Stiri

Un fan ce a asistat la concert a scris:"Billie Joe told me and this other guy that him and his son spent days building the stage and the lighting, and they hope the place holds regular shows. What a cool dude he is.

The show started at 9:40, and they appeared without makeup or any fancy clothing. ...

The first hour of the show consisted of mostly new songs. Some titles were "Carpe Diem", "Let Yourself Go" (which Billie Joe told us was a song about letting yourself go), "Sweet 16" and "Wild One".

The crowd was great, lots of moshing in the middle, but no violence. The guys played as if there were 60,000 people in the audience instead of just 160. It was steaming hot in there, though, everyone was drenched in sweat. Tre's face was beet red and Billie Joe's eyes were bloodshot at the end.

The last 45 minutes were oldies and some of their hits, including "Welcome To Paradise", "American Idiot" and ending with "St. Jimmy", which had everyone going wild. Billie Joe smashed his guitar against the wall and tossed the broken pieces into the crowd. Mike Dirnt handed me his guitar pick."

Billie Joe via Twitter a scris:BJAofficial Billie Joe Armstrong
Just got kicked off a southwest flight because my pants sagged too low! What the fuck? No joke!

În timpul îmbarcării la Burbank, California, pentru cursa de Oakland, de muzician s-a apropiat unul din însoţitorii de bord, cerându-i să-şi tragă pantalonii în sus. Fără să-şi ascundă iritarea, muzicianul l-a întrebat dacă echipajul nu are alte griji decât turul pantalonilor săi.


Însoţitorul de bord l-a avertizat pe solistul Green Day că ar putea fi debarcat din avion, insistând ca acesta să-si ridice pantalonii. Cântăreţul i-a răspuns într-un mod nepoliticos că doreşte să ia loc, după care a fost dat jos din avion cu întreaga echipă care îl însoţea. După mediatizarea scandalului, compania Southwest Airlines i-a prezentat scuze muzicianului.

Moda pantalonilor largi, căzuţi în talie, este din ce în ce mai des criticată în SUA, chiar însuşi preşedintele Barack Obama declarându-se recent împotriva acestui tip de vestimentaţie. "Unii oameni, poate nu vor să vă vadă lenjeria intimă şi eu sunt dintre aceştia", a afirmat el recent.

I always talk about Green Day, because Dookie was the first album that I went to buy on my own. I think because I got bullied in school there was something I really appreciated about punk culture. It allowed me to feel unified with something that was separate from my community at school. Even though I didn’t have a lot of punk friends or I didn’t go to punk shows – because when I was 13, my mother would never have allowed me to leave the house and go downtown to see a punk show – just having the album in my hands and reading the lyrics and listening to the music made me feel like I was a punk, feel like a Green Day fan, feel like I was part of a union that was separate from my situation. That’s really carried through into my music and my dream and my message. But what’s been so great is social media. Unlike when I was a kid, my fans now have a way to get to know each other and be connected through social media so that the culture can grow.

Ok here's the scoop. GD has been jamming new songs everyday. There's a ton of new songs. The direction is fresh and hi energy. Feels great

I don't want to give away too much but just know that me mike tre and Jason are collaborating and having the best time playing music.

And that's not bullshit!!"

"It didn't sound much like punk to us, but Green Day's angry pop rock was a wakeup call to a generation. Selling over 10 million copies, Dookie launched countless imitators, both good and bad. And let's not forget, without it we'd have no Busted, no McFly, no Son of Dork. "