Ashley! Posted July 28, 2011 Posted July 28, 2011 They have inspired me to be myself and to not be afraid of being different, but to be proud of it.
DoodleBob Posted July 28, 2011 Posted July 28, 2011 ~Play the guitar (A pretty common inspiration amongst us Green Day fans) ~Get into different bands ~To stand up for myself and what I believe in I haven't really said anything different than the replys above, but what the hey!
mahalihooishavingaGreenDay Posted July 28, 2011 Posted July 28, 2011 change my clothing style play the guitar fantasise about Billie... mmm billieeeeee
jamesobxfan2296 Posted July 30, 2011 Posted July 30, 2011 They've inspired me play guitar and stay true to what I believe in.
greendaytodeathandback Posted July 30, 2011 Posted July 30, 2011 Green Day helped me through some very tough things in my life and therefore helped me to gain the confidence to talk to my Dad about some problems I had with him. I know that's not as big as some things, but without them I would be in serious denial and would not be as confident as I am today They rock, really They also showed me that I could express myself through my clothing and inspired me to dres the way I wanted to Oh and to sing And think bigger and believe that I can get by on doing what I love best, and not having to be the best to be able to do something
Lena549 Posted July 31, 2011 Posted July 31, 2011 - Thanks to Green Day I met a lot of nice people whom I concider my friends now - I startet painting GD related things onto little framings - I started to enjoy playing the guitar again - They got me in punk music like the Ramones, The Clash and The Sex Pistols and Frank Turner - They taught me to be confident withyself and to stick to my opinion and not to give a damn if someone doesn't like my point of view - I bought red pants and black vans - Now I don't give a fuck about whether the music on my iPod I'd popular or not, or if my friends like the music I'm listening to or not - If anybody is listening to music I don't like, and they ask me about it, I just tell them that I think it's shit - I started to like guys with tattoos - I started to apprechiate vinyls - I'm fanatic about record stores
DoodleBob Posted July 31, 2011 Posted July 31, 2011 Green Day helped me through some very tough things in my life and therefore helped me to gain the confidence to talk to my Dad about some problems I had with him. I know that's not as big as some things, but without them I would be in serious denial and would not be as confident as I am today They rock, really They also showed me that I could express myself through my clothing and inspired me to dres the way I wanted to Oh and to sing And think bigger and believe that I can get by on doing what I love best, and not having to be the best to be able to do something Don't say confronting you Dad isn't big, because it is! I have a problem with my Dad right now, it's gotten better, but sooner or later I need to confront him. It takes guts to confront someone, expecially someone who you are related too. I take my hat off to you on that, that took courage:)
Downner Posted July 31, 2011 Posted July 31, 2011 http://i850.photobucket.com/albums/ab64/Alancreep/DiaVerde.jpg it's a Decoy!
Malleus Posted September 25, 2011 Posted September 25, 2011 Many moons ago, Green Day inspired me to finally put down that awful Big Shiny Tunes CD and go buy American Idiot. A decision I do not regret.
shenanigans_suffocate Posted September 26, 2011 Posted September 26, 2011 Because of Green Day, I started listening to music more, started playing guitar, and now I'm re-teaching myself piano.
melissawebster Posted September 26, 2011 Posted September 26, 2011 I'm a newbie to Green Day music and just started listening to them back in late January, early February. From the moment I first heard American Idiot, I was inspired to write the script for the movie (I'm a screenwriter). My first thought when I heard the album all the way through was "I wish I'd heard this five years ago and come up with the movie idea myself." The music was so powerful to me and said everything I'd been feeling and thinking at the time the music was written and released, but I restrained myself out of respect for the writer already doing it. And then about a month or so later I had a Green Day dream and woke up in the middle of the night knowing I was going to write a script based on their music from the 90s. I'd never felt more excited and inspired, and I'd never felt so absolutely right in my gut that I had to do it. The funny thing is, I didn't even know their music from the 90s and had only listened to Dookie and Nimrod a couple of times. And I'd never written a musical and had no background in music or musical ability. It was crazy. But I was inspired and had a story playing around in my head and knew absolutely on faith that the music I needed was in those CDs. I jumped out of bed and went online and ordered Insomniac, 1039/Smooth and Warning and started planning the story without any idea what songs were going to be in it. And the entire thing fell into place so effortlessly that I wrote the first draft in six days. A feature-length script in six days. I was so completely in the zone. It was amazing. On top of that, because originally I'd never intended for anyone to actually read it, it liberated me to throw my entire personality into the script, without regard to the "rules" and "taboos" and what you're supposed to do and not do in a script. Pure inspiration just for the fun of it, and because I could approach it on pure instinct and fun just for me, I wrote some of the best (and my favorite) characters I've written so far and showed a unique voice and style I didn't even know I had, but will do for every script I write from now on. So Green Day inspired me to just say "fuck it" and write what I want and screw the rules. Though it still took me up until a couple of weeks ago to finally write outlines for the scripts I'd write for American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown to make up the full trilogy. Haven't quite let go of the fear, but I'm getting there.
