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In May 2023, one of my favorite artists Jesse Malin suffered a rare spinal stroke that left him paralyzed from the waist down. He's slowly recovering and will be going back on stage for two triumphant comeback shows at Beacon Theater, NY in December with bunch of guests. He's releasing a special tribute and benefit album on September 20th called Silver Patron Saints, where a bunch of artists and friends covered his songs, including Billie. He did ''Black Haired Girl'' from Glitter In The Gutter (2007.) and it's out now. All proceeds are going to Jesse Malin’s Sweet Relief artist fund.

My stuff at home isn't in any organized fashion, but I have pics I've taken at all of my shows on magnets on my filing cabinet at work.

I'd been wondering which song Billie would choose to cover for this benefit album and suppose it makes sense that he chose one from Glitter in the Gutter (one of my favourite albums of JM's) which was released on Adeline Records and that Billie helped produce Here's what Jesse has to say about Billie's cover https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02fhZ77oM7NJ9XS78J7cCe7XxgjFfJXYwzaZtQamvZtCfirYktALqNBBEvrr7KrnyCl&id=100044380451245

Oh my goooodddd.... all the feels. I remember the crushing after the 1,2 1,2,3,4 - genuinely thought I was gonna get squished. So worth it though. Some noteworthy quotations/outtakes: "We found our place at Gate H and pulled up a patch of concrete to sit on. We stayed there for a while, but I was shivering violently so [my friends] went to find some coffee. Whilst they were gone, I got talking to the other crazy ass fans who were there at 6.30 in the morning. [My friends] came back with a cup of hot. No that's not me writing too fast, it stops after hot because the liquid in the cup was unidentifiable." "My friends brought a fitted bedsheet from IKEA because we were that cold. We ended up lying on the tarmac wrapped in the blue sheet next to each other to keep warm. We must have looked like a pack of sardines - just four heads, poking out of the top of this sheet!' "I saw Mike first, and by this point the screaming had reached the decibel level of an airport runway. Tré then ran on to more screams, and then I saw Billie. OMG BILLIE." <-- I was such a little fangirl. "[Billie] said he asked Jesus to clear the sky of clouds so that God could watch his favourite band play again, but got ignored, so he went to Jesus' best friend "Also known as Satan" and Satan said hell yeah he'd watch them play." "[During Boulevard of Broken Dreams] Billie got down on his hands and knees to worship the crowd." Apparently, at one point, I thought Billie Joe actually looked at me when I motioned for him to come spray water on our side because he had a water gun. Yeah, sure Bryony, of course he noticed you. They played Dominated Love Slave with Beej on the drums. At the end of 'Hitchin A Ride' Billie came to the front and said he "wanted to fuck each and every one of us" <-- Um, I'm still waiting Beej. Tick, Tock. Apparently it was sweaty balls in the pit due to pyrotechnics. We also got 'When It's Time' which was to do this day is one of my fave songs. At that point it had only been out a week. I remember grabbing my best friends hand, and holding it as we sang. Crazy moment full of so much emotion. Billie speech - not sure when he gave this, or how accurate it is, 'cause it'll be from memory in my diary a few days later: "I'm not sure when we're coming back, but I'll tell you one thing, I'm going to remember this for the rest of my fucking life. Yeah, we'll come back. We will come back. There ain't no other band I'd rather do this with. Bands break up, my favourite bands have broken up, some of my favourite people have died. The only way I'm getting out of this band is when they roll me away in a coffin, I'll tell you that.' There's a lot lot lot more in that entry, and some of it is batshit, so I'm not repeating it. But... fun trip down memory lane.

Understandable, the show was incredible! Opening alone deserves a few pages

Not a shrine exactly, but my diary entry (A4 book) about the Wembley Stadium show in 2010 was 16 pages long. It has no paragraphs, it's just 16 pages of writing. What the fork did I talk about?!

Love it!

Love it, sounds like it could be a Longshot song. Everything is better with Billie singing it.

I've put all these pics from the Baxley's in the Instagram thread but putting them here too From Alice

From Billie's Instagram story From Europe From Alice Baxley and this photo from the Berlin show

It’s a different thing because NLY was written by a journalist and Cometbus is a personal friend. He has the kind of access and insight no journalist does so you can’t really compare them. I will say for a journalist written bio, NLY is one of the better ones, because he did interview friends and family members, but also I found there to be some pretty glaring factual errors too.

I've kept a diary ever since I was 13, so somewhere they'll be a written record of all the shows I've been to. I should dig 'em out and see what they say...

A silly, fun, little music video. Nice to see Though I wouldn't expect to see any more, maybe a lyric video or something but another music video? Probably not. People are talking about whether this was the best choice for a single but I mean, does it really matter? It wouldn't have been a hit at all anyway. There have already been 5 singles before Corvette Summer and the only ones that actually seem to have had really any kind of chart performance is TADIKM and Dilemma

This one isn't strictly about Green Day, but there is a large section about them: Smash!: Green Day, The Offspring, Bad Religion, NOFX, and the '90s Punk Explosion https://www.amazon.com/Smash-Green-Offspring-Religion-Explosion/dp/0306902745 I highly recommend this one. It's a great look at the pop punk explosion of the 90s.

