Green Day: C/D?

Green Day rhythm section totally great, no prob with those forced-to-wear-eyeliner-and-get-goofy-haircuts dudes. I wonder if they hang with the guys from No Doubt and commiserate? Dirnt, by the way, only 40, which is impressive, given how long the group has been around and how much he gets pegged the old guy. Billie Joe's only 40, too, and Tre Cool is 39. Dave Grohl, for comparison, is 43. Who are going to be the 50 and 60 year old legacy acts touring arenas in 20 years when Springsteen and Prince and the like are retired? Will it be bands like Green Day and Foo Fighters and I guess Nickelback or something? Will there be 50-something stock brokers pulling strings to get primo Green Day seats at the hockey arena in 2030?

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, September 24, 2012 7:53 AM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think the touring business is going to totally different then, straight up. after Springsteen and U2 stop touring, probably no rock act will ever tour at that level again.

Sorry to hijack the discussion, but has anyone heard the new album? Is it any good?

yeah it's dece. closer to dookie than 21st century crapblow

thanks. listening to a couple songs, might actually buy this.

wondering what prescription meds he's hooked on....adderall, vyvanse would make sense given his past abuse of meth and amps. INSOMNIAC might be the greatest speed album ever made. btw, reading the 12 year old green day fans' reactions and forced denials on the main msg board is pretty hilarious: http://www.greendaycommunity.org/topic/90220-billie-getting-treatment-for-substance-abuse/

it's as if they've never listened to the lyrics of GEEK STINK BREATH. if you're a speed/meth head like that, you're gonna have drug issues later on.

lol @ "So it looks like Billie was under substance abuse when performing at the iHeartRadio festival."

I didn't realize I had this hierarchy in my head until just now, but there's a "has their shit together" meter where I'd always put Green Day ahead of Metallica, expecting them never to change positions.

why cant green day be that exciting and unpredictable while accepting their grammy awards?

because they were given as much time as they wanted to give their speech

pretty much zero intelligent discussion on this anywhere on the internet. every green day fan is all "hmm suspicious...seems obviously like a cover-up by clear channel to make sure green day doesn't embarrass them." am i the only one who isn't surprised AT ALL about his drug issues? dude was a fucking METH HEAD at the height of his band's popularity!

So, wait, wait, WAIT.

Are you trying to tell us something, spazz? That Billie Joe Armstong was a METH HEAD?

Maybe he meant to write BETH HEAD.

I FEEL LIKE I'M TAKING CRAZY PILLS

I'VE BEEN TAKING CRAZY PILLS SINCE 1988.

so by 'meth' you mean...

I mean it's completely normal to record three complete records all at once, happens all the time.

Hmmm skeptical. On what? For what? Since when? Tested by? Confirmed by?

asking the tough questions

Jordan S, boy detective

These guys used to write songs about doing speed so they must be constantly on it. I don't know, dude obviously has problems and I have no doubt he's indulged in the past. On the other hand, he's held himself together pretty well until this point.

I don't want to be that guy really, but backstage after a Green Day show was one of the most chill, hey-howya-doin' scenes I've ever been to.

Maybe they smoke up all the meth BEFORE the show.

just watched the video, honestly it was pretty hilarious and maybe like 40% righteous

he did seem to be slurring his words to me tho, for whatever that's worth

Oh certainly! The "outburst" didn't even seem that fucking bad!

he did seem to be slurring his words to me tho, for whatever that's worth

Hm. Could just be his English accent tho?

Love his face after 'Look at that fucking sign right there. One. Minute.'

And then the sign says "one minutes". Loved that.

Hm. Could just be his English accent tho?

And then the sign says "one minutes". Loved that.

In England, they add an "s" to "minute," like "maths."

his english accent??

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

o

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

?

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.

Warning is one of my favourite sounding albums. Pretty perfect production.

i am blown away that someone would rank 39/smooth over american idiot but reading the blurbs i'm not sure i understand where this writer is coming from at all

might be a microgenerational thing idk, i was an adolescent green day fan and they were the first rock band i liked, even people a few years older than me had little-to-no taste for warning or especially american idiot