for all of you later. The whole thing. I hope I will feel like doing it It's not that special...http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/263/pict0198h.jpgBut obviously special enough to be already on your door
Teenage Kicks! Posted April 30, 2009 Posted April 30, 2009 I have a belief that if I keep staring at it I can read it. Hm...Online translators >.>
achtungkatie Posted April 30, 2009 Posted April 30, 2009 Kaaaaaaat...I can translate it for all of you later. The whole thing. I hope I will feel like doing it Ahahahaha, PLEASE?!?! That would rule, babe. Thank you in advance!!
thenextsexpistol_mak Posted April 30, 2009 Posted April 30, 2009 gd is in the new rock sound, just a little review hidden in a page, but it sais next issue there will be a full article
Princess Consuela Posted April 30, 2009 Posted April 30, 2009 Wow this looks like a really awesome interview. I can't wait for more!
Moxy Crimefighter Posted April 30, 2009 Posted April 30, 2009 if i could travle back in time i'd tell my little 7 year old self this....LEARN GERMAN YOU LITTLE BASTARD!
Anja Posted April 30, 2009 Posted April 30, 2009 Alright. So the article starts by describing the area in which Studio 880 is and what the studio looks like from the inside. It´s right underneath a highway in a so-called "gang land" as the woman from Warner who lead the interviewers in the studio uses to say. Outside on the wall are some graffitis that are all going to be in the booklet of "21st century breakdown": A group picture of Green Day. A leaner man who´s raising both of his middle fingers and cries out in pain.A woman who´s holding a tissue of stars and stripes (probably the american flag) in front of her face as a breathing protection.Inside of Studio 880 is a huge tapestry, another American flag. Next to it, Billies guitars and Mikes basses as well as books, LPs and stuffed fishes(!).Then they´re starting the interview with Mike:Q: You could afford every studio in this world. Why did you choose this one in the ghetto?A: Well, first of all, we are living close to the studio. Also, the location keeps uninvited guests from hanging around in front of the studio door.Q: Are you refering to paparazzo?A: Yes. They don´t dare to come here. This place really belongs to us, it makes us invisible, it is real. I mean, take a look around you: It can´t be any more real. [laughs]Q: Yes, indeed. It certainly is. There´s a car with [don´t know the word] wheels (with pricks all over it or something like this). Is it really that important to be invisible?A: Let´s say: We don´t like to be distracted and there is a lot of distraction out there. We went back to L.A. for the final recordings cause they have the best studio(s) but different than with the last album, we stayed away from Hollywood parties. All energy ought to go into the new album which we didn´t know what it would look like just before the end. We were really nervous.Q: Cause the last album was such an succes? Or because you´re going into different terrains with this album: Doo Wop, New Wave, Queen?A: Because of both. It´s not that we felt any pressure but when you start writing a new album after selling millions of your last one and doing stadium shows and then all of a sudden you´re looking at this blank white piece of paper, all you can think of is: "Oh Shit!"Q: On the other hand, there´s one thing you don´t have to worry about after "American Idiot": That people will listen to you.A: We knew it was a huge chance for us that "American Idiot" brought us a second spring (it´s an expression; not sure if it´s the same in english) ten years after "Dookie". But also, this second chance brought a huge problem with it: how do you react to it? Fast or with caution/advisedly? What keeps you up there on the top? We´ve always been extremely unpatient; that kind of guys who rather have a new album out today than tomorrow. On the other side, we didn´t want to reply to "American Idiot" with a four-chord punk record. We wanted to keep walking on that path with complex songs.Q: Which you succesfully did!A: It wasn´t that easy though. We trapped ourselves for three years for this record. Envolving ideas, rejecting ideas, editing rejected ideas... I [don´t know the word] about a thousand times in this room, ready for another day of writing, recording, listening and juding. Q: Has Butch Vig been a big help for you?A: Look at it like this: We recorded the best demos in the word - and the worst crap under the sun. Butch [had to listen] to all of our ideas and he picked the best of it. But this man has a good overview. He put the pieces together to a picture while we were still busy and bothered with little details.Q: Was there a key moment in which the album took shape?A: The key moment for me was when Billy (@Visions: It´s still Billie ) presented the title track to us. It´s about him growing up in the working class and leaving his home, the end of a gloomy era and the beginning of a new...gloomy era. What´s ironic about it is that we look back to it in a kind of wistful/weepy way cause that was the "good old time". We Americans are pretty fucked up at the moment. Every week a new cisis, every year a new war or conflict. Natural disasters. Television´s advertising medication every few minutes but there´s no health system that helps people paying for those medications. Something always goes wrong and that´s why it was so important for us to capture a certain naivety; the belief in the light at the end of the tunnel. "Don´t be down in the mouth!"Q: So it´s an optimistic album?A: Well, at least it has some optimistic moments between all the dark ones. [laughs]Q: No matter what, it seems like the logical next step after "American Idiot" with its style-accrossing (not sure bout this), sometimes epic songs. Your first big bestseller "Dookie" was followed by a pretty [no word for this but it wasn´t positive :wink: ) record by the name of "Isomniac".A: It just was the reaction of three punk kids who were surprised by the sudden success and who just wanted to prove people that they can do different. "Dookie" didn´t seem like a chance but more than something that just came to us. Insofar, we matured/grow up. "21st Century Breakdown" ain´t a reactionary record, more a strategic smart record. Q: So you would have recorded this album the same way if it had been stolen again? A: [laughs] Let me tell you what we would have done. We would have seek out that bastard of a thief and cut off his throat - that´s what we would have done! We´ve been working on this album since early 2006 with only one month of holiday.Q: Did you guys travel?A: Tré went to Cuba, I went on a backbag tour across Europe with my fiance. I mean, with my girlfriend cause I proposed to her at the end of that trip when I realized that this relationship worked out if we would see each other a few weeks around the clock. Q: So it was a success?A: Absolutely. We started in Paris, went to Sicily, Northern Italy and from there to Prague, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and London. It was great to see these cities through the eyes of an ordinary mortal. It´s crazy: In Paris you see something you want to take a picture of at every third corner. Then you come to Sicily and you see something that is picture worthy at every corner. Then you go to Venice and there´s is something every meter you want to take a picture of. Walt Disney couldn´t have built this city any better!Q: Didn´t people ask you for a photograph continually? A: No, I travelled incognito, you could say. Nobody expected me at those places. And once you are traveling and stop shaving...Sorry for any spelling or grammatical mistakes If you find any, you can keep ´em!The other parts are coming later.
greenbear Posted April 30, 2009 Posted April 30, 2009 Thanks so much for the translation. I wish I was good at languages!Enjoyed reading it
Nobody_Likes_You Posted April 30, 2009 Posted April 30, 2009 Okay Anja hope you don't mind it, I'll start translating the I'm the son of Rage and Love The Jesus of Suburbia part. ~ 1h I think.
Anja Posted April 30, 2009 Posted April 30, 2009 Okay Anja hope you don't mind it, I'll start translating the I'm the son of Rage and Love The Jesus of Suburbia part. ~ 1h I think.I only wrote like a short summary about the texts that come before the actual interviews. So I only translated the interview(s) in its full text since it´s the more important part about this whole article. And I don´t mind if you do that. Why should I!?
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