stories and songs Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 On October 27, 2016 at 9:29 AM, manuelps said: I've been away so I don't know if anyone noticed this or not but Spotify lists a Nov 7th date in Vegas, mistake? It says that in a few places, but it's actually the American Idiot Musical making a tour stop there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 Vote for People's Choice Awards Write in GREEN DAY https://vote.peopleschoice.com/#!/home/all/46/3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maid Meringue Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 Idk if anyone has mentioned this yet, but Jason F is the main keyboardist for the new Avenged Sevenfold album that came out last week. I honestly didn't think that he could compose as well as he did for that record. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stories and songs Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 On October 30, 2016 at 10:14 PM, desertrose said: Billie Joe Armstrong’s rock revolution After a drug-fuelled meltdown and a triple-album flop, Green Day are back to their riotous best http://www.thetimes.co.uk/magazine/culture/billie-joe-armstrongs-rock-revolution-fqr8dhjdn Is anyone able to access this full story? It cuts off for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumpelstiltskin2000 Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 1 hour ago, stories and songs said: Is anyone able to access this full story? It cuts off for me. Spoiler Billie Joe Armstrong’s rock revolution After a drug-fuelled meltdown and a triple-album flop, Green Day are back to their riotous best Dan Cairns October 30 2016, 12:01am, The Sunday Times ‘I hated that we had all this fat’: Billie Joe Armstrong on Green Day’s career wobbleKEVIN WINTER Share Save There have been periods in Billie Joe Armstrong’s life when the location we meet in — a hidden-away hotel off Los Angeles’s Sunset Strip, beloved of the rock aristocracy, and the scene of many a lost weekend — would have been party central. The Green Day front man, now in recovery after problems with drink and substance abuse derailed the band in 2012, is an altogether calmer and more centred individual these days, turning his anger outwards after years where he directed it at himself. Evidence of this can be heard on the trio’s blistering new album, Revolution Radio, which holds up a mirror to contemporary America in much the same way that their 2004 opus American Idiot did during the dark days of George W Bush’s presidency. The new album entered the charts here and in America at No 1, and the British leg of the band’s 2017 world tour sold out in minutes. In the distance, a member of One Direction sits under a palm tree, his retinue spread out around him, signalling his status. Armstrong, by contrast, nestles in a booth at the back of the hotel’s deserted restaurant, and sips water. Images of music and film icons cover the walls. “The thing about addiction,” says the 44-year-old, “is that the only people who tend to empathise are addicts; and I say that as we’re sitting beneath a photograph of Robert Downey Jr.” One of the endearing things about the singer is that he has rarely, if ever, seemed comfortable in his pop-superstar skin. When he, Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool first broke out of Oakland, California and stormed the charts with Dookie in 1994, Armstrong played the role — pop-punk rabble-rouser for the disaffected, eyeliner, sexual ambiguity — with aplomb, but you always sensed an unease lurking beneath the performance. That sense only increased when American Idiot’s success thrust upon him the mantle of spokesman for a generation, the album’s conceptual, rock-opera takedown of venal politicians, opportunistic wars and ruthless corporations propelling it to sales of more than 15m copies. The band, he says, became almost like a corporation itself. Realising the police have the power to do that stuff, I thought it was terrifying “You get into the habit of going, ‘But this is Green Day. So we need a really big studio, we need to bring in such-and-such, we need the big ... force.’ That was the part of Green Day that I didn’t want any part of any more. I hated it, hated that we had all this fat. All of a sudden, you look round and go, ‘There are way too many people here.’” The fat Armstrong refers to didn’t prevent the band from making their second, state-of-the-union rock opera, 21st Century Breakdown (2009), which returned them to the top of the charts. It was the hubristic decision, three years later, to stagger-release three albums — Uno, Dos and Tre — over a four-month period that confirmed fans’ worst fears. Then, of course, the wheels came off. It could be a question in an existential pop parlour game: where do you go after your career-torpedoing triple album? Back to basics, that’s where. Which usually means: the label has pulled the plug, the artist is creatively numbed by antidepressants or the band can barely look each other in the eye but can’t think of anything else to do — or all three. Thankfully, in Armstrong’s case it meant jumping off the gravy train and seeing where his impulses took him. He recorded a spare and beautiful Everly Brothers tribute album with Norah Jones; built a (tiny) studio in Oakland; wrote songs for, and acted in, a film. And he started looking around him again, rather than at his navel. Twelve years on from American Idiot, and seven since 21st Century Breakdown, the societal and cultural issues that had inspired him to write those albums were, he says, “worse, if anything, than ever”. His own response was to write, but what about his country’s? Rabble rouser: Armstrong performing at Brixton Academy, London, in 1995HAYLEY MADDEN/REX/ SHUTTERSTOCK “I do think that, with a lot of kids, it’s about escapism at the moment. They grew up in the Bush era — the Iraq War, Afghanistan, the biggest economic collapse since the Great Depression. And now they’re in the middle of the biggest cultural divide that I’ve seen in my life. Yet, socially, America has come a long way. We have an African-American president, gay marriage has been legalised, we have transgender rights. Culturally, we’re moving towards the left. “At the same time, with the working classes, there are a lot of people my age that are stuck in the industrial era, where the attitude is, ‘I want to go in there, punch in, do my f****** job, go home to my family, drink beer, play poker with my friends.’ But with technology advancing so rapidly, there’s a new way of looking at jobs that normal working-class people just don’t get.” And into that chasm walks Trump? “Exactly. You have this guy coming along and saying, ‘The boogie man is coming for your jobs,’ and, well, you can understand why people might believe him — even though he’s completely psychotic. It’s a form of mass manipulation, trying to target the last angry white man. I can’t believe that there’s a big disagreement when it comes to racism, or sexism, or sexual assault — now, here in 2016.” Armstrong is confident, almost convinced, that, nine days from now, Trump will be vanquished. But it’s what happens after that, he counsels, that requires the same sort of vigilance and should induce a similar degree of fear. “He’s got so much shady shit up his sleeve right now. What I think is going to happen is that, because he’s got that Breitbart guy [from the conservative news site], and he’s got Roger Ailes [former boss of Fox News], they’re going to start a right-wing network — so far to the right, a new white nationalist party. Trust me, there’s more to come.” Armstrong resists the notion that Revolution Radio can be seen as a sequel to American Idiot, though it does, unquestionably, see a reawakening of his anger. “Look, I wrote [the key early Green Day song] Welcome to Paradise when I was 18. I’d just moved out of my mum’s house into a squat, and that was a reality check for me. So I reflected that — what it was like living on the streets, in this broken community. But at the time I didn’t know that was what I was doing. And with this album, it comes from the same sort of place, that sense of, ‘Where am I in all of this mess?’ It’s about that confusion. “Besides, Bush wasn’t necessarily the American Idiot, it was more a feeling of, ‘I don’t want to be part of this idiocracy.’ There was a lot of it around, but there’s a lot more of it now. If you reflect on what’s going on, watching this almost military state, with tanks and tear gas, and this is just the police, and realising they have the power to jump into any community and do that stuff, I just thought it was so terrifying, it had to be written about. You know, ‘Has this become so common that it can happen anywhere?’ And the answer is, ‘Yes, it can.’” So, no chance of pipe-and-slippers complacency just yet? “That’s the thing about getting older I’m fighting the most,” he laughs. “I’ll take the rest of it, that’s fine. I still don’t know what the f*** is going on. That’s where I’m coming from.” Revolution Radio is out now on Reprise/Warner Music I've copies and pasted it into the spoiler! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stories and songs Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 Thank you so much, @basketcase4933! What a wonderful interview. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jengd Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 Thanks, it wasn't loading for me either. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumpelstiltskin2000 Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 1 hour ago, jengd said: Thanks, it wasn't loading for me either. No worries - you're welcome. It was a sign up thing and I'd been meaning to sign up for ages so I could access my two articles a month! Also this from Kerrang about voting for GD: Although I'm not really sure what it means because it just takes you to Kerrang's site when you click on the link? Maybe something in the magazine itself? