Nobody_Likes_You Posted June 5, 2009 Posted June 5, 2009 Hey guys,I found the article that's in the Unclesally*s magazine on the net. They put it on their website.Digital Mag page 1,2page 3,4There are also some nice pics, that show some important places for Green Day hereAnd there is a nice little article about 924 Gilman Street club hereand here is the Green Day story in normal text format Have fun. Someone will translate it for you probably, I have no time at the moment, sry :/
Nele Posted June 5, 2009 Posted June 5, 2009 Oh yeah I already saw that on the page too. But, where the hell can I buy it? I never heard about that magazin before... :/
Deniz. Posted June 5, 2009 Posted June 5, 2009 Could someone please translate this! Looks good.it's very much..and I am not so good that i can translate it, sorry..you wouldn't understand it but wait for anja..maybe she has time..
Princess Consuela Posted June 5, 2009 Posted June 5, 2009 This article looks really awesome. I love how they put all those places connected with GD together.Why it has to be in German? *waits for translation* :whistling:
.Brian Posted June 5, 2009 Posted June 5, 2009 This article looks really awesome. I love how they put all those places connected with GD together.Why it has to be in German? *waits for translation* :whistling:because germans are cool
Princess Consuela Posted June 5, 2009 Posted June 5, 2009 not really All Germans I know are cool True that there are not many of them but still
Deniz. Posted June 5, 2009 Posted June 5, 2009 All Germans I know are cool True that there are not many of them but still who? xD
OliDayyy Posted June 5, 2009 Posted June 5, 2009 GD.com posted these 4 covers:And the pic of the article:
Katarina. Posted June 5, 2009 Posted June 5, 2009 Those pics kinda remind me of The Network for some strange reason
K3rp1unk_Girl Posted June 5, 2009 Posted June 5, 2009 Rod’s Hickory PitAdeline/AshbyRudy’s Can’t Fail CaféToot’s Tavern880 StudiosFoxboro ParkChristie Road
Katarina. Posted June 5, 2009 Posted June 5, 2009 ^ Those pics are posted in the first post already, when you click on the links.
Donna Saint Posted June 5, 2009 Posted June 5, 2009 I started to translate the article. If someone's faster than me I will be sad^^
Guest Posted June 5, 2009 Posted June 5, 2009 GD.com posted these 4 covers:And the pic of the article:Gloria called. She wants her hanky back.
Guest Shangri-La Posted June 5, 2009 Posted June 5, 2009 fabulous pictures!someone neeeeeeeeds to translate this please
Nele Posted June 5, 2009 Posted June 5, 2009 someone neeeeeeeeds to translate this please me and donna saint are workig on doing that.
Donna Saint Posted June 5, 2009 Posted June 5, 2009 Here is the fist article. Please overread the mistakesIn war and in love everything is allowedDookie, Insomniac, Nimrod, Warning – All of them are relics from another common era, long faded stars in a galaxy far away and since American Idiot just footnotes in the musical vita or Green Day – a band who branded the spirit of the time as no other, who was very branded by their home, the north Californian East Bay. We looked around there:Suddenly it’s there, that biting stench. It surrounds the black oil tanks that are eating through the sap green hills around a little village called Rodeo as if they were ulcers; and it rose from the chimneys which’s death bringing emissions dunk the San Pablo Bay in yellow golden fog. Here, not more than 45 minutes from the clean streets of San Francisco, is the cancer rate far above the average, every 7th person lives below the poverty line and a train from Southern Pacific Railroad had not halted since the fifties. Rodeo is a place where you don’t want to be born.Billie Joe Armstrong often returns – at least in his thoughts. Raised in Rodeo he is the youngest of 6 siblings, as son of the Oklahoman waitress Ollie and the *Safeway*-truck driver and hobby jazz musician Andy, his past does not let him rest. After 20 band-years with his school day friends Mike Dirnt (Bass) and Tré Cool (drums), the front man of Green Day is still conjoined with his proletarian core that is at the same time his source for inspiration and backtracking of his own roots. Even the new album 21st Century Breakdown which ties up with the success of the century American Idiot, begins in the same-titled song with a autobiographical journey to the home of the Eddie Van Halen lovers, who as the lastborn Armstrong ran as fast as he could. He did not get that far.Who thinks he has to push a gaggle