Elainesername Posted September 26, 2011 Posted September 26, 2011 To listen to way more music before I liked Green day I didn't really like music. Play the guitar and draw more they've given me a lot of ideas and inspiration. :good:
fiercecircus Posted September 26, 2011 Posted September 26, 2011 I have never been in trouble so much as when I started listening to Green Day HAHAHA! my mom and i just talked about this this weekend. We were discussing upbringing and stuff like that, and how her parents were really restrictive (and i say, abusive, but that's another story) and how she let me do "everything i wanted to" (again not true, but hey i had it better than she did.) But i said to her, "But you hated fucking Green Day." And she was all like, "no, no, they were okay..." and i had a good laugh because i reminded her how much she hated those guys. It's been 17 years! She swore they were satanists and i was going to become a satanist, that i was going to become a drug addict and drop out of school, they went against god and the church, etc etc. She HATED those fuckers. And she hated it even more when i pulled the "Beatles" card on her (my grandparents, like many parents at the time, thought the Beatles and Elvis and rock n roll in general were the scourge of humanity. They had long hair! They were LOUD! They swiveled their hips on the Ed Sullivan show! And they forbade her to listen to that stuff. So, every time she said something bad about green day when i was a kid i just said "THEY'RE JUST LIKE THOSE BEATLES! WITH THEIR LONG HAIR!" Haha. She fucking hated that. Anything i could do to push her buttons about it Anyways, so basically we had a good laugh about it, 17 years later. ****************************** So, as far as inspiration... i dunno. But there seems to be a weird correlation between Green Day events and life altering events in my life... As a young kid, i quit figure skating right after Insomniac came out and i saw Green Day for the first time. At the same time, i'd discovered Lookout Records and started playing guitar... The day i dropped that bomb on my mom was not a good one! But, figure skating is a weird sport. The people involved can be crazy- i had a bunch of coaches that treated me like shit, it's wicked competitive, the PARENTS are wicked competitive and controlling, there's the body image issue.. and also i was constantly "not good enough". I didn't win medals or anything, and i never got double or triple jumps or anything like everyone else my age. Also, after 9 years of doing it i had been recently told that i would never get a pairs partner because i was too old (and not good enough.) Basically, it had been my life dream at that point to do pairs- like that was the whole reason i wanted to skate in the first place, was to be one of those girls that gets lifted and thrown around and stuff... and after they told me that i was like, "Well, fuck this then... i quit." Being 15 and absorbed with Green Day kind of drove that- because i realized i was sick of everyone's shit and wanted to just have FUN instead of doing nothing but skating, school, and homework. MAN... my mom flipped her shit. I could have picked a better time to drop the bomb. Oh well I dropped out of College the day Warning came out. I had been hating school for a long while by then, and as i got off the highway that day(i was a commuter) i looked at the road and said, if i turn here i can go to the record store and get the new green day album... and i decided not to take the turn to school and i never went back. And looking back on it- IT WAS A SHITTY SCHOOL AND I WAS GOING NOWHERE (it was a community college and i didn't even know what i wanted to do as far as a degree. It was kind of a waste of money.) Green Day or no Green Day- it was a fucking good decision. I also quit a really horrible job right around when american idiot hit. I had to work in this crappy office way at the back of the building, i hated it, i hated what i did, i hated my boss, they didn't pay shit and the commute was awful. And also i was going through some personal shit at the time... so i would hide back there in my office and listen to american idiot on repeat. I remember hearing the lines "Jimmy is filling out paperwork now, at the facility on east 12th street.... SOMEBODY GET ME OUT OF HERE!" And i was sitting there doing inventory paperwork and i was like, "FUCK, I NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE!" I gave my notice soon after. And also Green Day were the first people i saw with actual colorful, pleasant to look at Tattoos. Before that, i just saw my dad and his biker buddies with ugly faded naked girls on their arms that just looked like grey blobs. I didn't realize that tattoos could actually be clear pictures, with bright colors. So, after that i kind of decided i might want one too. Sorry mom! I dunno. Basically Green Day (and the punk rock scene in general) inspired me to have fun with life. Not to take things so seriously. And that it's ok to take chances or be different.
