Random Green Day News

[WorryRock02]

This trade today, reminds me at ''one week'' post from last year while we were waiting for some news about the new album XD good time

[LaughingClock]

1 hour ago, pacejunkie punk said:

They're gonna be watching him really closely from here on out. Of course this probably means his source will never tell him anything ever again.  Then again, any hype is good attention for Green Day, it's all good if it gets people talking.

Watching me? Lol. I'll check my office for bugs. (Actually wouldn't surprise me with you fuckers).

It was just a comment. I can't control the hysteria of OUT of control Green Day fans. Lol. I mean it wouldn't take a genius anyway to know this with all the stuff you guys have shown me that I didn't already know like Insty photos of Billie recording a demo. 

One single person, who would know more than us granted, said that they will be hitting the studio shortly after the tour. Did you think they would take a hiatus? I didn't but I am more sure now that they will hit the studio so a thing that somebody told me that I told you becomes news.  I probably should have not posted it in this thread (or at all apparently) but I can't back out of this.

Its still, again, gonna be a while but I (as a fan) was heartened to learn more music to come but ugh!

Definite imbreeding.

[DeJennsitized]

6 hours ago, Hero_Of_The_Hour said:

 

Canadian man, 34, gets jail time for biting a 14-year-old girl's breast at a Green Day concert in Oregon

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4877280/Canadian-gets-jail-time-biting-girl-Green-Day-concert.html

 

 

Ugh, he got off way too lightly. 

[Hero_Of_The_Hour]

8 minutes ago, Jenn. said:

Ugh, he got off way too lightly. 

Absolutely. If he was a dog they'd probably have it put down. 

[LaughingClock]

16 hours ago, desertrose said:

 

 

11 reasons why a Green Day show is like no other

It’s amiss to call Green Day just a band. They’re a 30-year movement of timeless chords and evergreen lyrics, steering successive generations through years of hapless identity confusion. Simply put, whether you’re navigating high school, graduating college or moving jobs, Green Day and their music give purpose when it’s needed most.

In turn, Green Day concerts are a celebration, simultaneously lifting weights of stress off 20-something thousand shoulders in one night. By the final song, it’s clear: Green Day shows are like no other. As they round out the Revolution Radio tour, we’ve listed 11 reasons why that’s true below.

http://www.altpress.com/features/entry/why_green_day_shows_are_like_no_other

So true!  Great article.  Thanks for posting it Rose.

[Todd]

7 hours ago, neverdone2000 said:

Just curious, HOW DO YOU KNOW THIS STUFF? Not complaining, we're lucky to have your info. Is Larry L your source?

No offense to Larry, but the last time he had insider scoop about the next Green Day album was 1991  

[LaughingClock]

7 minutes ago, Todd said:

No offense to Larry, but the last time he had insider scoop about the next Green Day album was 1991  

LL is such a nice person.  He is also not a loud mouth so he probably knows more than you are giving him credit for actually but while I have some rare exchanges with him, he is not even close to the source. But don't underestimate him, he knows a lot of people as it pertains to Green Day, even today but yeah, it was a more contemporary person and someone MUCH closer to the band's happenings. Either way, like I said, it's still gonna be a long time.  Tour has to end, Then they will break I would imagine for at least a couple months (unless they want to go literally straight into the studio), then they have to write more, record, promote, and were just about a year into RevRad already so MY GUESS, and this is just MY GUESS is that we will get a new album with a 2.5-3 year span instead of the usual average of about 4.  I mean, we don't know when they will end this current tour.

[Todd]

8 minutes ago, LaughingClock said:

LL is such a nice person.  He is also not a loud mouth so he probably knows more than you are giving him credit for actually but while I have some rare exchanges with him, he is not even close to the source. But don't underestimate him, he knows a lot of people as it pertains to Green Day, even today but yeah, it was a more contemporary person and someone MUCH closer to the band's happenings. Either way, like I said, it's still gonna be a long time.  Tour has to end, Then they will break I would imagine for at least a couple months (unless they want to go literally straight into the studio), then they have to write more, record, promote, and were just about a year into RevRad already so MY GUESS, and this is just MY GUESS is that we will get a new album with a 2.5-3 year span instead of the usual average of about 4.  I mean, we don't know when they will end this current tour.