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumpelstiltskin2000 Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 Article here: http://www.nationalrockreview.com/artist-feature/roots-green-day-time-played-basement-detroit 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Give_Me_Novacaine90 Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 Green Day's Mike Dirnt ready to leave last few years behind http://qctimes.com/entertainment/music/green-day-s-mike-dirnt-ready-to-leave-last-few/article_fe8a7230-7434-5126-9442-8201da116b76.html Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong reveals some of his family are Trump supportershttp://www.nme.com/news/music/green-day-billie-joe-armstrong-family-voting-trump-1822573#pYQFxfLkXmPdYMkk.99 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertrose Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 Pause After Four Years, Green Day Back Again After an unexpected pause for four years, the punk trio is back again. Not so long ago, Billie Joe Armstrong has some strict rules for Green Day. This is before he pushed the band to make three albums at once the cause Armstrong had to enter rehab. Also before the inauguration entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Rule number one when it is every album and every tour should be directly connected with the next one.Bands who take time off in between will not be the same when re-join, said Armstrong. He compared the trio Green Day with an antique sports car: "There should always be used, otherwise it will just sitting and rusting." They used to practice six times a week, such as the band prepare for the concert the first time. "Ridiculously unbelievable," said Mike Dirnt. "We continue to be so for 20 years." In Armstrong's head, everything has to be toward something more powerful and ambitious. American Idiot (2004) is one of the most important rock album of the century. Trio bengal of this working class (Armstrong, Dirnt and friends along with his childhood-and Tre 'Cool) began playing at concerts large and fond of wearing eye line. They work harder for a sequel album, 21st Century Breakdown (2009), which contains the songs powered simultaneously starting to get a sense of their bombastic and more serious in attitude. This is seen in the song "American Eulogy" (Mass Hysteria / Modern World) ". "The world would like doomsday," said Armstrong. "Missing a bit of a play around us, part of Green Day that I like." Armstrong is now undergoing its fourth year clean from alcohol and drugs. He also tried to get rid of the tendency of his career. Green Day completed Revolution Radio, their first album in four years and came out in October. Four years mean time the longest break since they were established 28 years ago. Feeling fitter who emerged after a long break makes Armstrong felt Green Day is not a car that is ready to fall out after some time in the workshop. "I am so learned," said Armstrong in a newly built studio in Oakland. "We have to try to be better again and again. We break the habit (continued to tour and make albums) because we suddenly become someone else ... I'm running out fuel. We need to stop. " https://www.getscoop.com/berita/green-day-kembali-lagi/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertrose Posted November 6, 2016 Share Posted November 6, 2016 Bastille are inspired by MTV EMA Global Icon winners Green Day Entertainment news•5 November 2016 They tell us why the likes of Green Day and Kings of Leon are great examples for bands everywhere: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/bastille-inspired-mtv-ema-global-110600358.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RougeRogue Posted November 7, 2016 Share Posted November 7, 2016 That awkward moment when you run into Tre in a click bait article 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St. Jonny Posted November 7, 2016 Share Posted November 7, 2016 That is awesome!! Worked out well for that guy. You never know what mood someone will be in, gotta take your chances. Tre is known to act really weird so especially with him. When I met him he was pretty odd, jumping around, and being pretty rude but I just found it hilarious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermione Posted November 7, 2016 Author Share Posted November 7, 2016 On 11/6/2016 at 0:52 PM, nothing_wrong_with_me said: Green Day on their angry return and the nightmare of Trump’s America: ‘I hope that snake gets its head cut off soon’https://inews.co.uk/essentials/culture/music/i-hope-snake-gets-head-cut-off-soon-green-day-angry-return-nightmare-trumps-america/ There's now a thread for this (for anyone who wants to discuss it) Btw always feel free to give a cool new interview its own thread. Now we have the new "interview" tag they're easy to find. