Imagine pissing it all away like he did. The only albums Lookout! sold past 1993 were the Green Day albums, and had he just paid them their royalties, he would've never lost the rights to distribute them. That would've been like Sub Pop losing the rights to Nirvana: Bleach because they refused to pay the band royalties, on the most successful album in their catalog. What an idiot.
My aunt used to work at Denny’s in Berkeley. She was 16 and they came in one night after a show. Young, normal, people striving for success and not knowing how big they were about to be. Punk rock will never die 🤘🏼
i was in a band in southern california in the late 80s early 90s and the scene here was the best it ever was. Green day came to town and we played a gig with them. there was a hardcore scene. a skinhead scene-not racist, ska scene, thrash punk scene. All ages gigs every weekend. was a good time to be into music. still friends and bandmates with a lot of the same folks
I had the same reaction. Like who asked James Corden his views on scenes he doesn't know anything about because he wasn't there? The downturn was pretty much a national situation around '86-'87 and not an exclusive SoCal/LA situation.
@@jamesa6080 Not all those in the skinhead subculture were/are racist. It's obviously common, but back then not so much. More so in the 90s it became a big thing.
@@cardbored_ he's not wrong in what he said bro....they took their original debut record called 39/smooth and combined it with a couple eps called slappy and 1000 hrs...lookout records released all 3 together on one album called 1039 smoothed out slappy hours.....he simply feels that release was his favorite...I have a hard time referring to it as a compilation as well....in my opinion, compilation albums have 1 track from a bunch of various bands.....I get that this green day record is 3 different records in 1, but it's all the same band. Really no different than guns n roses lies in a sense
Being 9 years old in suburban Detroit, I didn't know anything other than MTV and what was on the radio. Thank God for Green Day signing to a major label, otherwise I may never had heard of them. When I bought Dookie, they had another album in the rack..."Kerplunk". Naturally, I had to purchase it. Then I noted the "Lookout!" label. I sent in a for a catalog. I must have spent weeks worth of allowance and lawn cutting money on so many albums from Lookout! Got caught up on Green Day, Screeching Weasel, Op IV, The Queers, Avail, and when "Touch My Joe Camel" came in the mail, my folks weren't pleased. They were the catalysts of getting me more into punk. And that was already a big year for punk. All of it came together for me perfectly. I've loved punk ever since. And this is my prime period for Green Day and the golden era of Lookout!
The first two albums are pretty special to a lot of people, myself included. I'm 46 now and sometimes take out the CDs and look at them and get a little twinge of nostalgia, as long as I don't do it too often :) Listened to Kerplunk a while back as I was messing around with my stereo equipment, and I'm surprised that although it's a low-budget recording, it still sounds rather good. The songs are decidedly youth-oriented as early albums so often are, but yeah, they're really good and I'll probably always have a special place for them somewhere inside my old, decaying grey matter :)
1,039 is a classic album and dudes shouldn't be talking it down in this. It had some songs that were staples of Green Day live sets during the Dookie era too like Paper Lanterns and Passalacqua. And to me the 1,000 Hours tracks are classic love songs. Not every song has to be social commentary.
You don't have to be a hardcore fan since they aren't hardcore :) Green Day have tons of great stuff that people have loved for decades. If there's anything amazing about them, it's that it's 2023 now and you can still mention Dookie and even Kerplunk, and people will often recognize them and know the songs.
You chose a perfect font for those lower thirds. I used the hell out of that font in my zines in the 1990s. Perfectly era-appropriate and a good looking font!
this larry livermore fella seems like a total know it all. even for helping spawn the birth of green day. "you need a punk rock name, so you're gonna be tre cool."
Green day up until dookie is fucking amazing! Id forgotten how much I like them until a couple weeks ago and I've been listening to kerplunk mainly constantly when I'm driving.