True, I didn't mean to discredit him in anyway, but he's the last person I'd ask regarding Green Day's current plans. Although you could be correct, he may know more than he lets on, but he's been around long enough that he knows better than to hint at anything 

[Beerjeezus]

I guess 2 or 3 years sounds realistic. 

[LaughingClock]

8 minutes ago, Todd said:

True, I didn't mean to discredit him in anyway, but he's the last person I'd ask regarding Green Day's current plans. Although you could be correct, he may know more than he lets on, but he's been around long enough that he knows better than to hint at anything 

Unlike some fucking idiots right? LOL!

[Billie Joes Eyelids]

@LaughingClock Don't worry, I don't think this is exactly sensitive info. In other words, I don't think the band would mind fans knowing that they're going to get back to the studio sooner rather than later. 

[Beerjeezus]

There's a lot more fun with some of the fucking idiots 

1 minute ago, neverdone2000 said:

@LaughingClock Don't worry, I don't think this is exactly sensitive info. In other words, I don't think the band would mind fans knowing that they're going to get back to the studio sooner rather than later. 

Yeah, especially when we could assume it anyway because they sure want the Trump album out before he's out of office.

[Maddie86]

16 minutes ago, LaughingClock said:

LL is such a nice person.  He is also not a loud mouth so he probably knows more than you are giving him credit for actually but while I have some rare exchanges with him, he is not even close to the source. But don't underestimate him, he knows a lot of people as it pertains to Green Day, even today but yeah, it was a more contemporary person and someone MUCH closer to the band's happenings. Either way, like I said, it's still gonna be a long time.  Tour has to end, Then they will break I would imagine for at least a couple months (unless they want to go literally straight into the studio), then they have to write more, record, promote, and were just about a year into RevRad already so MY GUESS, and this is just MY GUESS is that we will get a new album with a 2.5-3 year span instead of the usual average of about 4.  I mean, we don't know when they will end this current tour.

I looked at the tour dates earlier and they go into November, were there any rumors or confirmation of more shows for next year? I imagine they would want to take some time after the tour to enjoy the holidays and have some time off, maybe this downtime will mean more writing and demoing.

they wrote the trilogy during the 21st CBD tour, which was into 2010, right? so if they're writing right now, I'd say we might get the next album in 2 years, which would make a 3 year gap between the new one and revrad, and billie said in an interview last year I think that he didn't want such a long gap between albums this time, so I think 3 years is reasonable.

I really like revrad, but I'm super excited for the next one. revrad is exactly what the band needed to get re-energized, in a way it's a comeback album, it definitely got people thinking about the band again and the way that they did it was awesome, they recorded it in their own secret studio without telling the record label til the end, fucking awesome!! that said, I hope they do it different next time around. I hope they go back to using a producer, Billie knows a lot but I think he needs someone to keep him in line sometimes, revrad had too much fucking around with the lo-fi intros. that stuff is fine once in a while, but he's kinda goin hey-oh with it haha. I also hope they have someone new mix and master it next time. the Schlep mix for revrad is just ok, there's stuff I like and stuff I don't, it's inconsistent, but I don't think they will be going back to Lord-Alge either, if they're remixing the stuff he did on the trilogy without him then they probably aren't happy with his sounds anymore.

sorry, I know I'm getting way ahead of things haha, I just love studio stuff

[LaughingClock]

5 minutes ago, neverdone2000 said:

@LaughingClock Don't worry, I don't think this is exactly sensitive info. In other words, I don't think the band would mind fans knowing that they're going to get back to the studio sooner rather than later. 

Totally but this is where being me being a fan (in a big way) comes to bite me in the arse. I get as excited as you guys do (well maybe not as much as some) but I need to just put a cap on it sometimes.  I had no idea that posting that would lead to international sharing and tweets, and shit. The Italian page has tons of comment and like 100 shares of a link to a casual comment I made. Ugh.  Yeah, to me, I was just confirming the obvious, wasn't blowing out some massive news.  

[pacejunkie punk]

8 minutes ago, LaughingClock said:

Totally but this is where being me being a fan (in a big way) comes to bite me in the arse. I get as excited as you guys do (well maybe not as much as some) but I need to just put a cap on it sometimes.  I had no idea that posting that would lead to international sharing and tweets, and shit. The Italian page has tons of comment and like 100 shares of a link to a casual comment I made. Ugh.  Yeah, to me, I was just confirming the obvious, wasn't blowing out some massive news.  

