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I am saving this for future use I love Jeff's faces. I mean, that one facial expression he has

Billie Joe at Pinole Valley High School

I love how BIAB can still unite people! A random story, but I travelled to a music festival at the weekend and started chatting to some people on the shuttle bus. My love of GD came up, and it was shared. I can't remember how it came up, but I said my first GD show was at Milton Keynes, and one of the people I was speaking with said it was their first ever concert. They went for a friends birthday, and so did I! I was saying how I went on the Saturday, and I wished I'd been there for both days. This person was there on the Saturday too!! What a small world Haha! I just thought this was a cool random story I'd share.

Jeff is a living meme

Boring you say? Could've fooled me

Jeff on snapchat:

Basically is. Underrated song.

I'm not a huge fan of Dominated Love Slave. I don't really like the goofy country-style vocals and sometimes the lyrics make me cringe. I prefer it live because it's fun to see Tre and Billie swap roles in the band, and that kind of takes my attention away from the lyrics and vocals.

Does anyone else really like Murder City? I never see it talked about much but it's one of my favorite songs. It's not as complex as most of the other songs on 21CB but there's something really special about it to me.

True This isn't really that depressing but you've just reminded me there's one where he talked about being grumpy all the time and said that Adrienne calls him Eeyore lol. Which would be like the most annoying thing to be called if you were in a grumpy mood.

Some of Billie's interviews from the 90s are so depressing Me too. It always lifts up my mood. Got State Of Shock a couple times in the morning - apparently it's what the station puts on at 6am

It's true that the metal fandom isn't very tolerant. I have a friend who is a huge metal head and his and his friend's favorite pasttime is hating on other music

Yeah I have very mixed feelings on the metal community with the biggest one being they're not very inclusive.

They put up a video about the Madcool incident, and the comments on that were just absolutely horrific. It left me feeling sick. Metal heads can be the absolute worst and that's coming from one.

I thought I knew you... I never really took that song as satire. Like Having a Blast, I truly think it's an attempt to try to understand the thoughts of a violent person and convey them. I really don't think it's that ridiculous of a concept to think that people who kill are doing in for fame and get joy out of it... is that just me? I don't think the lyrics have much, if anything, to do with media "sensationalization" — mass murder is news, and people who think about murdering undoubtedly know that and many want that recognition for doing it. Look at all the people who live-stream violence on Facebook Live now. They don't even need the media to cover it because they're doing it themselves.

Definitely. Lyrically it's one of their best.

Hell yeah it would Billie

I think the rest of the interview might've been but yeah that was some comic relief

Wait, Tre Cool giving sensible advice, what on earth is going on here!!!!

I'm just so pleased for Jeff, he is a successful professional musician, doing what he loves, imagine if he was unhappy! I'm not serious, I know everyone doesn't necessarily smile lots of whatever, and I don't know what he's got going on in his life, but he does seem like a perfect straight man for Billie and all being silly with puppets etc! He does seem to have a good sense of humour. Maybe he's the one that should be getting called Eeyore, not Billie. Billie doesn't seem in Eeyore mode these days though.

Love waking up to Green Day on the radio, got my current fave BOBD this morning Funnily the same station played 21 Guns on the morning of my first show in January, then I grew to love it later and was roughly one week and some adverse weather conditions away from getting to see it live Don't know what exactly but I'm sure it means something.

It's not just straight up exploring the thoughts of a killer though is it? They're expressed in a totally silly, flippant, almost humorous way and overly focused on the fame aspect. If you asked any of these killers to explain their feelings/motives they'd be dark and serious about it, not "gimme death or gimme head!", "I get my kicks and I wanna start a rager!", "bang, bang, gimme fame!", "hurrah! hurrah! the hero of the hour" etc. It's not ridiculous to think someone would kill for those reasons because unfortunately they really do, but the reasons themselves are ridiculous/unreasonable wouldn't you say? I agree it's an attempt to try to understand the thoughts but I don't think it's just literally describing them, there's extra layers to it: satire on the modern obsession with fame at any cost, how tragedy is sensationalised and killers become famous, and an exposure of how unreasonable the justification is through the silly way the justification is expressed.

You just know my cat.

I've seen them seven times in the past four years, including three club shows, and I've only seen four songs off Insomniac played live, none of them more than once. Brain Stew in 2013 was the only one at a non-club show, so I'd hardly call anything from that album a standard part of the setlist for newer fans. That argument for omitting the album entirely really doesn't hold water, either, when everyone on GDC is always using the "think of the new fans who have never been to a show!" argument to justify why they have to play literally half of American Idiot and almost half of Dookie every night. I could do without hearing one of those songs to hear Geek Stink Breath once in a while. I don't think that's asking much. I'd even omit 2,000 Light Years Away at this point. It's not like that's a radio hit.

Could be an intentional play on words. Clever. I love that song, it's so theatrical.

I was listening to Misery earlier and about the line "he liquidated his estate" and since I didn't know that "liquidate" was an actual money-term, I always assumed that he literally turned his money into liquid by spending all of it on alcohol and then finding misery in the Height

I hope everyone on twitter is ignoring this guy!

Billie's vocals on Blood, Sex & Booze are on point.

I really don't care if people hate the band - whatever that's people's own tastes and opinions. What I don't like is putting down others for it. You must have no life if your goal is to make someone feel bad for liking Green Day and thinking your musical tastes are superior. It's music. It's supposed to be fun.

Yeah, I just watched the video. Their arguments are just plain stupid. They call them sellouts and say that recent albums are "lazy", while they play Still Breathing in the background, which is, in my opinion, one of their best songs in years. And I know a lot of people who aren't hardcore-fans, but they still love this song. Their most ridiculous argument is that American Idiot was controversial because it dealt with the Bush administration. So what? If people hate you because you critize the Iraq war, there is no reason to feel ashamed. I think you don't want to be loved by those people. They say that Green Day, one of the most successful bands of the last 30 years, is leaving "a less than stellar legacy". That's just dumb.

He was on a little scooter.

There you go! Sorry it isn't as fluent as the ones from Billie. Mike should really save the broadcasts...

Can we take a moment to appreciate baby Tre?

This isn't the latest item I brought but, I do have a Green Day zip up hoodie and a 21st Century Breakdown halter top. I also have a BIAB CD/DVD set & a 21st Century Breakdown book that came with the CD. I've had these items since I was 16.

The cool thing is that they are the youngest band ever to be inducted into the HoF. Since their first release came out when they were 18 and they got inducted during their first year of eligibility, it's hard for any other band to beat that record. It's rare for a band to be inducted when they are still active in the prime of their career. Usually, they've split up, members have left or died or have just become a nostalgia act. Not these guys.

Yeah, we still see your chompers Billie!

I don't think Mike's teeth have always looked like this. They are either joke teeth or he shares a dentist with Billie

Speaking of.. is that a kazoo or are you just happy to see your fans Billie?? (decent page own )

So do I. But man, I will certainly look sharp in my Green Day t-shirts while homeless and living on the streets!

Yay KFAD . That gum bothered me more than it should have though. Also lol at the trip

cinema_de_brandiago Life is good today!!

Who cares? Show's gonna rock. Why are we always so tough on them? (Still on my high after seeing them in Cleveland)

He's wearing a Hawaiian shirt, women's sunglasses and a badge with a photo of himself as a child on it and somehow still looks good . Only Billie can pull off the look.