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31 December 2024 On this day last year (31 December 2023), The Coverups played the El Rey Theatre in LA. 2 years ago (31 December 2022), The Coverups played the Viper Room in LA. 5 years ago (31 December 2019), The Longshot played the Golden Bull in Oakland. More photos: There's a recap and even more photos on GDA. I also sell prints of these photos and a shirt featuring one, if anyone really likes them 9 years ago (31 December 2015), Billie played at a New Year's Eve party in NYC with Jesse Malin and some of the other musicians who hang out with him. 20 years ago (31 December 2004), Green Day played American Idiot and Longview on the MTV New Year's Eve show. More photos: 26 years ago (31 December 1998), Green Day played Scattered and Good Riddance on the MTV New Year's Eve show. More photos: 24 years ago (31 December 1990), Green Day played 924 Gilman Street. --------------------------------------------- 1 January 2025 On this day 14 years ago (1 January 2011), Billie returned to Broadway as St. Jimmy. 32 years ago (1 January 1993), Green Day played the Downtown Performance Center in Tucson, AZ. 33 years ago (1 January 1992), Green Day played AJZ Bahndamm in Wermelskirchen, Germany. 36 years ago (1 January 1989), Green Day played 924 Gilman Street. --------------------------------------------- 2 January 2025 On this day 32 years ago (2 January 1993), Green Day played the Silver Dollar Club in Phoenix, AZ. The toilets flooded (caused by a potato, according to some accounts) and they kept playing anyway. 33 years ago (2 January 1992), Green Day played Simplon in Groningen, Netherlands. 34 years ago (2 January 1991), Green Day played the Phoenix Theatre in Petaluma, CA. --------------------------------------------- 3 January 2025 On this day 20 years ago (3 January 2005), Green Day played Boulevard of Broken Dreams on the Late Show With David Letterman. More photos: 32 years ago (3 January 1993), Green Day played a second night at the Silver Dollar Club in Phoenix, AZ. 33 years ago (3 January 1992), Green Day played De Scamele Rùter in Leeuwarden, Netherlands. I'm probably going to make a lot of errors now the year has changed, like I used to write the previous year on my schoolwork for at least three months

"Put em up"

I honestly love this era of the band. I think all, yes, all of the songs are pretty damn good. As someone who listens to all sorts of music, I genuinely don't get the complaints about the recording quality. People act like it sounds worse most demos do but that just isn't true. They sound like a small.band just starting out but that's exactly the beauty of it. I want more albums with that sound. Few things feel as nostalgic and comfortable. When I first listened to the album/comp, I didn't like it. I was so used to the band from Kerplunk-Warning that I wasn't initially ready to hear something that different when I was getting into them. It didn't take long for it to grow on my teenage self, especially songs about girls, unrequited love, and feelings of the sort. My young, angsty lesbian self grew really attached to every one of the songs from both the original album and the add-ons for the compilation. I could still sing every lyric without missing a beat, even though I've grown up and married the woman of my dreams. This is all to say, I quite love everything about 1039/smoothed. Forgive me for my poor English ramblings, I'm sure it's pretty sloppy at the moment.

On this day 32 years ago (26 December 1992), Green Day played 924 Gilman Street. And a flyer: "And it was a great feeling, because we ended up playing with the Ne'er Do Wells, and [John Kiffmeyer] knew we were standing there watching. He was playing really hard, and trying to make it look like he was the man, and one thing you can not do to Tre Cool is to outdrum him. Especially if you are a mediocre drummer at best. One of the first songs we played was 'Longview', which is like a great drummer's song, and from that point on, it was like, 'Dude, you're so over.'" — Billie

For me is incredible how some 17years old teenagers could sing, play and write like that. I mean the riffs are so catchy, the vocal harmonies reminds of the Beatles. You could see in 39smooth that they were as a band special. I tried to find albums from other bands that they recorded at the same age but no one can compete.

500K Fender or replacement CTS if I were to take a guess since nobody apart from his guitar tech knows for sure.

I got a copy of this in the late 90s and absolutely loved it back to front. The production has aged terribly but it's a product of its time and the speed of recording of the various EPs that make up the compilation. There's a bunch of classics on here. Their immaturity as songwriters is noticeable, but at the same time fairly strong for basically a trio of angsty teenagers. Arguably some of BJAs best guitar work too.

The thing is, this was the dawn of the 1990's, a time before Nirvana's Nevermind. Growing up then and living through a punk explosion. 39/Smooth cost $650 to record which bought a day or so in the studio. Music laid down in one day on a first take, the vocals the day after. GD had nowhere to hide, no studio trickery, nothing to polish or embellish the sound. The album just had the songs nothing more. It may sound tinny and hesitant, but for me at that time I'd heard nothing like it. I still love it now every song and lyric. As stated in the book the History of GD, "there is no band out there like GD" and "39/Smooth is as punk rock record by any estimation." Should they have taken more time recording the album, worked on improving the sound? I'll let Billie Joe answer that question. Speaking in Dublin in 2004 he said, Quote: "I look back at 39/Smooth, and I honesty think that we would have fucked it up had we had more time or money to do it differently." I love 39/Smooth & Kerplunk just as they are when they came out, my life and soul. More valuable than gold.

