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Green Day went into the Recording Studio with the American Idiot: The Musical cast to record 21 Guns

The Video will be released on Feb. 1, 2010 at AOL Music. Here is the Article from greenday.com

BURBANK, Calif. - (Business Wire) Multi-platinum rock band Green Day globally premiere a brand-new version of their platinum-selling single “21 Guns” on http://www.spinner.com/aolmusic on Thursday, December 3rd. The song will ship to all radio formats on Friday, December 4th. This new version of the track features the band performing with the cast of American Idiot — the critically acclaimed stage version of Green Day’s chart-topping 2004 album that just completed a record-breaking three-month run at The Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Newly arranged by Tom Kitt, who is credited with the show’s arrangements and musical supervision, recorded at Green Day’s studio in Oakland, CA, and produced by singer and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong. It will be available for purchase from all digital service providers on December 22nd.

Prominently featured on the track are American Idiot cast members John Gallagher, Jr., who won a Tony Award in 2007 for Spring Awakening, Matt Kaplan, Michael Esper, Rebecca Naomi Jones (Passing Strange), Christina Sajous, and Mary Faber. Though the bulk of the songs in the musical are taken from American Idiot, four songs from the band’s current gold album 21st Century Breakdown, including “21 Guns,” are featured in the show.

“We wanted to record ’21 Guns’ because it represents a pivotal moment in the show when the lead character, sung by John Gallagher, Jr., realizes he needs to get his stuff together,” says Armstrong, who collaborated on the story for American Idiot with Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening). “After the show wrapped, we headed straight to Oakland with the cast to record, and they sung the hell out of it. I couldn’t be happier. It’s great to have something out there for people to hear who didn’t get to see the show.”

Green Day, which also includes bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Tre Cool, had cameras rolling in the studio while they recorded the track and plan to release an accompanying video. More details on that will follow shortly.

“21 Guns” is the second single from Green Day’s gold album 21st Century Breakdown. The digital version of the track has sold more than one million downloads, while the video won three 2009 MTV Video Music Awards in September, including “Best Rock Video.” The band recently completed a sold-out European tour and took home their second American Music Award for “Favorite Alternative Music Artist” in November. They will perform on NBC’s New Year’s Eve with Carson Daly on December 31st. The band is currently on tour in Australia and New Zealand.

Listen To The 2 Versions Here:

21 Guns - AI Musical (Matt Caplan main vocals) | 21 Guns - AI Musical (Billie Joe main vocals)

Watch the video of this song

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Proof?

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Saw that on Twitter, should be good.

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Oooh, interesting.

your sig gets me every time.

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Proof?

It was Green Day's Offical Twitter

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Oh! I haven't been on Twitter in forever. Thanks! Awesome that it's right from Billie Joe, too. I'm excited to hear it, it should be awesome.

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Ha! I just saw this on Twitter and ran over here to be the first to tell it. You beat me to it. :lol: I cant wait to hear this!

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Awesome!

I'm really excited to hear this, i bet it's gonna be epic.

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Ooh that's cool :happy:

Can't wait to hear it!

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Thats pretty interesting, Looking foward to hearing what it'll sound like :)

These guys dont know how to take a break.

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Couldn't this have been put in the Green Day Twitter thread?

Jus' sayin'.

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Couldn't this have been put in the Green Day Twitter thread?

Jus' sayin'.

That thread got closed, haha.

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Couldn't this have been put in the Green Day Twitter thread?

Jus' sayin'.

Got closed.

edit: ah, late.

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That's going to sound awesome! Hopefully we'll be able to hear it soon!

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I think they should do more than just 21 Guns. Like..the whole musical. And release it along with a DVD. But I guess one song is good enough. :lol:

Got closed.

edit: ah, late.

Heh, fail. :P

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I miss the Green Day Twitter thread.

This is so cool.

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I think they should do more than just 21 Guns. Like..the whole musical. And release it along with a DVD. But I guess one song is good enough. :lol:

Heh, fail. :P

Yeah they should totally do that. I still really hope for a DVD of it, I really really really want to see the musical :happy:

You failed worse with your so-called Network tour :P

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Yeah they should totally do that. I still really hope for a DVD of it, I really really really want to see the musical :happy:

You failed worse with your so-called Network tour :P

Yes!

And shut it. :mad:

jaykay.

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I miss the Green Day Twitter thread.

This is so cool.

I do too :( And we werent actually off topic in it! We were still talking about twitter!

Anyway yay I am excited! :D

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im so excited!

cant wait to hear it, but seriously, do these guys ever sleep?

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iz gun r00l

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Yes!

And shut it. :mad:

jaykay.

lmao sarah i saw that thread!

made me giggle when i realized it was a metal band :lol:

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im so excited!

cant wait to hear it, but seriously, do these guys ever sleep?

they are actually the Cullen family.

Mike is Emmet, Billie is Alice and Tre' is Esme

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