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I was out eating ice cream and a girl passed by me wearing a GD shirt. On her way out I flashed her my GD phone case and we shared smiles. I just love those little "we like the same thing" moments with strangers.

There aren't. There are seagulls.

The interview is real, but I think the point is he's going to describe it to make himself look good and Billie look bad that's all. If we heard Billie's side as well (where of course he'd paint himself in the better light since everyone always thinks they're the one in the right in an argument) it'd be easier to judge but as it is it's totally one sided so you have to take it with a pinch of salt. Brilliant

I found this about what happened. Billie's reaction may have been extreme. However, it seems some reaction was justified. "Band picks up 'Best Internation Live Act' award (Aug 27) Green Day have been rewarded for their high energy stage performance by winning Kerrang's 'Best Internation Live Act' award. An awkward moment didn't seem to bother the band as Wattie Buchan, singer of Exploited, came onstage to deliver the award, and upon opening up the envelope, muttered "I don't fucking believe it," and stalked off stage -- before even revealing who the winner was. The band acted like nothing had happened, doesn't sound like something Green Day would do does it?"

I think a lot of it is an act though, he probably was taking speed at the time but a lot of his antics (the "you rub it, you rub it..." rant, being angry/snotty and general manic/jumpy behaviour) were just part of his stage persona too.

Happened with me once. I was on the metro humming Stray Heart when a couple of foreigner girls just looked at me in awe. Then we started talking Green Day until it was time for me to de-board.

He made it quite clear (in the subsequent interviews as well as when presenting the award) that he already had a deep dislike for Green Day before that incident, it wasn't brought on about by that. And seriously, if Billie Joe had behaved that way to another artist when presenting an award to them, there would be thousands of articles about it now and a 20+ pages thread on here about how unprofessional/dickish that was of him. It's clearly not the same as saying "I'm not a fan of Green Day" in an interview when asked about it. It should also be worthy of note that these interviews happened like at least 10 years after the incident, he might have embellished his story a bit to make it a bit more interesting after such a long time.

but what did Wade do before hand? he's left out the part that shows him in a bad light (just as he did with Linkin Park...) not that I'm saying what Billie said was cool or anything but we only had one person saying this he said there were a crowd around surely there would be others that could back his story up something like that would been talked about no drama that happens backstage at a award shows goes untalked about at all

You are assuming Wattie Buchan's story is true.

I don't see how the two situations are comparable but just to answer anyway, obviously he didn't say anything but Billie (very rudely and insensitively yes) used his name to symbolize technology in general rather than meaning it as a genuine personal attack. He was inspired by dislike of certain aspects of technology. How unpleasant Billie might have been to people at other times isn't the point though. The point is you can't judge who was more in the wrong in an argument when you've only heard one person's version of what happened and they didn't even tell the full story. Billie obviously didn't just go up to him and say that at random, without hearing what was said before we don't know who said the worse things, who started it or who was more in the wrong.

Never heard of him but clicking the source links on Wikipedia led me to two interviews with him where he talked about it, the first from this year and the second from 2007, all he says is it was "years ago": He sounds like a dickhead tbh

That awkward moment when you get this. By stray-heart.tumblr.com

The Network http://www.greendayauthority.com/band/projects/network.php

Saw a car with a Green Day decal on the back bumper. Actually took a picture and if I can figure out how to block their license plate number I will post it.

ahh last night I read "fake tan" - makes sense now... Random GD thought - fucking do something.

Trilogy has a special place in my heart because "I was there" when it came out.

Billie's face XD

What I think of every time I hear the 'Mr. Whirly' line on Misery...

Brilliant to hear! Random thought, Nimrod is amazing . Listened to it today and it's perfection. I also very much enjoy listening to Insomniac followed by Nimrod, they make a good pair.

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