for compiling the first 3 EPs+I Want To Be Alone it does a decent job, though i wish that they could have managed to sneak in & rerecord the 3/4 of the songs on Sweet Children (Sweet Children, Best Thing In Town, Strangeland)+ maybe throw on Stay as well so IWTBA isnt the only track thats "original" to 1039 Favs for me are... Green Day, Disappearing Boy, GTP, At the Library, Judges Daughter, Paper Lanterns, Why Do You Want Him?, Knowledge, 409, Dry Ice, Only Of You, and I Want To Be Alone

I love: Going to Pasalacqua I Want to Be Alone Paper Lanterns 409 In Your Coffee Maker I wish they were all re-recorded during the Dookie sessions with Tre on drums like 409 In Your Coffee Maker was.

It's a fun record with very good gems. It feels the band's early experince in Music though. I'd rather prefer this album than Kerplunk.

1039 and kerplunk has the BEST songwritting, but a bad demo sound. They should realase an album with modern live versions of songs from these two albums

"Here's to all my friends!!! Stay alive in 2025!" https://www.instagram.com/share/reel/BAMpsZNIAX https://www.instagram.com/share/reel/BAAFmAodxo

I love Billie's post. Happy New Year everyone!! What a great year it was for Green Day 💚

Happy new year to everybody in the GDC!🎆🎇🎆

Billie's New Year post Happy New year everyone 🎉

28 December 2024 On this day 32 years ago, Green Day played the Palomino Club in LA. 33 years ago, they played AK 47 in Düsseldorf, Germany. 34 years ago, they played the Berkeley Square nightclub. 29 December 2024 On this day 33 years ago, Green Day played Underdog in Siegen, Germany. 30 December 2024 On this day 33 years ago, Green Day played Blumenwiese in Stuttgart, Germany.

On this day 33 years ago (24 December 1991), Green Day played the Rumble Club in Tunbridge Wells, England, which is also a pretty random place. "Second show 24th December 1991 was Pseudo Hippies, Couch Potatoes and Jailcell Recipes and had an abridged version of the Nativity Play, and my bassist passed out drunk whilst crowdsurfing and they stopped mid-song to check he was okay. I have never seen any photos from either show sadly." — Nick Wilkinson There isn't anything on the list for tomorrow, so have Green Day singing a Christmas song

On this day 33 years ago (23 December 1991), Green Day played TJ's in Newport, Wales.

I can't with Punk Bunny. What the hell is this collab? Is American Dad even still running? Why American Dad? I miss the days of Oakland Coffee. It felt less corporate-y and more straight forward. Like hey, here's our coffee. We think it's pretty good. Enjoy.

Cigarettes and Valentines album was neither lost nor stolen. It consisted of 16 tracks. Then they recorded 2-3 tracks which seemed more fresh and exciting, so rather than waiting for like 4 more years to release these new & exciting tracks within another album, they scrapped the Cigarettes and Valentines album but reworked the better parts of it during the new sessions and they kept on recording approximately 65 tracks around this 1 year fruitful period. It is all explained in Mike's interview with Steve Rosen in early 2004. So nothing is lost or stolen. (pls check the interview on youtube).

Fan drawings of the band, album covers, backgrounds etc etc

This is actually the only theory I've read about the tapes having disappeared (in one way or another) that I'm willing to believe. I can kind of see that happening, and would explain why they have never released a studio version of C&V even if there is a live version out there. If this is what happened, then I can also imagine that the "stolen tapes" story was probably also made up to hype the fans about it, so they would really want to listen to it, thus creating a market for those tapes that the label wouldn't "push" and that now they have no way of releasing and profiting from. Being indeed a very punky move. If that's what they did, I see you guys, and you are little punk geniuses. I've said it before and I'll say it again, that American Idiot alt version is the missing link between Warning and American Idiot (the albums, not the songs).

Hi everyone! Long time lurker. Feels like this fits here: Ever since the 20th anniversary came out I have been trying to put together a timeline of the recording of American Idiot and the process that it went through prior with Cigarettes and Valentines. That is until I started reading lyrics back, quite literally with that in mind. One connection that emerged was a connection between one of the most famous lyrics that they have written: "I'm the son of rage and love, The Jesus of Suburbia." How could this connect to Cigarettes & Valentines you might ask? Think of it literally, with "rage" being the rough, rebellious side represented by "cigarettes", and "love," the sweeter, sentimental side represented by valentines. In art, cigarettes often symbolize defiance or a kind of gritty realism in art, after I did a bit of digging finding this article. Another connection was the first part of that lyric "I'm the son..." which could literally represent American Idiot emerging as the "son" of Cigarettes and Valentines after the creative process. The way that I interpreted it is that American Idiot is the “offspring” of what Cigarettes and Valentines would have been. What better way to start a fresh slate than to continue the start or introduction of the first part of the album by declaring this? We know for a fact that the band's feelings of frustration, disillusionment were carried from Cigarettes & Valentines to American Idiot, so maybe this could fit? This could be a big stretch but I'm open to hearing other interpretations of this in the same vein.