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Billie Joe is playing an acoustic show June 24, 2015


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Holy. Fucking. Shit. They played Sure to Fall! I've loved that song since I heard The Beatles cover it on the Live on the BBC Vol. 2 and Billie Joe and Norah just fucking nailed it! Everyone there sounded great. Goddamn I wish I could've been there.

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Yeah Billie Joe is a really limited front man if you completely discount the two things that front men usually do: Songwriting and singing. Say what you will about his technicality, but his consistent tone (save for a lot of the trilogy tour) and his massively influential delivery/runs make his singing a plus. He doesn't try to be inventive with the guitar because he doesn't have to be Jimi Hendrix to accomplish what the band/fans are looking for. He, like Tre and Mike, has shown flashes of improv-ability, it's just not a focal point of their music.

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Holy. Fucking. Shit. They played Sure to Fall! I've loved that song since I heard The Beatles cover it on the Live on the BBC Vol. 2 and Billie Joe and Norah just fucking nailed it! Everyone there sounded great. Goddamn I wish I could've been there.

Yeah, as they were playing this, I was thinking of how The Beatles covered this song over fifty years ago. And in the mid-sixties, Ravi Shankar introduced The Beatles to the sitar and became friends with George Harrison. Ravi Shankar of course is the father of Norah Jones. And just a few weeks ago, Green Day played with Ringo, covering Boys.

What a web of musical connections!

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Billie Joe Armstrong, Norah Jones Perform Rare Show

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/billie-joe-armstrong-norah-jones-perform-rare-show-32012775?

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hestricky

What a great set. #foreverly @billiejoearmstrong #norahjones @greendayig #boweryelectric #theeverlybrothers #nyc

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Doesn't get much better than seeing @billiejoearmstrong and Norah Jones up close at the Bowery Electric

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Billie Joe Armstrong, Norah Jones Stage Surprise 'Foreverly' Concert

Billie Joe Armstrong and Norah Jones performed a surprise set comprising their entire 2013 Everly Brothers tribute album, Foreverly, at the intimate Bowery Electric in New York City Wednesday night.

Despite never touring behind the LP, Jones and Armstrong sounded perfectly at ease throughout opener "Roving Gambler," available to watch above. Both strummed acoustic guitars and settled into the kind of dusty, smoky harmonies perfect for tragic tales of no-good hoodlums and card players.

Jones and Armstrong performed the rest of Foreverly track-by-track, but closed the show with a cover of "Sure to Fall (In Love with You)," a song penned by Carl Perkins, Bill Cantrell and Quinton Claunch and notably recorded by the Beatles during their BBC sessions.

As much as Foreverly was an Everly Brothers tribute album, it was specifically a remake of the duo's unique album, Songs Our Daddy Taught Us. Released in 1958 after a string of hits, the LP found the Everly Brothers paying homage to their Tennessee roots with acoustic renditions of traditional folk and country songs.

Armstrong stumbled across the LP and quickly fell in love with it, growing enamored with the notion of pop and rock's two earliest stars singing about death, jail and unrequited love. "I liked the whole concept," Armstrong told Rolling Stone, "that this was something taught to them, and now it's being taught to me. I thought it would be cool to pass the tradition one more time."

Jones was brought in on the suggestion of Armstrong's wife, Adrienne. The singer-songwriter handled the higher harmonies typically sung by Phil Everly, while Armstrong played Don; though the structure of their harmonies was similar to the Everlys' originals, the pairing of male and female voices heightened the emotional and sexual tensions in many of the tracks.

"That was the key to us – not to just copy the record," Jones said. "Songs like 'Down in the Willow Garden' and 'Put My Little Shoes Away' – they're such dark lyrics. We thought we'd play that up."

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/billie-joe-armstrong-norah-jones-stage-surprise-foreverly-concert-20150625

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Sooo jealous of all the people who got to take selfies with Billie :cry:

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Good old Seadog hating on Green Day on a Green Day forum and expecting people to agree with him. I thought he was over the petty attempts to insult the band but I guess I was wrong.

The funny thing is that so many great musicians have come out and praised Foreverly for its beauty and unexpected skill, yet Portland Seadogs thinks that his opinion is somehow more valid even though he can hardly play guitar. Big ego, eh? I know how that feels Seadog Brewing Company.

