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HAPPY 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY TO SAVIORS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It took me years to get a live used guitar from one of the Reverb sales, but i finally got one. London vintage guitars received the BJ junior in a trade from the original buyer, and they posted it for sale. They accepted my offer and i got it. I asked about the guitar before purchasing, and i was told it all original including the dirty strings Billie played, which is what i wanted. The guitar has tons of body checking on the front and back, and there is dried up dirt/sweat on the front of the body and pickguard. Some interesting things about the guitar i found after months of searching: The guitar was used for a handful of shows and only for the song Forever Now The nut had a little piece added after a few shows, which helped photo match the guitar to a few photos Billie added the "BJ" stickers after a few shows, which he moved around a few times The guitar was used for the private KROQ "Green Day plays your garage" show The guitar was on set for the "Back in the USA" music video I have attached photos i took of the guitar, the Reverb COA signed by Billie, and some photos of Billie using the guitar on tour. Enjoy!

The show was so much fun omg! My brother and I got one back from barrier behind @solongfromthestars and @Rumpelstiltskin2000 with great view between Billie and Jason! Just a "regular" setlist I think but it was great, danced the whole time and it was just awesome watching them play up close https://imgur.com/6emTrSj It was a bit dumb that they didn't have an encore because it meant the crowd chanted for one and got disappointed (especially as it took ages for the lights to come on) but we thought it was funny 😆. Billie did state clearly that it was the last song to be fair.

Tickets go on sale on 1/22 at 12PM PST. The concert will also be livestreamed by Select AMC Theatres, Apple Music and the Apple TV App, Max, iHeartRadio, KTLA+, Netflix/Tudom, Paramount+, Prime Video and the Amazon Music Channel on Twitch, SiriusXM, Spotify, SoundCloud, Veeps, and YouTube.

Haven't stopped listening since it came out and don't think I will for a long time! Agree it's been such a great era! Beautiful album and phenomenal live shows

I tried. It got weird after I yelled ALRIGHT ENGLAND into her ear.

Looked back a couple of pages and couldn't see this posted so That's apparently 60,000 copies.

Happy New Year all, hope it’s a good one 🥳🥳

Can I ask that this forum follow along with the Green Day subreddit and every other major subreddit and ban Twitter/X links from now on? Screenshots if you must but I would rather see the whole site shunned after the owner turned full Nazi. Just ask yourself what Green Day would do. Nazi punks fuck off and fuck Twitter/X. Let’s close this thread

He looked so handsome at the show. 🥹 I have a particular thing for watching him play these shows rather than Green Day shows — he’s not in frontman mode as much, he’s just chill hanging back and playing guitar. It’s really cool to see.

Absolutely, so cool to see him just enjoying playing songs he likes and stepping back whenever Jason was singing lead Another important detail: he was wearing skinny jeans

Love is for Losers aside, I'm so happy they played Ever Fallen In Love and Summer of 69 again! And Teenage Kicks, even if Billie did refuse to play it a second time 😤 I shouted "NO!" when he said it was their last song (and of course several others shouted it too) and that was when he said "but we don't know anything else" 😂 There was so much funny banter! The Speedways were really good too. So glad there wasn't a special guest onstage with The Coverups though. We got to hear Billie singing Surrender instead of Courtney Love

Billie's New Year post Happy New year everyone 🎉

I was bumping Saviors yesterday and it still holds up. Listening to it makes me smile. Everything about the era was amazing, especially after FOAM, which came out at the worst time.

Jason's setlist and the promo CD given to me by The Speedways

This is cool. The Speedways new guitarist posted this One of Billie with the band

Just wanted to come back after some sleep and say again just how fun this was. It was my first time seeing the Cover Ups (had a ticket for last year but wasn't well enough to go and gave my ticket to a friend) I didn't want it to end and could have danced all night. I'm so happy I was able to make it through the show after the last few years of barely being able to walk. The guys sounded so good and gave it their all including Chris who Billie said had been drinking since 6 am 😂 Absolutely loved Suffragette City, American Girl, Should I stay or should I go, Message of Love, Million Miles away and of course Love is for losers - honestly everything. One of security kindly gave me Jason's setlist. The Speedway's were a great opening act. I briefly spoke to them at the end and they gave me their promo CD. Go listen to them now! Saw loads of people I hadn't seen in years and I hadn't rocked out so hard since I don't remember when. All in all amazing evening and so happy to spend it with @solongfromthestars @palestardust and another friend. Couldn't have done it without you 💖 I'd forgotten how much I'd missed going to gigs. I'll stop gushing now 😂 Next time I hope 💖

That was the best show of all the London ones so far!!! Everything sounded amazing, even Drain You which I despise. My feet were killing me but of course it didn't stop me "going feral" (someone else's description ) to Love is for Losers. Billie didn't "forget" the lyrics this time. Most of all I'm so happy that I finally got to dance and sing all night with @Rumpelstiltskin2000 after she had to leave the Wembley show. Other than a few people there was a lovely atmosphere queuing with @PaleStardust and another friend. Random people grabbed our hands and waved along. I almost couldn't be bothered when it was announced and I was so anxious on the day that I questioned whether it was worth it, but I'm SO glad I went. So glad we got to see you again and you got a good spot @Hermione I don't remember if we said goodbye!

