Members axegrinder Posted September 23, 2012 Members Share Posted September 23, 2012 Originally Posted by Special J Publicity stunt. He's played enough of these festivals to know exactly how it goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members angry again2 Posted September 23, 2012 Members Share Posted September 23, 2012 Originally Posted by hardtdc Finally, someone gets it! What kind of band is Greenday? Punkrock. And punkrock typically goes against the establishment. That's exactly what he was doing.......... Sticking it to the man! I thought it was par for the course. His set got cut short, the crowd wasn't really into them, he destroyed his own equipt., I think the man stuck it to him. Bret Michaels called him too and wants his eye liner back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members benzem Posted September 23, 2012 Members Share Posted September 23, 2012 Originally Posted by Bbreaker Billie Joe should thank God that he is actually signed to a record label. Why is that? Labels only sign to make money. They don't do favors. He and his band are hugely popular artists...who continue to make music that is commercial, even in their geezerdom. I think they are one of the most impressive examples of staying power. That we are talking about them now, 24 years later, proves this. And the same members! You gotta be a decent kinda guy to have your mates stick with you for that long. They get my respect, in spades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DarkHorseJ27 Posted September 23, 2012 Members Share Posted September 23, 2012 It would have been more badass to just keep playing their set and force them off the stage rather than go "WAH WAH they cut our time, time's up" and walk offstage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TattooedCarrot Posted September 23, 2012 Members Share Posted September 23, 2012 He really didn't sound pissed to me. IMO it sounded more like he took a 1 minute opportunity and turned it into a lot of press coverage for the price of a $1500 guitar. Not a bad move actually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Beyer160 Posted September 23, 2012 Members Share Posted September 23, 2012 Originally Posted by TattooedCarrot He really didn't sound pissed to me. IMO it sounded more like he took a 1 minute opportunity and turned it into a lot of press coverage for the price of a $1500 guitar. Not a bad move actually. So he's out a guitar AND he looks like a dumbass in the press? Sounds like a lose-lose scenario to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MorganB Posted September 23, 2012 Members Share Posted September 23, 2012 I have to side with the Biebs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BeanoBoy Posted September 23, 2012 Members Share Posted September 23, 2012 Originally Posted by Zappa74 He's playing a stupid music festival, opening for USHER. The heck does he expect? Exactly. If you sign up for an event like this, you roll with it.His (apparently overblown) ego was bruised. Get over yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Help!I'maRock! Posted September 23, 2012 Members Share Posted September 23, 2012 Originally Posted by Beyer160 As long as they didn't cut your check in half, who cares? All the money for half the work sounds like a good deal to me. What a douche. The Grateful Dead played a 3+ hour show at my college in the early '70s, and ignored all signals to stop. Finally, an electrician cut the mains breaker. The band picked up their acoustic instruments, sat on the edge of the stage, and played another hour. The moral of the story is that the Dead were more punk rock than Green Day. Celine Dion is more punk rock than Green Day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members HanSolo Posted September 23, 2012 Members Share Posted September 23, 2012 As much as I despise Usher, Rhianna and Justin Bieber and all the other "singers" that they dump into the R&B genre because they don't fit anywhere else, I despise Green Day even more. Billy Jo's "schtick" (righteous indignation) is very tiresome. He is the opening act playing to a crowd who could care less about him. Did Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney throw a {censored} fit when the plug was pulled on them in London? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jpnyc Posted September 23, 2012 Members Share Posted September 23, 2012 Usher and Green Day both started in the late 1980s and broke out in 1994. So I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Weiner_Bomb Posted September 23, 2012 Members Share Posted September 23, 2012 Originally Posted by DarkHorseJ27 It would have been more badass to just keep playing their set and force them off the stage rather than go "WAH WAH they cut our time, time's up" and walk offstage. This. I feel embarrassed for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kayd_mon Posted September 23, 2012 Members Share Posted September 23, 2012 We're talking about Green Day on the internet, and we weren't talking about them yesterday. Mission accpmplished. I used to love the band, and while the fandom has waned, I'll still listen to their new stuff. I hope it's not like 21st Century Breakdown, which I didn't like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members alo33 Posted September 23, 2012 Members Share Posted September 23, 2012 Seemed staged and disingenuous. Far to many poorly placed F words. I was starting to become a bit embarrassed for him when it seemed like he wouldn't be able to break that guitar. Was quite relieved when he got it on the 5th try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Stringbender11 Posted September 23, 2012 Members Share Posted September 23, 2012 I agree with this^^^. When I saw it I was thinking how staged the whole thing looked. I have nothing against GD but their music is about as poppy as it gets, imo. They wear 'punky' costumes/clothes/makeup and sing about typical subjects. I honestly dont see much difference between them and Usher or Beiber. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TattooedCarrot Posted September 23, 2012 Members Share Posted September 23, 2012 Originally Posted by Beyer160 So he's out a guitar AND he looks like a dumbass in the press? Sounds like a lose-lose scenario to me. I doubt being out the guitar is a big deal. Cheaper than paying for promotion. And you really think all this bad press hurts a band like that? If anything, its put them in public view for the first time in a long time. Like I said, they just got put on the front page for the cost of a Les Paul Special - that's cheap advertising if you ask me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bullettoothtony Posted September 23, 2012 Members Share Posted September 23, 2012 Originally Posted by myhero34 I honestly think it was a stunt to try to give Green Day some punk cred. Especially after their most recent album. Yeah, they haven't released a decent album since Nimrod, what was that like 97? Usher is still making platinum selling albums whether we like it or not. As someone earlier said, its an industry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BlueSky1963 Posted September 23, 2012 Members Share Posted September 23, 2012 AP is reporting that he's headed for rehab. And that their time was not cut by the festival organizers.http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...09-23-15-02-58 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DARKMETL/ Posted September 23, 2012 Members Share Posted September 23, 2012 Man that sure is a long ways from here: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members aenemated Posted September 23, 2012 Members Share Posted September 23, 2012 nothing says "punk rock" like being in a lineup with pink and taylor swift. gimme a {censored}in break. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GAS Man Posted September 23, 2012 Members Share Posted September 23, 2012 Originally Posted by BlueSky1963 AP is reporting that he's headed for rehab. And that their time was not cut by the festival organizers. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...09-23-15-02-58 I remember hearing or reading somewhere that the guy has some difficulties with clinical depression. When the energy levels are up, that can certainly come out like rage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members chuck1016 Posted September 23, 2012 Members Share Posted September 23, 2012 I didn't hear any "we"s in that rant, so ...Diva. "You're gonna give me..." "I've been around since..." "I'm not Justin Beiber..." Translation: " I'm a big rock star and you're not making me feel special! " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Angry Tele Posted September 23, 2012 Members Share Posted September 23, 2012 that clock looks like a countdown, thats why it says 1 minutes, meaning it probably said 5 minutes, 3 minutes etc; he should have played Descendents Coffee mug. thats like 30 seconds of rocking harder than GD has in 20 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bubkus_jones Posted September 23, 2012 Members Share Posted September 23, 2012 Originally Posted by Bullettoothtony Yeah, they haven't released a decent album since Nimrod, what was that like 97? Usher is still making platinum selling albums whether we like it or not. As someone earlier said, its an industry What an odd argument, considering that Green Day's last two studio albums (American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown) have also gone platinum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members aenemated Posted September 23, 2012 Members Share Posted September 23, 2012 album sales do not necessarily equate to actual quality of said album. i'd wager just one of those turds sold more than everything townes van zandt ever released. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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