Random Green Day News

[That Dude]

21 minutes ago, jengd said:

I posted that on Wednesday! 😉

I saw that after posting it. Someone probably beat me to the live Look Ma with lyrics as well, but I didn't see it.  They need to get Raj back in the band!   I'll definitely be on the lookout for his book, with some juicy tidbits about the band!

[pacejunkie punk]

20 hours ago, That Dude said:

Raj Punjabi comes out with his truth about the band. Very interesting!   Maybe one day the original will return and Green Day will be whole again.

That was really hard to watch. He drummed for them for a year as young teens under several different names including Sweet Children.  He was long gone before they became Green Day and way before they ever got booked at Gilman or played any real gigs. But to hear him say it, he was GrEeN DaY’s FiRsT DrUmMeR!

He even had the delusional nerve to downplay John Kiffmeyer and go, “Yeah, he drummed with them for just a short time and that was it.”  No man, that’s YOU. John is literally the drummer on the first two Green Day EPs and first album.  He was the first drummer in the band called Green Day, not you.

What exactly does he want credit for? Playing drums in Billie’s living room with them when they were 15?  Sit down dude, you’re embarrassing yourself 🙄

[That Dude]

55 minutes ago, pacejunkie punk said:

That was really hard to watch. He drummed for them for a year as young teens under several different names including Sweet Children.  He was long gone before they became Green Day and way before they ever got booked at Gilman or played any real gigs. But to hear him say it, he was GrEeN DaY’s FiRsT DrUmMeR!

He even had the delusional nerve to downplay John Kiffmeyer and go, “Yeah, he drummed with them for just a short time and that was it.”  No man, that’s YOU. John is literally the drummer on the first two Green Day EPs and first album.  He was the first drummer in the band called Green Day, not you.

What exactly does he want credit for? Playing drums in Billie’s living room with them when they were 15?  Sit down dude, you’re embarrassing yourself 🙄

Blood Rage 2025.   We gotta get Shaun Hughes back too.  Billie, Raj and Shaun.  It's gonna be like blink.   Billie's going to realize you need the og's to recreate the magic.  Oh yeah!

 

[pacejunkie punk]

30 minutes ago, That Dude said:

Blood Rage 2025.   We gotta get Shaun Hughes back too.  Billie, Raj and Shaun.  It's gonna be like blink.   Billie's going to realize you need the og's to recreate the magic.  Oh yeah!

 

Haha yeah, Blood Rage and Desecrated Youth. You don’t hear Shaun Hughes ranting about being an original member of Green Day (clue: he wasn’t either), because he’s a cool low key guy who’s still friends with them as opposed to Raj who basically admitted he only contacts them now when he wants tickets or free passes to something.  Notice how cagey he was when the interviewer asked him how long he played with “Green Day”. Totally dodged the question including why he left. He left because he was never their permanent drummer and never wanted to be. He filled in whenever they needed a drummer but didn’t even consider himself a band member (this according to the many times Billie has talked about their history). They didn’t have a permanent drummer until John. 

Oh and I forgot the part where he eye rolls and implies that it was some sort of conspiracy that their early recordings with him were lost. Like someone was deliberately trying to erase his history at 15 😂 You’re not that important man. They’ve lost bigger recordings than yours 😂😂😂

[That Dude]

Just now, pacejunkie punk said:

Haha yeah, Blood Rage and Desecrated Youth. You don’t hear Shaun Hughes ranting about being an original member of Green Day (clue: he wasn’t either), because he’s a cool low key guy who’s still friends with them as opposed to Raj who basically admitted he only contacts them now when he wants tickets or free passes to something.  Notice how cagey he was when the interviewer asked him how long he played with “Green Day”. Totally dodged the question including why he left. He left because he was never their permanent drummer and never wanted to be. He filled in whenever they needed a drummer but didn’t even consider himself a band member (this according to the many times Billie has talked about their history). They didn’t have a permanent drummer until John. 

