what's badass that several people overlook is that Mike Dirnt backed up Billie Joe regardless if he was wrong - he smashed his bass too. THATS a friend.
Dude, I have always watched that clip and tried to understand Mike's perspective, knowing everything that was going on behind the scenes. You stated that perfectly 👌 On a side note, I'm surprised Tre didn't end up barreling through his drum kit 😆
Its only his schtick .an act for publicity. Hes rich and you think he acts like a self righteous punk at home? Shit .probably has a maid. A nanny and mexican pool cleaner
M 3 I’d like to see you act better after drinking 7 beers and multiple shots of vodka on your own live performance when no one is standing up or listening while tackling with anxiety your whole life. You’re probably a child if you think you could do that.
@Magic 8 Ball Interesting how you don't mention playing the first Green Day album. While most of their discography at this point can't exactly be considered punk [particularly from a classic punk perspective], their albums before Dookie can definitely be considered punk to some capacity. Dookie can be decisive since it is on a major label, but it does have roots of punk in it and it credited for introducing punk to the younger 90s audience. Ik you didn't ask and I apologise, but their earlier albums are pretty important.
I feel like he lost it coz he’s kinda mad at himself for even being there, they’re obviously playing to the wrong crowd, to people who don’t even seem to wanna sit through green day and it’s like when he makes that realisation something just kinda clicks. “I’ve grown up to be everything I hated, a rich, whiney, sell out who’s more driven by the payment than the purpose.”
I haven't liked anything since Insomniac. They told everyone they were selling out (Good Riddance) and they held true. Hell, they went the extra mile in selling out.
And we all feel the same way ... it takes 2 to tango. He didn’t play for free all those years - no one in your circle contributed a la punk or whatever right
@@lesnash6953 I have to respectfully disagree with you. Nobody expected an acoustic ballad by them at that point. The worst they could have done was make Dookie over and over again. Is it my favorite song? No. Not by a long shot. However, the song had been around in some form since 1990. THAT wasn't the sellout moment. The sellout moment was each acoustic ballad AFTER that, hoping for a sure-fire hit. I will say that the first 4 or 5 albums are untouchable. Take care, man!
This is the exact reason why I hate pop music, radio, and just that side of the industry. Like there are good musicians that put out radio hits and some are good people, but I miss the days of the 2000s when more people found really good artists online and mainstream radio didnt know what the fuck to do. So they finally cracked, then started playing more pop punk. Sadly though, they went back to their old bullshit and wont play older 2000s bands again.
People get weird when bands get big. They always claim they where the first ones to like them and now that everybody likes them they suck. Green Day is good. I grew up with them.
I'm not sure what you mean. In some cases, it's like too much of a good thing to the point it becomes annoying. In other cases, it's people being straight up hipsters about it. Best example I can think of is The Black Keys. When they came out, they were everybody's niche alternative band. When they saw success, that same audience turned on them. Yes, for succeeding.
Gibson sells the models with minor blemishes that are considered unsellable to musicians in wholesale bulk values just for them to smash. It is it’s own entire side table industry.
@@severalwolves pretty sure he played the Jag cuz it was weird and mostly cheap, and they were able to find replacement necks and whatnot to keep it going on the road, not buy whole other guitars.
I can't think off one band that after 25 years hasn't put out some some "bad' albums. It's easy to be a punk when you're young and poor, that's when bands generally put out their best stuff. Other young and poor people can identify with the music. Who can identify with people who are rich beyond belief but still complaining?
Dude...everyone has problems, regardless of their income. If you live in America, you’re part of the international 1%. You have running water, a climate controlled dwelling and your next 50 meals accounted for. We’re *all* fucking wealthy. Oh, but that guy has more than me! Right...that guy worked his balls off for his entire life and went on to become one of the most prolific songwriters of his generation. Where’s the big fucking surprise? “Punk rock” is a lie...there’s no romance involved with dying miserable, alone and irrelevant having worked a total of three days your entire life...
....the thing about music, it doesn't matter who you are or where you come from. Music unites us. The rich man can feel just as overworked as the poor man.
When Sorum was a part of GNR they were more insane than most punk rock bands. Multiple riots, Axl beating the shit out of a fan, going on stage 3 hours late, being shitfaced drunk and on a mountain of blow....
I'm not gonna argue for the integrity of that very broken band at the time but if they were a corporate rock band they wouldn't have taken so many years to release Chinese Democracy. Axl was, and probably still is, a giant dick but it's very clear he wasn't playing by anybodys rules but his- despite several attempts by the label to buy their way to the record being finished.
Yeah, but unlike widdy biddy Billy Joe( such a gay name) he isn’t trying to be punk, just a tremendous drummer. Green Day fucked themselves by becoming successful. They spent their whole career by stealing blatantly from the Dickies and the Buzzcocks. Zero talent, corporate punk and the best plagiarists of all time.
Let's be real, hating bands like Green Day, Foo Fighters, etc. is the cool thing to do. I think it's because of their mainstream success and not being part of the "outsider culture" no more. It's snobish/childish and I'm guilty of this behavior myself in my early teens but people need to grow up and stop actively bashing bands.
@@bobpigs6467 I think Green Day gets a bad rep for their integrity. Even though they did change their sound throughout their career, I don't think their work ethic wavered. And success in the music industry isn't just about talent but also about luck and drive/being a workhorse. Coming out of this scene and end up where Green Day is? Probably took a lot of work and I can respect that, even if their music isn't for me. Same with Foo's only difference is that they've had the adventage of Dave Grohl and by this had an instant audience and media attention. I think the hate lies surely on the more poppy approach Green Day has because in theory, they should've more street cred than the Foo's. Only thing I don't like is that more and more bands change their sound to be played by radio and lose some of their "integrity" along the way but I can't blame them. Must be hard to lose attention/opportunities because the "trend" changed. Of course this is more the case with mainstream success.
@Aidan King hate corporatism, not the people forced to take the bigger pieces of scraps to survive in it. I may not care for green day as a band but we are all ants trying to get by in a system where money is power, and we dont have much money. Even billy joe Armstrong isnt all that wealthy. Yeah hes a 1 percenter, but he isnt a billionaire. Hed have to be like 20 times richer to become a billionaire. He's still a cog in the machine that keeps corporate on top just like the rest of us even if he appears to be one of them.
I remember when I was younger thinking that incident was the most badass thing ever, looking at it now, it makes me feel embarrassed but glad he got help, Mike's a real one for sticking with Billie through it
I don't fully agree with that sentiment, yeah the world and the system here especially favors rich people but not everyone ends up out of touch and detached from reality when they get rich. Green Day still supported the community they came up in even when they got shunned for getting a major label deal
Even though hes worth that much, alot of it still has to go to his music and he still has to work his ass off. Just the benefit of being a musician. Like people think it's all about parties and shit, but it's not. Touring does take it out of you, doesnt matter how much money you have when you are on the longest road trip of your life. He will only ever see that money when hes old and the band breaks up. Then he will be in a real situation of spending the majority of his life on the road, has a fuck tone of money, and have to figure out what hes gonna do for the few years he got left until he dies. Even though hes rich and famous, he still has to do a job where hes on the road more than some truck drivers.