of Armstrong lookalikes away to get into the creativity centre of the punk rooted trio, is wrong. Even of the detailed location plan on the homepage of the record temple you cannot find a kid who camps here in the justifiable hope to meet their heroes. This has its good reasons. The directly on the Highway 880 located studio bunker, where most of the songs of American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown were made, is just a few blocks from the bourgeois residential area of the band members is nevertheless in another world were conflicts are resolved with words. And anyway: when there is a crisis in America then it doesn’t only hit the mostly Portuguese population of Jungle Town first, it hits them with full force: hastily parked car wrecks stand in front of the left and barricaded wood houses, the streets are deserted even it is Californian weather, shops and office buildings aren’t really existing. Deceiving peace encircles Studio 880, a place of which every band member escaped at least once.“I went through this door over there more than a 1000 times”, explains Mike Dirnt and points at, the, with a graffiti of the actual album decorated, iron portal, which separates the holy halls from the adjoined “Gangland”. “And believe me; I did not always have a whistle on my lips.” They fought some times behind the with Green day relicts, old motor bikes and over dimensional posters crammed studio scenery. Absolute leader of the list of the abrupt farewells out of the 880 is of course the “democratic elected band leader” Billie Joe Armstrong who had more than once the dangerous feeling to be not enough for his own demands. Carried on panic and self critics he filed on the texts and arrangements until they were deformed beyond recognitions, ran annoyed out of the studio and started again the very next day. Mike and Tré only had the role as arbitrators, who only could filter and buoy up, and guide the puzzle of ideas of their colleague in comprehensible ways.Armstrong had it hard with the heir of American Idiot. But finally their spontaneous trip as The Foxboro Hot Tubs made it better and easier. “It was as if you turn on an old car. You have to blow through the motor”, remembers Mike. “We locked ourselves over there in the room for the whole night, killed 11 bottles of red whine and wrote all songs for the album. Just like that!” We did not bend it and believed him. “Besides”, believes Mike,”are Green day the problem itself in many ways.” the band had no talent a) to take a optical and analytical look at their own past and b) to reanimate forgotten lyrics. For the last point producer legend Butch Vig (Nirvana, Against Me!) who dared to thump on an intensive examination with the song Horseshoes & Handgrenades until the band gave in and the fog of aimlessness and excessive demands cleared. “When we finally finished that song it had a similar liberating effect as American Idiot”, remembers Mike. “Suddenly we found a direction and we attacked as if we were famished wolves.”In the beginning the band had more than 100 song fragments and they packed them with active help of their seasoned producer Vig in 18 songs which Armstrong parted in 3 chapters to give his protagonists Christian & Gloria an adventure through the destruction of the civilisation. Unlike American Idiot 21st Century Breakdown didn’t follow a noticeable and only political topic but oscillated between autobiography, system critics and fiction.But maybe the album is just, like Billie calls it “a collection of snapshots of the last 3 ½ years. No matter if it was political incidents or economical or ecological catastrophes. It has a lot of facets this time.” Armstrong thematizes his volunteering and of his environment active wife Adrienne initiated mission in the Katrina desolated New Orleans in Last Of The American Girls, wonders about the contrariness religious preachers in East Jesus Nowhere and transfers himself as part of the Class Of 13 in the generation of his oldest son Joey who will finish high school in 2013. All this packs Armstrong – inspired by Eddie Coehan, the Kinks, The Doors, Meat Loafs Beat Out Of Hell and a halfway balanced family life – in a pitching sound concept that focuses on studio-filling amusement. So is 21st century Breakdown dominated by bombastic songs and shows Armstrong’s new love for piano arrangements, ballads and midtempo anthems. There is nothing what would work better in Milton Keynes than this.
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