Joining this debate way too late, but I cannot refrain from a good discussion, sorry. No, absolutely zero issues with this. Actually, I think it's great that they're going precisely because of the disregard of UAE authorities for gay rights, women's rights, and so on. Even if they don't openly comment anything during the concert and even if Billie refrains from kissing any male band members during the show (which for their sake I hope they do refrain from doing these things), just performing songs such as Coming Clean or Bobby Sox during the concert is already a way of creating a space for LGBTQ people during the concert and sending the message that there's nothing wrong with who they are. Exposing the people there to the message that is inherently embedded in Green Day songs is way more beneficial, in my opinion, than Green Day choosing to not to play there would be. Cultural isolation would just be more harmful to the process towards more rights and freedoms for oppressed groups. If Green Day decided not to play in the UAE because their government is oppressing LGBTQ people and women, it would have absolutely zero effect in the government. I can guarantee you government officials would lose zero sleep over this. The only people who would suffer are fans in the country or in the region who have no other opportunities to see the band. I know that if Green Day had decided not to play in Venezuela because the government is autocratic, women's rights are undermined, and gay rights at best don't exist, at worse gay people are persecuted, and there is heavy censorship and repression against opposition, the Venezuelan government wouldn't have even noticed, but me and all the other fans at the show, and specially those who were not as privileged and couldn't afford to travel to another country to see them, we are the ones who would have been crushed by that (not to mention that from comments in their Twitter account and during the show Green Day seemed to be pro-Chavez, but I choose to forget that 🙃). All that said, I think it's up to people and activists in the UAE to voice how they'd rather be supported - they know their situation better than any of us do. If activist groups there are or were asking Green Day to cancel the show to boycott the government there, then that's another story and I think in that case Green Day should indeed support their request. But I don't know if such thing has come up. Now, the other side of the coin for me is how those of us who don't live in the region, specially EU and US based folks, who have plenty of opportunity to see Green Day in other countries, and would actually have to travel to the UAE for the show, choose to engage with this show. I wouldn't go to this show because I wouldn't want to spend any money in the country that could translate to more tax income to the government there. I'd rather see them anywhere else. But I don't judge anyone who might decide to go, because I also know the impact we have as individual is quite limited (again UAE government won't loose any sleep over loosing that tax I would have paid for the hotel), and you could also argue that exposing locals to individuals with different beliefs and mindset is positive for keeping the country moving towards a more inclusive model.

This for sure and also hard to watch California literally burning to the ground. 😪

There's no need to add a video. We're all aware. 😂

"Here's to all my friends!!! Stay alive in 2025!" https://www.instagram.com/share/reel/BAMpsZNIAX https://www.instagram.com/share/reel/BAAFmAodxo

I just made a blusky account. I already don't care about Twitter but the recent Musk shit really sealed the deal for me.

Yup and I'm the ghost producer in all the Tarantino movies.

Pics from Billie's post from the Johannesburg show

Billie's back and in Johannesburg with Tre and Mike "Why hello Johannesburg 🇿🇦"

It’s hard to put the collective feeling into words. It’s harder to understand how and why this all happened because it happened at such an accelerated pace just when everyone was stepping into a new year with a lot of hope for good things to come. This is where music always comes through. We summoned the sentiment of this Green Day song whose lyrics convey what we are seeing at the heart of Southern California, at the core of everyone who might lose everything, and that is, there is never an absence of love. We thought hearing the voices of LA sewn into the message of the song would drive the point home. Los Angeles is the city of angels and it’s ours and we’ll be here to get it all back, because we are Los f**king Angeles. Hear our version of “Last Night on Earth” now playing on KROQ https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=1318516069347180 https://fb.watch/xaTBrhC5jK/

The skinny jeans have made a comeback?! Yesss

I'll probably capture the Twitch (Video) and Apple Music (Audio) streams.