Why doesn’t Green Day own their own label and distribution by now ??? They should be doing it the same way Metallica does it. They’re def big enough to pull it off .
You're right about double records. My Chemical Romance initially planned on Black Parade being a double album but Warner Bros. shot that down pretty early on in the recording sessions. As far as Billie Joe goes, even though his temper got the best of him, he kind of had a point.
@@mafeuk less of a risk though, as the RHCP were already a huge success. Three Cheers was a huge success, but they didn't know if MCR would be one hit wonders yet.
@@chriservin5949 They're more inclined if they hear great demos for the future album. Smashing pumpkins got to do Mellon collie and the infinite sadness because of that, billy wrote siamese dream which was stellar but virgin needed to hear what was so great about this new album he wanted to be a double. Of course he had a bunch of awesome demos and he was allowed to do it, and it became the most successful double album of the 90s.
Green Day is pretty much the last major band standing unscathed from the 90's. They are the only one I can think of that has never broken up, and is till playing with their original lineup. I don't like everything they do, but those guys have busted their asses over the years. They deserve respect for that.
Nimrod and Warning are mostly great, underrated albums. I mean on Warning you've got "Blood, Sex & Booze" which is a paean to being a submissive for example, pretty brutally honest from Billie Joe there. Even the first two albums have some pretty poppy rooted songs, it's just the way he writes.
This is why I love this channel. You have unique content & it's neutrally covered. Every band ( every person for that matter) has its share of ups & downs. Clearly the "downs" are covered far more often & usually by a creator that is more concerned with talking shit about them with a total lack of respect because they are not a fan of their music in general. A lot of creators are more concerned with presenting themselves as sarcastically clever than they are about their content being true or factual. This channel is truly the exception. Your videos are informative & verified. They are always presented with respect for the artist(s) whether you're a fan or not. It's a fine line to walk doing all those things & still using current slang in regards to pop culture, but you seem to do it effortlessly with every post. Just wanted to say thanks for all your efforts & sharing your creativity & talents with the rest of us!!☠
@@rnrtruestories My motto is if I can find the time to bitch & complain about things that are done wrong, it's only fair that I do the same when they're done exceptionally well.🌝
@@eviehammond9509 that's an awfully reasonable position to hold. My hat's off to you. I'd like to say in this day in age when people being reasonable and level-headed is a rarity it's nice to see someone Above All That, but the truth is that in the several decades I've been alive, people have always lacked reason and clear-headedness. It was a rarity to see someone that contradicts those shortcomings when I was a child as much as it is now.
You should do a video on the lost "Cigarettes & Valentines" album from Green Day. They claim the masters were stolen but I have never bought their story.
Jaz they were stolen and recovered soon after. A few songs from the project have been released, such as Too Much Too Soon, Youngblood, and a few others. They claim they aren’t going to release the project in its entirety.
@@wingnutistaken8917 I've always been of the belief that they just weren't happy with the album and needed an excuse to start over. Either way it's an interesting story that ended up greatly benefiting the band.
Jaz according to Billie it was a return back to the fast punk type of sound after they took a break from it on Warning. After they were stolen, they felt it wasn’t their best work and they decided against re-recording CAV and went with writing American Idiot.
Punk Rock, and just Rock 'N' Roll in general is about nonconformity, it's about not being the normal, autotuned, lip syncing performer who had a songwriter write their songs and musicians write songs for them. Billie was going through a hard time just overworking himself and falling into substance abuse again, that doesn't make him a corporate rockstar, that makes him an artist, a performer, a hard worker and everything else. Apologizing was his choice because he knew exactly where he was at in the moment and at the time he said what he said. That doesn't mean he's not a punk or a rocker. He is who he is and that's the most Rock 'N' Roll thing you can be.
He’s not punk, at all. Sure he’s being himself - but that means he’s being an insincere jackass. Can’t take the guy seriously but it sucks he has substance abuse issues and I hope he’s ok
I'm not a Greenday fan, but I'm glad he got help before it was too late. This kind of pressure has been the end of so many talented artists. You go Billie! You rock!
I agree, although it could also be him speaking on behalf of the other band mates. But then again he was probably drunk/high and people are usually full of themselves in those conditions
Is it though? Not that I have a very good memory, but I can not remember ever hearing the other two speak. Or seeing their name. Not that I really pay much attention to em anymore, but still.
Insomniac is without a doubt my favorite of anything they've released to date, including the stuff they released on Lookout records in the late 80s and early 90s. It's a totally underrated record, every song on it is great in my opinion, although oddly I didn't care as much for the two songs that became singles and radio staples as I did for all of the other songs on that record that hardly anybody has heard of or cares about.. I think the total running time is under 30 minutes with 14 songs but the songs are so catchy and fun to listen to, who really cares about the length of the disc? I'll take one Insomniac over 1000 American Idiots everyday of the week.
@Magic 8 Ball Yeah I agree with you, their record that came out today wasn't really punk in terms of music wise. They're punk, in a way that they wanted to do something new, and didn't give a fuck what anyone else says. I think that's what punk really is, not about music, but how you look at life.
"livin in the shadow of dookie" really?! Mate, they absolutely killed it after dookie.. Nimrod, warning & insomniac were all badass! Just cos dookie sold better doesn't mean they had it hanging over them, their output was solid at that time.
Insomniac and Nimrod were spectacular. Warning was a pile of shit. Such a bad album I gave up on them for good. Then they went all woke/America sucks, and fuck that too.
I watched the whole set, and it was so sad. He was trying so hard to get some audience participation/reaction and every time he tried and it didn’t work, you could see the sadness in his eyes. I’d have a fuckin meltdown too. Really sad.
Nobody ever seems to mention their album "Insomniac"... I dunno if it just nostalgia or what, but that album was great and doesn't get the respect it deserves.
I lived in Corvallis, Oregon in the '90s and went to a party at a house near downtown one time in like 1992, and there was a good-sounding band playing inside, in a town that didn't get a lot of good rock shows overall. I was there to see some friends, and they were outside and told me "the keg is dry and the band isn't that great, let's go" and I was like "are you sure? sounds good from here" where I was literally just right outside the wall from where they were playing. I ended up leaving with my friends for whatever reason, but a couple of years later I was told "the band at that party was Green Day" and they'd just had a hit song on MTV which I was unaware of. So yeah, I got to hear them from just the other side of a wall and peeked in at them just briefly but don't remember anything except a band at full-tilt with a bunch of snotty teenagers wandering around disappointed about the keg.
I’d like to see you give us a detailed story of the before and after events surrounding Green Day’s infamous set at Woodstock 1994 and it’s overall lasting impact.
@@DomR1997 "Hey guys. It's Sage, Radio X, here and it looks like there's a riot outside right now. I told you guys, we will not be stopped! This is the revolution people! Alternative rock is leading the way and I'm gonna personally smash your windows." - Grand Theft Auto: Sanandreas
One thing that isn't well known - in September 2012 they cancelled a show in Bologna, Italy. Three bands prior to them played (including Social Distortion, ATL and A&A), however The Kooks refused to play. Apparently The Kooks knew the concert was cancelling. The media found out that the concert is cancelled the night BEFORE - and they did a great job of burying it. What I understood, was that BJA was hospitalized the night before because of too much alcohol intake. This was mere DAYS before the iHeartRadio show. I was happy for him when they said he'd gone to rehabilitation. For someone who travelled from Croatia (and they have still never played in Balkan area) to a cancelled show, it was quite sad.
