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1 hour ago, WorryRock02 said:

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Billie Joe on the cover of the new Guitar Player Magazine. 

Where can you buy the magazine at?

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5 hours ago, WorryRock02 said:

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Billie Joe on the cover of the new Guitar Player Magazine. 

Shit I saw this magazine last night on Ebay, didn't realize it was new! I just went back bought the copy I saw :D

 

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5 hours ago, kaylubd said:

Shit I saw this magazine last night on Ebay, didn't realize it was new! I just went back bought the copy I saw :D

 

Post scans when you get it, please!

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Saw this on IG about the Denny's show:

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although I think it might have been removed now

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Well that sucks if that’s what happened. How to turn something into shit through poor management. 

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The issue wouldn't be that they were trying to use the event for their PR, it would have helped the other bands too. Could be just poor management but if screwing the punk bands over was the plan, it's just trashy.

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17 minutes ago, Beerjeezus said:

The issue wouldn't be that they were trying to use the event for their PR, it would have helped the other bands too. Could be just poor management but if screwing the punk bands over was the plan, it's just trashy.

To me it sounds just like poor management. If you approach an underground scene (also a pretty hardcore one judging by what I saw at the time of the Danny’s video), you have to move very carefully. I guess they stepped on some shit and really pissed them off.

The whole Billie playing in acoustic thing seems weird and I would like to hear the other side of the story, but the rest about Crush trying to make the show a “GD event” excluding these kids from the organization, pushing sponsors and shit seems very plausible, and an example of poor management. 
Just organize a free concert in the middle of nowhere, in a street, backyard or whatever, invite these dudes, invite the dude that organized the Wacko concert, give them visibility. It’s not that hard, doesn’t cost more than sponsoring a video on YouTube, and you avoid all this shit. 

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12 minutes ago, HAPPY ROOTING UNICORN said:

To me it sounds just like poor management. If you approach an underground scene (also a pretty hardcore one judging by what I saw at the time of the Danny’s video), you have to move very carefully. I guess they stepped on some shit and really pissed them off.

The whole Billie playing in acoustic thing seems weird and I would like to hear the other side of the story, but the rest about Crush trying to make the show a “GD event” excluding these kids from the organization, pushing sponsors and shit seems very plausible, and an example of poor management. 
Just organize a free concert in the middle of nowhere, in a street, backyard or whatever, invite these dudes, invite the dude that organized the Wacko concert, give them visibility. It’s not that hard, doesn’t cost more than sponsoring a video on YouTube, and you avoid all this shit. 

Exactly. It looks like they pushed way too hard. They could have just reached out to them and organized the show, no need for the money swinging (from the beginning) and especially the sponsors. I can see that Crush has a thing with sponsorships, but considering they were trying to get together with punk bands, it was extremely in a bad taste.

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It seems to me they want to eat the cake and also keep it. It's understandable that they wanted to make the most out of their career, but they never fully embraced the commercial aspects of it or I don't know, maybe never got the right balance (?). On one hand there's the incredibly cool stuff like the side projects and on the other hand there are cringewrothy promo efforts like trying to use actual punk bands for their publicity and having the event sponsored.

It's like the way they're marketed goes against what they try to enact as their values. And I don't know what's the solution for it, but I just can't imagine them playing with DIY bands. Last night I went to a FNB benefit show and idk how I'd feel if Green Day appeared at a place like this. With their status, it'd be kind of out of place/hard to believe it's sincere.

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14 minutes ago, Beerjeezus said:

It seems to me they want to eat the cake and also keep it. It's understandable that they wanted to make the most out of their career, but they never fully embraced the commercial aspects of it or I don't know, maybe never got the right balance (?). On one hand there's the incredibly cool stuff like the side projects and on the other hand there are cringewrothy promo efforts like trying to use actual punk bands for their publicity and having the event sponsored.

It's like the way they're marketed goes against what they try to enact as their values. And I don't know what's the solution for it, but I just can't imagine them playing with DIY bands. Last night I went to a FNB benefit show and idk how I'd feel if Green Day appeared at a place like this. With their status, it'd be kind of out of place/hard to believe it's sincere.

To me this is a situation like
Billie: oh these kids are cool, check if we can do something with them
Crush: Yeah let me fuck this up for you

I think it would have been cool if it worked out, of course it would have been promotional, but there are ways to make that kind of promotion look and to a certain extent be sincere. If you don’t fuck it up. 
 

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3 minutes ago, HAPPY ROOTING UNICORN said:

To me this is a situation like
Billie: oh these kids are cool, check if we can do something with them
Crush: Yeah let me fuck this up for you

Yeah that sounds about right

1 minute ago, pacejunkie punk said:

They’re in a tough situation for sure but it’s been that way since 1994 and for the most part I think they balance it pretty well. Few bands at their level still do the kinds of small things they do and they do it to stay grounded.  The trouble is when there’s logistics involved in organizing an event with other bands you have to bring in management and they’re looking at the big picture when it’s in the middle of a promotion cycle. The management isn’t going to spend much time on something that doesn’t earn them or the band any profit or big media attention. This is the kind of thing GD would have to decide to work out for themselves which in a down time they might, but they’re too busy right now. Everything has to be tied in with the album and tour. 
 

Not only that but a lot of the time I suspect it’s only Billie that is jazzed to do these things, play at Denny’s, do DIY punk shows... and Mike and Tre just don’t have that level of desire.  Hence why it may have devolved to Billie on acoustic only.

Tbh I would love an Billie on acoustic only show. He could take Jason with him and it'd be great.

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The band deleted the post from their IG but some other page reposted it and I saw they commented there 

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I think it’s something you may not fully understand if you’re not actually in it but still, I find their situation sad cause I believe they or Billie are actually genuine about it and always want to feel connected to where they come from but obviously not everything in their hands or like in an ideal world. 

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