Not buying the book, I take it? Haha.  His birthday is February 9th, 1972 just days before Billie's.  I found his facebook and I'm digging into all the musical projects he has listed.   So far, it's not my bag.   I did find something familiar though.  His song with Saints of Lust has drums that sound exactly Know Your Enemy to me.  

 

 

 

[jengd]

6 hours ago, pacejunkie punk said:

Haha yeah, Blood Rage and Desecrated Youth. You don’t hear Shaun Hughes ranting about being an original member of Green Day (clue: he wasn’t either), because he’s a cool low key guy who’s still friends with them as opposed to Raj who basically admitted he only contacts them now when he wants tickets or free passes to something.  Notice how cagey he was when the interviewer asked him how long he played with “Green Day”. Totally dodged the question including why he left. He left because he was never their permanent drummer and never wanted to be. He filled in whenever they needed a drummer but didn’t even consider himself a band member (this according to the many times Billie has talked about their history). They didn’t have a permanent drummer until John. 

Oh and I forgot the part where he eye rolls and implies that it was some sort of conspiracy that their early recordings with him were lost. Like someone was deliberately trying to erase his history at 15 😂 You’re not that important man. They’ve lost bigger recordings than yours 😂😂😂

You are right but he was so dismissive of Tre…. I mean come on!  

[pacejunkie punk]

5 hours ago, jengd said:

You are right but he was so dismissive of Tre…. I mean come on!  

I don’t even know if I got to that part. I quit halfway through 🤮

[That Dude]

Green Day have a history of mysteriously losing albums.  But you know what?   I think Raj might be Fink.

[Saviour]

On 10/30/2023 at 2:06 AM, That Dude said:

Raj Punjabi comes out with his truth about the band. Very interesting!   Maybe one day the original will return and Green Day will be whole again.

This dude comes across as passive agressive throughout.

Look, I get it must be absolutely awful wondering what could’ve been, but if he was playing with BJA and MD in 1986 that’s before the “official” formation of Sweet Children. Yet he bangs on about “the music industry”, acting like labels were knocking on their door trying to sign them at this point.

They were 13/14 years old dicking around playing covers. He was never really part of the band. 

Talking about lost albums etc? Sorry, but I call horseshit. 

Also, isn’t it pretty well known that he still isn’t on good terms with the band, or at least BJA?

Edited October 31, 2023 by Saviour

[That Dude]

I know why Raj left.  He looks too much like Mike Dirnt and you can't have two guys that look alike, especially in a trio.  All about looks, very sad.  

Raj, John and Sean should form a band called John's Green Day or Raj's Green Day, etc.      But I bet they are all too busy in The Network, pretending to be Green Day pretending to be the  Network!   That's why Raj mentioned a missing album....

 

[The Grohl]

Green Day is headlining Isle of Wight next year

https://www.kerrang.com/green-day-and-the-prodigy-to-headline-isle-of-wight-festival-2024

[jengd]

That’s a real surprise to me, wouldn’t have thought it was a big enough deal for them and it’s felt like it’s been in a downward spiral last few years.  Maybe the organisers hope GD can bring it back up.  I mean look at the rest of the line up, a load of has beens!

[That Dude]

OH NO:

He says nice things about Nimrod.....and wait.....actually says nice things about TRILOGY!!!!!!!!!!   WOO HOO!!!!!!!!  Wait, kind of a backhanded compliment.   He'd rather them fail miserably over 36 songs than to try and preach to us on Rock Operas????......oooooooh.     Hahahahahaha

 

[alecandstuff]

27 minutes ago, That Dude said:

OH NO:

He says nice things about Nimrod.....and wait.....actually says nice things about TRILOGY!!!!!!!!!!   WOO HOO!!!!!!!!  Wait, kind of a backhanded compliment.   He'd rather them fail miserably over 36 songs than to try and preach to us on Rock Operas????......oooooooh.     Hahahahahaha

 

Tbh this list is pretty solid, and pretty much reflects my feelings too, aside from American Idiot though I get where he’s coming from LOL

[That Dude]

CRINGE ALERT:  

 

Don't ask me why Tom McDonald's girlfriend is showing up in my algorithm.    

