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Conference napalm::guitar

Title:GUITARnotes - Where Every Note has Emotion
Notice:Discussion of the finer stringed instruments
Moderator:KDX200::COOPER
Created:Thu Aug 14 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3280
Total number of notes:61432

2975.0. "Green Day" by GAVEL::DAGG () Fri Sep 09 1994 12:02

    
    I only recently heard this band when I was in 
    a record store out in Oregon and they were playing
    their major label debut "Dookie".  I bought the
    tape and got pretty into it.  
    
    Apparently they rocked Woodstock, and tonight
    the Globe reports an expected 50,000 people 
    will be out to see them play a free concert on 
    the Esplanade here in Boston. 
    
    I've read comments such as "The Best Band in America
    today", and comparisons with The Who and The Jam.  
    In Guitar Player, they noted that Billy Joe plays
    in the tradition of "down-stroke or die" Joey Ramone 
    of The Ramones. 
    
    Are there any fans of Billy Joe as a guitarist?  I 
    haven't heard him do much soloing, but maybe some people
    like his sound?  Comping?
    
    Dave
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2975.1BRAT::PAGEFri Sep 09 1994 13:2511
    
    	I'm pretty lukewarm about Green Day. I like raw garage bands like
    this, and their songs do have some hooks, but I can't get past Billy Joe's
    phony English accent. That's a really lame thing to do. 
    
    	I also read an article in Rolling Stone months back that revealed
    these guys to be living Beevis & Buttheads. That didn't impress me
    either.
    
    
    Brad
2975.2FillerMPGS::MARKEYOooh baby, you smell like... food!Fri Sep 09 1994 13:2712
    I have Dookie on CD (I dance around blasting "Longview" and my kids
    tell me to turn it down... whoda thunkit :-)
    
    Anyway, I don't recall any soloing per se... mostly vamping.
    
    While I like the band, they're just another example of a pop phenomenon
    that gets overblown in the press. One really catchy song and a bunch
    of post-punk filler for a debut. Whoopie. Best band in America... not
    by any measure I could think of. I'll know they truly suck when Rolling
    Stone magazine pronounces them the reincarnation of the Clash.
    
    Brian
2975.3LEDS::BURATIMy other keyboard's on a Hammond B-3Fri Sep 09 1994 13:472
    Saw 'em on Letterman. I ain't never seen anybody strum a guitar quite
    like that. Good R&R.
2975.4POWDML::BUCKLEYVenimus, Vidimus, CoastimusFri Sep 09 1994 13:571
    They rock.
2975.5RICKS::CALCAGNIgray foldedFri Sep 09 1994 14:477
    Speaking of living the Beavis and Butthead ideal, anyone catch the
    tennis playing Jensen brothers on talk TV this week?  They got knocked
    out of the U.S. Open early, saw em on Conan.  They rock.
    
    I hear they have a band with John McEnroe on lead (no joke).
    
    /nasty
2975.6SUBPAC::GOLDIEStranger in a strange landFri Sep 09 1994 17:186
    I like them but they remind me tons of early Clash not only in playing
    style but in certain stage mannerisms!
    
    
    
    						ian
2975.7OKNACAD2::HERTZBERGHistory: Love it or Leave it!Fri Sep 09 1994 20:4510
    I saw the Letterman appearance, too, and decided I kind of like them in
    a funny way.  That song, anyway, whatever it was.  They have a little 
    Elvis Costello and/or Replacements flavor to them at times.  I thought 
    it was hilarious when the picture shifted to Sirajul and Mujibur fly 
    fishing for a few seconds during their song.
    
    Saw them on the MTV awards last night and didn't like that song as
    much.  Now somebody will tell me it was the same song!
    
    							Marc
2975.8GOES11::HOUSEHow could I have been so blind?Fri Sep 09 1994 22:281
    Did somebody say Replacements?  I'm there, dude!
2975.9DREGS::BLICKSTEINdbMon Sep 12 1994 16:334
    I heard the free concert turned out to be a disaster.  Lots of fights,
    obnoxious drunks, etc.
    
    Police eventually disbursed the crowd and fired shots, etc.
2975.10E::EVANSMon Sep 12 1994 18:017
I read that the lead singer of Green Day jumped down and started tearing some
of the flowers out of the planters in front of the stage.  After being told
what the scene was like, this seemed irresponsible.

Jim

2975.11more like a mis-understanding of MoshingPOWDML::BUCKLEYVenimus, Vidimus, CoastimusMon Sep 12 1994 20:125
    A lot of the "problems" were from Staties and MDC Police beating (quite
    literally) on young kids who were just "moshing".  The cops obviously
    don't "get it" (moshing), and thought they were trying to a) provoke a
    riot b) endangering the lives of others c) drunken and disorderly d) on
    drugs e) all of the above.
2975.12Too bad. . .GAVEL::DAGGTue Sep 13 1994 11:0621
    
    Is that a fake English accent? I thought it 
    was the way kids talk out on the coast these 
    days.
    
    Seems like WFNX could have handled the free
    show better.  They were still telling people 
    to come down even after the time when I believe
    the band had aborted the show.  
    
    I've been in the front at concerts when a band comes on and
    the crowd moves up and felt myself being lifted
    forward, feet not touching the ground.  I think they should 
    have limited the crowd density like with free tickets, wrist bands, 
    or something, and the cops might have been better able
    to do their job. 
    
    It'll be a shame if they have no more rock concerts
    on the Esplanade because of this.      
    
    Dave
2975.13BRAT::PAGETue Sep 13 1994 13:4311
    
    >Is that a fake English accent? I thought it 
    >was the way kids talk out on the coast these 
    >days.
    
    
    	In the last Rolling Stone, the singer himself describes his voice
    as an American imitating an Englishman trying to imitate an American.
    
    
    
2975.14KUZZY::PELKEYLife, It aint for the sqeamish!Thu Sep 15 1994 11:555
heard em, got confused, thought I'd woke up in the
midst of the old punk era...

Don't like em,,,  I think they inhale....

2975.15ADROID::fosterI'm dying now?!Thu Sep 15 1994 12:396
>heard em, got confused, thought I'd woke up in the
>midst of the old punk era...

Ahh! *That's* why I like them %^)


2975.16KUZZY::PELKEYLife, It aint for the sqeamish!Thu Sep 15 1994 13:106
yea,,,  I've been told I was missing something in the
80's when I never took to punk.....

It's like new math I guess,, ,miss the first
lesson and you may as well hang it up...