Liam Posted May 2, 2011 Posted May 2, 2011 I'm pretty sure someone had asked about that before and someone said that someone had made a fake myspace account for Adie and someone was able to do an interview with "Billie" through her and thats what he said. Thats also where this quote came from about Billie crying during the song on BIAB "I tried to fight it, but singing that song on stage and having 60,000 people singing it right back at you, it was just too overwhelming." So yea, its fake
Ellenkc Posted May 2, 2011 Posted May 2, 2011 I read this - "Billie Joe Armstrong (Green Day) was 10 years old when his father died of cancer. At the funeral Billie couldn’t handle it, so he ran home to his house and locked himself in his room. His worried mother ran after him only to find the door locked, she asked him to come out but he only said “Wake me up when september ends” (Billie’s dad died in September)." Is that actually where the song came from? Some girl posted this on Tumblr ages ago, I asked her where she had gotten it from and she linked me a lyric-meanings website where people put up their own interpretations of songs. She was an idiot and did not get that it wasn't true. How would a ten year old run all the way from a funeral home to his house without anyone catching him?
elephantstone Posted May 2, 2011 Posted May 2, 2011 Just realised I've never known this. In WMUWSE, why does Billie say "seven years have gone so fast", yet later on in the song he says "twenty years have gone so fast"?
Ellenkc Posted May 2, 2011 Posted May 2, 2011 Just realised I've never known this. In WMUWSE, why does Billie say "seven years have gone so fast", yet later on in the song he says "twenty years have gone so fast"? I figured one of his children was 7 at the time and he was sort of reflecting on himself as a father and his own father's passing.
Liam Posted May 2, 2011 Posted May 2, 2011 Just realised I've never known this. In WMUWSE, why does Billie say "seven years have gone so fast", yet later on in the song he says "twenty years have gone so fast"? I think he might be trying to say like 7 years has gone fast and than the next thing he knows its been 20 years which is why he would go from 7 years - 20 years.
Beathe. Posted May 2, 2011 Posted May 2, 2011 Just realised I've never known this. In WMUWSE, why does Billie say "seven years have gone so fast", yet later on in the song he says "twenty years have gone so fast"? He has said before that the song was written over time about dealing with the loss of his dad. Since he wrote it over time he first says seven years, and then twenty.
Hermione Posted May 2, 2011 Posted May 2, 2011 I'm pretty sure someone had asked about that before and someone said that someone had made a fake myspace account for Adie and someone was able to do an interview with "Billie" through her and thats what he said. Thats also where this quote came from about Billie crying during the song on BIAB "I tried to fight it, but singing that song on stage and having 60,000 people singing it right back at you, it was just too overwhelming." So yea, its fake Nah that was the fake quote about slash fanfiction . But yeah it's fake anyway.
Rebel07 Posted May 2, 2011 Posted May 2, 2011 Did anyone ever get these? http://greenday.shop.bravadousa.com/Product.aspx?cp=16464_42265&pc=BGAPGD05 I'm curious.. I'm not sure where else to post about this and I was too lazy to look for the GD merch thread
Savannah89 Posted May 2, 2011 Posted May 2, 2011 Oh Gosh. I rode about this quote on tumblr: Last night Billie Joe Armstrong killed one of his children’s pets. He came home to Oakland and his first quality time with wife Adrienne and two kids in months, and straightaway there was grim “man of the house” work to be done. Ringo, a pet rat with an ear infection, had to die. “There were two and that just leaves John,” he says. “You kinda wish it was like that in real life. Q Magazine (May 2005) Is this real? *__* Did he really killed the rat?
Zelda Posted May 2, 2011 Posted May 2, 2011 Oh Gosh. I rode about this quote on tumblr: Last night Billie Joe Armstrong killed one of his children’s pets. He came home to Oakland and his first quality time with wife Adrienne and two kids in months, and straightaway there was grim “man of the house” work to be done. Ringo, a pet rat with an ear infection, had to die. “There were two and that just leaves John,” he says. “You kinda wish it was like that in real life. Q Magazine (May 2005) Is this real? *__* Did he really killed the rat? I doubt it...it sounds fake, and not only that, it doesn't sound like anything that Billie would ever do. Don't always believe the crap you read on Tumblr.
