Front Row with Lars Ulrich and Friends including Billie Joe, March 2nd at Zellerbach Hall

[Hero_Of_The_Hour]

Billie Joe is listed as a special guest at the student curated event, “Front Row with Lars Ulrich and Friends.”

The event will take place March 2 at Zellerbach Hall and will feature a live discussion from Ulrich, drummer of legendary heavy metal band Metallica, and performances alongside Ulrich’s hand-picked lineup of special guests. Among the confirmed guests are Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong, founder and CEO of Salesforce Marc Benioff, co-founder of San Francisco-based design firm Turner Duckworth David Turner and Metallica guitarist and vocalist James Hetfield. 

Tickets to “Front Row with Lars Ulrich and Friends” are $5 and only available to current UC Berkeley students, starting Feb. 16 at noon on the Cal Performances website.

http://www.dailycal.org/2016/02/16/cal-performances-announces-exclusive-talk-performance-metallicas-lars-ulrich-special-guests/

 

[Hermione]

Cool! Wonder what he's doing exactly?

[Chin for a Day]

Here is some more information.  It is a panel discussion on the creativity process and why so many creative people chose the Bay Area.  I really wish I was a Berkley student.  It sounds like it could be a really fascinating discussion

http://loudwire.com/metallica-lars-ulrich-host-front-row-james-hetfield-billie-joe-armstrong-les-claypool/

http://calperformances.org/performances/2015-16/front-row/front-row-with-lars-ulrich-and-friends.php  

[21guns&novacaine]

It's no surprise Lars chose Billie Metallica has been known to cover American Idiot a few times. 

[BilIie Joe Armstrong]

I'd enjoy school if it included talking to Billie.

[Ross_19]

Cool!

[Hermione]

1 hour ago, 21guns&novacaine said:

It's no surprise Lars chose Billie Metallica has been known to cover American Idiot a few times. 

And Green Day sometimes play a little bit of Master of Puppets and played a song for their birthday a couple of years ago. They've mentioned before they're friends with Metallica, heard of them hanging out a few times. Which is cool.

This does sound interesting. Be good if it got recorded somehow.

[The Great Saiyaman]

Maybe Billie will invite Tré... Then they'll have a good drummer there!

[Maid Meringue]

i KNEW it  My boyfriend and I joke about Beej and Lars hanging out all the time, so when we saw the show announcement last night we couldn't stop laughing about it. 
It's just too cute 

[Hero_Of_The_Hour]

13 hours ago, JJ1964 said:

 It is a panel discussion on the creativity process and why so many creative people chose the Bay Area.  

Billie stands up. Hi, I'm Billie Joe Armstrong. I was born here, in the Bay Area and am ridiculously talented and creative. I get ideas, I write them down. They become songs. To be fair I don't recall much of the 90's so don't ask about the details. The end. 

[Chin for a Day]

1 minute ago, st_trillie said:

Billie stands up. Hi, I'm Billie Joe Armstrong. I was born here, in the Bay Area and am ridiculously talented and creative. I get ideas, I write them down. They become songs. To be fair I don't recall much of the 90's so don't ask about the details. The end. 

No one is going to hear him speak, they just want to stare at him for 2 hours.  

[Hero_Of_The_Hour]

Just now, JJ1964 said:

No one is going to hear him speak, they just want to stare at him for 2 hours.  

There's always a professor though...once it's at a university setting there's always at least one standing there squinting in a judgemental manner. Otherwise he could just talk about tension and be fine 

[ghesboro]

Billie Joe speaking to uni students is gonna be... interesting, to say the least. 

[unextraordinarygirl]

1 hour ago, st_trillie said:

Billie stands up. Hi, I'm Billie Joe Armstrong. I was born here, in the Bay Area and am ridiculously talented and creative. I get ideas, I write them down. They become songs. To be fair I don't recall much of the 90's so don't ask about the details. The end. 

You forgot to put about 20 y'knows and uhs in there. LoL

[Paola17]

6 hours ago, Squidhard said:

Billie Joe speaking to uni students is gonna be... interesting, to say the least. 

I was going to say that his own kids are around the same age as some uni students
But I'm not sure if that helps the case or not

[Sanity Loan]

I'm sure he'll crack some joke about him not going to college, let alone graduating from high school.

[Brooklyn Baby]

He's probably lurking in this thread hoping we'll give him ideas about what to say.

[Hermione]

He'll be as charmingly awkward as he always is when doing public speaking  

[ghesboro]

27 minutes ago, Paola17 said:

I was going to say that his own kids are around the same age as some uni students
But I'm not sure if that helps the case or not

I think this means he can practice his speech at home 

[Hero_Of_The_Hour]

 

[BilIie Joe Armstrong]

I still believe there's a chance he'll say something clever. 

[BilIie Joe Armstrong]

Sorry, double post. He's a bad public speaker but probably not a dumb person so I genuinely think a discussion with him would be intriguing.

[Chin for a Day]

9 minutes ago, Jane Lannister said:

Sorry, double post. He's a bad public speaker but probably not a dumb person so I genuinely think a discussion with him would be intriguing.

He has actually gotten to be a much better speaker.  He will never be a great speaker, but he does not use the OK's all the time anymore and he doesn't fidget much anymore.   

[BilIie Joe Armstrong]

3 minutes ago, JJ1964 said:

He has actually gotten to be a much better speaker.  He will never be a great speaker, but he does not use the OK's all the time anymore and he doesn't fidget much anymore.   

To be honest, I didn't check out most of his recent public speaking. He always seemed to have trouble getting across his thoughts. He just couldn't put a sentence together. 

[unextraordinarygirl]

As much as I like Billie, listening to him in an interview is tedious and irritating to me. He takes way too long trying to get his point across and I get bored.