Just remembered how Billie read a sign someone was holding saying they can play guitar on Bowie and said "sorry we already played Bowie" and then one second later played All the Young Dudes (not technically Bowie but damn ) Also it was sweet how he dedicated the last song to the California wild fire victims

Billie looked gorgeous at the Coverups show. He was so cheerful and smiley and it looked like he and Jason were having a contest for floofiest hair

It was so good to see you @Hermioneand to meet your brother. It was absolutely amazing and I had so much fun. I wanted to turn back and talk to you two more but I didn't dare let go of the barrier. Hope you get home safe and hope to see you again soon

I don't blame him. Honestly a break from social media every so often can be good. I just hope he comes back to insta once he is ready. I loved the posts he would post during the tour.🥺

It seems like they've always considered it a sexual song, like they would describe it as a song to move your hips to and at the Goat Island show Billie's like "if this song can't teach you how to fuck I don't know what will" lol. I can't see anything sexual about the lyrics either so maybe it's just the rhythm of it. He did it for the same reasons he's done all kinds of crazy stuff on stage, because they're a punk band and like to be provocative, because it gets the crowd going and because it's funny. I don't think it's necessarily related to drink/drugs, it was just for show as a planned part of the performance and he's also done some cheeky sexual things on stage while sober.

Old 21st Century Breakdown era poster from my collection https://www.instagram.com/p/DEh6Lg9M47u/?igsh=MXFmNDhoaWRqcWtxbA==

kworb.net/spotify/artist/7oPftvlwr6VrsViSDV7fJY_albums.html Based on this, Dos is listened to more than FOAM and Tré. Some tracks get played more than others and the lowest streamed tracks on Dos have less daily streams than all of the FOAMF tracks and most of Tré. Stray Heart is the clear biggest track from this album. The 2nd biggest track of the whole trilogy in terms of total streams (after Oh Love) and the biggest track in terms of current daily streams Personally, Dos is my favourite of the trilogy and I really appreciate the trilogy as a whole despite its flaws. Regarding Dos specifically, I think it's thematically the most important album of the trilogy. I've gone into this on the Green Day subreddit so I'll just copy/paste what I said there. On the surface Dos is just a "fun party album" but it really delves into the problems with constant partying, drinking and sex in a dark way. Fuck Time at the start of the album is intentionally just a fun party song but quickly the narrator starts to see warning signs "Stop When the Red Lights Flash" but ignores them. Lazy Bones is about the narrator's depression and addiction. Stray Heart is about infidelity. Ashley is about a girl who was able to manipulate the narrator with her beauty until he begins to see who she has become. An addict who "looks like hell". Following songs like Lady Cobra and Nightlife are also about sexual desire and infatuation. And the album ends with Amy, a tale about how continuing to live this life will result in your demise. Part of the reason why Dos is my favourite trilogy album is because Billie, although he wasn't in his right mind at the time, was really trying to do something here and a lot of people didn't really get what he was trying to say with this album. Obviously there are missteps here, but the album is not the dumpster fire that a lot of people act like it is.

I was at the Golden Bull NYE party (how was that 5 years ago?). My old phone hated indoor lighting, so I don't have great pics, but it was a fun night, including Billie shoving me so that he could take pics of Kevin while Prima Donna opened. Finally got up to Christie Road before the show. Do I spy @solongfromthestarsand @Rumpelstiltskin2000 here?

31 December 2024 On this day last year (31 December 2023), The Coverups played the El Rey Theatre in LA. 2 years ago (31 December 2022), The Coverups played the Viper Room in LA. 5 years ago (31 December 2019), The Longshot played the Golden Bull in Oakland. More photos: There's a recap and even more photos on GDA. I also sell prints of these photos and a shirt featuring one, if anyone really likes them 9 years ago (31 December 2015), Billie played at a New Year's Eve party in NYC with Jesse Malin and some of the other musicians who hang out with him. 20 years ago (31 December 2004), Green Day played American Idiot and Longview on the MTV New Year's Eve show. More photos: 26 years ago (31 December 1998), Green Day played Scattered and Good Riddance on the MTV New Year's Eve show. More photos: 24 years ago (31 December 1990), Green Day played 924 Gilman Street. --------------------------------------------- 1 January 2025 On this day 14 years ago (1 January 2011), Billie returned to Broadway as St. Jimmy. 32 years ago (1 January 1993), Green Day played the Downtown Performance Center in Tucson, AZ. 33 years ago (1 January 1992), Green Day played AJZ Bahndamm in Wermelskirchen, Germany. 36 years ago (1 January 1989), Green Day played 924 Gilman Street. --------------------------------------------- 2 January 2025 On this day 32 years ago (2 January 1993), Green Day played the Silver Dollar Club in Phoenix, AZ. The toilets flooded (caused by a potato, according to some accounts) and they kept playing anyway. 33 years ago (2 January 1992), Green Day played Simplon in Groningen, Netherlands. 34 years ago (2 January 1991), Green Day played the Phoenix Theatre in Petaluma, CA. --------------------------------------------- 3 January 2025 On this day 20 years ago (3 January 2005), Green Day played Boulevard of Broken Dreams on the Late Show With David Letterman. More photos: 32 years ago (3 January 1993), Green Day played a second night at the Silver Dollar Club in Phoenix, AZ. 33 years ago (3 January 1992), Green Day played De Scamele Rùter in Leeuwarden, Netherlands. I'm probably going to make a lot of errors now the year has changed, like I used to write the previous year on my schoolwork for at least three months

For me is incredible how some 17years old teenagers could sing, play and write like that. I mean the riffs are so catchy, the vocal harmonies reminds of the Beatles. You could see in 39smooth that they were as a band special. I tried to find albums from other bands that they recorded at the same age but no one can compete.

