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Rock am Ring 2013 Photos by Tobias Kästner for Bildabuch https://images.app.goo.gl/3y5ZyosasVuvXqwt6

https://greenday.fm/news/remaking-kerplunks-unfinished-artwork/ Interview with Chris Applegren (artist of Kerplunk cover)

Billie, Mike and Tre have seemed so fractured to me over the past year having Billie back on IG and the three all sharing and commenting on each other’s posts feels like the gang is back together 💚

I love to see these articles etc but is there any allowance made for the mad prices the Rolling Stones charge compared to the less mad ones of other artists? I know Hella Mega was expensive in US but given different artists charge different amounts, it doesn't feel like a level playing field?

I wouldn't mind Jason coming back to record at all. I think the guitar work on the trilogy was good, the guitar solos were great by Green Day standards. Idk how much that had to do with Jason (idk if he just played guitar or if he wrote any of the guitar for the albums) but at the least I assume it would've taken some of the pressure or burden off Billie to write/record all the guitar parts of the trilogy

I love how everyone seems to be aware of the regular “come to Brazil” cry, and how some folk are commenting that on these announcements 😂😂

Honestly, I hope not. I love Jason and all the other touring members, but Green Day IS Billie, Mike, and Tre.

From Billie's Instagram story From Tre From Jason White

Rock am Ring 2013 Photos by Tobias Kästner for Bildabuch https://images.app.goo.gl/3y5ZyosasVuvXqwt6

I remember that post. But well it doesn't say whether Jason wrote those guitar parts or just played them I'd be perfectly fine with Billie taking a step back and letting the others have a bigger role. As much as I love modern Green Day, since American Idiot it seems it's been mainly Billie that's had the biggest role in the albums whereas before all 3 of the guys had a very significant role in the albums. And that was fine with most of these albums but I think Billie's sort of running out of things to say that he hasn't already said. I of course still want him to be very involved, but the other guys too

Just looking at their Facebook and they seem to be holding live events so I could be wrong. Looks like it could be live and online

From Tre From Jason White From Kevin

Never seen this one:

Rock am Ring 2013 https://images.app.goo.gl/3y5ZyosasVuvXqwt6

Can you keep comments like this to yourself please. We've discussed about how "fantasising" is the line, this is an example of going over it. No big deal so let's just move on now. But if you really want to discuss further please PM me instead of replying here.

I would be cool to have 100 tracks... Surely some of the missing 64 are good

This gets harder everytime. Neon Trees put through an AC/DC filter while making a children's album for adults. Ridiculous guitar solos through the choruses and a song about being lonely. Too September To End is the new addition to sad Green Day tunes and Mike and Tre both play additional stupid guitar solos. Before each of these 47 guitar solos by the guys, Billie screams 'Do it freaking right!" Oh and we finally get a studio version of Chocolate Rain. Van Gough plays bass and does vocals on one track, but the song sounds bad on purpose. Like Van Gough is losing his battle with....everything. The albums concept ends vaguely, leaving it open as to whether or not Doctow Who saves Van Gough or not and Fink definitely dies.

I haven't seen these before either. I thought I was paying attention at the time but apparently not

Thanks for the info. I didn't know that. At least I still have an opportunity to see them. But I'm still hoping they play other shows besides RiR.

Guns N' Roses Will do a Deluxe edition for use your illusion with live recordings for the 30 anniversary...

Tickets are not sold out. RIR alwaYs do a early presale of 100 thousand tickets. The rest will only be sold next year, in April

Attention, Brazilians: Rock in Rio announced a Green Day concert next year. They play on September 9th. Source: https://g1.globo.com/pop-arte/musica/rock-in-rio/2022/noticia/2021/12/16/green-day-avril-lavigne-fall-out-boy-e-billy-idol-sao-anunciados-no-rock-in-rio-2022.ghtml PS: tickets are sold out already!