Hermione Posted May 2, 2011 Posted May 2, 2011 Oh Gosh. I rode about this quote on tumblr: Last night Billie Joe Armstrong killed one of his children’s pets. He came home to Oakland and his first quality time with wife Adrienne and two kids in months, and straightaway there was grim “man of the house” work to be done. Ringo, a pet rat with an ear infection, had to die. “There were two and that just leaves John,” he says. “You kinda wish it was like that in real life. Q Magazine (May 2005) Is this real? *__* Did he really killed the rat? I doubt it...it sounds fake, and not only that, it doesn't sound like anything that Billie would ever do. Don't always believe the crap you read on Tumblr. It's real. I read the article years ago and I've been trying to find it for ages! Q magazine May 2005 they say? *goes to look for it* I agree you shouldn't believe all the things you read on Tumblr but when the quote comes with a source it's a different matter. Found it in the old articles section on GDA (that there's no longer a link to on the site but is still there hiding away). The articles are in order from oldest to newest, it's about two-thirds of the way down the page: http://www.greendayauthority.com/TheBand/articles.php Oh and the quote is on the 3rd scan, it's the first paragraph of the article. I must say I do find it quite odd that he'd kill the rat instead of taking it to a vet to be put down, and also odd that they'd wait for him to come home instead of simply taking the rat to the vet themselves. Maybe he did just take it to be put down at a vet and the journalist has just written it that way to imply he killed it himself? I dunno, it's weird.
Savannah89 Posted May 3, 2011 Posted May 3, 2011 Sorry, you posted when I wrote my last entry. Yeah with the source it sounded true to me too. Even If I ask myself: Would he really do this to the rat? Thanks for the article.
farley drexel hatcher Posted May 3, 2011 Posted May 3, 2011 Sure, But Q Magazine printed it? Would they write wrong things down? No? Why would they be lying, why does it bother you? It's something parents have to do sometimes. I'm sure he did it as humanely as possible.
Hermione Posted May 3, 2011 Posted May 3, 2011 Yeah actually I suppose it could've been that he knew it needed to be put out of it's misery, so decided to quickly kill it himself instead of prolonging it's suffering longer by taking it to a vet. I'm guessing that's what it was.
Punk-tastic32 Posted May 3, 2011 Posted May 3, 2011 I've been expanding my photo library of tour pictures. And labeling them becomes difficult when labels start looking like [Jan_14- BJ_Blue (45)] If you know what I mean. So I was wondering if there was a way to tell (roughly) what song they're playing by things like: -Which instrument they're using -The backdrop -The lighting and so on... Thanks!
Guest EDIT Posted May 3, 2011 Posted May 3, 2011 Was Scumbag really a single? http://www.greendaycollection.de/singles/warning-era/ 7th down on the right side.
Beathe. Posted May 3, 2011 Posted May 3, 2011 Sorry, you posted when I wrote my last entry. Yeah with the source it sounded true to me too. Even If I ask myself: Would he really do this to the rat? Thanks for the article. That's from Q magazine or something in '05. The rat had an earinfection and he did take him to the vet. EDIT: I must have read it somewere else than Q. I remember it very clarely though, I'll see if I can find it.
Hermione Posted May 3, 2011 Posted May 3, 2011 That's from Q magazine or something in '05. The rat had an earinfection and he did take him to the vet. EDIT: I must have read it somewere else than Q. I remember it very clarely though, I'll see if I can find it. It was from Q in '05, I already posted a link to the scans further up the page
Beathe. Posted May 3, 2011 Posted May 3, 2011 It was from Q in '05, I already posted a link to the scans further up the page Now I see it. Thanks.
pasalaska Posted May 3, 2011 Posted May 3, 2011 I've been expanding my photo library of tour pictures. And labeling them becomes difficult when labels start looking like [Jan_14- BJ_Blue (45)] If you know what I mean. So I was wondering if there was a way to tell (roughly) what song they're playing by things like: -Which instrument they're using -The backdrop -The lighting and so on... Thanks! 'She' is always purple from the lighting, if that helps Was Scumbag really a single? http://www.greendaycollection.de/singles/warning-era/ 7th down on the right side. that may have just been a promo release that was given to radio and other media. Not a public-released single.
Todosimp Posted May 3, 2011 Posted May 3, 2011 Can someone tell me the editions of Shenanigans that have the song D.U.I ? Best Regards
Guest EDIT Posted May 3, 2011 Posted May 3, 2011 The un-mastered version, extremely rare. I have seen pictures of it and it has it on the track-listing and it was made before even the promo copies. There was a stupid thing made up about it being on the Japanese version or something like that but it's not.
Amanda Posted May 3, 2011 Posted May 3, 2011 Green Day Chat is probably a better venue for this. There's a pinned thread there for questions like this btw, for future reference. A nice friendly moderator will no doubt move this for you in a bit.
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