Definitely do it! It's so much fun to look at

Cropped the pics of Billie so they could be seen better

I wish come city gets a video as a sequel to this that would be interesting

This video makes the song so much better. This is the beginning of Mike solo and acting career, woohoo! And the Coma City sign at the end leads me to believe they made two music videos, just like with Holiday and Boulevard of Broken Dreams.

Me at the beginning: well, at least I don't have to see Billie as a blond... Oh. Never mind.

Just posted on his Instagram. It’s not letting me post it for some reason https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9xdhWrPgtx/?igsh=MWJ1Mzg1ZTdicDZyaA==

I used to have a kind of GD shrine by my bed but it's never been set up again since we had to move back in 2011. Found this though - a picture of my desk at work from August 2010!

When I got GD prayer candles I had no choice but to make an actual shrine. Newest thing I added was awesome GDA sticker @solongfromthestarsgave me at the Wembley show last month along with the cool One Eyed Bastard confetti . Favourite things on it besides the candles are the Rev's beer can, Billie birthday card my nephew made me, mini Blue from my brother, pink Claire's makeup bag from AI era and Mike's pick that the lovely J'net very sweetly gifted to me at my first GD show when he gave her it In the box on the right I have lots of gig mementos like confetti, wristbands and tickets as well as other random stuff

Billie in the Look for Love t-shirt

This was amusing 10/10 acting from the boys. Watching Billie act will never not be hilarious Cat was the best lmao

This thread is so cute!! I don't have a "shrine" but the walls of my old bedroom back at my parents house are still... decorated with all the GD stuff I hung up between 2010-2013: Newspaper reviews from the shows in Oslo 2010 & 2013, photos from the show in Berlin 2012, and some confetti. I also found these ones that I for some weird reason kept from newspapers (from around 2011-12) + some old and more recent tickets.

I left behind all of the tour t-shirts, magazine articles, and memorabilia I had collected when I left Venezuela. And my bass picks I got from Mike at the shows in NYC 2009 were pick pocketed (I foolishly kept them in my wallet and it was stole, only time I have been pick pocketed in my life). The only thing I brought with me was my Venezuelan flag that Billie took on stage at one of the those NYC shows before throwing it back at me. That flag also went to many protests with me, both before and after getting on stage with Green Day, so it has all sorts of sentimental value for me. 🥹 God, what a great song. And also, what a great opener. That is so cool though that you have that written down and have kept it so now you can revisit it.

When I Come Around has shot up to #2 on their most popular tracks on Spotify. Wonder what caused this boost?

Damn that stage design really was epic!

I love his hair in that video! Also, I realize how messed-up this is about to sound, but am I the only one who thought he looked hot as hell in that scene where he pulls the gun out? 🤣

I haven’t looked at it in a while but I seem to remember they had Mike’s birthday or year wrong (saying he was born in 1975 or something) and other stuff about those early years.

Factual errors such as? (This isn't a dig, I just wanna know - I've just read it, so I don't wanna be remembering false information!) 😊

This is so good https://www.instagram.com/p/C9xQfE0usRP/?igsh=MTlyeTFoamhsbDN6eA==

I had no idea this existed! 🤯 I missed so much during my ten-year Green Day sabbatical. I must check this out now.

Just got done with Cometbus 54, a really fun read, lots of great anecdotes/behind the scenes talk. Didn’t care to much for Aaron’s thoughts on Asia as a whole, but it’s about 65/70% green day related stuff so no big deal. For anyone who’s read both how does Nobody Likes You Compare? I’m not to bothered about a full history lesson, but all the tour setup stuff, different dynamics and relationships was really interesting in Cometbus. Is there much of that?

It has it’s own thread.

How does Billie always get his hair to always look so good? I love the spikey style in the "Corvette Summer" video.😍 Oh my goodness, I just sound like I'm a Billie hair slut!🤭🤣

Very silly. Love it

Ehhhhhhh….

Hey! Cool to see Bill! And all the miniatures rule!

That was so terrible and I loved every second of it

Excited for this. Man, ‘Saviors’ is just such a great record. Can’t get enough of it still. Never thought they had it in them this late in their career.

I’ll never understand Crush’s marketing…Bobby Sox had ZERO radio play yet had a music video and like mentioned above had the perfect summer vibe single appeal but nothing…Corvette Summer probably will be a great video but Coma City, 1981, Suzie, Strange Days, I feel would be stronger choices…the band and management make odd single choices …(Westbound Sign should have been a single off insomniac…Scattered/Worry Rock could have been better then last ride in or nice guys finish last…Church on Sunday/Castaway would have had better potential then Warning/Macy's Day Parade for broad appeal..AI…whatshername could have been released otherwise no complaints..last night on earth/restless heart syndrome could have replaced last of the American girls and east jesus nowhere..and crush stopped promoting no started up again on the heels of the US tour but this record should have been promoted longer in my opinion cause once the 20th anniversary of AI starts getting promoted Saviors will be pushed to the side unfortunately and it’s universally liked by the fans.

People complain about Last Ride In, but when you're having a stressful day at work, that's the perfect song to come on when you step out for a breather.

Just saw Billie's Suzie Chapstick performance on instagram and I'm swooning over here

Should have been Suzie

I came across this bit of info, not sure how legitimate it is. What do you guys think? https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/greenday-20-years-of-american-idiot-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc0xmdixnda1