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GDA and Green Day Mexico just came back

Happy St Patrick Day

Happy anniversary of this lovely BJA post

The picture that broke GDC

Had a dream a night ago that Billie did a livestream. Made me real sad when I woke up and remembered he's gone from IG right now.

Back in the good old days when Billie had instagram... (I also absolutely hate the fact that he's wearing a jacket that looks just like one that I've had for years, except mine is mustard yellow. Now he's making me feel paranoid that I dress like a middle aged man, but in fact the old guy dresses like me.)

I'm a little late, but I'd also like to say that I'd love for GD to work with Butch Vig again. 21CB is still such an outstanding record. It's the only one that comes close to rivaling AI in my opinion. That whole era was just incredible. The music, the shows, the boys' appearances - everything was top notch. I want them to work with Rob again too.

The official store has new Warning merch! https://store.greenday.com/ I’m so weak!!! I bought the green shirt and a hoodie. They’re awesome!! I love Warning so much 😭😭😭

I too would like them to work with Butch Vig again. I don’t know if any of you listened to The Nimrods Podcast but they are not fans of FOA and every time Butch Walker was mentioned they called him “the wrong Butch”, made me chuckle every time 😁

this was my assumption... having those live tracks on streaming will be fuckin sick

Googling the title worked for me. Here it is copied: Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong: The Dark Traditions of Phil Everly By Billie Joe Armstrong Updated Jan. 4, 2014 6:14 pm ET My connection to the Everly Brothers goes way back. My mother was an Everly Brothers fan. I remember her playing them in the house and hearing songs like "Bye Bye Love" and "Wake Up Little Susie." The Everly Brothers' harmonies are so immaculate. You can tell that they're brothers and have been singing together basically since birth. They improved on the whole craft of singing harmony, and their harmonies are pretty much better than everybody's. Their 1958 album "Songs Our Daddy Taught Us"-- I thought it was just so dark. They sounded like angels or spirits singing these really dark murder ballads and old southern hymns and folk songs that go back to the 17th century. It was just so different for them being rock and roll stars at the time to then take this turn looking at their family history and singing these songs. It was impressive. I've been singing harmony with Mike Dirnt since we were about 15 years old. I've always had a more melodic side of me. Even in punk terms, I've always been drawn to melodies. The Everly Brothers, the songs are so good, and they are also very percussive. When the chords on "Bye Bye Love" come out, they come out rocking hard, there's no pretense at all. I feel like I really love the range of their voices, the tone of their voices. The song that always gets me from "Songs Our Daddy Taught Us" is "Put My Little Shoes Away." The kid in the song is talking to his mother and saying it's time for me to go. How could you not be affected by something like that? It's so real. Death is something that happens to all of us. I'm still kind of in shock with Phil Everly dying—it's almost as if I can hear him singing that song. They've influenced people already and the people they influenced don't even know it. If you're influenced by the early Beatles harmonies, then you're influenced by the Everly Brothers. If you're influenced by Simon and Garfunkel, then you're influenced by the Everly Brothers. I think any time you hear harmony, the spirit of the Everly Brothers will live on forever. I never met the Everly Brothers or Phil Everly. I thought that I'd run into him in the future. When I found out yesterday that he had died, I got to say I'm kind of in shock. I feel like I lost a relative. They've been on my mind for the last couple of years, I've been thinking about this record and diving inside those harmonies and seeing the way they do things, and diving inside those lyrics and knowing they sang those songs on a porch somewhere in Kentucky. Anything that you're a huge fan of and paying homage to on top of that—when it's taken from you, it's sad. I think their songs are about family and tradition. I have my own family. There are certain things in society that need to be torn down--these things that come in between the human spirit and people truly identifying with each other in a pure way. Everly Brothers songs connect people and traditions. They're handed down. They're kind of like a family heirloom. They were a part of the foundation of rock and roll. You have Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis and Buddy Holly and Little Richard and Elvis Presley---a lot of those guys are straight rockers. And what the Everly Brothers did is they brought that straight harmony in that is so important to establish how the future was going to go. — Billie Joe Armstrong is the lead singer for the rock band Green Day. Last year, he collaborated with Norah Jones on "Foreverly," an album inspired by the music of The Everly Brothers.

Best pic ever

That would be Darwin award worthy but also incredibly tragic

Glad to see it says digitally everywhere, I need those live tracks and it may be my fav album, a good remaster would be awesome!

When Matt from Muse starts an IG live on how to use a coffee machine and all you can think is, "yeah, but are you using Oakland Coffee?"

Jason White: pole dancer extraordinaire

GDA It's gone again 😪

Man, I totally forgot about those pics! Makes me sad that almost 10 years ago. Why does time have to move so fast? I miss that era.

DJ Rosstar who is a big GD fan, has a podcast and this episode is Nimrod. Haven’t had a chance to listen yet, it popped up on my FB feed, sharing and also trying not to lose it again 😁 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/talking-records/id1464595175#episodeGuid=bd68d3dc-08ce-4c3f-a39f

Get it, Jason!

But to think I’ll likely never get to hear 21CB, Before the Lobotomy, Murder City, Static Age, Last Night On Earth, Viva La Gloria... live 😭 when I think of the Dookie and AI songs that have been played live to death

It’s their peak and I wonder how much Butch Vig had to do with that... I want him to produce at least one other gd album.

But 21CB tho... 🥺

Because Billie wrote 37 songs that no one care about 😂

Billie played them as the longshot. Mike and Tre did not.

It was Mike's 39th birthday party. Billie just stole the spotlight.

Static Age is criminally underrated. I know we bemoan the fact that they don't play Trilogy songs anymore but they put so much work into the 21CB album. It's a freaking masterpiece and the only song to survive in the regular setlist is Know Your Enemy. That too is a crime.

Just listened to Warning for the first time in a little while and I'm reminded of why that album is so great

The European tour starts at the end of May (without Weezer & Fall out boy). Can't they just announce the cancellation or new dates already.

Yeah the streaming world is weird and has no relation to radio or any other type of success measure. The real crime is how many streams an artists needs to make any kind of money, a fraction of what equals physical sales