Green Day: C/D?

it was a joke on the fact that he sings with a fake accent

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At about 1:00, he lapses into British accent with "fuckin' jow-kin'"

I mean, it's Green Day British, I don't want to offend any of our boardmates.

did anyone else get a pro-wrestling vibe from that video? felt like the camera would cut away to vince mcmahon fuming backstage.

"Warner Brothers Records and its subsidiaries are not responsible for the behavior and opinions of its musicians. Green Day and its management offers its apology and has announced that lead vocalist Billie Joe Armstrong has been sent to a rehabilitation center for being a BAD ASS."

lol philip

smashing guitar on stage is banal.
he should have been getting down there and smash the sign itself!

I work for F3nd3r and that Dirnt bass was just sent to him and was a prototype :)

XD Oh man, so has the office been all up in arms?

Nah, it's pretty badass to everyone! We are hoping we can get that back for posterity.

You should have the team build a breakaway guitar so that people on a budget can have the satisfaction of smashing them but are able to reassemble them later.

seeing as you mentioned that... I've not seen a guitar smashed irl for a while, do the necks always break away this cleanly...?

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Music/Pix/pictures/2012/9/24/1348479861130/Green-Days-Billie-Joe-Arm-008.jpg

gibsons do

which guitars actually smash instead of just the neck breaking off? does the wood have to be hickory?

it's weird how Billie Joe seems to have not only totally avoided the common advanced-aging ravages of prolonged meth use, he actually looks like he has not aged at all

it's called make up

question from a uk'r who knows nothing re the people behind this corp shyte :

was this broadcast live, or, edited and pre airing edit meant the good'old folks missed this rant ?

if live, then fair play, it's a blast of 'tude that is rarely seen these days, and almost makes me want to discover an album by this lot, if however, this was recorded, then f*ck what's the point.

and i'm sorry, but the story re substance abuse came out way to quickly

- seems like a cover your ass story as opposed to just admitting that the band were seriously f*cked off with being messed about.

i mean in pr terms what's the best hit : mid life hissy fit vs drugs related outburst

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which guitars actually smash instead of just the neck breaking off?

Rickenbackers.

mid life hissy fit

new album title iirc

Do you have the time
While you have nice white wine

Wait hold on

http://www.greendayauthority.com/news/3608/

The Green Day Angry Birds game on Facebook has been updated with new levels and another new song preview.

...Angry Birds game.

As I've been muttering elsewhere, hope you get to fling a guylinered bird screaming about doing this since 1988.

Punk as fuck.

mark the iheartradio festival wasn't televised, the youtube is from a webcast

amuses me that the album they just put out as this news broke has billie joe's face on the cover with the eyes x'd out

oh wow man

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/75/Who_Are_You_album_cover.JPG

also a week or two before all this they cancelled a show for undisclosed billie joe 'medical' reasons so it's not totally out of the blue (xpost)

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/8/20/1345479653159/green-day-angry-birds.jpg

have to respect cartoon caricatures that accurately depict the bags under each band member's eyes

omg I *must* play green day angry birds!

:o

As I've been muttering elsewhere, hope you get to fling a guylinered bird screaming about doing this since 1988.

I read this wrong and thought, "so behind the times, never played Anrgy Birds and I don't even know who guy line red bird is."

new album is "how many times are they going to write the same songs with newish vocal melodies over and over again?"

have to respect cartoon caricatures that accurately depict the bags under each band member's eyes

― the definition of fuckshit bird (some dude), Thursday, September 27, 2012 10:33 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol i hadn't even heard the "count the circles around my eyes" line on the album when i posted this.

Goddam, Paul Westerberg sang "Let's count the rings around my eyes" motherfuckin' 28 years ago.

Love these guys, but they have to learn how to steal better.

yeah that's pretty blatant

Just rebels without a clue.

lol i was wondering why that line felt familiar

vague confessions
http://music-mix.ew.com/2013/03/01/green-day-billie-joe-armstrong-drug-interview-rolling-stone/?hpt=hp_t3

insomniac is a great record because he wrote it about/on methamphetamine

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/judy-greer-fred-armisen-billie-joe-armstrong-geezer-1201352793/

GET EXCITTEEEEEEEEEDDDDD

Judy Greer, Fred Armisen and Selma Blair have joined Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong in music drama “Geezer.”

The cast additions come as director Lee Kirk begins lensing in New York City. Producers are Tim Perell of Process Media and Alex A. Ginzburg and Tony Lee of Let It Play.

Dallas Roberts, Chris Messina and Brian Baumgartner are also starring.

“Geezer” centers on the mid-life crisis of a husband and father who, on his 40th birthday, decides to revisit his punk-rock past by throwing an extravagant party in the presidential suite of the Drake Hotel — where he encounters his beautiful ex-girlfriend and former bandmates who have since moved on to bigger and better things.

The film will include new songs written and performed by Armstrong.

“The initial seeds for ‘Geezer’ were planted a couple of years ago, when my son was born within weeks of my fortieth birthday,” said Kirk. “Billie Joe Armstrong brings an exciting authenticity to the film. He’s a dad, he’s a musician and he’s an incredible talent.”

green day and weezer are mutual fans aren't they? why not form a supergroup with that name?

dirnt is cool and an underrated contributor to its sound

4 real

like the front half of every one of their lines is the attack on the maxxed out guitars that then just dully keep grinding it out

the second half is where all the movement inside the monotonous parts is and it's all dirnt

also that almost always makes him sound like he's way behind the beat, dunno if he is or not, but it really makes them sound simultaneously lazy/slackery and agitated since he's behind but moving around a lot

I miss when everyone in Green Day was on meth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMl-sVlQbak

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I84PtK8RQes

new album Revolution Radio out October 7. new song sounds like shit. whatever

http://pitchfork.com/news/67465-green-day-announce-new-album-revolution-radio/

http://pitchfork-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/content/gdalbum.jpg

01 Somewhere Now
02 Bang Bang
o3 Revolution Radio
04 Say Goodbye
05 Outlaws
06 Bouncing Off the Wall
07 Still Breathing
08 Youngblood
09 Too Dumb to Die
10 Troubled Times
11 Forever Now
12 Ordinary World

Middle-aged white dude "YEAH! I'M REBELLIOUS!" signifiers remain not just the worst but the dullest and most obvious. (Signed, 45 year old white guy, don't tweet at me, etc.)

no, it's true. it's remarkable that they had a career renaissance with American Idiot, which I really like, very good record, but everything they've made since (not much, admittedly), has been beyond bad. self-parody/lazy/phoned in rebelliousness. but they're in the hall of fame now, so they don't have anything to worry about.

i like the cover.