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He actually rarely does solos, bridges yes, solos no. However, believe it or not, I actually do agree with you. Billie doesn't play anything super difficult, but he usually takes simple chord progressions and adds in some bridges, hammer ons, etc. And he plays very, very tight. So basically, what he plays, he plays very, very well.

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R.I.P. GD in the studio thread.

Usually, GD songs have a very fast BPM, so that may be difficult if strumming is giving you a problem. Alot of GD songs, more the earlier ones, are mostly down strokes, so that makes it easier. Brain Stew is probably their easiest song to play. I play it at 75, so that is pretty slow. Also, maybe a song with more picking than strumming. Good Riddance or Brutal Love are good ones to try. Stay away from something like Minority. It has picking and fast strumming and odd strum patterns. I think it is one of their more difficult songs to play.

And then Hitchin' A Ride is basically Brain Stew played a bit differently so that helps.

Brain Stew is a no brainer. I was able to play it just fine after doing many shots.

Here's the funeral song

Yep. Because of this I also believe that Green Day songs are the best for beginners on electric guitar. As you said, Billie's playing is based in simplicity but he adds in some other things like hammer-ons which makes his songs easy to play but very educational for beginners.

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Yeah, if my playing was as tight as his I'd be over the moon.

Yes, it doesn't make a good single when the entire song is censored

I don't give a fuck anyway! True, that's problematic on the radio. However, I doubt they mind considerig they released Kill The DJ as a single.

My local radio actually started playing Let Yourself Go and people really liked that one. That would have been a good lead single. In my opinion Oh Love is very laid back and i love it as a closer for the album but not much for the single. But just my opinion. Oh and don't get me started on that video. Absolute hatred for it haha.

I loved hearing Oh Love on the radio when it came out! It got me into Green Day again and I bought Uno! I wasn't really following them that closely, but Oh Love was really catchy and different and caught my ear. It's fun to sing along with.

Oh fuck off now. Its your fantasy not mine

I hope for the next album they release some 7" singles with some b-sides on them. I used to love collecting singles for nimrod and warning when I was a kid, I even got a few dookie and insomniac ones. There were no physical format singles for the trilogy, right?

While at breakfast this morning I saw a girl wearing a GD AI t-shirt. I should have asked what she knows about the next album.

Here you go. This was the video on the main stage. it was played 2-3 times between Janes addiction and RHCP http://sendvid.com/l1ows57e

you might try brutal love , its more picking than strumming

Absolutely, you get a sense of accomplishment with GD songs. It is tough for a beginner to get them right away, but you can get them. It just takes some work.

I agree, He plays tight and very musically. He has such a great ear for phrasing, tone, dynamics, melodic arc. So while the notes may seem simple, he's doing all the little nuanced things in his playing (and when he plays piano, too) that gifted musicians do, even when they study classical music. Studying and playing music is so much more than simply playing the notes fast.

Lollapalooza replayed Green Day's 2010 performance between shows about every 15 minutes. If I could post a video I would. I took one

A cool AI era themed jewelry box. The seller even sent a really sweet thank you card with a hand drawn heart grenade on it. Would post a pic but i dunno how. Haha

Does anyone know if this image of the eagle is available as a sticker anywhere?

Tre! is my favorite too, probably due to its more epic sound. I personally think that if they had taken the best from Uno and Dos (Stray Heart, Stay the Night and Lazy Bones) and combined it with Brutal Love, X-Kid, Walk Away, DRB, the Forgotten and a couple of others on one album with the more raw sound of Demolicious, it would have gotten better critical reviews. Tre! came closest to the intended sound they had for the album, but due to various factors it has basically become a Warning 2.0, beloved by some yet forgotten by most.

I was given Warning for my birthday! I didn't own any GD records before this year so I'm still building my collection

Got my "Billy" Joe Armstrong baseball card for 60 cents!