He's American. I'm Canadian and he sounds to me like he has pretty much no accent at all--he just talks normally. I think he's from Michigan, Americans that talk like Canadians are from Vermont. "Oh shore bud!" :)
After Dookie I immediately went out to find 1,039 Smoothed out slappy hours and Kerplunk. Seeing them at Woodstock on MTV was when I became a fan. 1994.
@@bradpittiful7288 there is an interview between Billie Joe and Larry Livermore where Billie says that John (GD first drummer) decided to quit the band and never told them. Some friends in common who already knew told them he was leaving to go to university. It was quite a shock to Billie and Mike, specially to BJ because he thought the band was over and he had no plan B. Then, Tré joined the band and the rest is history!
1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours was first, in 91'. Kerplunk! followed in 92'. Dookie was their third album, released in 94'. It just was released on a big label, and had critical success.
i think it shoud say written by (Armstrong/Pritchard/Wright) or (Armstrong/Pritchard/Kiffmeyer) only. Kiffmeyer and Wright at the same line look weird.
Gotta say I really enjoyed the early years of Green Day, but what the hell is up with all the English dude’s commentary??? Really !!!culture shock to cold climate WYF.. Lol
Which one? lol yeah they added nothing to the conversation. I guess one wrote a biography, but he might have mentioned it at the beginning, oh well not gonna check.
Long time green day fan here, and like Father of all motherfuckers. Its different sounding not because its bad, but because they are trying new things musically. Most good bands who enjoy writing and performing are not going to rewrite the same album over and over to please fans, especially bands that are successfully secure and independent. They're going to experiment with new sounds and see how far they can push things. They are not making music for you. They are making music for themselves. If you happen to enjoy it that's a bonus. Personally i dont want another rendition of kerplunk, dookie, or American idiot. We already got those. I want to hear them do something new with each record and keep things fresh, and I'm happy to see that's what they are doing.
@@tmpardi77 trying new sounds are totally ok but bunch of 2mins short songs shows lack of sincerity and effort. many songs have no verse but chorus, i just dont believe they put their 100% effort on foam .
@@tmpardi77 they made a deal with the NHL to write their songs that’s why fire, ready, aim sound like that. Also why here comes the shock sounds like that I think they’ve sold out if they’re writing songs for the NHL
@@Jere. it’s a fake story where some girl kills her parents because they took her Green Day tickets and hangs out with the band and gets arrested she got out in 2019 ( also Green Day drinks a lot of milk)
how annoying is this dude, constantly talking about tre cool and how he actually played in his band first... dude! you missed out. tre cool did the right thing to dump ya!
My favorite band of all time from my favorite era. Nothing will ever be better than GD from 1988-1997. I wish I had a time machine.
I wish I WAS THERE 🙃
Grateful Dead?
Same homie I'm 13
Great time won't last
why do u want a time machine?? life sucked back then more than now🧚🏼
Larry Livermore really was the one who built the Green Day legacy. What a legend.
Imagine pissing it all away like he did. The only albums Lookout! sold past 1993 were the Green Day albums, and had he just paid them their royalties, he would've never lost the rights to distribute them. That would've been like Sub Pop losing the rights to Nirvana: Bleach because they refused to pay the band royalties, on the most successful album in their catalog. What an idiot.
My aunt used to work at Denny’s in Berkeley. She was 16 and they came in one night after a show. Young, normal, people striving for success and not knowing how big they were about to be. Punk rock will never die 🤘🏼
i was in a band in southern california in the late 80s early 90s and the scene here was the best it ever was. Green day came to town and we played a gig with them. there was a hardcore scene. a skinhead scene-not racist, ska scene, thrash punk scene. All ages gigs every weekend. was a good time to be into music. still friends and bandmates with a lot of the same folks
bests times ever
I had the same reaction. Like who asked James Corden his views on scenes he doesn't know anything about because he wasn't there? The downturn was pretty much a national situation around '86-'87 and not an exclusive SoCal/LA situation.