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I can't wait to share this performance with my 81 year old mother. She's Billie Joe's oldest fan. #Foreverly

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Well, and if so? Why again and again making an issue of it, just by seeing a picture...

Must have been a lovely concert.

I'm sorry, I panicked.

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Well, and if so? Why again and again making an issue of it, just by seeing a picture...

Because his performance was probably 1000% better thanks to his drunkenness. You should know that by now. :P

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Good old Seadog hating on Green Day on a Green Day forum and expecting people to agree with him. I thought he was over the petty attempts to insult the band but I guess I was wrong.

The funny thing is that so many great musicians have come out and praised Foreverly for its beauty and unexpected skill, yet Portland Seadogs thinks that his opinion is somehow more valid even though he can hardly play guitar. Big ego, eh? I know how that feels Seadog Brewing Company.

*Seagod

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Good old Seadog hating on Green Day on a Green Day forum and expecting people to agree with him. I thought he was over the petty attempts to insult the band but I guess I was wrong.

The funny thing is that so many great musicians have come out and praised Foreverly for its beauty and unexpected skill, yet Portland Seadogs thinks that his opinion is somehow more valid even though he can hardly play guitar. Big ego, eh? I know how that feels Seadog Brewing Company.

Ceadog wrote a detailed explanation of why he doesn't like Foreverly, and he's completely justified. 3/10 for the poor baiting on your part :lol:

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Good old Seadog hating on Green Day on a Green Day forum and expecting people to agree with him. I thought he was over the petty attempts to insult the band but I guess I was wrong.

The funny thing is that so many great musicians have come out and praised Foreverly for its beauty and unexpected skill, yet Portland Seadogs thinks that his opinion is somehow more valid even though he can hardly play guitar. Big ego, eh? I know how that feels Seadog Brewing Company.

this is so ironic coming from u

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this is so ironic coming from u

I don't really talk about my music opinion being perfect, sooo....no...lol

Also, I said he had a big ego and "I know how that feels" so I sort of fessed up to that anyway.

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I don't really talk about my music opinion being perfect, sooo....no...lol

Also, I said he had a big ego and "I know how that feels" so I sort of fessed up to that anyway.

This thread isn't for posting your opinion of Ceadog. You need to stop trying to get at people by making personal comments. You're going to be suspended if you do it again.

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This thread isn't for posting your opinion of Ceadog. You need to stop trying to get at people by making personal comments. You're going to be suspended if you do it again.

Nothing I said to him was personal. I was just saying why I disagreed with him, and then defended myself to Cath when she personally attacked me. Here we go again. Cath insults me and I get warned for defending myself.

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Nothing I said to him was personal. I was just saying why I disagreed with him, and then defended myself to Cath when she personally attacked me. Here we go again. Cath insults me and I get warned for defending myself.

Saying someone has a big ego is a personal comment, I don't really see how that has to be spelled out to you. Like I said cut it out, if you want to disagree with someone in a thread you can do it by commenting on what they posted not their personality. If you want to discuss this with me further do it via PM.

So anyway on with discussing this show. I love the Down in the Willow Garden video :wub:. Such a beautiful and haunting song.

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Saying someone has a big ego is a personal comment, I don't really see how that has to be spelled out to you. Like I said cut it out, if you want to disagree with someone in a thread you can do it by commenting on what they posted not their personality. If you want to discuss this with me further do it via PM.

So anyway on with discussing this show. I love the Down in the Willow Garden video :wub:. Such a beautiful and haunting song.

Yeah I said that tons of amazing artists love Foreverly, so why does he think he knows more about music composition than actual talented artists? That was my argument and wasn't personal. Cath insulting me directly is a personal attack. Seriously Hermione, cut out the dink and dunk attempts to suspend me. If you're going to make up things just to get me in trouble, if that gets you off, then you could just suspend me for nothing, bc at this point that's basically what you do.

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Yeah I said that tons of amazing artists love Foreverly, so why does he think he knows more about music composition than actual talented artists? That was my argument and wasn't personal. Cath insulting me directly is a personal attack. Seriously Hermione, cut out the dink and dunk attempts to suspend me. If you're going to make up things just to get me in trouble, if that gets you off, then you could just suspend me for nothing, bc at this point that's basically what you do.

*waves bye-bye*

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