Hermione Posted May 12, 2009 Posted May 12, 2009 I hate to break it to you lot , but the original Blue broke beyond repair years ago, it's unplayable. He only uses replicas now.Didn't he give the real Blue to his son or something?That's right, he said so in an interview. He said it's totally broken anyway, so he let him have it.Edit: Ignore this, it's now fixed and in use
Drink Drank Punk Posted May 12, 2009 Posted May 12, 2009 I don't think he is. I don't really care either way though.
Juan Posted May 12, 2009 Posted May 12, 2009 I know that. I'm saying for songs like Basket Case, he can just play them normal tuning and just one fret lower. He's not playing any open chords so it won't change anything.yeah, but it's not the same and he plays E in that one and fretting that in the 7th fret doesn't produce the same sound
Hermione Posted May 12, 2009 Posted May 12, 2009 Well I like the replicas too.Yeah me too. I don't think it really makes a difference if it's a replica or the original, it's the spirit that counts
Green Day 13 Posted May 12, 2009 Posted May 12, 2009 That would be so cool if he used Blue!..........i love that guitar is he using his origional one or a replica?
mattlp Posted May 12, 2009 Posted May 12, 2009 I'd read that it had become to fragile to use live so he uses the replicas (for the old songs as the new ones are more gibsony). However in the video from fox theatre he appears to be using a double cut les paul junior for 21st century breakdown so perhaps he is using that one for the Eb tunings and that single cut for the normal tunings. in my opinion floyd is cooler then blue anyway.
foxborohottub Posted May 12, 2009 Posted May 12, 2009 I hate to break it to you lot , but the original Blue broke beyond repair years ago, it's unplayable. He only uses replicas now.That's right, he said so in an interview. He said it's totally broken anyway, so he let him have it.Not true.None of the blue replicas exist anymore. Bj broke or gave them all away. The "blue" he is playing now and during the Ai tour is the one and only original. It was damaged pre Nimrod when a fret broke off and chipped the fingerboard, but it was repaired and refretted in 1997. the interview you are quoting was from 1997 probably. He did retire it for a bit during warning/pop disater tours but the newer ones never sounded as good.fyi, The longer string legnth of a fender has higher string tension than a gibson and is therfore better suited to lower tunings. Since when you tune a shorter gibson down the strings get floppy.Also whoever said that blue is 27 years old so he shouldnt play it, Blue is actually the newest electric guitar he plays on stage! the Les paul jr's he plays for the rest of the set are from 1956, 1957 and 1959!! so Blue is still the baby of the bunch...by the way, Bj still uses "Meat and Pete" his modified marshalls at very show! the same ones from Dookie.
Eirik Posted May 12, 2009 Posted May 12, 2009 ^The difference between Blue and his LPs is that most of the LPs have probably been bought off collectors, or other people who haven't played it on stage every day for years and years, which of course is what he's done with Blue. I think Billie really doesn't care, as long as his guitar sounds and feels good. In the first three shows he didn't use it at all.
tq6993 Posted May 12, 2009 Posted May 12, 2009 hmmm.. i know Floyd's sound. i have Billies signature LP Jr. i could porlly tell what billies playing if i was blind folded. and all i'm hearing on the new album is Floyd. Except for maybe Before The Lobotmy, and a couple others. but i rememebr an interview where Billie said "when i first played a LP Jr. i thought "this is the sound i have been searching for!" so if he has found the sound he'd been looking for idk why he would still use blue alot.
RebelofSuburbia Posted May 12, 2009 Posted May 12, 2009 I thought that was hilarious that it was a cap from VH1.Guess Billie Joe Armstrong watches his own biography on tv. I had exactly the same thoughts. I wonder who thought of the idea to capture that picture to stick it on the replica's.
Radioactive1 Posted May 12, 2009 Posted May 12, 2009 I saw the picture of him using it and it looked really weird, just cos I'm used to seeing pictures of him using it 15 years ago and his entire presence is diferent now.
