Radio Station blog post: Green Day’s Rock Opera 17 Years In The Making?

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Green Day’s Rock Opera 17 Years In The Making?: http://live105.radio.com/2010/10/25/video-green-days-rock-opera-17-years-in-the-making/

[Bastard of 1967]

Green Day’s Rock Opera 17 Years In The Making?: http://live105.radio.com/2010/10/25/video-green-days-rock-opera-17-years-in-the-making/

Wow.... to say that bj was on a mission even in the early 90's might be understating it. Thanks for posting!

[euphoric-pareidolias]

yeah..wow!!

thanks for sharing!

[Stormy Haze]

I had never seen that before, thanks for posting

[PasalacquaBomb]

Haha. That was a cool video.

Thanks for sharing this!

[Juliette]

haha, weird.

[sara_gd]

I saw that a while ago.

Weeeird

[bass boy]

that article is a fail.

But did this all really go down in just 2 or even 4 years? Check out this video interview from 1993, just before the release of their debut album Dookie.

*facepalm*

but no, thats a great interview, grat find, thanks!

[Vaso.Of.Suburbia]

Hmmmmmm......... Pretty Interesting....

[Peace and Rainbows]

Cool

[Katarina.]

Yeah, I know. It's cool to watch that interview (I actually did again yesterday, lol), knowing the whole rock opera thing happened.. 11 years later The whole interview is worth watching btw, it's great.

[Daughter.of.Rage.and.Love]

It's funny how they were totally kidding when they said that back then, and it just happened they did make a rock opera 11 years later, which features a character called St. Jimmy. Billie was once asked about it, how in this interview they said they'd made a rock opera called "Jimmy", and he didn't even remember it. Still pretty cool, though.

^ And Billie's eating during the entire interview.

[-Billiejoezee-]

Omg billie stop eating.

[Bastard of 1967]

Omg billie stop eating.

Had the munchies apparently...must've been some pretty strong weed he was smokin' before he gave that chat. :eyebrow:

[-Billiejoezee-]

Had the munchies apparently...must've been some pretty strong weed he was smokin' before he gave that chat. :eyebrow:

Maybe so...

[LouLou]

I always found this hilarious I love that interview and it's such a big coincidence!

[Guest Mia Joe]

Wow I thought this was everyones knowledge, I saw this interview some time ago.

Or maybe I'm confusing video clips, they've mentioned rock opera and Broadway several times.

[mandajane]

ive seen this! i wonder if they remember saying that. i doubt they ever thought at the time what was going to happen...

[Katarina.]

^ And Billie's eating during the entire interview.

That's what makes it great. And Billie's isn't the only one talking, Mike and Tre do that as well, yay.

[EvanAsFuck]

haha wow that's awesome, I've never seen this before...

I wonder if they really seriously had this idea in their head at that time or if it was just a joke and ended up being a coincidence...

[DorkWithAFork]

I actually kind of noticed this before when I was watching it.

And I always laugh at this video because of the way they're acting

[FiaKels]

One of my personal favorite interviews.

But honestly, saying that American Idiot was in the think tank stages before Dookie was even out is trying to overthink things a bit. Lots of big albums have characters named Jimmy. Like Dr. Jimmy in Quadrophenia, and Jimmy Jazz in London Calling.

On a side note, why are they being interviewed for the fucking DMV?

[Nele]

Yeah I've watched the video a few times already and that part always made me smile.

I like the part when Mike mentions it's called 'Jimmy' and the interviewer is like "Shut up!" as if something like that would be totally unimaginable. ^^

[lizziebix]

Thanks for posting. Interesting that they are kidding about the rock opera. And of course, Billie eating again. Does he eat in every old interview???!!

[Daughter.of.Rage.and.Love]

One of my personal favorite interviews.

But honestly, saying that American Idiot was in the think tank stages before Dookie was even out is trying to overthink things a bit. Lots of big albums have characters named Jimmy. Like Dr. Jimmy in Quadrophenia, and Jimmy Jazz in London Calling.

I think that is exactly why they said it's called Jimmy. They're making fun of the them making a rock opera thing, and to top it off they're calling it Jimmy, of all names you could give it.

I totally can't phrase what I want to say. I hope this post doesn't convey an entirely different message than what I mean, haha.