What band?
Skin head not racist?
@@jamesa6080 Not all those in the skinhead subculture were/are racist. It's obviously common, but back then not so much. More so in the 90s it became a big thing.
1,039 has always been my favorite Green Day record and one of my all time favorites. Easily top 10.
Uh, it’s a compilation album...
@@cardbored_ I'm aware. It's released as an album and is my favourite one. So, what's your point?
@@shotgunrc9785 same here man, nothing beats early 90's Green Day
@@cardbored_ he's not wrong in what he said bro....they took their original debut record called 39/smooth and combined it with a couple eps called slappy and 1000 hrs...lookout records released all 3 together on one album called 1039 smoothed out slappy hours.....he simply feels that release was his favorite...I have a hard time referring to it as a compilation as well....in my opinion, compilation albums have 1 track from a bunch of various bands.....I get that this green day record is 3 different records in 1, but it's all the same band. Really no different than guns n roses lies in a sense
They combined those for a CD, the Lookout dude even explained it...
I absolutely love the fact that Larry Livermore is a part of this doc. Tre is the reason why I wanted to learn drums.
Being 9 years old in suburban Detroit, I didn't know anything other than MTV and what was on the radio. Thank God for Green Day signing to a major label, otherwise I may never had heard of them. When I bought Dookie, they had another album in the rack..."Kerplunk". Naturally, I had to purchase it. Then I noted the "Lookout!" label. I sent in a for a catalog. I must have spent weeks worth of allowance and lawn cutting money on so many albums from Lookout! Got caught up on Green Day, Screeching Weasel, Op IV, The Queers, Avail, and when "Touch My Joe Camel" came in the mail, my folks weren't pleased. They were the catalysts of getting me more into punk. And that was already a big year for punk. All of it came together for me perfectly. I've loved punk ever since. And this is my prime period for Green Day and the golden era of Lookout!
That’s awesome
Do you still look for new bands under Lookout records?
@@TheEverCuriousJen I thought Lookout! was defunct?
This album is Green Day's GREATEST WORK. Regardless of the historical significance, these songs are just hypnotizing.
The first two albums are pretty special to a lot of people, myself included. I'm 46 now and sometimes take out the CDs and look at them and get a little twinge of nostalgia, as long as I don't do it too often :)
Listened to Kerplunk a while back as I was messing around with my stereo equipment, and I'm surprised that although it's a low-budget recording, it still sounds rather good.
The songs are decidedly youth-oriented as early albums so often are, but yeah, they're really good and I'll probably always have a special place for them somewhere inside my old, decaying grey matter :)
1,039 is a classic album and dudes shouldn't be talking it down in this. It had some songs that were staples of Green Day live sets during the Dookie era too like Paper Lanterns and Passalacqua. And to me the 1,000 Hours tracks are classic love songs. Not every song has to be social commentary.
Passalacqua is such a good song live
Literally. I LOVE the album and my son and I are always singing along to it in the car. It’s amazing. It’s like the punk Beatles 💚
Not a hardcore Green Day fan, but this is a great doc about their early days... loved it!
You don't have to be a hardcore fan since they aren't hardcore :) Green Day have tons of great stuff that people have loved for decades.
If there's anything amazing about them, it's that it's 2023 now and you can still mention Dookie and even Kerplunk, and people will often recognize them and know the songs.
I was waiting for the "Beatles at Shea Stadium" line. He wrote that in the Lookout catalog in the '90s and it always stuck out to me.
Thanks for uploading this. I've been searching for this for so long since they took it off of amazon prime
You're welcome :)
Gosh damn youtube stop recomending me these i am already so in love with green day i have to get a life now
Dude. You're so right lol I've been obsessed since 10 years ago
I am the same. I totally obsessed with Green Day
Shhh. Your life *is* Green Day now.
Loved them since 94 man. I was 12 and my first CD was Dookie. Been hooked ever since.