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tresexy101 Posted November 8, 2016 Share Posted November 8, 2016 On 10/20/2016 at 6:35 PM, tresexy101 said: This has probably already been posted in another thread but Green Days performance on the Howard Stern show is on Howardstern.com If this hasn't been posted yet, then I should be considered the best piece of junk in a junk draw. Peace and Love I'll be more specific - https://www.howardstern.com/show/2016/10/5/video-green-day-performs-live-stern-show/ Really? Tresexy101 doesn't get a mention for posting Green Days performance from the Howard Stern show and basketcase4933 gets a mention for the Still Breathing video? And thank you, btw, basketcase4933 for the video...but I think TreSexy101 got ripped off. P.S. This isn't TreSexy101 typing this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lizziebix Posted November 8, 2016 Share Posted November 8, 2016 Just now, tresexy101 said: Really? Tresexy101 doesn't get a mention for posting Green Days performance from the Howard Stern show and basketcase4933 gets a mention for the Still Breathing video? And thank you, btw, basketcase4933 for the video...but I think TreSexy101 got ripped off. P.S. This isn't TreSexy101 typing this. did you post it in the Howard Stern thread? Maybe you would have gotten more notice in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tresexy101 Posted November 8, 2016 Share Posted November 8, 2016 34 minutes ago, lizziebix said: did you post it in the Howard Stern thread? Maybe you would have gotten more notice in there. Probably not...but I was the first to post it. I'm whining and I'm taking my ball and going home. On another note, minor D, the Still Breathing video kicks buttocks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertrose Posted November 8, 2016 Share Posted November 8, 2016 Who is the best international rock drummer of 2016? http://www.musicradar.com/news/drums/best-in-drums-2016-643947 Green Day on their angry return and the nightmare of Trump’s America: ‘I hope that snake gets its head cut off soon’ https://inews.co.uk/essentials/culture/music/i-hope-snake-gets-head-cut-off-soon-green-day-angry-return-nightmare-trumps-america/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumpelstiltskin2000 Posted November 9, 2016 Share Posted November 9, 2016 Billie gets a mention in this article at number 27 - the Musicians Who Hate Donald Trump The Most (from NME): http://www.nme.com/photos/the-musicians-who-hate-donald-trump-the-most-1403090?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Lights Flash Posted November 9, 2016 Share Posted November 9, 2016 Green Day - American Idiot is on the front page of reddit as Donald Trump wins the election. https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/5bz18y/green_day_american_idiot_rock/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Leni. Posted November 9, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted November 9, 2016 1 minute ago, JorickF said: Green Day - American Idiot is on the front page of reddit as Donald Trump wins the election. https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/5bz18y/green_day_american_idiot_rock/ Well, there's no wonder actually. It's quite sad in a way that song like that is relevant again. Because that means the world isn't in a good state right now. Not saying that before the election it was much better. Thanks for posting 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart&Ave Posted November 9, 2016 Share Posted November 9, 2016 http://www.lemonde.fr/musiques/article/2016/11/09/entretien-green-day-aujourd-hui-l-amerique-n-a-de-compassion-pour-personne_5028338_1654986.html Billie Joe talks about the election in this interview. It's in French, though... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumpelstiltskin2000 Posted November 9, 2016 Share Posted November 9, 2016 8 minutes ago, Stuart&Ave said: http://www.lemonde.fr/musiques/article/2016/11/09/entretien-green-day-aujourd-hui-l-amerique-n-a-de-compassion-pour-personne_5028338_1654986.html Billie Joe talks about the election in this interview. It's in French, though... Quand j’étais allé me coucher tout le monde souriait, et là je me réveille et tout le monde pleure. C’est la première fois que je me réveille dans un pays qui a élu un fasciste comme président. This: "when I went to bed the whole world was smiling and when I woke up the whole world was crying... It's the first time I've woken up in a country that has elected a facist for president" (roughly translated - my French isn't what it used to be!) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart&Ave Posted November 9, 2016 Share Posted November 9, 2016 2 minutes ago, basketcase4933 said: Quand j’étais allé me coucher tout le monde souriait, et là je me réveille et tout le monde pleure. C’est la première fois que je me réveille dans un pays qui a élu un fasciste comme président. This: "when I went to bed the whole world was smiling and when I woke up the whole world was crying... It's the first time I've woken up in a country that has elected a facist for president" (roughly translated - my French isn't what it used to be!) You're not too rusty. It seems correct. I'm trying to translate the whole interview, but it will take some time. (I don't use Google translate) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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