Never again 😱

Made for a certain drinking game 😂😂

From Billie's Instagram story (a little dance with Mike!) Billie also reposted Mike and Tre's posts (above)

A new coworker was wearing a Green Day shirt today (one of the ones that's been sold at Hella Mega) and so I asked her if she was a big GD fan. She said no, but her best friend is and they'd gone the Seattle show that I went to. She also saw the RevRad show when they were here in 2017. I need to ask her to introduce me to this friend of hers!

https://larrylivermore.com/2021/12/15/i-am-the-disappearing-boy-30-years-of-kerplunk/ Nice piece from Larry Livermore on the anniversary! Now I just want to go listen to Kerplunk again.

I Am The Disappearing Boy: 30 Years Of Kerplunk Billie Joe texted to ask if I was going to write anything about the 30th anniversary of Green Day’s Kerplunk. I told him I hadn’t given it much thought, especially because the anniversary was still months away....... https://larrylivermore.com/2021/12/15/i-am-the-disappearing-boy-30-years-of-kerplunk/

While I was looking for the exact quote Billie Joe did about long songs, I stumbled around to some article from April where he cites Jesus of Suburbia (and She?) as ''the best Green Day song''. https://www.vulture.com/article/interview-billie-joe-armstrong-green-day-history.html EDIT: Found it, it was from Kerrang's interview https://www.kerrang.com/green-days-new-album-is-like-nothing-youve-seen-before “I’ve decided that I don’t like long songs,” the frontman reveals today with a knowing chuckle and a twinkle in his eye, “and that’s coming from a band that wrote [the nine-minute-long] Jesus Of Suburbia! I’m like a 16-year-old with ADHD. If I’m listening to other people’s music, I always look at how long the song is. If it’s over three minutes I go, ‘Urgh, pass. I don’t wanna listen to that shit.’” ''He leans forward, throws up his hands and shouts to comedic effect. “Who has time for that?!”''

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/green-day-bbc-sessions-album-review/ https://vervetimes.com/green-day-bbc-sessions-review-vintage-whine-has-aged-well-music-entertainment/ https://en.brinkwire.com/entertainment/review-of-green-days-bbc-sessions-vintage-whine-has-aged-well/ Am seeing plenty of reviews, all positive.

I think is the opposite. They won't make another Breakdown because they had a big chunk of stress making the record, pulling every string and polishing every detail. If being socially aware is being political, then they were political from the very beginning. Politics is not only related to politicians, is how, where we live, what you have to do to eat a meal at the end of the day. How we interact together. Political elites have made everything possible to bruise people and looking away from politicians, just to make things easier for them. In that sense, I bet he is more tired of speaking his mind, his convictions, his soul, to trying to make a change, to make people giving a shit. And it didn't happen. Probably it won't. If he would stop making social commentary, then RevRad shouldn't exist. And then, in that record, he wrote the most deep song that I have seen from that guy: "What's good about love and peace on earth, when it's exclusive?" "What part of history we've learned, when it's repeated?" FOAM is full of political statements too. Not gonna mention MM2020pt2. Is not like "Fuck x politician". Is more like "I have tried almost anything to make this a better place, and it is not working" Do you remember? "Ain't funny how we're running of hope" If Billie is tired to be in a political/social band, he would have stopped long time ago and enjoy his millions. But guess what, he can't. And it's painful to me, as is from a lot of us. But that is the reality we live in, and I'm super grateful to have him to put music in this apocalypse

I get the sense Billie is tired of Green Day being mischaracterized as a political band. He never intended to AI to be overtly political, like every other album it was meant to be about his own feelings and where he was emotionally at that time. Politics factored into it as a setting or a backdrop to fill out the statement he was making about how it made people feel. But it also pigeon holed them as a political band and he’s been fighting against that label ever since.

Thought I'd look for some pics from the show in Tallinn, Estonia tonight but didn't find anything. Found these from the Trilogy Tour in 2013 though From Alamy's website

Well, they didn't do a thing for 20th or 25th, so it was expected to not see something in the 30ths...