That just shows how desperate we all are for news like this. Think of how many people you made happy by merely confirming the obvious. 🙂

[GDM]

49 minutes ago, Todd said:

No offense to Larry, but the last time he had insider scoop about the next Green Day album was 1991  

Haha, I think Larry would agree with this, lol. 

 

[LaughingClock]

2 hours ago, Kyle Serlington said:

I looked at the tour dates earlier and they go into November, were there any rumors or confirmation of more shows for next year? I imagine they would want to take some time after the tour to enjoy the holidays and have some time off, maybe this downtime will mean more writing and demoing.

they wrote the trilogy during the 21st CBD tour, which was into 2010, right? so if they're writing right now, I'd say we might get the next album in 2 years, which would make a 3 year gap between the new one and revrad, and billie said in an interview last year I think that he didn't want such a long gap between albums this time, so I think 3 years is reasonable.

I really like revrad, but I'm super excited for the next one. revrad is exactly what the band needed to get re-energized, in a way it's a comeback album, it definitely got people thinking about the band again and the way that they did it was awesome, they recorded it in their own secret studio without telling the record label til the end, fucking awesome!! that said, I hope they do it different next time around. I hope they go back to using a producer, Billie knows a lot but I think he needs someone to keep him in line sometimes, revrad had too much fucking around with the lo-fi intros. that stuff is fine once in a while, but he's kinda goin hey-oh with it haha. I also hope they have someone new mix and master it next time. the Schlep mix for revrad is just ok, there's stuff I like and stuff I don't, it's inconsistent, but I don't think they will be going back to Lord-Alge either, if they're remixing the stuff he did on the trilogy without him then they probably aren't happy with his sounds anymore.

sorry, I know I'm getting way ahead of things haha, I just love studio stuff

Yeah, me too but I have to disagree with the low DB intros. It still gets me every time.  You can just hear Billie saying "Ok, we need these fuckers to listen this loud.  Let's start it at Xdb and blow them away with the real Ydb. Bang Bang is a great example of it.  One of the best.  Every single time I listen to the song, I get a blast on the riff.

Some people incorrectly chalk that to bad production but in reality, it's Billie doing what the fuck he wants.  Sure, I would love an over-produced album as well.  I love Cavallo and Vig.  Frankly, I would love for them to get Rubin in the studio as people have said many many times, but I would also LOVE to see Rob back in there or I would be happy if they did it themselves again. 

Let's put it this way, I have NEVER, not once been unhappy with a Green Day album. I love Nightlife even and the Trilogy gets not enough love (my joke meme aside).  You take some songs like X-Kid, Brutal Love, Basterds, Lazy Bones, Stay The Night, Stray Heart, Nuclear Family, Fuck Time (really I consider this a FBHT song), and you have a GREAT FUCKING album but they released all their B-sides because its Green Day and that's what they wanted to do.

Moment of honest, when I first heard RevRad, I didn't love it as much as I do now.  I liked it and thought for some of the songs that they just dialed it in but then as I started to learn the songs, the lyrics, the breaks, the things that you grow to love it became my second favorite Green Day album. (I never call a Green Day album my favorite so calling it my second favorite means it's currently my favorite) because my favorite literally changes all the time.

It's almost embarrassing to be such a fan of a band as I am with Green Day.  As I've said before, embarrassing to be a middle aged male young fan girl in the world I live in.
 

1 hour ago, GDM said:

Haha, I think Larry would agree with this, lol. 

 

Yeah, he totally would but he also knows more than MOST among us.  As I said, he's an iconic figure in the history of the band and hears more that some because of it.

1 hour ago, pacejunkie punk said:

That just shows how desperate we all are for news like this. Think of how many people you made happy by merely confirming the obvious. 🙂

Ah, why not?  It made me happy.

[pacejunkie punk]

^^^ That's why there's GDC for the freaks and weirdos like us. It's the place you don't have to be embarrassed to let your Green flag fly!

[LaughingClock]

19 minutes ago, Kyle Serlington said:

I looked at the tour dates earlier and they go into November, were there any rumors or confirmation of more shows for next year? I imagine they would want to take some time after the tour to enjoy the holidays and have some time off, maybe this downtime will mean more writing and demoing.

they wrote the trilogy during the 21st CBD tour, which was into 2010, right? so if they're writing right now, I'd say we might get the next album in 2 years, which would make a 3 year gap between the new one and revrad, and billie said in an interview last year I think that he didn't want such a long gap between albums this time, so I think 3 years is reasonable.

