Billie Joe and Adie...A Bond That Will Rock On Forever!, chapter 1
"Hey Billie, Look if we wanna do something with this band then we need to get around, spread our music, you get me?", Screamed John down the phone to Billie Joe." We can't play in Gilman forever you know?".
"What, Who... Ohhhh Hi John, you scared me for a bit there, I mean when you call someone, usually the first thing you say is Hi" replied Billie.
"Yeah whatever... Anyway you know Larry?" Said John eagerly.
"Ummm I guess seeing as he is like our manager!" Billie groaned, Green Day had played one of their usual mad shows down at Gilman street and, you know, done what they usually did... Got stoned, drunk ect...
" According to Larry 39/Smooth is Blowing up! He said that its going down better than most albums he does and he reckon's we should go on tour" Continued John.
"WOW, really?" Said Billie Joe suddenly waking up "People are actually buying our records and they want us to play for them?" "Dude, this is ummm..."
"Hey, hey your acting like we're going to play Wembly stadium or something... It's more like clattering up and down America in One of Larry's old band wagons"
John Kiffmeyer (or Al Sobrante as he was known to the fans) was a couple of years older than his fellow bandmates and had done a small bit of touring before, with other bands, but to Billie Joe and Mike this was amazing, to them Green Day was their life.
"Wow, still its something, I'm Gonna call Mike" Gushed Billie.
"Biiiiiiiiiiiiilie Joooooe" came a screaming in the background.
"Oh yeah, right after laundry" muttered Billie Joe to John. Billie may be on his way to becoming a rockstar but to his mother he was still you average 18 year old kid. John laughed and slammed down the phone.
Billie Joe put the phone down after calling Mike and informing him about the future "tour".
"Awesome" replied Mike. Mike had been Billie Joe's best friend since he was 10 and had a similar reaction to Billie Joe when he heard the news. The band were due to meet up with Larry Livermore up at his house in about half an hour to set things up, if they wanted to tour cheaply they were going to have to move fast. When they arrived Larry was in the middle of a jamming session with his own band "the lookouts". Dude! Called Tre cool (the drummer) stumbling from his set to greet Mike, Billie and John. Tre was a good friend of Green Day's and had often played a couple of shows in Gilman with them, he was your typical dumbass and got along with the guys really well. But he bonded better with Mike and Billie Joe more so than John because he was the same age as them.
"Here we go then" said Larry revealing the pies de la resistance, it was an old beaten van covered in spray paint and god knows what!
"So I guess this is home for the next 5 months" smirked Mike.
"Well it's good enough for me" Laughed Billie Joe.
"Me too" added Tre.
"Errrrrr Tre your not coming" laughed John.
"Oh yeah" shrugged Tre and he returned to bashing the living daylights out of his drum set.
And so they band were off on the road. The days started early, setting up equiptment and socializing and ended late, often drunk and wrecked.
The previous show (green days 5th so far) had been to a crowd of about twenty drunk high school kids going crazy! At the end of one show Mike asked some kid "Who owned the place?"
And he replied with "Beats me" "All I know is that me and some other guys broke in, and needed entertainment?"
"Cool, so are you sure the owner isn't here?" said Mike." No?, OK lets trash the place!" and thats exactly what they did, unfortunatly the owner turned out to be some small guy who had recently discovered the wonders of weed. So Green Day had to scram before his parents returned.
"I wonder what ever happened to that little geek from Texas, He must have gotten pretty grounded?" recalled Billie sipping some beer as they raced along the highway.
"So were are we next?" asked Mike.
"There's ment to be this big gig in Minneapolis, for some guys 18th birthday party, this could actually be our big break" called John from the front, he was the only one who could legally drive the van.
When they arrived, instead of and big crowd of fans. They saw a small road covered in snow leading up to some sort of abandoned looking cabin.
"Dude, No way are we going to get up there with all our equiptment, and there won't be any power anyway, we must have the wrong place" moaned John.
"Nope this is the right place alright" said Mike opening his map.
John turned around to head back to the van.