“I don’t know about you I guys but I can relate to this level of stress and anxiety” I’ll be looking forward to your next 3 albums and multiple world tours
Rock N' Roll True Stories how about the screeching weasels dive concert incident or the death of seethed frontman’s brother the inspiration behind rise above this. I asked about these several times before, it actually requires research.
Do : a vid on operation ivy. Something about hed p.e. theyve been a underground touring band forever, maybe about the internet finding out about his 80s pop attempt the clue, its hilarious. Do some more about Tool while they are still riding the new album, possibly how all through the 90's they did little press and everything they put out was mostly bullshit, i could give so many examples. Or about there repeated legal battles would be a good video, i think they are the best contemporary successful heavy band and you sleep on them.
Y'all relise Green Day have been signed to the same label since Dookie right? If you say they sold out then Dookie is the point in which you say it happened....which is ridiculous.
Like you, I'm mainly only a fan of their earlier stuff but I respect that unlike so many groups with their level of fame, they continued to put out new music for their fans better or worse.
People complain that “UgH BiLlIe JoE IsNt PuNk CaUsE hE ApOloGiZeD” but the truth is that he most likely apologized because he probably regrets it and did it for himself. Tell me youve never went on a rant and then felt bad about it down the road.
Nothing wrong with financial success as a rock band, I grew up with Green Day and I really liked their catchy songs, they deserve to be where they are.
Do we also hate other bands that sign big record deals? I have never understood people's dislike for the band for that reason, it's ridiculous and hypocritical.
Factorable Nimrod was good just not what I was expecting. To me 39 smooth Kerplunk and Dookie will always be 3 of my favorite albums ever. We all have our own opinions and i respect yours. I just miss the old Green Day.
@@jg7102 100% feel the same...I am old green day 100% I couldn't agree more with smooth out,kerplunk and dookie. I did enjoy nimrod like I stated...but even with that album I began to see a shift in the song writing. I remember the hype between dookie and insomniac and when geek stink started playing on the radio....it was awesome. Nimrod didn't do that for me as I really had to make myself like Hitchin a ride. Did you end up liking insomniac?
Scott V Well said I think your pretty much spot on. I did enjoy Insomniac. It was good. To this day I still listen to so many early songs. Christie road Paper Lanterns 80 Judges daughter I was There Going to Pasalacqua. Theres many more. Its all personal preference of course but Early Green day will always be a Top 3 favorite of mine as long as I live.
I actually worked this iHeart show and I can say, the whole thing is not what it appeared to be. I was a runner, in and out of the control room with the graphics team. I was in the control room when somebody from Green Day's team was going over the ROS with the director and he explicitly asked for the graphics team to come up with a countdown for the screen (we don't usually have a live countdown that says "1 minutes", it's usually coordinated beforehand, and there's stage directors that talk to the band in the wings. Also, the band does a rehearsal and sound check and they know what songs they'll be playing and how many songs etc. etc. The dude from Green Day's team then said, "we're dropping one song because Billie is going to go into a rant, so don't cut out, that'll be part of our time." The director said "Is the rant the last thing or is it between the songs?" He said "no, no, it's the last thing, so don't cut out of it." This was highly unusual, so grumblings started and the rumor I was hearing most was that Billie was going to go to rehab more for exhaustion than anything else, but the PR people really wanted something "buzz" worthy going on while they were on hiatus to keep selling albums and merch. Some of us worked a couple more of these and there's always rumors and hearsay, but the general consensus of what happened is, he wasn't drunk or high. He may have been frustrated because the crowd wasn't that into it, but, he's been around for a while, I'm sure it's not the first time he's had to work a bad crowd. It was probably the very poor reception to their new album(s) and all the side projects he had going on that just burned him out and this coordinated to keep them looking punk-rock.
I was 9 years old when "Dookie" came out and I still have very vivid memories about it because the music was so different than what I've had heard before (big fan of Michael Jackson at that time). Loved them dearly but lost some interest after "American Idiot" became a massive success. I still think they're great, great guys and, for me, they can rant about whatever they like - It won't change a thing. Especially because I adore Billy Joe's collaboration with Norah Jones on "Foreverly" (what a gem!) - I hope he does more country music because his voice fits perfectly for that kind of stuff!
I feel Billie Joe on the drinking thing,as a recovering alcoholic with a year and four months under my belt i can say that shit gets old;I've been an alcoholic for over half of my life,but the last ten years before I quit I was drinking pretty much every day.
it kinda makes me a bit sad that Green Day is living in the shadow of Dookie and American Idiot. Half the fanbase will always say it isn't as good as Dookie, the other half will say it isn't as good as American Idiot. The thing is, maybe that's true, but that doesn't mean the music isn't good. I don't think Uno, Dos, or Tre were, objectively, as good as Dookie or American Idiot, but personally they're three of my favorite albums of all time. They were just 36 songs of some friends having fun, and even if you don't like the trilogy, it's a really nice thing that they're still able to write what they like and ignore their fans hating it. Especially with Father Of All..., despite the fact that fans basically despise the album, they don't care, they're just having fun with it and doing what they want to do. I, personally, think that's fucking awesome, and extremely punk rock.
Go back and give an inspired listen to the follow up for Dookie, “Insomniac”. It’s my favorite GD record, I’ve always thought it was their best. Excellent album
Yeah that came to mind while I was watching this video and thinking about my favourite album. I'm not gonna pretend I was a fan in the very early days (I was too young and I don't even know if you could buy their albums over here back then), nor did I especially like the American Idiot era. But I love Dookie and insomniac is even better.
I actually watched his "freak out" live. You could definitely tell the crowd wasn't into it, but that's no fault of the bands or Billie's fault by any means. Billie tried to get them motivated and they all ignored him. I feel like they were told they had more time than they did backstage cuz people thought they would be better received by the crowd, but when they weren't they were cut short to a certain extent. I know that's not the official story, but that would explain why they were booked along side so many pop artists to begin with. I thought it was great Billie stood up and told them to fuck off. Half the people there probably had never experienced real music that isn't auto-tuned in person like that so they didn't like it. Ignorant crowd in my opinion...
I absolutely loved everything Green Day put out between 1000 Hours, all the way to Uno Dos Tre. But Revolution Radio and their newest releases of this year, just dont sound like Green Day to me...damn shame
@@benchapman997 there were some tracks I like, but I'm not quite sure what it is about Rev Radio, it just rubbed me the wrong way, maybe I should give it a re-listen since it's been a few years
Don't know why Green Day gets so much hate. Not claiming they were on the short list of all-time great bands or anything but they were definitely a quality three-piece rock n roll band for at least a dozen years. Dookie, Kerplunk, Nimrod etc...those aren't light pop albums. It was people running down rock bands like this that has left us with Taylor Swift, Billy Eilish, etc..on the pop charts
Howard Stern worked for Infiniti broadcasting which became CBS Radio not Clear Channel even though his show may have been syndicated to some clear channel stations. It was Infiniti who hired him, and Infiniti who owned K-Rock in New York where his studio was etc...