I really like revrad, but I'm super excited for the next one. revrad is exactly what the band needed to get re-energized, in a way it's a comeback album, it definitely got people thinking about the band again and the way that they did it was awesome, they recorded it in their own secret studio without telling the record label til the end, fucking awesome!! that said, I hope they do it different next time around. I hope they go back to using a producer, Billie knows a lot but I think he needs someone to keep him in line sometimes, revrad had too much fucking around with the lo-fi intros. that stuff is fine once in a while, but he's kinda goin hey-oh with it haha. I also hope they have someone new mix and master it next time. the Schlep mix for revrad is just ok, there's stuff I like and stuff I don't, it's inconsistent, but I don't think they will be going back to Lord-Alge either, if they're remixing the stuff he did on the trilogy without him then they probably aren't happy with his sounds anymore.

sorry, I know I'm getting way ahead of things haha, I just love studio stuff

You are also making the assumption (which is PROBABLY correct) that they won't add another leg somewhere after November. 

[Beerjeezus]

2 minutes ago, LaughingClock said:

You are also making the assumption (which is PROBABLY correct) that they won't add another leg somewhere after November. 

It was hinted by someone that they might play in Japan after South America, but I don't find it likely at all at this point. They probably would have already announced it if they had any more show(s) announced for this winter or spring. 

[pacejunkie punk]

The only other place they hinted at going to still was Japan but there's been no announcement so maybe that was just talk (I don't even remember where it was now). Even if they go, it could just be a single week trip and not another leg of a tour, so it shouldn't cut into studio time much in 2018, even if you also include the odd summer festival either here or down under.

So as RevRad came out in Fall 2016 and assuming they have nearly all of 2018 for studio time (and have already started writing and recording demos), we could conceivably see a release by early 2019 which as @LaughingClock said is a mere 2.5 years or less from the last album.

What I like about this timeline is that Fall 2019 is also the 15th anniversary of AI. So a summer Reading show playing the whole album like they did with Dookie could be a real possibility. 

[LaughingClock]

2 hours ago, Jane Lannister said:

There's a lot more fun with some of the fucking idiots 

Yeah, especially when we could assume it anyway because they sure want the Trump album out before he's out of office.

I dunno.  I take Billie at his word when he says he gets no inspiration from Trump.

TCB sort of was the album that prophecized the breakdown that would lead to Brexit and Trump and it did.  Also everything about social media.  Say what you will, but Billie has had a penchant for writing exceptional political commentary for the last couple generations and I include not just AI and TCB in that. I mean when he was in the micro (as opposed to the macro) when writing at his youngest with songs like WTP, that song I was thinking about and I wonder if mentally he has actually ever left that place.

The line 

It makes me wonder why I'm still here
For some strange reason it's now
Feeling like my home
And I'm never gonna go

Did he ever go? Obviously he left the slums but did he ever leave that frame of mind? Of course he grew up and became a man and looks at the world with more wisdom than "this shit hole is my home and I like it even still" but maybe he sort of thinks of the Earth that way now?  I was literally having this discussion with a friend of mine just yesterday.  Has Billie ever left that mindset of WTP?  Is the US now the slums?  He wrote inwardly back then but the social commentary was also political by it's very existence and so many of his other songs were.  Green Day, contrary to what many would say HAVE always preached social and political commentary going back to Kerplunk and up to RevRad.  They just became less worried about how they would do it.

What say you? In his mind, not his house, has Billie ever truly left the slums he likes to call his home? I say no. I think that what drives him to get out of his car and walk with the BLM movement and to chant on the VMAs and to write AI and to write TCB, RevRad is the exact same motivation that made him write WTP and what will for their next album. It's only a bonus that they/he just keeps getting better at writing it.  I would say that AI, TCB, and RevRad are (and I am aware I am excluding the Trilogy for this comment) three of the best back to back albums ever released by any band in history.  You would have to go back to The Beatles to even put up a contest in my mind.  No small feat and it's not just my opinion.  There are sales, streams, Broadway shows, headlining music festivals and a lot of other shit to back up my thoughts. 

