Random Green Day Thoughts

[Hermione]

Burnout was played at my (late) work Christmas party last night for my benefit. It really isn't a good song to dance to at all but I enjoyed it anyway  

[Guest]

14 hours ago, Kuromignonne said:

used to?

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Like, last year?  

In the early 2000s for example. During the American Idiot era he was super fit but then gained the weight back in the 2010s. Regardless he's always looking good!

[solongfromthestars]

Brutal Love is Green Day's best love song.

[Billie Joe's Fender]

I was watching the music video for Macy's Day Parade and although it's in black and white, there's little splotches of color everywhere which makes me think i can use software to restore the original color to the video like they did with old episodes of Doctor Who and Dad's Army.

[The Bellie]

On 15/01/2018 at 1:32 PM, miss youngblood said:

In the early 2000s for example. During the American Idiot era he was super fit but then gained the weight back in the 2010s. Regardless he's always looking good!

I know , I was kidding; nevertheless Billie has also been a bit chubby last year, and the photo I posted must be at top level of chubbiness of the RevRad tour (and also the last time I've seen him performing, Hyde Park in July), which I absolutely love, much more than the skinny AI look.

[stories and songs]

On 1/15/2018 at 7:25 PM, solongfromthestars said:

Brutal Love is Green Day's best love song.

Brutal Love is one of Green Day’s best songs, period! The raw emotion captured in it overwhelms me every time I listen to it. It’s a good love song because I think it touches on something very real — it’s not a rosy love song, but you can feel the passion and pain that comes with a more difficult kind of love.

[fuzzybluerain]

I just remembered the time I was in Germany, in the passenger seat of a car with my host, listening to music on my phone. Then Basket Case came on, she started singing along, and we instantly had something in common.

[Guest]

I remember going to Green Day's last show of the tour and there was this guy standing next to me in the crowd that kept shouting all the wrong lyrics during Longview.

Like dude stfu

[pacejunkie punk]

44 minutes ago, miss youngblood said:

I remember going to Green Day's last show of the tour and there was this guy standing next to me in the crowd that kept shouting all the wrong lyrics during Longview.

Like dude stfu

Seriously if you’re gonna sing along know the damn lyrics. 🙄😄

[fuzzybluerain]

44 minutes ago, pacejunkie punk said:

Seriously if you’re gonna sing along know the damn lyrics. 🙄😄

I know! I was listening to a live recording (Oslo 2009), and they got some people on stage to sing Longview. The woman singing the second verse forgot halfway through and just repeated the first. Annoying.

(Also none of them sounded as good as Billie)

[pacejunkie punk]

1 hour ago, NickTheToaster said:

I know! I was listening to a live recording (Oslo 2009), and they got some people on stage to sing Longview. The woman singing the second verse forgot halfway through and just repeated the first. Annoying.

(Also none of them sounded as good as Billie)

I could see if you were onstage you would blank under the pressure though (at least I would), but I would know them from the audience 😁

[Jesus of Seneca]

On 1/16/2018 at 5:06 PM, Billie Joe's Fender said:

I was watching the music video for Macy's Day Parade and although it's in black and white, there's little splotches of color everywhere which makes me think i can use software to restore the original color to the video like they did with old episodes of Doctor Who and Dad's Army.

I just watched the video again, and aren't the color blotches residual energy from being recorded on magnetic tape? (assuming that's how it was recorded) 

Still, if you can, that'd be cool!

[fuzzybluerain]

2 hours ago, pacejunkie punk said:

I could see if you were onstage you would blank under the pressure though (at least I would), but I would know them from the audience 😁

True - I sing along, but it's usually quietly in my bedroom or the shower. With 10,000 people staring at me I'd probably not even get on stage 😅

[noahcasper]

On 13/1/2018 at 11:48 PM, Jesus of Seneca said:

 

I remember that back in 2015 everyone constantly told me that Mike looked like Putin. Like... none of them knew that anyone else had said that to me, it just came to them randomly when they saw him. I was like "No he does not! Shut up"
But... maybe they were just... a little right?

[Thatsername]

10 hours ago, pacejunkie punk said:

I could see if you were onstage you would blank under the pressure though (at least I would), but I would know them from the audience 😁

I always have so much sympathy for the fans who get on stage with them and then forgets the lyrics. I'm sure they know them by heart, but that's just such a tough situation. At one of my shows last year I was in the second row and Billie stopped right in front of me when he was looking for someone to pull onstage for Longview. And I stretched, waved and nodded frantically, but my mind went completely blank. He didn't choose me in the end, but if he did, I'm not sure I would have remembered the lyrics by the time I got on stage. Getting up there must feel like you're looking right into the face of God.

[Billie Joe's Fender]

9 hours ago, Jesus of Seneca said:

I just watched the video again, and aren't the color blotches residual energy from being recorded on magnetic tape? (assuming that's how it was recorded) 

Still, if you can, that'd be cool!

Could be but my guess is that they shot it in color and then converted it to black and white. Sadly, the software used for color recovery requires a raw 8 bit luminance file and i don't how to get that.

[Guest]

5 hours ago, noahcasper said:

I remember that back in 2015 everyone constantly told me that Mike looked like Putin. Like... none of them knew that anyone else had said that to me, it just came to them randomly when they saw him. I was like "No he does not! Shut up"
But... maybe they were just... a little right?