"All the small things" is the best Green Day song.
I also really like "in too deep" that's a banger.
@@al3459 N2Deep "Back to the Hotel" is a Banger.
So is “Bohmeian Rhapsody!”
Having a Blast.
Lmao 😂🤣
Listening to this Larry Livermore guy is like mindfulness meditation.
brilliant , thanks for uploading
They put on an awesome show in Washington DC,in 1993.My favorite band and time of life skateboarding in 1990.Sad California is a dump now.
You chose a perfect font for those lower thirds. I used the hell out of that font in my zines in the 1990s. Perfectly era-appropriate and a good looking font!
Whats the name of the Font? sharing is caring :D
My fav album from them believe it or not is 39 smooth then insomniac then kerplunk then dookie
My 90s high school soundtrack.
2 of the best albums in general!
this larry livermore fella seems like a total know it all. even for helping spawn the birth of green day. "you need a punk rock name, so you're gonna be tre cool."
It's earned
Green day up until dookie is fucking amazing! Id forgotten how much I like them until a couple weeks ago and I've been listening to kerplunk mainly constantly when I'm driving.
:29 “Berkerly” lol rough start
9:41 "AND NO FUCKING STAGE DIVING!!!" Lol
Great documentary about Greendays start and their first two albums. Now im going to watch Dookie!!!!!
Gay pfp
Great band!
My favourite album is warning and my favourite songs from it are mdp and waiting
Insomniac
1994 greenday cant be beaten
25:03 Where can I find this version of Holiday
It sounded like a cover, not Green Day
I had LOOKOUTS record,it's not too good but i kinda liked their sloppyness
41:00 one of my favorites
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So Billie and Mike started as Death metal band called Bloodrage?
I want tres thumbnail hair
Is Larry from Canada? His accent sounds so Canadian.
He's American. I'm Canadian and he sounds to me like he has pretty much no accent at all--he just talks normally.
I think he's from Michigan, Americans that talk like Canadians are from Vermont. "Oh shore bud!" :)
Looks like Mahomes in the thumbnail
I KNOW THAT THE VIDEO SAYS THAT JOHN IS PLAYING DRUMS ON THE WFMU RECORDING, BUT IT IS ABSOLUTELY TRE. 🧠
Why did I think that was Patrick Mahomes in the thumbnail.
Tre homes
0:00 well that fucking
went to shit really quick god damn 💀
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I wonder how many more of the kerplunk albums were sold after dookie shot them to stardom
Millions
I was one of them for sure lol
After Dookie I immediately went out to find 1,039 Smoothed out slappy hours and Kerplunk.
Seeing them at Woodstock on MTV was when I became a fan. 1994.
A whole helluva LOT.
i want to know what the first drummer said after he was replaced
He wasn’t ‘replaced’ he left on his own accord (to go to college)
@@trickhotspot9452 true but after he was gone they got another drummer...replacing the first one...replace has more than one meaning
@@bradpittiful7288 there is an interview between Billie Joe and Larry Livermore where Billie says that John (GD first drummer) decided to quit the band and never told them. Some friends in common who already knew told them he was leaving to go to university. It was quite a shock to Billie and Mike, specially to BJ because he thought the band was over and he had no plan B. Then, Tré joined the band and the rest is history!
Bad Haircuts? WHAT?!
Can somebody tell me who sang the longview in the intro? Is it really green day?
The band call 'green idiot' i think. Look for them! I think they're a kind of tribute band or something like that.
@@vhampiritos6050 thank you!
University or be a part of one of the most iconic punk rock bands in history. Ouch.
40:28 N.O
Most GD Games: What's kerplunk and smooth? 🤔 Dookie was their first album wasn't it?
1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours was first, in 91'. Kerplunk! followed in 92'. Dookie was their third album, released in 94'. It just was released on a big label, and had critical success.
