Mar 1, 2010 11:36 am # Check out the awesome music videos for "Stop, Drop and Roll!" and "Mother Mary" on YouTube. Hurry before Warner decides to take them down again! They should've been released, in my opinion. Enjoy!
Feb 18, 2010 9:56 pm # ~Some videos from the PINHEAD GUNPOWDER show are finding their way on to YouTube. Here is one from the sing-a-long at the beginning of the show. Also, Gilman tweeted updates throughout the night. If you use twitter, please follow them @924GILMAN.
Feb 17, 2010 7:29 am # ~Our warmest NWWM birthday wishes to Billie Joe Armstrong. Happy 38th Birthday Billie.
Feb 17, 2010 7:25 am # ~The Daily Swarm reported, but has yet to be confirmed, that Green Day will be included in the lineup for Lollapalooza this year, to be held at Chicago's Grant Park August 6-8.
Feb 13, 2010 11:44 am # Last night Billie Joe and Jason White hooked up with their sideband Pinhead Gunpoweder to play some gigs at 924 Gilman Street, Green Day's old stomping ground. It was a benefit concert for a friend of thiers who has breast cancer. You can check out Pictures and Video here on the Green Day Authority.
Personally, I think Billie wears a dress pretty well. :D Great to see them out again!
Feb 3, 2010 8:21 am # ~The AI cast and Green Day recorded a video for 21 Guns at Studio 880. AI tickets go on sale for the general public on Feb 14th.
If you were sad that Warner Music has pulled a bunch of official videos from YouTube, a consolation might be that a user called GreenDayConcerts (I’m not sure if it’s someone official or a fan) uploaded a treasure trove of several hundred live Green Day concert videos to YouTube, ranging from 1989 to 2000, within just the last three weeks.
I’ve only watched a few. Here’s one that I really liked. The audio quality is not very good, and the camera work is a bit odd in parts, but I love their early performances. I love the silly remnants of a few bleached blond dreads bobbing on Billie Joe’s head, and I love his facial expressions here. He looks like a fierce kitten: an adorable ragamuffin, but watch out or he’ll bite your hand off! ;)
Paper Lanterns live at Deep Ellum, Dallas, TX 1993
I’ve always had some kind of strange facination with the 1000 Hours, Slappy, etc. Era. I’m not sure why, but I find it so cool. I think it’s because when Billie was my age, he was playing shows at Gilman. To me that’s the coolest thing in the world. He’s one lucky dreaded kid up there. ;)
(I liked the descriptions, too!)
Billie Joe at that age really does remind me of the stray cats that had kittens in my grandparents’ garden in Italy. Even when the kittens were tiny and were these cute little fuzz balls that couldn’t even walk yet, they would fiercely hiss and spit at you if you tried to go near them. :)
Comment from Moonbeam January 7, 2009, 4:01 pm
Haha fierece kitten, that cracked me up.