Green Day on the cover of Rolling Stone

[Guest]

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/inside-green-days-revolutionary-rebirth-w438197

[Mar]

My Rolling Stones NEVER come in the mail on time for some reason, they're always a week late, and I'm sure that this one won't be any different  Still, yay!

[Paola17]

September 22nd, huh?

Looks like a Barnes and Noble stop will be happening, seeing as how their Kerrang issues are not the ones available in stores here.

[BilIie Joe Armstrong]

Good article

The issue has Laura Jane Grace too, I might want it and cherish it till I'm old 

[Mary711]

Looking great!

[Marki.]

Great article... and looking amazing as well 

[GugsGreenDay]

Awesome!!

[GuitarPunk94]

they look old without the kerrang photoshopping

[Sarcasm]

Sharing the front page with god himself, mr West. 

[Steven Seagull]

He put two fingers in there!

[Harry Potter.]

The age is starting to show... 

[HAPPY ZOMBIE UNICORN]

Simeone has a scan?  

[Alan86]

2 minutes ago, J a c said:

Simeone has a scan?  

Just click the link above. There is a alot in the online article. I'm guessing this issue is not out yet.

 

[CrimsonArk]

I'm not gonna lie.They're definitely starting to show their age now lol

[HAPPY ZOMBIE UNICORN]

2 minutes ago, Alan86 said:

Just click the link above. There is a alot in the online article. I'm guessing this issue is not out yet.

 

Oh ok, the IG post says "Digital out now", but maybe they just mean the online article. Sorry  

[Clayish]

Really great article.

[Mato]

5 minutes ago, CrimsonArk said:

I'm not gonna lie.They're definitely starting to show their age now lol

That's really weird, right? Considering they're all 44..

[Billie Hoe]

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Even as he compulsively wrote and recorded songs for the band's ill-fated near-simultaneous albums, ¡Uno! ¡Dos! ¡Tré! ("this relentless thing, trying too hard"), he was combining pills and alcohol "to a point where I was surprised I would wake up in the morning," he says. 

 If he hadn't quit, he says, "honestly, I don't know if I would be around." 

Jesus, that is terrifying.

All in all a wonderful article though.

[Guest]

Just now, Billie Hoe said:

Jesus, that is terrifying.

All in all a wonderful article though.

Yeah, it's kind of surprising how bad it was. 

[AmyxLongview]

I hate to say this, but I'm sick of the rehab thing being rehashed over and over. There was already a whole RS issue dedicated to it when it first happened and now this. Seriously, I felt like this whole article was about Billie's addictions and the album was mentioned like twice as a footnote. 

[BilIie Joe Armstrong]

1 hour ago, GuitarPunk94 said:

they look old without the kerrang photoshopping

I'd prefer this over it any day, though. I hate unnaturally looking pictures. 

 

Also the bit when Jesse Malin says he considers peeing on stage something he would totally do it priceless. Wtf 

[Hero_Of_The_Hour]

Reads the entire article, comes away with Billie pissed on the stage in the middle of a gig?!?! What the fuck?!  

 

During a literally beer-soaked New York club show with the Green Day side project Foxboro Hot Tubs in 2010, musician Jesse Malin, a longtime friend, watched as Armstrong "just whipped it out and peed all over the stage." 

[Billie Hoe]

8 minutes ago, Jake69 said:

Yeah, it's kind of surprising how bad it was. 

Yeah I mean we all knew it was pretty bad but I never realized just how serious his condition really was.

4 minutes ago, AmyxLongview said:

I hate to say this, but I'm sick of the rehab thing being rehashed over and over. There was already a whole RS issue dedicated to it when it first happened and now this. Seriously, I felt like this whole article was about Billie's addictions and the album was mentioned like twice as a footnote. 

Agreed.

[Dakke]

13 minutes ago, AmyxLongview said:

I hate to say this, but I'm sick of the rehab thing being rehashed over and over. There was already a whole RS issue dedicated to it when it first happened and now this. Seriously, I felt like this whole article was about Billie's addictions and the album was mentioned like twice as a footnote. 

The first part of the article was about his addiction, though the rest was much more about their early years, what Mike went through and about the creative process which birthed Revolution Radio. And we know that Somewhere Now is going to be Who-ish, a bit gloomy. In my opinion, this is the best interview yet.

[stories and songs]

I love that they're finally looking their age. They all look fantastic on that cover. 

In all honesty that hurt like hell to read, and I wasn't expecting it. But I'm glad it's all out there. I'm glad they're ok sharing the shitty parts of their life with us, that they're honest and not sugarcoating. I take much more stock in what they're saying now about that time than what they were saying back in 2012/2013, when they were still going through it. This, as a reflection, means a lot more. To read about how they approach the creative process so much more healthily now and that they're all in a really good, happy place makes me so, so happy. 

All that said, I never 100% enjoy RS articles about them. IDK why. I feel like their writers always paint them a little strangely or something. Can't quite put my finger on it.