How I Met Green Day, chapter 2
"Yo, we're here!" Tre said as he and the gang came back to see us. "Let us go to the music room!" We giggled and followed them to a huge, messy room with walls coated in guitars and the floor had at least 6 drum kits and 5 racks of basses. In the center of it all, there was a couch and a Laz-e-boy.
"We got an interview going on soon, you wanna sit with us?" Mike asked. "Just Rachel, we really only know her, no offense, I hope." My friends shook their heads and pushed me towards Billie Joe as they handed me a digital camera.
"Oh, My friends want me to take a couple pictures of you guys and a couple with me in it," I said.
"Sure, no prob," Tre said. They all went and sat on the couch. I held up the camera and they all smiled and I took 3 pictures of just them, then I had my friends take about 6 with me and them, and then 2 pictures with just me and each of the band members. My favorite to pose with was Tre 'cause he put his arm around me in one and picked me up about 10 inches off the ground in another. I laughed through it all and I got to hug every one of them. After all the photography, they each signed a picture of themselves and they all signed a band one, they gave each of us 1 of each pic.
Soon, a man with a bunch of camera men following him with cameras came in and the man's name was Howard Stern and he said this would be on live television and radio and they talked with the band for a few minutes and then they all sat down, including me. Howard at in the Laz-e-boy, Billie Joe sat at the end closest to Howard, then there was Tre and then Mike after them. I sat on the end next to Mike, I was so excited as the cameras turned on and recorders and such.
"So, that was one performance, eh Billie Joe? I wasn't in there at the time, but people say it was kind of mellow for you guys, why?" Howard asked. Billie Joe answered with: "Well, as we looked around, we saw several younger fans and we decided to make this concert a little nicer." He winked at my friends, they and I were the younger fans.
Howard asked a lot of questions and Mike answered a lot of them and as the camera kept zooming in on Mike, I was in the frame, so Howard eventually asked about me.
"So," he said. "I see you have a little lady there at the end of the sofa, who's she?" They camera went in on my face and I waved into the lens.
Tre answered with, "Well, I don't really know but I think Billie Joe does and if he doesn't, she's just some girl who jumped on the couch and we didn't even notice her." We all laughed.
"Well," Billie Joe said. "It's a bit of a story, see, I was in the Fye music store and I was looking at a CD and this girl walked up to the isle I was in and looked at the newest album of ours, 'American Idiot', and I talked with her and she was so cool about it, she didn't freak out or squeal or nothin'." he said. "I think she can introduce herself, can't you, Rachel?" He looked over at me and the camera went from Billie Joe's face to mine. I smiled and I said, "I guess I can. Hi everybody out there watching and listening to us, I'm Rachel as Billie Joe here said. I'm a 5th grader from P.A. and I came here with me friends who are back behind the cameras and we were in the music store when we all saw Billie Joe and we were just dumbstruck. I was also up onstage with the guys during the performance." It felt kind of odd referring to Green Day, my idols, as "the guys", but I kept talking.
"Well, aren't you packed with a story!" Tre said. I had been talking for 3 minutes while the camera stayed focused on my face.
"Oh wait! Tre, before you guys start talking, can I say one last thing?" They all nodded. "Okay." I said as I jumped in front of the camera.
"I wanna say 'Hi' to my friends Katherine, Maddie, Molly and Brianne whom I left at home and I also wanna say, 'Hey mom! Look, I'm on T.V. with GREEN DAY!!'. Okay, that's all I wanted to say." I said. Everyone was cracking up, even Howard.
At the end of the interview, when everyone but me, my friends and the band were there, Billie Joe took out a t-shirt with the tour dates and their autographs in permanent marker from behind one of the drum sets and handed it to me and kissed me on the cheek. I blushed and hugged him.
"Um, hello?" Tre said. I went over and hugged him and Mike and laughed with my friends.
"Well, Rachey," Billie Joe said. I was so happy that he came up with a nickname for me. "I'm gonna give a thanks to you on our next concert if you promise to never stop loving Green Day, O.K.?" I nodded. He hugged me and he ushered me and my friends out back to the street and Tre called a taxi for me and Mike said, "Anytime you wanna talk to US, not our fan mail answerers, us, email to here." He handed me a piece of paper with 3 email addresses and a little doodle of a guitar at the bottom.
