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Blasphemy & Genocide: Unpopular Green Day Opinions, Part 2


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not raw but I...dunno, whatever. The vocals aren't as polished

They were done quickly, I'll grant you that. But they're pretty much spot on too. This comparison has been made before, but in terms of rawness look at something like In Utero. Similarly large budget, but Kurt's vocals are intentionally not pitch-corrected.
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Using a distortion pedal = / = raw

It was most likely amp distortion ;)

Seriously though. In the same way Springsteen recorded a load of demos for Nebraska and then just released those as the album, Demolicious is exactly what the Trilogy should have been.

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Apparently when they first mixed Dookie they made it really raw and unpolished, but turned out it sounded crap so they mixed it again much more cleaned up/polished (don't know any technical terms for this lol) and it sounds great. I don't think any of their albums sound particularly raw.

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I don't think any of their albums sound particularly raw.

Kerplunk? :P

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Kerplunk? :P

Yeah OK the first two. But I don't think that was for artistic reasons :P

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Apparently when they first mixed Dookie they made it really raw and unpolished, but turned out it sounded crap so they mixed it again much more cleaned up/polished (don't know any technical terms for this lol) and it sounds great.

Yes, and actually I think I read somewhere it was mainly "dry" because this is how Green Day wanted it to sound, but somehow they were convinced to add some reverb ^^

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Using a distortion pedal = / = raw

Green Day using a pedal? Highly unlikely.

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Green Day using a pedal? Highly unlikely.

lol

They definitely used them starting out, and Jason has a full setup in front of him when they play live.

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It was most likely amp distortion ;)

Seriously though. In the same way Springsteen recorded a load of demos for Nebraska and then just released those as the album, Demolicious is exactly what the Trilogy should have been.

Kinda weird I thought of Nebraska as soon as I heard demolicious. Great album!
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So listening to the demo version of Sex, Drugs and Violence.. that may be my new favorite trilogy song.

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They definitely used them starting out, and Jason has a full setup in front of him when they play live.

All I've seen Jason use live is a wah. What else does he use?

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All I've seen Jason use live is a wah. What else does he use?

On the trilogy tour at least at sxsw he had a wah pedal and 2 others but I couldn't see what just saw the wah and 2 other pedals

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All I've seen Jason use live is a wah. What else does he use?

Dunno, but he had at least 3 when I saw them at Brixton.

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On the trilogy tour at least at sxsw he had a wah pedal and 2 others but I couldn't see what just saw the wah and 2 other pedals

Dunno, but he had at least 3 when I saw them at Brixton.

idek what songs he would need them for. Any idea (besides the obvious wah on BOBD)?

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idek what songs he would need them for. Any idea (besides the obvious wah on BOBD)?

Minority possibly. And Dearly Beloved. That would mean one of them was a distortion pedal. Dunno what the last one would be.

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Minority possibly. And Dearly Beloved.

Distortion on both of those?

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Distortion on both of those?

He'd need to be able to switch from distorted to clean and back again on both of them.

Tuner?

They have techies for that :P

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He'd need to be able to switch from distorted to clean and back again on both of them.

I don't get it, when they play American Idiot for example, BJ switches from clean to distorsion in the intro, am I wrong ? But I don't see him using any pedals

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I don't get it, when they play American Idiot for example, BJ switches from clean to distorsion in the intro, am I wrong ? But I don't see him using any pedals

I don't think they do that live.

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I don't get it, when they play American Idiot for example, BJ switches from clean to distorsion in the intro, am I wrong ? But I don't see him using any pedals

He doesn't. He just stops playing. AI is distorted the whole way through.

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He doesn't. He just stops playing. AI is distorted the whole way through.

Wait, what do you mean he just stops playing?

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Wait, what do you mean he just stops playing?

...the stop/start intro?

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...the stop/start intro?

I'm not sure what you mean.

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...the stop/start intro?

Actually I meant the very beginning of the intro, when there's only the guitar playing, it's clean :P

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