By the time I'd moved from NYC to SF in 1989 Green Day were a well known local act. I was doing studio work, writing music and giging around CA, mostly filling in for band members who couldn't attend parts of their tours. I met the guys in GD a few times and were impressed with, what I considered to be a modern day classic punk band. Dookie was a beautiful piece of punk power but it was also a polarizing point for any punk band. By the same metric that made them popular it also killed their punk sensibilities.
Sometimes being drunk or drinking brings out the truth on your mind. I think what he did was perfectly fine and justified. We dont say what's on our minds enough. And I'm glad he did.
Idk if I'd call it punk rock. I'd call it entitled, and rightfully so. If I was in a respected rock band in the business for 20+ years I'd be pissed if I were snubbed like that too.
Remember those kids that faked a Green Day album and people bought it? They just easily made up some songs that sounded like Green Day and put out some album artwork and stuff and people thought it was a new Green Day album. That goes to show how predictable and generic their music and image is.
He shouldn't have apologised. Corporate just can't take artists with attitude now and only want talent who toe the line. Great bands like the Sex Pistols, Guns N Roses and Motorhead would never get signed if they were starting out today because they don't make life easy for executives. Eric Bischoff said it best, controversy creates cash.
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what's badass that several people overlook is that Mike Dirnt backed up Billie Joe regardless if he was wrong - he smashed his bass too. THATS a friend.
Dude, I have always watched that clip and tried to understand Mike's perspective, knowing everything that was going on behind the scenes. You stated that perfectly 👌
On a side note, I'm surprised Tre didn't end up barreling through his drum kit 😆
Its only his schtick .an act for publicity. Hes rich and you think he acts like a self righteous punk at home? Shit .probably has a maid. A nanny and mexican pool cleaner
Billy couldn’t have done it without mike and tre imo especially mike
I personally disagree wholeheartedly. I want a friend who has the balls to tell me when I'm in the wrong.
lol, what a hero
“Let me tell you something...” the clear sign someone has been drinking
Drinking should not be a convenient excuse for such utter childish stupidity. Wait... I have seen badly behaved children that act better. Wow...
M 3 I’d like to see you act better after drinking 7 beers and multiple shots of vodka on your own live performance when no one is standing up or listening while tackling with anxiety your whole life. You’re probably a child if you think you could do that.
@@speediablo You forgot the drugs. A lot of drugs.
Tactical Tux#3707 Ah yes... the Dookie era lmao
"Well what happened was..."
I love how when Billie starts smashing his guitar, Mike is like "oh, ok" and starts whacking his bass too.
This is friend
Lol fuck yeah. Mike's always where he needs to be
Dude if you respect rock or music how do you like greenday
@@pokemontrainer6772 this was the most rock music shit since the 80s. WTFuck?
Loyal homie
I agree, apologizing was the worst thing Armstrong could have done.
Most punk rock thing in front of those shitty pop artists
From the sounds of it they got in big trouble by their management. Their manager was the one who cancelled the tour and sent him to rehab.
Magic 8 Ball who cares what is and isn’t punk. Good music is good music, genres don’t matter.
Wuncler Laufenbum Cornelius Ulysses Albrecht LVX Exactly dont apologize
@Magic 8 Ball Interesting how you don't mention playing the first Green Day album. While most of their discography at this point can't exactly be considered punk [particularly from a classic punk perspective], their albums before Dookie can definitely be considered punk to some capacity. Dookie can be decisive since it is on a major label, but it does have roots of punk in it and it credited for introducing punk to the younger 90s audience. Ik you didn't ask and I apologise, but their earlier albums are pretty important.
*Do you have the time to listen to me whine?*
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I see what you did there...😃
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😂🤣 brilliant!! 😆😂🤣
Lack of sex is keeping him down
I appreciate how Mike bashed his guitar as well in solidarity
Wait I didn’t see that
Okay I saw it yayy gotta love Billie Joe
Now that's real comradarie!
We all need friends like Mike
@Aidan King I have more guitars than friends 😂
I feel like he lost it coz he’s kinda mad at himself for even being there, they’re obviously playing to the wrong crowd, to people who don’t even seem to wanna sit through green day and it’s like when he makes that realisation something just kinda clicks. “I’ve grown up to be everything I hated, a rich, whiney, sell out who’s more driven by the payment than the purpose.”
great analysis. I think the same way.
I haven't liked anything since Insomniac. They told everyone they were selling out (Good Riddance) and they held true. Hell, they went the extra mile in selling out.
And we all feel the same way ... it takes 2 to tango. He didn’t play for free all those years - no one in your circle contributed a la punk or whatever right
@@lesnash6953 I have to respectfully disagree with you. Nobody expected an acoustic ballad by them at that point. The worst they could have done was make Dookie over and over again. Is it my favorite song? No. Not by a long shot. However, the song had been around in some form since 1990. THAT wasn't the sellout moment. The sellout moment was each acoustic ballad AFTER that, hoping for a sure-fire hit. I will say that the first 4 or 5 albums are untouchable. Take care, man!
They've been sellouts since 1994
Honestly I can't blame him, It's pretty fucked up how iHeart Radio duped them like that
Oh, goodness. I find no excuse for such utter childish stupidity.
This is the exact reason why I hate pop music, radio, and just that side of the industry. Like there are good musicians that put out radio hits and some are good people, but I miss the days of the 2000s when more people found really good artists online and mainstream radio didnt know what the fuck to do. So they finally cracked, then started playing more pop punk. Sadly though, they went back to their old bullshit and wont play older 2000s bands again.
@@Red1676 no one listens to radio. We live in the streaming age
it’s shown the crowd wasn’t feeling them and explained well in this video Green Day is just a thing of the past
Corporate thinking has ruined rock industry. Just like what’s happened across all genres and industries. It’s why it all sounds the same.
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@@Pinhead101 watch the video!
@@Pinhead101 exactly
Sober people should also flip out at corporate jerks. No need to blame it on drugs, booze, etc. It's just the right thing to do!!
Ian Tyrrel true it's rock n roll
Sober people shouldn't agree to play at iHeart Radio Festival to b_tch about cOrPoRaTe jErKs. 🤦♂️
I feel his frustration. I grew up on rock. To see it die off as a musical genre is heartbreaking.
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People get weird when bands get big. They always claim they where the first ones to like them and now that everybody likes them they suck. Green Day is good. I grew up with them.
me too their also my 15 year olds favorite band
That’s why I don’t care about popularity. I just like the bands I like. Like rush.
I'm not sure what you mean. In some cases, it's like too much of a good thing to the point it becomes annoying.
In other cases, it's people being straight up hipsters about it. Best example I can think of is The Black Keys. When they came out, they were everybody's niche alternative band. When they saw success, that same audience turned on them. Yes, for succeeding.