LMAO you must be joking. Mike looks nothing like Putin. And Mike's facial expression is priceless here 

[The Grohl]

Ugh I hate it when people around me start shouting the words to the song. I paid to see GD sing it not you. I try to just sing quietly or mouth along until yelling is called for. 

I remember when I went to see this band Night Riots they played their current single and a gaggle of people all around me were screaming the lyrics. They actually drowned out the singer

 

[Guest]

I remember reading an article about Green Day and what they thought about Nigerian culture. I was happy to see this because I'm from Nigeria  

They said they liked the music, the accent, the spicy food, and how we like to party. I wish I could find it though, I googled it and everything. 

[pacejunkie punk]

24 minutes ago, miss youngblood said:

I remember reading an article about Green Day and what they thought about Nigerian culture. I was happy to see this because I'm from Nigeria  

They said they liked the music, the accent, the spicy food, and how we like to party. I wish I could find it though, I googled it and everything. 

I wonder how they are so familiar. They should play there.

[The Grohl]

Does anyone else remember ever reading an article where it mentioned that Green Day crashed at someone's house and it was Kurt Cobain? I swear I remember reading that, but I can never find it. 

[Guest]

1 hour ago, pacejunkie punk said:

I wonder how they are so familiar. They should play there.

Lol I wish. There has never been talks of them touring to Africa. 

[Jesus of Seneca]

4 hours ago, kaylubd said:

Does anyone else remember ever reading an article where it mentioned that Green Day crashed at someone's house and it was Kurt Cobain? I swear I remember reading that, but I can never find it. 

I know green Day were at Nirvana's show in Oakland in '93

 

And also, Kurt and Kathleen Hanna were at the concert Green Day performed at Evergreen College in Olympia in '91, details below (courtesy of GDA records)

 

Location: Evergreen State College, TESC Housing in Olympia, WA

Date: January 13, 1991

Other Acts: Giant Henry, Brent's TV, Fitz of Depression, Witchypoo

Notes: Dave Grohl, Kurt Cobain and Kathleen Hanna were in attendance

            John Kiffmeyer played drums

Maximumrocknroll #121: "The most well-known punk (or "grunge") bands that have played somewhere on campus have been Fugazi, Nirvana, and Green Day, who played in the modular housing."

James Maeda: "This show was written about in Pulp Zine #4. Sounds like it was fun!"

yaledelay: "I know that Unwound played with Green Day in dorm room as Vern [Rumsey] from Unwound told me a funny story about it, back when Unwound was crossing the nation in the late '90s."

Billie Joe Armstrong: "We were playing Evergreen College in Olympia, Washington, like in 1991 and him [Kurt Cobain] and Kathleen Hanna were up front getting drunk. We were playing, like, someone's house, like a co-op or something. It was before Nirvana blew up. At that point, they put out Bleach and a couple of singles from Sub Pop."

John Quittner: "By far the most memorable show of that tour had to be a party at a house at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, with the house packed and the floor bouncing up and down until you really thought it would give out, John being carried aloft by the crowd throughout the set, amps on fire. This was Green Day, Brents TV, Fitz of Depression, Giant Henry - who became Unwound later - and Witchypoo. That was how I fell in love with Olympia. I moved there later and still live there. Kurt Cobain was there too, but as with Green Day it was pre-showbiz era and didn't seem especially noteworthy."

Brandt Sandeno: "We were all avid record collectors and were fans of several Lookout! bands of the day. I remember Operation Ivy and Crimpshrine being favorites among them. We played a Giant Henry show with Green Day and Brent's TV at the Evergreen State College - Nirvana was also slated on the bill, but never showed up. The show was great. This was where we eventually met our longtime friend John Quittner, and zine author Aaron Cometbus. Aaron actually was a roadie/drum tech/tour manager for a small leg of the tour."

"This show was held at the dorm on the campus of Evergreen State College. We met Green Day and Brent's TV on their way through, and we ask them to please play on the way back down... And with no hesistation they said, 'No problem.' We scurried around to find a place to play... And after looking at all possibilities, we found a dorm room at TESC. Witchypoo played a long, good set. Slim ate a burrito while he sang, 'I guess he missed dinner.' When Witchypoo finished we decided we wanted to make sure the headlining bands played. As I'm sure you know THE MAN (the police) often busts parties. Anyhow, Brent's TV played to a packed dorm room. Pogoing everywhere; everyone caught on and was having a great time. John (lead vocals) got lifted up and pushed around on top of everyone for awhile. They are a great live band. You should write them and encourage them not to break up, 'cuz they are contemplating it. Green Day went on next. Everyone began to sing along. If I would have had a girlfriend the show would have been better rough. You need to have a girlfriend at a Green Day show. Well, they blew the guitar amp that Giant Henry gave them to use and they felt really bad. They did mime stand up comedy when they were waiting for Calvin to get them an amp... Let me tell you that I hate bands that won't loan their equipment. I'm not gonna mention names, but there were bands there that wouldn't loan their amp to Green Day. Green Day ended up with a little talk about the then new WAR and were on their way. We offered both the bands money, but they refused. What a bunch of Kool Kats! The rest of the bands played... And they were great. The police didn't come and everyone was happy."

[The Grohl]

Thanks! This might have been what I read once...I just remember it was Kurt Cobain and Green day in the same place.

[WhiteTim]

Well I guess here’s an appropriate place to post this video 

for the last few weeks a friend of Kurt has been making videos talking about Kurt (and other Olympia bands) and yesterday he posted a short video about Billie Joe