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Posts: 9 | June 14th, 2006 at 04:49pm iamkiller:greenday6:Interview from May 1990 (Al is one of the interviewers, it's not John).
Kamala:What kind of sex do you guys like to have?
Billie: I don't believe in sex
Al: What? You're in the pop tart love song band and...
Billie: I like girls but I don't like to have sex...
Al: That's why you're frustrated!
Billie: If I had sex we'd run out of band material!
Mike: We'd start writing sleazy shit and turn into heavy metal again!
HAHA. Well that's good.
At least they were healthy 
 I'm going to you, Fizz. I must know, is this a video? XD
Could you post that article? |
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Posts: 25078 | June 15th, 2006 at 12:57am Ok, I typed this up letter for letter and I didn't change a thing, just because I didn't feel like it. It's a pretty cool early article from Flipside. Probably from April or early May 1990. While I was typing this I realized that Billie had the same schedule as I did last year, and I thought that was funny. For anybody who doesn't know, MRR stands for Maximum Rock N Roll.
It's not easy being Green (Day)
Interview by Al, Joy, and Kamala
Green Day are a relatively new band from Northern California. They have that unique ability to make what would otherwise be cheesy pop music, cool and exciting. Not unlike all or early 3 O'clock, but with a much more youthful and contemporary feel. These guys are really great live, and also have two killer records out ("1000 hours" EP and "39/Smooth" LP on Lookout Records). They also have a very sincere punk integrity that is nothing less than icing on the cake for me. Great band - go see them
Al: First question, you guys are from north of San Francisco, right?
Billie: Crockett, Rodeo, and El Sobrante - that's where we're from, the West County.
Al: Are you guys part of the Berkeley scene?
John: Weeelll...it's kind of like a scene in itself...
Billie: A hick scene, hick meanies, that's what most of our fans are.
Joy: Does that set you apart from the typical Berkeley band scene?
Mike: I don't think there is a "typical Berkeley band scene."
John: Yeah there is, we can play a party out there and not risk getting killed where a band with, like, green hair is gonna, you know, get killed. A band called Harbinger Complex played at my school and the football team ran outside and rolled their van! That was awhile ago. Then my old band played there, Isocracy. They didn't roll our van but there was a big pit and the principal got on stage and said "Everyone has to stop!". And I'm rambling now so ask another question...
Al: You guys were a band before John joined, but you weren't called Green Day...
Billie: Yeah, um, we kinda played shitty metal covers, this was like 7th grade. We were called Truant!
John: Then they were called Blood Rage!
Billie: Oh, never mind. Me and him had just been jamming together for years and we just met John at a party.
John: Lenny had quit Isocracy and...
Billie: We were gonna kick our old drummer out because he was kinda weak...
John: So I just walked over to them and said "Can I be in your band because I don't have a band anymore" and then Martin and Jason (Isocracy) took off on a moped and I was in this new band. That was on a Sunday. We practiced on Tuesday, and Wednesday and we played our first show on Friday.
Mike: At the Davis Veterans Hall. We were called Sweet Children.
John: We changed the name to Green Day because there was another Sweet band up here, Sweet Baby. We were playing with them a few times and it got to be too crazy, so we changed the name.
Billie: We also didn't really like the name. The 7", the Thousand Hour single was coming out and I figured we better change the name now before the single comes out. It's a dumb name nonetheless - we went from a dumb name to another dumb name but at least it's a dumb name that doesn't get confused with someone else's dumb name.
Al: Well "Green Day" is a name of one of your songs, what is that about?
Billie: Smoking pot.
Al: Smoking pot? Really. Oh man!
Billie: It kinda got carried away, someone actually threw a big stuffed joint up on stage while we were playing.
Al: Well, how do the lyrics go to that song go?
Billie: It's on the album.
Al: I don't have the album yet!
John: You want us to sing it to you...(they start singing the song, and of course I couldn't hear the lyrics)...We don't play it anymore.
Billie: Well, we don't play it very often.
John: It's a hard song to play.
Al: So you went from heavy metal to this pop tart thing. Is that what you like to do?
Billie: Well yeah, it just evolved. We tried a lot of different things and we just got sick of the whole heavy metal thing because it wasn't that interesting.
Mike: We tried to be a really really thrash-punk band once but we decided that we really weren't talented enough for that.
Billie: We didn't really have the taste for a hardcore band so we just started doing this. I didn't even want to sing and I ended up singing! I didn't have a choice.
John: We're kinda Gilman Easy Listening. Billy got a love letter on stage tonight. I saw a heart on that, man!
Mike: Hey, print some of that love letter!
Billie: I didn't get a...
Al: Are a lot of your songs boy/girl relationship type things?
Billie: Yeah, I couldn't really sing about destroying the government or anything like that because I don't really know much about it.
Mike: We know girls.
Billie: Yeah, that's my ultimate frustration in life. Girls.