"Bye, Rache!" they all shouted as the taxi drove away.
"Bye Billie Joe! See ya Mike! Keep rockin' Tre!" I called back.
"We got an interview going on soon, you wanna sit with us?" Mike asked. "Just Rachel, we really only know her, no offense, I hope." My friends shook their heads and pushed me towards Billie Joe as they handed me a digital camera.
"Oh, My friends want me to take a couple pictures of you guys and a couple with me in it," I said.
"Sure, no prob," Tre said. They all went and sat on the couch. I held up the camera and they all smiled and I took 3 pictures of just them, then I had my friends take about 6 with me and them, and then 2 pictures with just me and each of the band members. My favorite to pose with was Tre 'cause he put his arm around me in one and picked me up about 10 inches off the ground in another. I laughed through it all and I got to hug every one of them. After all the photography, they each signed a picture of themselves and they all signed a band one, they gave each of us 1 of each pic.
Soon, a man with a bunch of camera men following him with cameras came in and the man's name was Howard Stern and he said this would be on live television and radio and they talked with the band for a few minutes and then they all sat down, including me. Howard at in the Laz-e-boy, Billie Joe sat at the end closest to Howard, then there was Tre and then Mike after them. I sat on the end next to Mike, I was so excited as the cameras turned on and recorders and such.
"So, that was one performance, eh Billie Joe? I wasn't in there at the time, but people say it was kind of mellow for you guys, why?" Howard asked. Billie Joe answered with: "Well, as we looked around, we saw several younger fans and we decided to make this concert a little nicer." He winked at my friends, they and I were the younger fans.
Howard asked a lot of questions and Mike answered a lot of them and as the camera kept zooming in on Mike, I was in the frame, so Howard eventually asked about me.
"So," he said. "I see you have a little lady there at the end of the sofa, who's she?" They camera went in on my face and I waved into the lens.
Tre answered with, "Well, I don't really know but I think Billie Joe does and if he doesn't, she's just some girl who jumped on the couch and we didn't even notice her." We all laughed.
"Well," Billie Joe said. "It's a bit of a story, see, I was in the Fye music store and I was looking at a CD and this girl walked up to the isle I was in and looked at the newest album of ours, 'American Idiot', and I talked with her and she was so cool about it, she didn't freak out or squeal or nothin'." he said. "I think she can introduce herself, can't you, Rachel?" He looked over at me and the camera went from Billie Joe's face to mine. I smiled and I said, "I guess I can. Hi everybody out there watching and listening to us, I'm Rachel as Billie Joe here said. I'm a 5th grader from P.A. and I came here with me friends who are back behind the cameras and we were in the music store when we all saw Billie Joe and we were just dumbstruck. I was also up onstage with the guys during the performance." It felt kind of odd referring to Green Day, my idols, as "the guys", but I kept talking.
"Well, aren't you packed with a story!" Tre said. I had been talking for 3 minutes while the camera stayed focused on my face.
"Oh wait! Tre, before you guys start talking, can I say one last thing?" They all nodded. "Okay." I said as I jumped in front of the camera.
"I wanna say 'Hi' to my friends Katherine, Maddie, Molly and Brianne whom I left at home and I also wanna say, 'Hey mom! Look, I'm on T.V. with GREEN DAY!!'. Okay, that's all I wanted to say." I said. Everyone was cracking up, even Howard.
At the end of the interview, when everyone but me, my friends and the band were there, Billie Joe took out a t-shirt with the tour dates and their autographs in permanent marker from behind one of the drum sets and handed it to me and kissed me on the cheek. I blushed and hugged him.
"Um, hello?" Tre said. I went over and hugged him and Mike and laughed with my friends.
"Well, Rachey," Billie Joe said. I was so happy that he came up with a nickname for me. "I'm gonna give a thanks to you on our next concert if you promise to never stop loving Green Day, O.K.?" I nodded. He hugged me and he ushered me and my friends out back to the street and Tre called a taxi for me and Mike said, "Anytime you wanna talk to US, not our fan mail answerers, us, email to here." He handed me a piece of paper with 3 email addresses and a little doodle of a guitar at the bottom.
"Bye, Rache!" they all shouted as the taxi drove away.
"Bye Billie Joe! See ya Mike! Keep rockin' Tre!" I called back.
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