I believe it is what has kept Billie grounded enough to get in the head of the average person is that he never flew over the rainbow like Axl Rose for example.  Most celebrities lose their touch with reality. I work in a world of celebs in both music and TV and I can tell you that the majority are fucking head cases like you would not believe and that is why people like Jim Carey loses his ability to be as funny as when he was younger.  Comedians are so often depressed, angry people and that's why they turned to comedy.  Same goes for musicians.  If you look at the personal history of most punk rock and even just general rock musicians you will find childhood heartache like a loss of a family member (Mike and Billie bonded over this) and I am glad that Billie has always stayed firmly with his feet on the ground because I would say that Jim Carey has indeed "left the slums" and it's harder for him now to find that stuff that makes him laugh. He is still a depressed person but now he has millions of dollars to find other outlets like TM and vision quests and shit but Billie still writes from the heart and when he says he will never write a song about Trump http://www.nme.com/news/music/green-day-reveal-theyd-never-write-song-donald-trump-1652852 , I believe him.  I think he is motivated by the world that Trump has created but he doesn't want to give his mic to him and thank god for it. *EDIT (By the way, most good stories have a "point of no return" as noted by the works of Joseph Campbell where something terrible happens which sends the "hero'" on a journey.  Think of any Disney princess movie and there is almost always a parental figure, or actual parent (or both) in G-Rated Disney movies who perish somewhere within the first 20 minutes.  Almost ALL of them.  Same goes with most films.  It's called "The Hero's Journey".  Luke loses his father much earlier, lives with his uncle who then dies by the Empire so he goes with OB-1 when at first he was saying no.  In Frozen, the death of Anna's parents lead them to a life of isolation and fear from Elsa for the damage she's done to her sister.  Lion King, Mufossa dies and Simba runs away to live a life of no care (H'Kuna Matadda), Spider Man, Uncle Dies, he sets out for revenge. I could go on forever and might already have but the point is the all great journey's start with a point of no return whether it's real life or a film.  Losing his father, living in the slums, and everything else is what lead Billie and Mike down the path to where they are now.  I wasn't trying to bring up BOBD but certainly you can hear it in that last sentence.

First time I ever met Mike and Tre was at a music store in Tampa Florida in I think 1993-4 (I've told this story here) and even then I was amazed at how grounded they were.  Admittedly, I was much younger and you think "i see them on MTV, they must be rich and famous" and I was amazed they were hanging with some chick in her beat up car with no radio and even that Tre was there to buy sticks. I remember thinking, "why would YOU need to buy sticks?, don't you have someone to buy them for you?" and I actually did ask him that and he laughed his ass off at the notion and mind you Dookie had just been released at this time. I think Mike is one of the nicest people you could ever meet and if you ever have the opportunity, you would see that but I think it is Billie who has truly never lost even an inkling of his edge and even after getting sober that is a pretty amazing fact.  

I am rambling now but stay in the slums Billie, we need the music.

EDIT 2: I think it is important to say that in Joseph Campbell's work of "The Hero's Journey", the final act is always the "Conflict Resolution".  Luke blows up the death star.  Anna figures out that the answer is to love her sister.  Simba goes back to be King and save the Tribe.  Etc.  It might be a stretch of a parallel but perhaps we are getting into the conflict resolution part of his career.  Certainly he resolved some conflicts over the last several years and wrote about it in RevRad.  I'm thoroughly interested to know what he will be writing about exactly in the next album.

[Todd]

39 minutes ago, Jane Lannister said:

It was hinted by someone that they might play in Japan after South America, but I don't find it likely at all at this point. They probably would have already announced it if they had any more show(s) announced for this winter or spring. 

I'm really puzzled as to why they didn't play Japan yet. They've toured Japan for every album since Insomniac, I was certain they would for RevRad too. Oh well. 

[GDM]

Whoops, that was to Laughing Clock. Haven't been around here in awhile, don't know how to use the forum anymore.

True, I talk with Larry on occasion and rarely talk with him about Green Day. After my mom died a few months ago, we had lunch. It helped a lot. He's pretty awesome. But don't tell him that!

[herewegoagain]

3 minutes ago, Todd said:

I'm really puzzled as to why they didn't play Japan yet. They've toured Japan for every album since Insomniac, I was certain they would for RevRad too. Oh well. 

He talks about it here at 2.20, sounds pretty genuine/certain : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyBq1p4H7BM. I agree you'd think they would've announced something by now but surely it's not too late?

@LaughingClock that's some analysis, I enjoyed that!