charlatans&saints Posted September 26, 2011 Posted September 26, 2011 Green Day inspired me to.... -learn the bass -change my clothing style -change my religious views -listen to diffeferent music -attend more concerts -stop caring what other people think of me -do the things I want to do -talk to new people and many many more
KilljoyFromDetroit Posted September 27, 2011 Posted September 27, 2011 Play guitar Listen to a different kind of music Not care what other people think of me Stand up for myself Speak my mind And most importantly, they taught me what music was about, just being yourself (cheesy i know right)
TheJesusOfSuburbiaIsALie Posted September 27, 2011 Posted September 27, 2011 Play the guitar Play the drums Changed my music taste, I listen to so much of punk music now! And I don't give a shit about other people, it's my life bitches.
classof12 Posted September 27, 2011 Posted September 27, 2011 they made me confident enough to show everybody who I was...and I really thank them a lot for that
Comsie Posted September 27, 2011 Posted September 27, 2011 I got into Green Day when I was 13, right when American Idiot came out. At the same time my best friend got into Green Day, and around that time was when my best friend and I met. We then both eventually went to our first GD concert together, when i flew out to visit. The main bond of when my girlfriend and I first got together was Green Day as well. The band's important to me because I've met some of the most important people in my life by having Green Day as a main bond. But the band's inspired me so much. With out them I wouldn't be the same person, and I probably would have extremely sucky tastes in music. FBHT is the reason I got my guitar named Twitch, and Green Day is one of the reasons I'm going to eventually start a band with my best friend.
Elena Posted October 1, 2011 Posted October 1, 2011 i changed my clothing style...i never was that trendy, but then i got into punk and i actually think that my clothes are more trendy now -also i don't care what others say about me anymore (also if someone calls me a punk idiot...and my friend's whole old class did...to me and her ) -i don't try to be like someone else, i'm just who i am...yeah they also taught me that -i try to write my own songs -i learn how to paly guitar (and i write guitar lines to my songs xD) -they completely changed my taste in music....actually when i was a kid i was afraid of punks and always starred at them like "ewww!" but now i see that punks are just normal like everyone else and very nice (at least the most xD) and i even call myself a punk now (but i still think that pop music till 2009 was good, idk why, but i like some pop music and almost all pop songs till 2009...it's weird....i think pop music got worse even without the fact that i prefer punk now....) they just inspired me in almost everything i did/do and will do and they changed my complete life (I wanna thank them for that if i'll ever meet them )
BillieJoe727 Posted October 2, 2011 Posted October 2, 2011 I think the biggest would be to get a Green Day related tattoo! I also don't care what people think about me as much.
Webb_2011 Posted October 2, 2011 Posted October 2, 2011 After seeing Green Day for the first time back in 2009, I went out a couple weeks later and bought a guitar! They have inspired me to pursue my passion in music. I cannot thank them enough for what they have done for me. They have also helped me be the person I want to be and not care what other people think about me. They have also helped open my eyes to the world around me and to pay attention to national and global issues rather than just personal issues.
Autumn83 Posted October 2, 2011 Posted October 2, 2011 Green Day has inspired me to do a lot of things... I just can't think of them right now... or I haven't done them yet...
Kjersti Posted June 28, 2013 Posted June 28, 2013 I was more than inspired, rather compelled to write my 2006 senior thesis for my BA degree as an analytical critique of the American Idiot Album, American Idiot song specifically. When I learned a musical was in the making, I knew I had to direct and produce a community production of this show in a small conservative community in my homestate of Montana. I am dying to get my hands on a script so I can get the high school and middle school students of Polson, MT active in putting this show on. I have four boys, my oldest will be thirteen and is a Green Day fan, enjoying every album for all they have to offer, but especially enjoying the process of development and maturity from album to album. He is continually inspired to grow musically. He would love to be a part of this production. HELP finding a script, please!
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