Ryan Baxley posted these on his Instagram story for the first anniversary of Saviors

One of the comments in the YouTube video: "Little known fact that Green Day’s triple album was initially going to be released as Uno, Dos, Tom."

Got these from Billie's post too

The things we do (and continue to do) for this band. Worth all the pain and discomfort. Meeting new awesome people is just the icing on the cake 🙂

Excellent! Yeah I loved the laid back/low key vibe, totally different to GD. It was a bit awkward that the "Billie fucking Joe" chant happened to start right before Jason was about to sing a song, luckily saved it with "Jason fucking White" afterwards Hot To Go thing was hilarious. Also when Jason restarted Last Nite. Jason totally rocked! And it was cool how Billie kept doing little changes/experiments when playing, my brother noticed Chris and Bill being amused by some of them lol

All good in a hotel about to have unlimited breakfast and go home, hope you're good too! One of the best things in the show was when they played Love is for Losers and you and @solongfromthestars went crazy 🤣. Great crowd atmosphere all around Edit: couple pics my brother took https://imgur.com/a/9WTGB2E https://imgur.com/a/5wA78f3

9 January 2025 On this day 32 years ago (9 January 1993), Green Day played the Antenna Club in Memphis, TN. ---------------------------------------- 10 January 2025 On this day 8 years ago (10 January 2017), Green Day played the Pala Alpitour in Turin, Italy on the Revolution Radio Tour. That was one of my wildest queuing experiences. It was –5ºC and I only had a £3 blanket from Sports Direct and an extra pair of jeans. Honestly thought I was going to die in the night. Don't regret it though. The recap I wrote (it's more camping than concert, but I'm sharing it all anyway): I made a documentary about Green Day fans for my final project at uni. It was eventually exhibited and three of the photos in the exhibition were from Turin (the top left, and the first two on the second row). More photos: 20 years ago (10 January 2005), Green Day played 12 songs on MTV in Berlin, Germany. More photos: 24 years ago (10 January 2001), Green Day played the Bronco Bowl in Dallas, TX on the Warning Tour. 33 years ago (10 January 1992), Green Day played Wehrschloss in Bremen, Germany. ---------------------------------------- 11 January 2025 On this day 8 years ago (11 January 2017), Green Day played the Nelson Mandela Forum in Florence, Italy on the Revolution Radio Tour. This was my favourite of the Italian shows and probably one of my favourite shows ever, actually. We got to the venue at about midday (and ironically 20+ people camped out there), so we were at the end of the barrier, but it was just magical. More photos: 20 years ago (11 January 2005), Green Day played the Treptow Arena in Berlin, Germany on the American Idiot Tour. More photos: 33 years ago (11 January 1992), Green Day played in Schüttorf, Germany. No excuse for being late this time except that I didn't want to upload all the photos to Tumblr.

For me I like to listen to Trilogy albums one after other. Like an event really. I start with the demos from Demolicious. Get the feel of studio. Then on to the video Quatro. Following GD in the studio and on stage making the Trilogy. Almost feel there with them whilst they are recording. Love the part in room, with a board in three parts and each song on cards. The band are deciding which song should be allocated to each album. Billie Joe is holding I think is the last song and throws it at the board to see where it ends up. lol. Then listen to all the songs in sequence as the band decided. It's easy I suppose in hindsight to suggest it could have been released differently, not necessarily a trilogy. But it was the band's choice. Listening to the Trilogy this way, takes my mind back, and to the time of Billie Joe's struggles and illness. I remember seeing a photo somewhere, showing Billie Joe in a hospital bed with Adrienne by his side. He had a smile on his face. I felt so sorry for him. All I could do is pray for his speedy recovery and Iight a candle for him in church. And he did thankfully and came through it, and of course we got to hear more amazing songs for many more years. It's what was happening to them as a band and individually at that time, I don't think I would want to change it. I know this is from Uno not Dos, but it's my fav video of band performing in studio, "Stay the Night" He looks really happy there ❤️

Hey, everyone! I’ve been a Green Day fanatic for 30 years and was recently a guest on this podcast. We review the album track by track and I tell stories from my three decades of fandom. Enjoy! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/high-school-never-ends-a-pop-punk-dad-podcast/id1493039170?i=1000681735181