Green Day Question and Answer Thread

[SuzieCreamCheese]

You mean this?

yes, thank you

[Lu_S]

Could someone help me to enderstand what they said in the video below during

00:33 - what mike says??

2:10 - mike??

3:40 - Billie?

4:20 - Billie and Tré?

Please help!!

[PunkRocks and Coke]

Could someone help me to enderstand what they said in the video below during

00:33 - what mike says??

2:10 - mike??

3:40 - Billie?

4:20 - Billie and Tré?

Please help!!

I can only make out the 3:40 one and he says

"I think Walking Phoenix is pretty rad thes days"

[B.Good]

Could someone help me to enderstand what they said in the video below during

00:33 - what mike says??

2:10 - mike??

3:40 - Billie?

4:20 - Billie and Tré?

Please help!!

0:33 - no idea

2:10 - "....... means there's nothing wrong"

3:40 - "I think Joaquin Phoenix is pretty rad these days"

4:20 - I think Billie and Tre said "creepy"

[BombingwithBillieJoe]

You mean this?

Picture #14 scares the crap out of me. I'm not afraid of heights, but I am afraid of people being perilously close to the edge of things that weren't meant to be jumped/fallen off of, haha.

[B.Good]

Picture #14 scares the crap out of me. I'm not afraid of heights, but I am afraid of people being perilously close to the edge of things that weren't meant to be jumped/fallen off of, haha.

Hahaha yeah I'm like 90% sure there is a buffer between Tre and the actual edge but still it freaks me out too.

[darenmay]

the letters/lyrics in AI booklet (except whatsername's), are they billie's handwriting? did billie write them?

[minorty13]

the letters/lyrics in AI booklet (except whatsername's), are they billie's handwriting? did billie write them?

I heard that he did not.. I don't have any source or citation for that though

PS: I like your avatar/sig

[PunkRocks and Coke]

does anyone know how old Tre was when he moved to America?

[B.Good]

does anyone know how old Tre was when he moved to America?

I think i remember it being 1 but I don't know exactly.

[NothingButYourImagination]

Were the guys drunk when they recorded Stop, Drop, and Roll! or were they when they wrote the songs for it or what?

[November's Storms]

In Westbound Sign there's a line "xanex, a beer for thought and shes determined"

What is xanex?

[Velocity]

In Westbound Sign there's a line "xanex, a beer for thought and shes determined"

What is xanex?

I think it's an anti-anxiety drug.

[BombingwithBillieJoe]

Quite a few times on here (GDC) I've read that Billie Joe's voice sounds over produced on 21CB, and I was wondering what that meant?

[jenni]

the letters/lyrics in AI booklet (except whatsername's), are they billie's handwriting? did billie write them?

This question was already asked a few pages before. And the answer can be found at the bottom of this page

[Vaso.Of.Suburbia]

Did Tre's parents divorce? We all know many things about his dad but nothing about his mother.... Did they left Germany because of that?

[November's Storms]

Quite a few times on here (GDC) I've read that Billie Joe's voice sounds over produced on 21CB, and I was wondering what that meant?

I'm no expert on sound production, but it means they took the recording of his vocals and made it more polished, a cleaner sound, getting rid of any imperfections. Compare his vocals on 21stCB to the early stuff and you'll hear its much cleaner and direct. Don't know if that makes any sense!

[Ellenkc]

Were the guys drunk when they recorded Stop, Drop, and Roll! or were they when they wrote the songs for it or what?

They were drunk when they wrote the songs and probably when they demoed them, but I'd say they were sober - or at least sober-ish - when they did the final recording.

Did Tre's parents divorce? We all know many things about his dad but nothing about his mother.... Did they left Germany because of that?

No his parents aren't divorced, Tre just doesn't talk about his family much although here was an interview back during AI where he was saying that his mom started crying when he played her the WMUWSE video, so she's definitely still around anyway. His dad gets mentioned more because he was involved in early tours, but his mother wasn't as far as I know. I'd say Tre's the most private out of the band.

[Tomcat20]

I'd like to know why they didn't use the catwalk for the South American Tour.

[newsflash777]

Another interesting tidbit in this book is that Billie was so moved by Bilheimer's design of the hand grasping the heart grenade that he had to go back and change the lyrics in She's A Rebel to reflect that.

Yeah, I've always wondered about that!

[November's Storms]

I'd say Tre's the most private out of the band.

Thats interesting cos Tre was meant to have the most "normal" childhood of the three

[B.Good]

In Westbound Sign there's a line "xanex, a beer for thought and shes determined"

What is xanex?

Xanex is an anti-anxiety medication used to treat people with panic attacks, panic disorders and anxiety disorders. Its a fast-acting drug that basically chills you out if you are getting too anxious or are having a panic attack.

Drugs like Xanex (Anxiety/Panic Attacks), Prozac (Depression) and Ritalin (ADHD) have become fairly well-know American pop-culture references and show up in a lot of songs.

I'd like to know why they didn't use the catwalk for the South American Tour.

I would have probably been a pain to fly down to South America but a bunch of shows in the North American Tour didn't have them either. I know the one I went to in Mansfield, MA didn't have one.

[Ellenkc]

I'd like to know why they didn't use the catwalk for the South American Tour.

I don't think they used it for the North American shows either. I guess for South America they cut down on stage equipment to carry around because they needed to fly everywhere, they didn't bring the LED screens either.

[B.Good]

Quite a few times on here (GDC) I've read that Billie Joe's voice sounds over produced on 21CB, and I was wondering what that meant?

Over-produced just means that they mess with the vocals a bit. So, instead of just recording Billie's vocals straight from the mic and leaving them as is, they'll digitally mess with them before they put it with the rest of the track.

Over-produced songs come off as a bit un-natural.

[Ellenkc]

Thats interesting cos Tre was meant to have the most "normal" childhood of the three

I dunno I'd say he had the most 'abnormal' childhood. Mike and Billie's parents split up/passed away but other than that they had a pretty normal lower middle-class childhood. Tre lived in the mountains without light, heat, electricity or windows. He went to some hippie school, his nearest neighbour lived about a mile away and his dad has post traumatic stress disorder.

He is very private do, if you look at something like Riding In Vans With Boys, aside from on stage Tre only shows up once or twice messing around in the background and Mike and Billie are around the camera a lot.