"No, wait guys, who cares who shows up or if there's even any power! I don't give a fuck! All I know is that we're Green Day and we promised to play a kickass show!" said Billie Joe getting his guitar out of the van.
"I'm with Billie" shouted Mike "We drove all the way from Iowa to do this I DON'T CARE!"
In the end John gave in and they dragged all their equiptment up the steep hill in the snow to the cabin. It was actually bigger than they thought and could have made a good spot to perform.
Mike dug out an old generator and the band were set.
"I told you guys, no ones coming!" said John starting to look angry, everyone was freezing.
"No hang on" interupted Billie Joe as the window at the far side of the cabin smashed in. "No ones here I told you it would be cancelled! You idiot" Came a girl's voice.
"Exactly what we thought" replied Mike to the shadows.
They heard a high scream, but some body smacked who ever it was on the head..
"Owwwwwwww" Ady!
"Its the band! Doofus!" she laughed and managed to find a light that lit the cabin up. At the far end of the room stood three Girls about the same age as Billie and Mike and two other boys. They were your typical punks right out of a sex pistol concert. Two girls had bleach blonde hair and were wearing rags stuck togeather with saftey pins (obviously freezing their heads off, covered in snow), the other girl had black dreadlocks scraped back into a ponytail and was wearing your usual charity store punk gear and ripped jeans...
"Hi, i'm Adrienne and I guess we're your audience!" she said shaking Billie Joe's hand." Oh yeah and nice hair doo" She laughed pointing at Billie Joe's Black and blue dreadlocks (similar to hers. )Billie Joe was startled she was so witty and friendly not to mention beautiful, he stood there staring dopey at her! Mike nudged him!
"Cool, to meet you" he smirked. "Any songs you wanna hear in particular"
One of the guy's said "Just try and impress us, we drank all the beer on the way here so I guess do what you can!"
They may have only been playing in some damp, frozen cabin infront of five people but they rocked as if they were the rolling stone's performing at an arena in front of 5, 000, 000 people, Their best show yet.
Billie Joe had a feeling why he was doing so good... All the way through he just couldn't keep his eyes off Adrienne.
"What, Who... Ohhhh Hi John, you scared me for a bit there, I mean when you call someone, usually the first thing you say is Hi" replied Billie.
"Yeah whatever... Anyway you know Larry?" Said John eagerly.
"Ummm I guess seeing as he is like our manager!" Billie groaned, Green Day had played one of their usual mad shows down at Gilman street and, you know, done what they usually did... Got stoned, drunk ect...
" According to Larry 39/Smooth is Blowing up! He said that its going down better than most albums he does and he reckon's we should go on tour" Continued John.
"WOW, really?" Said Billie Joe suddenly waking up "People are actually buying our records and they want us to play for them?" "Dude, this is ummm..."
"Hey, hey your acting like we're going to play Wembly stadium or something... It's more like clattering up and down America in One of Larry's old band wagons"
John Kiffmeyer (or Al Sobrante as he was known to the fans) was a couple of years older than his fellow bandmates and had done a small bit of touring before, with other bands, but to Billie Joe and Mike this was amazing, to them Green Day was their life.
"Wow, still its something, I'm Gonna call Mike" Gushed Billie.
"Biiiiiiiiiiiiilie Joooooe" came a screaming in the background.
"Oh yeah, right after laundry" muttered Billie Joe to John. Billie may be on his way to becoming a rockstar but to his mother he was still you average 18 year old kid. John laughed and slammed down the phone.
Billie Joe put the phone down after calling Mike and informing him about the future "tour".
"Awesome" replied Mike. Mike had been Billie Joe's best friend since he was 10 and had a similar reaction to Billie Joe when he heard the news. The band were due to meet up with Larry Livermore up at his house in about half an hour to set things up, if they wanted to tour cheaply they were going to have to move fast. When they arrived Larry was in the middle of a jamming session with his own band "the lookouts". Dude! Called Tre cool (the drummer) stumbling from his set to greet Mike, Billie and John. Tre was a good friend of Green Day's and had often played a couple of shows in Gilman with them, he was your typical dumbass and got along with the guys really well. But he bonded better with Mike and Billie Joe more so than John because he was the same age as them.