John: Then we got beat up by skinheads in Sacramento and all of a sudden he had another frustration in life.
Al: Why did they beat you up?
Billie: They were so excited because we play too many love songs!
John: During our love song review, there was a fight at the show, the police came and threw everyone out. So afterwards we were loading our van and the skinheads came back to beat up whoever they were beating up, with baseball bats...and that person wasn't there so we conveniently filled their space...
Billie: Mostly the songs are just about being accepted as a person - just personal feelings and stuff like that.
Al: How old are you guys?
Mike: He's (Billy) 18 and I'm 17.
John: Wait, we could do this algebraically - last year I was three years younger than I am now, and our ages combined are 36 so find out how old I was two years ago...
Billie: We could, but it doesn't matter. He's (John) the really old dude in the band.
Joy: You're the 'old dude' but can you legally buy beer?
John: Yeah...
Al: You were doing pretty good with the beer tonight though!
John: ME!? You were way drunker than I was!
Al: So, do you write all the songs Billy?
Billie: Yeah, pretty much, most of them. John wrote one called "I Was There"...
Al: Which is about surfing probably?
John: No, it's about being sad about the past - it's one of those Aaron Elliot songs actually. He said "Is that song about memories, dude?" and it is, so he said, "That songs the best!". It's about seeing the Germs in the 60's! I'm trying to relate this to you in L.A. terms, or like that flyer you have on your wall...
Al: New York Dolls...
John: Yeah, it's like a New York Dolls show. It's about your past, it's not saying it was better back then, it's just your frame of reference. I'm babbling still, aren't I...?
Billie: The songs are just about everyday frustrations...
John: He's a frustrated guy.
Billie: I guess so.
John: "At The Library" - girl song, "Rest" - girl song...
Billie: "Rest" is about absolutely nothing...
John: "Can't you hear me, I'm calling your name...is it hello or goodbye" tell me that isn't a girl song!
Billie: It could be if I was saying it that way, but I'm saying "that cleem in urize" (he spelled it), see that doesn't mean anything.
Al: You have this new LP almost out, is that a good representation of what Green Day is about?
Billie: It's alright, it works. The cover is really pretty. The name is "39 Smooth".
Mike: It's named after Billy's brother because we recorded it on the day that he turned 39, and he's a smooth character.
Ak: Oh, my God!
Mike: He's the guy that's selling us this van.
Al: You guys are on Lookout Records. Are you happy with Mr. Livermore?
Billie: Yeah.
Al: Why?
Billie: Because he's honest and he's a nice guy. He made us play above Mr. T. (Kamala enters the van)
Kamala: What kind of sex do you guys like to have?
Billie: I don't believe in sex.
Al: What? You're in the pop tart love song band and...
Billie: I like girls but I don't like to have sex...
Al: That's why you're frustrated!
Billie: If I had sex we'd run out of band material!
Mike: We'd start writing sleazy shit and turn heavy metal again.
Kamala: Hey, wait, you probably don't even know what it's like to have sex.
Billie: I don't though...
Al: The innocent Pop Band.
John: Our songs aren't about sex, we don't sing about sex.
Mike: I don't know, when Billie sings one of the songs he gets a hardon!
Billie: I DO NOT!
Mike: You imply it.
John: But we don't sing about sex, we're not like the Mentors or something, it's more innocent.
Al: What, more along the lines of All?
John: All? Are we like that?
Kamala: These guys never claimed to have sex with a girl every night on tour. That's what the drummer of All does. I don't see how anyone could have sex with that ape. I don't care what he says...
Al: You're touring pretty soon though...
John: Yeah, we're touring starting June 18th and we need shows the 22nd, 23rd, and 24th of June! We'll be in the Iowa area.
Al: What do you guys do besides the band? I hear somebody shucks clams?!
Mike: I shuck raw oysters for people who need extra help. I'm a cook at the Nantucket - the Nan-fuck-it!
John: Billy doesn't work...
Billie: Yeah, I like to sleep in til about 2. Then eat, play my guitar, and then go to night school. I go to this school for once a week, one hour a week.
John: I used to drive a diaper truck. It was bad, it was totally bad.
Al: What is the next step in continuing the success of Green Day?
John: I think we are actually more successful than we ever planned to be. A lot of bands do have plans to be successful and I don't think we ever did that.
Billie: Tim Yohannon wouldn't let us play at Gilman because we were too poppy!
Al: No way! (In disbelief)
Billie: Yes! But since then, John joined the band and since Tim liked Isocracy he let us play.
John: No, actually Tim had nothing to do with Gilman back when we started playing, but he did say that if we sang political lyrics that we'd be on the cover of MRR. He likes the music but he doesn't like the lyrics.
Al: Why don't you sing political lyrics? Don't you care about anything remotely concerned with that?
Billie: Well, yeah, but it's not our style. I don't know. We just don't write them. There's girls out there!
John: Political lyrics aren't as easy coming as they were when I was younger.