Honestly I’d have no problem with them getting big but the music just has consistently fallen flat for a long time now
People are weird in general , they’re never happy
That poor les paul junior, I would kill for that guitar
They repaired it and I’m pretty sure he still uses it.
drummerdude476 yeah he named it smash
Gibson sells the models with minor blemishes that are considered unsellable to musicians in wholesale bulk values just for them to smash. It is it’s own entire side table industry.
Steven Gordon kurt will play all the set with his main guitar(s) and then pick up some random mexican strat for the last song and smash that
@@severalwolves pretty sure he played the Jag cuz it was weird and mostly cheap, and they were able to find replacement necks and whatnot to keep it going on the road, not buy whole other guitars.
I can't think off one band that after 25 years hasn't put out some some "bad' albums. It's easy to be a punk when you're young and poor, that's when bands generally put out their best stuff. Other young and poor people can identify with the music. Who can identify with people who are rich beyond belief but still complaining?
This! Also, it's the same thing as listening to dudes who are 100 years old sing teenage angst anthems. At some point it just feels very shark jumpy.
Dude...everyone has problems, regardless of their income. If you live in America, you’re part of the international 1%. You have running water, a climate controlled dwelling and your next 50 meals accounted for. We’re *all* fucking wealthy. Oh, but that guy has more than me! Right...that guy worked his balls off for his entire life and went on to become one of the most prolific songwriters of his generation. Where’s the big fucking surprise? “Punk rock” is a lie...there’s no romance involved with dying miserable, alone and irrelevant having worked a total of three days your entire life...
....the thing about music, it doesn't matter who you are or where you come from. Music unites us. The rich man can feel just as overworked as the poor man.
"Warning" is the best example of your statement: a boring tecord from a band who didn't know what to say anymore.
@@manifestgtr There's no romance in dying miserable, I agree, so these songwriters bastardizing rich people to be rich themselves is filthy.
Matt Sorum is in a corporate rock band. Insulting Green Day for being a corporate rock band. Okayboss
When Sorum was a part of GNR they were more insane than most punk rock bands. Multiple riots, Axl beating the shit out of a fan, going on stage 3 hours late, being shitfaced drunk and on a mountain of blow....
I'm not gonna argue for the integrity of that very broken band at the time but if they were a corporate rock band they wouldn't have taken so many years to release Chinese Democracy. Axl was, and probably still is, a giant dick but it's very clear he wasn't playing by anybodys rules but his- despite several attempts by the label to buy their way to the record being finished.
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maybe not for green day fans, hence the corporate rock band title
Matt Sorum is a known asshole, but I love that about him
Yeah, but unlike widdy biddy Billy Joe( such a gay name) he isn’t trying to be punk, just a tremendous drummer. Green Day fucked themselves by becoming successful. They spent their whole career by stealing blatantly from the Dickies and the Buzzcocks. Zero talent, corporate punk and the best plagiarists of all time.
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Recorded on an Xbox 360, ah yes a man of culture
In the shadow of Dookie, not a good place to be...
Better than being under Dookie...
is it because if you are "in the shadow of dookie' you're lower than shit?
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Let's be real, hating bands like Green Day, Foo Fighters, etc. is the cool thing to do.
I think it's because of their mainstream success and not being part of the "outsider culture" no more. It's snobish/childish and I'm guilty of this behavior myself in my early teens but people need to grow up and stop actively bashing bands.
i agree it's fine to dislike a bands music but unless their actively horrible people, mindlessly hating them just makes you look like a whiny child
I respect Foo Fighters though, Greenday... not so much. Even more so after their new album.
Aidan King I just hate Green Day cause they’re a black hole of artistic integrity. Foo Fighters isn’t though
@@bobpigs6467 I think Green Day gets a bad rep for their integrity. Even though they did change their sound throughout their career, I don't think their work ethic wavered. And success in the music industry isn't just about talent but also about luck and drive/being a workhorse. Coming out of this scene and end up where Green Day is? Probably took a lot of work and I can respect that, even if their music isn't for me. Same with Foo's only difference is that they've had the adventage of Dave Grohl and by this had an instant audience and media attention. I think the hate lies surely on the more poppy approach Green Day has because in theory, they should've more street cred than the Foo's. Only thing I don't like is that more and more bands change their sound to be played by radio and lose some of their "integrity" along the way but I can't blame them. Must be hard to lose attention/opportunities because the "trend" changed. Of course this is more the case with mainstream success.
@Aidan King hate corporatism, not the people forced to take the bigger pieces of scraps to survive in it. I may not care for green day as a band but we are all ants trying to get by in a system where money is power, and we dont have much money. Even billy joe Armstrong isnt all that wealthy. Yeah hes a 1 percenter, but he isnt a billionaire. Hed have to be like 20 times richer to become a billionaire. He's still a cog in the machine that keeps corporate on top just like the rest of us even if he appears to be one of them.
I remember when I was younger thinking that incident was the most badass thing ever, looking at it now, it makes me feel embarrassed but glad he got help, Mike's a real one for sticking with Billie through it
Is it just me....or does everyone else think Billie looks, and talks like a real life Jessie Pinkman?
An ugly, feminine version
It's the remnants of his accent.
Lol
No no no, Jessie Pinkman talks like Billie.
YES
Screaming that the world sucks while your worth 55 Million Bucks just doesn't work for me anymore .
Yep
Dave Brewer ALOT of that dookie going around these days..
Not trying to be an apologist but there must be something really wrong in your head if you are worth 55million and your world sucks.
I don't fully agree with that sentiment, yeah the world and the system here especially favors rich people but not everyone ends up out of touch and detached from reality when they get rich. Green Day still supported the community they came up in even when they got shunned for getting a major label deal
Even though hes worth that much, alot of it still has to go to his music and he still has to work his ass off. Just the benefit of being a musician. Like people think it's all about parties and shit, but it's not. Touring does take it out of you, doesnt matter how much money you have when you are on the longest road trip of your life. He will only ever see that money when hes old and the band breaks up. Then he will be in a real situation of spending the majority of his life on the road, has a fuck tone of money, and have to figure out what hes gonna do for the few years he got left until he dies. Even though hes rich and famous, he still has to do a job where hes on the road more than some truck drivers.
Why doesn’t Green Day own their own label and distribution by now ???
They should be doing it the same way Metallica does it. They’re def big enough to pull it off .
I might be wrong, but I believe their album that just came out will be their last with a major label, so that's not a bad shout.
They probably will, after their contract ends
You're right about double records. My Chemical Romance initially planned on Black Parade being a double album but Warner Bros. shot that down pretty early on in the recording sessions.
As far as Billie Joe goes, even though his temper got the best of him, he kind of had a point.
Thank god, because that album turned out to be one of the best of all time
Warner released the Chili Peppers double album Stadium Arcadium that same year though
@@mafeuk less of a risk though, as the RHCP were already a huge success. Three Cheers was a huge success, but they didn't know if MCR would be one hit wonders yet.
@@chriservin5949 They're more inclined if they hear great demos for the future album. Smashing pumpkins got to do Mellon collie and the infinite sadness because of that, billy wrote siamese dream which was stellar but virgin needed to hear what was so great about this new album he wanted to be a double. Of course he had a bunch of awesome demos and he was allowed to do it, and it became the most successful double album of the 90s.
