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Dang my budget and being responsible...

Cute shirt but more importantly, I assume it means he’s not done with the Longshot, there will be more I hope.

I can see Metalhead Zone's clickbait headline now...

I think you have to put things in the right perspective and find the right enemies here. I am not sure if we are allowed to discuss this (if not mods please cancel/edit this post), but since it's publicly available information: Billie Joe is estimated to be worth $55 million. Let's say that the three of them together have $150 million, which I think it's actually way more than reality. This includes properties and whatsoever, it's not their liquidity, which will be way less than this. A world stadium tour like the one we are talking about can end up costing up to $59M a month (https://www.royaltyexchange.com/blog/costs-of-touring#sthash.3lxCqNEt.dpbs). Let's even say that we are on the medium-lower range here, $25M a month (even tho I think this is not really the case since we are talking about 3 huge bands + supporting acts touring only stadiums, worldwide). Make your calculations considering how long this tour was supposed to be, and even if you consider all the artists, from all of the three bands, contributing to cover the costs, you can easily realise that this is not something that can be expected from them. It's not about greediness or rich problems, we don't even know if and how much they actually contributed to cover the losses that this tour is clearly making in the current situation. It's just about economy, it's about the music industry that, as any other industry, in this situation need a state intervention to survive and be on its legs when things will be (hopefully) be able to be back to a new normality. And it's about the workers of the music industry getting paid their salary (a big cut of that monthly touring cost). It's a totally different topic of discussion when we talk about huge corporations, having hundreds of millions if not billions in liquidity, CEOs worth billions, maybe also paying starvation wages and evading taxes in some financial paradise, that somehow manage to get access to public money, while workers get fired and small businesses have to shut down. That is the problem, that sucks.

You’re just a ray of fucking sunshine.

I imagine that they are taking about money that goes to the touring/management companies, not the artists, among other things to pay for salaries of hundreds of people. So yeah, I guess they need that, and every country in the world is setting up similar funds. From what I am reading, the problem in the US is that while big and relatively big companies have easy access to these funds, medium and small size business have limited to no rights, not to talk about self employed workers. Which is typical of that country and sucks. That doesn’t mean that the solution is putting the entire music industry into bankruptcy/having it to rely on the “charity” of artists.

I don’t neccessarily want a shirt with Billie’s dog on it, but I do want more longshot

I lack your sense of responsibility. Ordered. Need it to go along with my Basie Coverups shirt.

Or he could just put another NFM song on vinyl instead

Don’t forget the Golden Bull. As a bulldog I think Cleo should be on that one.

Noooo

I guess I’m the OG GDC commie here and I have to agree. Green Day personally may be rich, but they’re just well-paid employees of Warner, it’s not like they run a sweatshop.

Oooh, great idea! Okay, you get your BG shirt without a dog, put Mini on the Otis one, and Cleo on a Golden Bull one.

I prefer dogs to humans, and now you gave me the idea that he could have Mini on a Broken Guitars shirt and Cleo on an Otis one, and I can just have a wardrobe half full of Billie's dogs.

I wish I could see an opportunity to see this band. I have a low income, I wish tickets could be cheaper. Now I'm actually old enough to go on my own I still can't. It really makes me sour seeing my parents go see their favorite artists live and my siblings. But not me. Never me. It sucks.

Here’s the Green Day related part: IE: You made Green Day sound Gary-Glitter huge on Father of All Motherfuckers. BW: Ha! Love Gary Glitter or hate him — and he’s very hateable at this point — there was some good music there. And cool production. And a lot of that ‘70s glam era is in my wheelhouse, from just growing up and loving it and making a lot of tributes, production-wise, just on my own records. That was also a lot of Billie Joe Armstrong’s influences. And like I’ve told people before, half of making a record is just talking with the artist before you even start the record. So Billie and I would spend a lot of time just shooting the shit — over texting and over phone calls — and we had all the same records, we had the same exact influences. He’s very much a musicologist and knows every guitar player on every record, and I love that. So not only was it like, “Did we just become best friends?” It was also “Okay, let me get a vibe on this demo you just sent me, and I’ll send you back a work in progress, a template of how I think it would sound cool.” That’s how we started the record, and he loved it. And there were a lot of those great influences there, like E.L.O., the early Bowie stuff, the T. rex stuff. It was a lot of fun.