Al: You're not as pissed as you were.
John: I'm still pissed off. I'm not settling back into anything. It just gets more and more confusing...
Kamala: It seems like most bands that sing political lyrics these days do it because it's the cool thing to do. It's not something that they truly believe. Nothing they really work for. Just something they have to do because they feel pressure from the punk rock community to sing political songs because that's what punk rockers do. Which is true to some extent, but I think it's important just taking an alternative view. Just because you don't take a stand. |
Billie Joe's Sweetie
Falling In Love With The Board
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Gender: Female
Posts: 8124 | June 15th, 2006 at 01:12pm greendayjunkie:lol I love that quote El lol^^
I think it is something like
"I'm hard, I'm mean, I listen to Limp Bizkit, just give me something to break man" lol weird child that he is
Fav one of the moment...
I just wanna fuck, wrap your legs around me baby, wrap your legs around me baby. This is the sex hour, everybody lets just think about sex, unprotected, unadulterated sex...Hi mom, just kidding. - Filmore concert
 it had to be said!
That was sexy you can watch it here
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCOOLthquY0 |
Billie Joe's Sweetie
Falling In Love With The Board
Age: 34
Gender: Female
Posts: 8124 | June 15th, 2006 at 01:13pm greendayjunkie:lol I love that quote El lol^^
I think it is something like
"I'm hard, I'm mean, I listen to Limp Bizkit, just give me something to break man" lol weird child that he is
Fav one of the moment...
I just wanna fuck, wrap your legs around me baby, wrap your legs around me baby. This is the sex hour, everybody lets just think about sex, unprotected, unadulterated sex...Hi mom, just kidding. - Filmore concert
it had to be said!
That was sexy you can watch it here
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCOOLthquY0[url][/url] |
Billie Joe's Sweetie
Falling In Love With The Board
Age: 34
Gender: Female
Posts: 8124 | June 15th, 2006 at 01:14pm greendayjunkie:lol I love that quote El lol^^
I think it is something like
"I'm hard, I'm mean, I listen to Limp Bizkit, just give me something to break man" lol weird child that he is
Fav one of the moment...
I just wanna fuck, wrap your legs around me baby, wrap your legs around me baby. This is the sex hour, everybody lets just think about sex, unprotected, unadulterated sex...Hi mom, just kidding. - Filmore concert
it had to be said!
That was sexy you can watch it here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCOOLthquY0 |
iamkiller
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 | June 17th, 2006 at 01:04am This is from the "Green Day-O-Matic" show..
> Caller: HEY! I KNOW THAT BILLIE JOE HAS KIDS. SO I WAS JUST WONDERING WHAT'S IT LIKE SEEING THEM GROW UP IN THE PUBLIC EYE, AND HOW DO YOU SHELTER THEM FROM ALL THE HORRIBLE THINGS LIKE BUSH OUT THERE?
> HOW DO WE SHELTER THEM FROM WHAT?
> George: YOU KNOW, RAISING THEM IN THE PUBLIC EYE. SHE SAID, "HOW DO YOU SHELTER THEM FROM GEORGE BUSH?" I ASSUME.
> OH. WELL, YOU JUST KIND OF LAY OUT THE PLATFORM TO SORT OF BE WHOEVER THEY WANT TO BE. I DON'T KNOW. I THINK MY FEAR WOULD BE THAT THEY WOULD BE ONE OF THOSE GUYS THAT GETS PLASTIC SURGERY ON TV OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. I THINK THAT WOULD BE THE BIGGEST FEAR I HAVE. I DON'T KNOW, I DON'T REALLY SEE THEM AS GROWING UP IN THE PUBLIC EYE. I MEAN, I DON'T LIVE IN HOLLYWOOD. (Bleep) HOLLYWOOD. I WOULD NEVER RAISE MY KIDS THERE OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT, SO-- JUST-- I DON'T KNOW. RAISE THEM TO BE HONEST. THAT'S ALL.
> George: DO YOU RUN INTO ANY OF THOSE SITUATIONS EVEN WITH-- NOT WITH JUST KIDS BUT WITH FAMILY WHERE PEOPLE-- MEDIA TRY TO GET A LITTLE TOO CLOSE TO WHAT IS YOUR INSIDE CIRCLE?
> WE JUST PUNCH THEM IN THE FACE.
> George: IS THAT WHAT YOU DO?
> WE JUST PUNCH THEM.
AND..
> THERE WAS A TIME ME AND TRE HAD SEX A LONG TIME AGO, BUT WE WERE BOTH DRUNK. WE NEVER QUITE ADMITTED TO...
> George: BUT IT WAS PROTECTED, THOUGH, RIGHT?
> THAT WAS THE PROBLEM.
> I HAD A .45.
> George: OH, SAFE SEX FOR REAL.
> I'LL TAKE A SHOT IN THE FACE FROM YOU ANY DAY. JUST KIDDING. (Laughter) |