Green Day is pretty much the last major band standing unscathed from the 90's. They are the only one I can think of that has never broken up, and is till playing with their original lineup. I don't like everything they do, but those guys have busted their asses over the years. They deserve respect for that.
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Everyone is a critic
@@severalwolves *you're
"I liked green day before they were signed to a major record label" then goes on and talks about how he liked dookie and American idiot. Funny
There's an "and" after that
Yup ... as if he never sang along or learned lyrics to impress a girl.. the very people Billie was ranting against are people like the narrator lol
And doesn’t even give a passing mention to Insomniac, a far better record than either of them.
Nimrod and Warning are mostly great, underrated albums. I mean on Warning you've got "Blood, Sex & Booze" which is a paean to being a submissive for example, pretty brutally honest from Billie Joe there. Even the first two albums have some pretty poppy rooted songs, it's just the way he writes.
Imagine not being allowed to like multiple things
This is why I love this channel. You have unique content & it's neutrally covered. Every band ( every person for that matter) has its share of ups & downs. Clearly the "downs" are covered far more often & usually by a creator that is more concerned with talking shit about them with a total lack of respect because they are not a fan of their music in general. A lot of creators are more concerned with presenting themselves as sarcastically clever than they are about their content being true or factual. This channel is truly the exception. Your videos are informative & verified. They are always presented with respect for the artist(s) whether you're a fan or not. It's a fine line to walk doing all those things & still using current slang in regards to pop culture, but you seem to do it effortlessly with every post.
Just wanted to say thanks for all your efforts & sharing your creativity & talents with the rest of us!!☠
Thanks that’s really nice comment. I try to be fair and insert my opinion where needed
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My motto is if I can find the time to bitch & complain about things that are done wrong, it's only fair that I do the same when they're done exceptionally well.🌝
@@eviehammond9509 that's an awfully reasonable position to hold. My hat's off to you. I'd like to say in this day in age when people being reasonable and level-headed is a rarity it's nice to see someone Above All That, but the truth is that in the several decades I've been alive, people have always lacked reason and clear-headedness. It was a rarity to see someone that contradicts those shortcomings when I was a child as much as it is now.
You should do a video on the lost "Cigarettes & Valentines" album from Green Day. They claim the masters were stolen but I have never bought their story.
Jaz they were stolen and recovered soon after. A few songs from the project have been released, such as Too Much Too Soon, Youngblood, and a few others. They claim they aren’t going to release the project in its entirety.
@@wingnutistaken8917 I've always been of the belief that they just weren't happy with the album and needed an excuse to start over. Either way it's an interesting story that ended up greatly benefiting the band.
Jaz according to Billie it was a return back to the fast punk type of sound after they took a break from it on Warning. After they were stolen, they felt it wasn’t their best work and they decided against re-recording CAV and went with writing American Idiot.
"1 minutes" Is it wrong that the 's' pissed me off.
Every time I re watch this I get really sad, I don't like seeing Billie like that
Mike Dirnt didn’t fucking blink. He saw Billie smash, he jumped right into smash, too. You gotta respect that bond.
Punk Rock, and just Rock 'N' Roll in general is about nonconformity, it's about not being the normal, autotuned, lip syncing performer who had a songwriter write their songs and musicians write songs for them. Billie was going through a hard time just overworking himself and falling into substance abuse again, that doesn't make him a corporate rockstar, that makes him an artist, a performer, a hard worker and everything else. Apologizing was his choice because he knew exactly where he was at in the moment and at the time he said what he said. That doesn't mean he's not a punk or a rocker. He is who he is and that's the most Rock 'N' Roll thing you can be.
There's probably a lot of grammatical errors in that bc I didn't feel like proof reading it. 🤷♂️😂
He’s not punk, at all. Sure he’s being himself - but that means he’s being an insincere jackass. Can’t take the guy seriously but it sucks he has substance abuse issues and I hope he’s ok
Robert Perez absolutely man! I totally agree with you
@Robert Perez There were none. Furthermore, stick to the topic
Except explainin yoself
He just needed more cowbell
rwendell0912 loLLLLL
I'm not a Greenday fan, but I'm glad he got help before it was too late. This kind of pressure has been the end of so many talented artists. You go Billie! You rock!
I found it slightly offputting that he kept saying, "me" and "I". Green Day is very much a band, and not the BJA show.
I agree, although it could also be him speaking on behalf of the other band mates. But then again he was probably drunk/high and people are usually full of themselves in those conditions
Is it though? Not that I have a very good memory, but I can not remember ever hearing the other two speak. Or seeing their name. Not that I really pay much attention to em anymore, but still.
He was under the influence, so he wasn't even thinking entirely straight.
Insomniac is a great album too...defiantly check it out if you like everything up to dookie
Insomniac is without a doubt my favorite of anything they've released to date, including the stuff they released on Lookout records in the late 80s and early 90s. It's a totally underrated record, every song on it is great in my opinion, although oddly I didn't care as much for the two songs that became singles and radio staples as I did for all of the other songs on that record that hardly anybody has heard of or cares about.. I think the total running time is under 30 minutes with 14 songs but the songs are so catchy and fun to listen to, who really cares about the length of the disc? I'll take one Insomniac over 1000 American Idiots everyday of the week.
@@imvandenh well well said !! Fuckin youtube....I'm just seeing this now for some reason
Fun fact I heard recently: Billie Joe Armstrong said he's not interested in making sequels to albums but if he ever did it would be for Insomniac.
That crowd was LAME and didn't deserve a Green Day performance
Raymond Solis Jr. kudos to the one lady who was screaming in the background, she sounded like she was having fun
Green day suck!
@@leshgooo1016 nice try. I know you are joking.
I don't hate Green Day one bit, Just like you I'm more of a fan of their earlier stuff
@Magic 8 Ball I 100% agree. Dookie is one of my favourite albums
Magic 8 Ball did somebody call the punk police? 👮🏻
@Magic 8 Ball what even is punk at this point
Agree. 39/smooth, Kerplunk were my favorite records
@Magic 8 Ball Yeah I agree with you, their record that came out today wasn't really punk in terms of music wise. They're punk, in a way that they wanted to do something new, and didn't give a fuck what anyone else says. I think that's what punk really is, not about music, but how you look at life.
“....I’m not FUCKING Justin Bieber!”
Best rant i’ve ever heard.😂
Tbh seeing Billie yell at iheart radio made my mind say what a bad ass
"livin in the shadow of dookie" really?! Mate, they absolutely killed it after dookie.. Nimrod, warning & insomniac were all badass! Just cos dookie sold better doesn't mean they had it hanging over them, their output was solid at that time.
Have to agree cookie was incredible, but the maturity kicked in album after album just got better and better
@Aidan King not for me but I love all the album's tbf not a lot in it for me
the saint I love cookie too
yeeees
Insomniac and Nimrod were spectacular. Warning was a pile of shit. Such a bad album I gave up on them for good. Then they went all woke/America sucks, and fuck that too.
I watched the whole set, and it was so sad. He was trying so hard to get some audience participation/reaction and every time he tried and it didn’t work, you could see the sadness in his eyes. I’d have a fuckin meltdown too. Really sad.