FOAM in the trailer.

When they rely on touring dollars to pay their staff, I'm not surprised they got it. They will have to pay it back eventually. Even that lovely little "stimulus check" that a large portion of the US got will be paying that back, whether it's on our 2021 taxes or later.

Omg I want that!

Glad I got a refund for the July show next year in San Francisco. Just read the here in California we will not be moving into or phase 4 til probably after vaccine in about 12-14 months. That means no concerts, festivals they said. "In fact, all that's left to reopen are the businesses in Phase 4: concerts, festivals, conventions and sports with a live audience. What needs to happen before California moves into the next stage of reopening?" "All three medical experts we asked put it plain and simple: You shouldn't expect to attend a concert or a big festival until we have a coronavirus vaccine."

Im hearing two guitars on Kids In America I'm sure it's Billie and Jason doing the other parts

Ultimate shirt would have been this pic. Covers both the Longshot and Lenny.

Twenty One Pilots also got one. I was going through the Small Business Administration data and cracked up when I saw "Twenty One Pilots LLC" on the list. (They're from Ohio.)

Same here. Lenny’s awesome I’m just not a dog/cat person but knowing how many people are I assume this will be really popular. I’m afraid to ask him for that Broken Guitars shirt that was promised we’ll end up getting a design with Lenny on it 😒

Try just copying and pasting the link (don’t click). I haven’t ever had issues with mega not working and I’m in the US. edit: use a desktop/laptop. Not a tablet or smartphone.

The link just reroutes back to this page. Do you have another version of that mega link? Maybe it's not working for me because it's a NZ based page? I'd love even higher quality video of that show!

Fuck the government

Everyone’s gonna want that. It’s genius

Even a vaccine might not be enough. This may turn into a yearly thing like influenza, with new strains every year. Hopefully a vaccine will help reduce the death rate but this could dramatically change our lifestyles given how much worse than the flu this is. Thanks China.

When the only reason you're on a certain phone network was to get into the GD Brixton show in 2013

I could do that for him 😈

Billie messed me up. I forgot today was Monday meaning there's a possibility he'll post a new song. Maybe he's switching it to No Hump Wednesdays instead...which has an entirely different meaning 😂

I fixed it 😁

We need more Longshot records, their covers are so good.

Thanks, I hope so too. It just seems to be getting crazier atm, but we're keeping our heads above water still even with understaffing. Here's Billie. I need his impish smile right now.

I'm sure they've just been sending each other files and doing it all remotely. Billie at least seems pretty serious about staying safe in all this. From what GD have shown us, the recording area of Otis is quite small and wouldn't be conducive to appropriate social distancing

I noticed it's only the more recent songs that others have been on. Wonder if rather than sending their stuff in, if they've been hanging out with Billie at Otis and doing their parts together.

It was clear that the some songs weren't just him. And just another proof that Green Day sound lies on Chris Dugan ears. Big respect to that guy

Correction: All cakes must have a deep fear of Green Day... 🎂🍰

It's true! All cakes must have a deep fear of Billie. Since I missed out on this yesterday, my favorite picture of Billie with a stuffed toy is this one because he is holding it in his mouth like an animal for no apparent reason. Honorable mention because he's Lion Kinging it. Not a stuffed toy, but this one is just fucking hilarious.

That would be Adrienne’s hand.

Really unfortunate that FOB was able to reschedule

When a co-worker starts describing a vomiting unicorn and you have to stop yourself from telling them about how that relates to GD but go there in your mind.

I think I like this better than the pitch black

#BringBackThiccTre