[dudley dawson]

3 hours ago, alecandstuff said:

Tbh this list is pretty solid, and pretty much reflects my feelings too, aside from American Idiot though I get where he’s coming from LOL

Some of it is ok but putting the trilogy above Warning is absurd imo.

[þjáningu]

4 hours ago, That Dude said:

OH NO:

He says nice things about Nimrod.....and wait.....actually says nice things about TRILOGY!!!!!!!!!!   WOO HOO!!!!!!!!  Wait, kind of a backhanded compliment.   He'd rather them fail miserably over 36 songs than to try and preach to us on Rock Operas????......oooooooh.     Hahahahahaha

 

i disagree with some of the placements but i think he gave pretty good reasons why he personally feels the way he does about certain albums 
i was also shocked that he gave the trilogy praise as i always assumed he despised those records 😅 

[ANTI]

Honestly, even though I don't particularly dislike Fantano, I just can't take anything of what he says about Green Day seriously, because he's basically a caricature of a 35 year old Dookie fan. Even in this video, it's quite amazing to see him admitting that he hasn't revisited their discography for this tier list and is just going by his personal biases at the time.

He talks about how many hidden gems there are in Kerplunk that are hindered by the production, and says that he usually likes low-fi production, but not on this one particularly, for no reason. Talks about how Dookie marked his childhood and how it felt like a breath of fresh air at the time, but doesn't even go deeper on the topics and lyrics, and how revolutionary they were at the time for the mainstream, like he just remembers them as catchy bangers. Then later shits on Insomniac for being basic, says the bass and guitar chords and drum beats are forgettable and the writing is bland, even though the exact opposite is usually said by purists (that's how you can really tell his age by this time). With Nimrod, he talks about it being great because it combined their catchiness with a more mature approach (which I totally agree). Then he calls Warning a step too far from pop-punk and almost a power-pop project, which by his standards is a Bad Thing.

When we get to American Idiot, he talks about how during this year he was into underground punk, and by comparison, the album is politically shallow and gimmicky, completely overlooking how the political points are just a backdrop and how narratively Jesus of Suburbia is a reflection of aimless teenage rebellion, and by the end of the album he is called out as a loser without a cause in tracks like Letterbomb and Homecoming (again, you can tell his age by his comments in this record). 21CB comes in, and of course he absolutely hates it, because it doubles down on the "pretentiousness" and takes out all the fun "redeemable" aspects of the band. 

It gets reaaaaally funny when he talks about the Trilogy being a sort of "return to form" to what he expects of Green Day: catchy, silly tunes. I mean, I'm a huge trilogy apologist, but it says a lot of what he thinks of the band that he goes to bat for this particular project, and even goes as far as saying it should have a critical reassesment. Then it gets boring again with him complaining about RevRad being boring and FOAM being the worst thing that has ever happened to humanity since the atomic bomb, basically.

So yeah, pretty predictable, not very insightful since he's only talking from what he remembers from each album, which is not a lot, and overall a low hanging fruit review of the band imo

[ekim]

 Crazy just 4 years later they would be huge

[ekim]

10 hours ago, ekim said:

 Crazy just 4 years later they would be huge

In a time we live in now where people like Taylor swift and billie ellish rich families buy their record contacts,  it's nice to see three punks from the bay earn it by paying their dues and building their fanbase from the ground up viva green day! 

[ekim]

 Wtf lol 

[jengd]

2 hours ago, ekim said:

 Wtf lol 

Not watching that, getting views just encourages these people! 😂

[The Grohl]

On 11/4/2023 at 10:09 AM, ANTI said:

Honestly, even though I don't particularly dislike Fantano, I just can't take anything of what he says about Green Day seriously, because he's basically a caricature of a 35 year old Dookie fan. 

This sums it up nicely. 

[ekim]

Youtube is filled with cool green day archives

[ekim]

Y know