Nobody ever seems to mention their album "Insomniac"... I dunno if it just nostalgia or what, but that album was great and doesn't get the respect it deserves.
It's their best album.
This is the best clip of yours that I've watched.
& your cadence is much better. Well done. 👍💜
Yay I suggested this one..Thank you
Green Day rules 🤘The only tattoo I have is the their Kerplunk cover!
Meth is a helluva drug, Geek Stinkbreath.
I found a treasure filled with sick pleasure and it sits on a thin white line!
Brilliant comment!🤣😂
Speed isn't the modern meth.
Fox burrow hot tubs was good as well! I am taking my 14 YR. OLD son to his 1st concert this summer weezer & greenday GONNA BE AWESOME AF!
I lived in Corvallis, Oregon in the '90s and went to a party at a house near downtown one time in like 1992, and there was a good-sounding band playing inside, in a town that didn't get a lot of good rock shows overall. I was there to see some friends, and they were outside and told me "the keg is dry and the band isn't that great, let's go" and I was like "are you sure? sounds good from here" where I was literally just right outside the wall from where they were playing. I ended up leaving with my friends for whatever reason, but a couple of years later I was told "the band at that party was Green Day" and they'd just had a hit song on MTV which I was unaware of. So yeah, I got to hear them from just the other side of a wall and peeked in at them just briefly but don't remember anything except a band at full-tilt with a bunch of snotty teenagers wandering around disappointed about the keg.
I’d like to see you give us a detailed story of the before and after events surrounding Green Day’s infamous set at Woodstock 1994 and it’s overall lasting impact.
After he’s been around for 55 years he’ll still look the same.
The Ramones, a REAL punk band, could've played a song and a half in one minute... while on heroin.
lol REAL punk. elitists man lol
@@StankyDangus Tbh he kinda ain't wrong though. Sid Vicious stabbed his girlfriend to death in cold blood. Can you name anything more punk than that?
@@genericwhitekidthesecond4330 That's not punk, that's sad.
@@genericwhitekidthesecond4330 If you think that killing someone is "punk" You're wrong!
@@DomR1997 "Hey guys. It's Sage, Radio X, here and it looks like there's a riot outside right now. I told you guys, we will not be stopped! This is the revolution people! Alternative rock is leading the way and I'm gonna personally smash your windows." - Grand Theft Auto: Sanandreas
One thing that isn't well known - in September 2012 they cancelled a show in Bologna, Italy. Three bands prior to them played (including Social Distortion, ATL and A&A), however The Kooks refused to play. Apparently The Kooks knew the concert was cancelling. The media found out that the concert is cancelled the night BEFORE - and they did a great job of burying it. What I understood, was that BJA was hospitalized the night before because of too much alcohol intake. This was mere DAYS before the iHeartRadio show.
I was happy for him when they said he'd gone to rehabilitation. For someone who travelled from Croatia (and they have still never played in Balkan area) to a cancelled show, it was quite sad.
“I don’t know about you I guys but I can relate to this level of stress and anxiety” I’ll be looking forward to your next 3 albums and multiple world tours
That comment caught me off guard too, what is so stressful about sitting in front of a computer?
I didn't see anything wrong with the comment. You don't need to be famous to suffer from stress or anxiety. Plenty of things can cause both.
It's insane that it's been 10 years that this meltdown happened.
What other stories would you like to see?
Rock N' Roll True Stories how about the screeching weasels dive concert incident or the death of seethed frontman’s brother the inspiration behind rise above this. I asked about these several times before, it actually requires research.
Rock N' Roll True Stories Peter Greens “lost weekend”.. there’s a short doc on UA-cam bout it CREEPY
Do : a vid on operation ivy.
Something about hed p.e. theyve been a underground touring band forever, maybe about the internet finding out about his 80s pop attempt the clue, its hilarious.
Do some more about Tool while they are still riding the new album, possibly how all through the 90's they did little press and everything they put out was mostly bullshit, i could give so many examples.
Or about there repeated legal battles would be a good video, i think they are the best contemporary successful heavy band and you sleep on them.
Talk about Oasis and their fighting kekkekkekkekkekkekek
Rock N' Roll True Stories
Coil and/or Throbbing Gristle
Just dropping in to say, I discovered your channel yesterday and have been binging videos ever since! So much nostalgia!! Thank you!
Never clicked faster. I'm i the only GD fan who loves every thing they did in their entire discography. Except Rev rad.
Thanks
Not the only one, they don’t have a bad record. And revolution radio is great.
Cant be a GD fan if you dont appreciate all the records 🤷♂️
Man, I also love everything they did and I don't fucking care if anyone says bad things about them cause their music makes me feel good
My first rock show. First time in a mosh pit,and first time crowd surfing. (1995)
Thanks guys.....
Y'all relise Green Day have been signed to the same label since Dookie right? If you say they sold out then Dookie is the point in which you say it happened....which is ridiculous.
Wait until old Dean finds out that's exactly what people thought of Green Day when Dookie hit. He's gonna lose it.
Like you, I'm mainly only a fan of their earlier stuff but I respect that unlike so many groups with their level of fame, they continued to put out new music for their fans better or worse.
People complain that “UgH BiLlIe JoE IsNt PuNk CaUsE hE ApOloGiZeD” but the truth is that he most likely apologized because he probably regrets it and did it for himself. Tell me youve never went on a rant and then felt bad about it down the road.
That's why this channel is awesome. You cover all sorts of stories! Don't know too much about green day...totally respect them tho.
Nothing wrong with financial success as a rock band, I grew up with Green Day and I really liked their catchy songs, they deserve to be where they are.
Do we also hate other bands that sign big record deals? I have never understood people's dislike for the band for that reason, it's ridiculous and hypocritical.
I love Green day from 1989-1995. I might not like anything since then but Im happy for the early years.
Not nimrod? I stop there
I feel the same way about My Chemical Romance...anything from 2003-2006 is GOLDENNNN🤩
Factorable Nimrod was good just not what I was expecting. To me 39 smooth Kerplunk and Dookie will always be 3 of my favorite albums ever. We all have our own opinions and i respect yours. I just miss the old Green Day.
@@jg7102 100% feel the same...I am old green day 100% I couldn't agree more with smooth out,kerplunk and dookie. I did enjoy nimrod like I stated...but even with that album I began to see a shift in the song writing. I remember the hype between dookie and insomniac and when geek stink started playing on the radio....it was awesome. Nimrod didn't do that for me as I really had to make myself like Hitchin a ride. Did you end up liking insomniac?
Scott V Well said I think your pretty much spot on. I did enjoy Insomniac. It was good. To this day I still listen to so many early songs. Christie road Paper Lanterns 80 Judges daughter I was There Going to Pasalacqua. Theres many more. Its all personal preference of course but Early Green day will always be a Top 3 favorite of mine as long as I live.
Rock N' Roll True Stories,,brilliant video,,thank you!
According to the sign he didn’t have 1 minute left. He had 1 minutes
Quent K lol
It didn't get a lot of attention, but there's some good stuff off "Revolution Radio": title track, "Bang Bang" and, especially, "Somewhere Now."