The Disappearing Boy Posted May 12, 2009 Posted May 12, 2009 lets be honest, none of us know for certain, and it doesn't really matter.
foxborohottub Posted May 12, 2009 Posted May 12, 2009 I saw the picture of him using it and it looked really weird, just cos I'm used to seeing pictures of him using it 15 years ago and his entire presence is diferent now.i do
Hermione Posted May 12, 2009 Posted May 12, 2009 Not true.None of the blue replicas exist anymore. Bj broke or gave them all away. The "blue" he is playing now and during the Ai tour is the one and only original. It was damaged pre Nimrod when a fret broke off and chipped the fingerboard, but it was repaired and refretted in 1997. the interview you are quoting was from 1997 probably. He did retire it for a bit during warning/pop disater tours but the newer ones never sounded as good.fyi, The longer string legnth of a fender has higher string tension than a gibson and is therfore better suited to lower tunings. Since when you tune a shorter gibson down the strings get floppy.Also whoever said that blue is 27 years old so he shouldnt play it, Blue is actually the newest electric guitar he plays on stage! the Les paul jr's he plays for the rest of the set are from 1956, 1957 and 1959!! so Blue is still the baby of the bunch...by the way, Bj still uses "Meat and Pete" his modified marshalls at very show! the same ones from Dookie.Thanks for correcting me, that's so cool! Yeah the way he said it in the interview it sounded like it was destroyed and abandoned forever or something, that's really nice to know he fixed it up. I love how he sees the value in hanging on to old equipment with character like that instead of just buying the newest flashiest stuff.
Mato Posted May 12, 2009 Posted May 12, 2009 Not true.None of the blue replicas exist anymore. Bj broke or gave them all away. The "blue" he is playing now and during the Ai tour is the one and only original. It was damaged pre Nimrod when a fret broke off and chipped the fingerboard, but it was repaired and refretted in 1997. the interview you are quoting was from 1997 probably. He did retire it for a bit during warning/pop disater tours but the newer ones never sounded as good.fyi, The longer string legnth of a fender has higher string tension than a gibson and is therfore better suited to lower tunings. Since when you tune a shorter gibson down the strings get floppy.Also whoever said that blue is 27 years old so he shouldnt play it, Blue is actually the newest electric guitar he plays on stage! the Les paul jr's he plays for the rest of the set are from 1956, 1957 and 1959!! so Blue is still the baby of the bunch...by the way, Bj still uses "Meat and Pete" his modified marshalls at very show! the same ones from Dookie.Thanks for the info wow I didn't know that..
Ila Reto Posted May 12, 2009 Posted May 12, 2009 LOL watch 30 years from now his kid's gonna sell the original Blue on ebaythen...finally it shall be mine mwahahaha!
Haushinkaholic Posted May 12, 2009 Posted May 12, 2009 Oh my god it is not... It's the only strat I'll ever like, it's the reason that I bought a Fender Mexican 50's Reissue Strat in Daphne Blue with a maple neck, the closest thing you can get these days.It's possibly the most Iconic guitar in modern day rock, I'd say the only one that possibly comes close is Angus Young's SG, and even that isn't 1 singular SG.I've been pretty certain for a while that Billie hasn't used a replica Blue in years, I think he used them on the nimrod tour mostly, when he hadn't started playing Jnrs but had a setlist made up of songs in standard and down half a step. I seem to remember reading an interview where he said that he tried to retire her (please excuse my tendency to refer to guitars as female) but missed her too much to not play her any more. On recent tours I've seen that he only brings Blue out for a few songs, prefering to play basketcase and she on a sunburst strat with a star sticker on the body.The songs on this album that are in Eb will undoubtedly be played on a Les Paul jnr, if Billie even plays them live (remember he stated he wanted to "frontman" it up a bit more than usual) and that's as much to do with the difference in tone of a Jnrs p90 pickups to blue's Seymour Duncan Humbucker as it is with the fact that rockin that sleazy lookin punk rock mother blue to these polished new songs would seem a bit wrong.Blue is for the old dirty green day. I like it that way.Remember also that several songs on American idiot are played in Eb (J.O.S, American Idiot and Holiday are recorded in such I'm sure) but Billie played them on Jnrs.As for the guy who say's that Eb is pointless, I disagree, it gives a much less jangly sound, it's altogether dirtier and can be a more agressive tone than songs played in standard, and to get that tone and still play songs such as Basketcase, Stuck With Me, etc (a lot of which including basketcase do include Open chords and drone note open strings) you need to de tune to eb.Incidentally, I'm working with a friend in producing replica stickers for my version of Blue, to authenticate the look for a future awesome tribute band (I need to get trying to be Billie and Green Day out of my system if I'm to avoid regurgitating their music in my own, plus I've wanted to do it since i was like 15 ) if anyone is interested in having some, once we've created them I can post pictures and If anyone wants a set I'm sure we could email them to you all... Peace, Craig. x
Hermione Posted May 12, 2009 Posted May 12, 2009 Blue is for the old dirty green day. I like it that way.YES
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