The Arkansas Times reports that another Little Rock musician (as you know, Jason White is from Little Rock too) will join Green Day on tour as an additional guitarist: Jeff Matika, guitarist for the Magic Cropdusters and Ashtray Babyhead, will be Green Day’s third guitarist on their upcoming tour, after the May release of the new album, 21st Century Breakdown.
The article also says that the tour will be 19 months long, and that it will open on Later With Jools Holland in London “followed by a few weeks of press touring surrounding the release of “21st Century Breakdown” and SNL in May.”
They also write:
“The addition seems geared to further pushing Green Day into U2 territory. Billie Joe’s apparently going to do less guitar playing and more frontman-ing on this tour. White will play first guitar and Matika will play second and sing high harmonies.”
I think this is some pretty cool news, because it gives an idea of the direction Green Day will be taking with the tour, with Billie Joe being more and more of the showman. That was already the trend with American Idiot, and even more so with the Foxboro Hot Tubs.
March 4, 2009 at 1:10 pm [ Category: News, Concerts, New Album ]
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Comment from Melly March 4, 2009, 1:45 pm
hope the other dude only plays guitar on a few songs… i want billie with his guitars! and mike on back vocals :/