Always thought it was weird when people thought Dookie was the first, but it's so common that I didn't even notice the first part of what you said LOL
1st Lp was actually 39/Smooth. 1039 smoothed out slappy hour is a comp of 39/smooth, 1000 hrs ep, and slappy ep.
Out of SAMIAM and Green Day i would have guessed SAMIAM as being the group to get closer to stardumb...who knew?
This documentary is a lot of British people talking about green day......the fuck?
Because they work in music industry. Nothing wrong with that.
They are great but sound like Bad Religion.
I don’t know what it is...but, There’s something “odd” about Larry Livermore 🤔
the smacks from his mouth is fucking annoying
@@coltondzuba87 lol ..yeah true!!
His face looks really stiff like he can only move his mouth and eyes
It's called Passive Agression.
Didn't Oasis plagiarize Stevie Wonder? And countless Beatles songs.
i think it shoud say written by (Armstrong/Pritchard/Wright) or (Armstrong/Pritchard/Kiffmeyer) only. Kiffmeyer and Wright at the same line look weird.
Gotta say I really enjoyed the early years of Green Day, but what the hell is up with all the English dude’s commentary???
Really !!!culture shock to cold climate WYF.. Lol
He wrote a biography about Green Day... but, I don’t care for the Brits myself
Which one? lol yeah they added nothing to the conversation. I guess one wrote a biography, but he might have mentioned it at the beginning, oh well not gonna check.
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best shit, thanks! test time for GD. Billie, bring this music back, not Father of all and here comes a shock.
Yeah father of all sucked. Miss the good green day
Long time green day fan here, and like Father of all motherfuckers. Its different sounding not because its bad, but because they are trying new things musically. Most good bands who enjoy writing and performing are not going to rewrite the same album over and over to please fans, especially bands that are successfully secure and independent. They're going to experiment with new sounds and see how far they can push things. They are not making music for you. They are making music for themselves. If you happen to enjoy it that's a bonus. Personally i dont want another rendition of kerplunk, dookie, or American idiot. We already got those. I want to hear them do something new with each record and keep things fresh, and I'm happy to see that's what they are doing.
@@tmpardi77 trying new sounds are totally ok but bunch of 2mins short songs shows lack of sincerity and effort. many songs have no verse but chorus, i just dont believe they put their 100% effort on foam .
I agree. It just doesn't sound like the green day I love. I dont mind father of all i just hope there next record is more rock or punk
@@tmpardi77 they made a deal with the NHL to write their songs that’s why fire, ready, aim sound like that. Also why here comes the shock sounds like that I think they’ve sold out if they’re writing songs for the NHL
개처량한 세상.. 피 토하는 음악..ㅋ
Lotta People talkin who really had nothing to say.
Am I the only one who remembers the story about the girl killing her parents to go see them on the cd thing I think it's fake
Nope I remember it, as a kid i remember thinking WTF
What??
Tell me more pls
@@Jere. it’s a fake story where some girl kills her parents because they took her Green Day tickets and hangs out with the band and gets arrested she got out in 2019 ( also Green Day drinks a lot of milk)
Has anyone else noticed how garbage UA-cam subtitles are. I've seen nine ethic ethnic slurs since I started watching this.
What?
Stop being so negative
this TERRIBLE cover of longview just costed you a viewer lol im out.
Radio friendly mediocrity
What do you consider excellent?
I never knew about the metal era :( but surely that then now seals the deal of being a sellout. #trends
As in the world was led to believe it was sweet children, and then greenday.
Not some death metal crap and then “many” other options
how annoying is this dude, constantly talking about tre cool and how he actually played in his band first... dude! you missed out. tre cool did the right thing to dump ya!
He started Lookout Records, hence the band's name The Lookouts. His name is Larry Livermore, perhaps you should Google his name?
@@mediahits9683 I know who he is, but that’s got nothing to do with my comment. ;)
He's talking about facts and history, I don't see what's annoying
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