I actually worked this iHeart show and I can say, the whole thing is not what it appeared to be. I was a runner, in and out of the control room with the graphics team. I was in the control room when somebody from Green Day's team was going over the ROS with the director and he explicitly asked for the graphics team to come up with a countdown for the screen (we don't usually have a live countdown that says "1 minutes", it's usually coordinated beforehand, and there's stage directors that talk to the band in the wings. Also, the band does a rehearsal and sound check and they know what songs they'll be playing and how many songs etc. etc.
The dude from Green Day's team then said, "we're dropping one song because Billie is going to go into a rant, so don't cut out, that'll be part of our time." The director said "Is the rant the last thing or is it between the songs?" He said "no, no, it's the last thing, so don't cut out of it."
This was highly unusual, so grumblings started and the rumor I was hearing most was that Billie was going to go to rehab more for exhaustion than anything else, but the PR people really wanted something "buzz" worthy going on while they were on hiatus to keep selling albums and merch. Some of us worked a couple more of these and there's always rumors and hearsay, but the general consensus of what happened is, he wasn't drunk or high. He may have been frustrated because the crowd wasn't that into it, but, he's been around for a while, I'm sure it's not the first time he's had to work a bad crowd. It was probably the very poor reception to their new album(s) and all the side projects he had going on that just burned him out and this coordinated to keep them looking punk-rock.
@Tyler ModHe wasn't though. He's not slurring or stumbling or anything. No sign of inebriation at all in any part of the performance.
The last Green Day album is "Nimrod".. then their songs became retail shop music, unfortunetly..
I was 9 years old when "Dookie" came out and I still have very vivid memories about it because the music was so different than what I've had heard before (big fan of Michael Jackson at that time). Loved them dearly but lost some interest after "American Idiot" became a massive success. I still think they're great, great guys and, for me, they can rant about whatever they like - It won't change a thing. Especially because I adore Billy Joe's collaboration with Norah Jones on "Foreverly" (what a gem!) - I hope he does more country music because his voice fits perfectly for that kind of stuff!
Thanks for update sir
I feel Billie Joe on the drinking thing,as a recovering alcoholic with a year and four months under my belt i can say that shit gets old;I've been an alcoholic for over half of my life,but the last ten years before I quit I was drinking pretty much every day.
“lacman38 is online”
"Here's the clip" and i got a commercial. Damn you UA-cam!
Armstrong’s meltdown was hilarious and still makes me laugh. I always made jokes about the meltdown. Still one the best moments I’ve seen.
1 minute left? They should have played Take Back
Should have played Jesus of Suburbia all the way through as a middle finger to that 1 minute.
@@spencergodspeed9394 now that wouldve been badass
That Xbox notification had me tripping out for a second.
it kinda makes me a bit sad that Green Day is living in the shadow of Dookie and American Idiot. Half the fanbase will always say it isn't as good as Dookie, the other half will say it isn't as good as American Idiot. The thing is, maybe that's true, but that doesn't mean the music isn't good. I don't think Uno, Dos, or Tre were, objectively, as good as Dookie or American Idiot, but personally they're three of my favorite albums of all time. They were just 36 songs of some friends having fun, and even if you don't like the trilogy, it's a really nice thing that they're still able to write what they like and ignore their fans hating it. Especially with Father Of All..., despite the fact that fans basically despise the album, they don't care, they're just having fun with it and doing what they want to do. I, personally, think that's fucking awesome, and extremely punk rock.
Not a fan on Green Day but this was really informative, very interesting!
Thanks
Go back and give an inspired listen to the follow up for Dookie, “Insomniac”. It’s my favorite GD record, I’ve always thought it was their best. Excellent album
Yeah that came to mind while I was watching this video and thinking about my favourite album. I'm not gonna pretend I was a fan in the very early days (I was too young and I don't even know if you could buy their albums over here back then), nor did I especially like the American Idiot era. But I love Dookie and insomniac is even better.
I actually watched his "freak out" live. You could definitely tell the crowd wasn't into it, but that's no fault of the bands or Billie's fault by any means. Billie tried to get them motivated and they all ignored him. I feel like they were told they had more time than they did backstage cuz people thought they would be better received by the crowd, but when they weren't they were cut short to a certain extent. I know that's not the official story, but that would explain why they were booked along side so many pop artists to begin with. I thought it was great Billie stood up and told them to fuck off. Half the people there probably had never experienced real music that isn't auto-tuned in person like that so they didn't like it. Ignorant crowd in my opinion...
Okay Billie Joe, the WORST thing you could've done was EXPLAIN YOURSELF
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I absolutely loved everything Green Day put out between 1000 Hours, all the way to Uno Dos Tre. But Revolution Radio and their newest releases of this year, just dont sound like Green Day to me...damn shame
Really? I thought rev rad was a return to their earlier releases. Similar to nimrod in a way
@@benchapman997 there were some tracks I like, but I'm not quite sure what it is about Rev Radio, it just rubbed me the wrong way, maybe I should give it a re-listen since it's been a few years
Don't know why Green Day gets so much hate. Not claiming they were on the short list of all-time great bands or anything but they were definitely a quality three-piece rock n roll band for at least a dozen years. Dookie, Kerplunk, Nimrod etc...those aren't light pop albums. It was people running down rock bands like this that has left us with Taylor Swift, Billy Eilish, etc..on the pop charts
I love how mike just joins in on the smashing too
Howard Stern worked for Infiniti broadcasting which became CBS Radio not Clear Channel even though his show may have been syndicated to some clear channel stations. It was Infiniti who hired him, and Infiniti who owned K-Rock in New York where his studio was etc...
why does he always say "I" instead of "we"?
By the time I'd moved from NYC to SF in 1989 Green Day were a well known local act. I was doing studio work, writing music and giging around CA, mostly filling in for band members who couldn't attend parts of their tours. I met the guys in GD a few times and were impressed with, what I considered to be a modern day classic punk band. Dookie was a beautiful piece of punk power but it was also a polarizing point for any punk band. By the same metric that made them popular it also killed their punk sensibilities.
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Sometimes being drunk or drinking brings out the truth on your mind. I think what he did was perfectly fine and justified. We dont say what's on our minds enough. And I'm glad he did.
I actually loved it, Billie Joe is badass. That is the most rock n roll thing that's happened in the last 10 years.
Idk if I'd call it punk rock. I'd call it entitled, and rightfully so. If I was in a respected rock band in the business for 20+ years I'd be pissed if I were snubbed like that too.
He really did show his overblown ego here though
'I have one minute left', 'I've been around since 1987'. I, I, I. Not we.
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He was drunk. Duh
Remember those kids that faked a Green Day album and people bought it? They just easily made up some songs that sounded like Green Day and put out some album artwork and stuff and people thought it was a new Green Day album. That goes to show how predictable and generic their music and image is.
Great job, dude.
He shouldn't have apologised. Corporate just can't take artists with attitude now and only want talent who toe the line. Great bands like the Sex Pistols, Guns N Roses and Motorhead would never get signed if they were starting out today because they don't make life easy for executives. Eric Bischoff said it best, controversy creates cash.
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That was fucking Awesome and the coolest I’ve ever seen Green Day❗️❕❗️❕❗️