"Here we go then" said Larry revealing the pies de la resistance, it was an old beaten van covered in spray paint and god knows what!
"So I guess this is home for the next 5 months" smirked Mike.
"Well it's good enough for me" Laughed Billie Joe.
"Me too" added Tre.
"Errrrrr Tre your not coming" laughed John.
"Oh yeah" shrugged Tre and he returned to bashing the living daylights out of his drum set.
And so they band were off on the road. The days started early, setting up equiptment and socializing and ended late, often drunk and wrecked.
The previous show (green days 5th so far) had been to a crowd of about twenty drunk high school kids going crazy! At the end of one show Mike asked some kid "Who owned the place?"
And he replied with "Beats me" "All I know is that me and some other guys broke in, and needed entertainment?"
"Cool, so are you sure the owner isn't here?" said Mike." No?, OK lets trash the place!" and thats exactly what they did, unfortunatly the owner turned out to be some small guy who had recently discovered the wonders of weed. So Green Day had to scram before his parents returned.
"I wonder what ever happened to that little geek from Texas, He must have gotten pretty grounded?" recalled Billie sipping some beer as they raced along the highway.
"So were are we next?" asked Mike.
"There's ment to be this big gig in Minneapolis, for some guys 18th birthday party, this could actually be our big break" called John from the front, he was the only one who could legally drive the van.
When they arrived, instead of and big crowd of fans. They saw a small road covered in snow leading up to some sort of abandoned looking cabin.
"Dude, No way are we going to get up there with all our equiptment, and there won't be any power anyway, we must have the wrong place" moaned John.
"Nope this is the right place alright" said Mike opening his map.
John turned around to head back to the van.
"No, wait guys, who cares who shows up or if there's even any power! I don't give a fuck! All I know is that we're Green Day and we promised to play a kickass show!" said Billie Joe getting his guitar out of the van.
"I'm with Billie" shouted Mike "We drove all the way from Iowa to do this I DON'T CARE!"
In the end John gave in and they dragged all their equiptment up the steep hill in the snow to the cabin. It was actually bigger than they thought and could have made a good spot to perform.
Mike dug out an old generator and the band were set.
"I told you guys, no ones coming!" said John starting to look angry, everyone was freezing.
"No hang on" interupted Billie Joe as the window at the far side of the cabin smashed in. "No ones here I told you it would be cancelled! You idiot" Came a girl's voice.
"Exactly what we thought" replied Mike to the shadows.
They heard a high scream, but some body smacked who ever it was on the head..
"Owwwwwwww" Ady!
"Its the band! Doofus!" she laughed and managed to find a light that lit the cabin up. At the far end of the room stood three Girls about the same age as Billie and Mike and two other boys. They were your typical punks right out of a sex pistol concert. Two girls had bleach blonde hair and were wearing rags stuck togeather with saftey pins (obviously freezing their heads off, covered in snow), the other girl had black dreadlocks scraped back into a ponytail and was wearing your usual charity store punk gear and ripped jeans...
"Hi, i'm Adrienne and I guess we're your audience!" she said shaking Billie Joe's hand." Oh yeah and nice hair doo" She laughed pointing at Billie Joe's Black and blue dreadlocks (similar to hers. )Billie Joe was startled she was so witty and friendly not to mention beautiful, he stood there staring dopey at her! Mike nudged him!
"Cool, to meet you" he smirked. "Any songs you wanna hear in particular"
One of the guy's said "Just try and impress us, we drank all the beer on the way here so I guess do what you can!"
They may have only been playing in some damp, frozen cabin infront of five people but they rocked as if they were the rolling stone's performing at an arena in front of 5, 000, 000 people, Their best show yet.
Billie Joe had a feeling why he was doing so good... All the way through he just couldn't keep his eyes off Adrienne.
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