A Green Day Fan Site

There are so many videos of Green Day performing live, and so many of them are shaky, blurry, and noisy, that I don’t bother to look through them most of the time. These may not be the best recent ones — since I only sampled a few — but I thought they were worth sharing, as a reminder of how both heartbreakingly touching and stupidly and hilariously goofy our boys can be within the blink of an eye.

“Last Night on Earth”, “WMUWSE”, and “Good Riddance” in Melbourne:

Male strippers and more for “King For a Day” in Melbourne:

And if you haven’t seen it, here’s Tre getting a cake in his face for his birthday, in Brisbane.

~There’s a new Green Day fan site dedicated to fan art, icons, screencaps, etc. I enjoyed the collection of Billie Joe’s funny faces. There’s lots more, so check it out.

This article from the East Bay Express is not new. It’s from 2001, but I only just came across it recently, and it put a smile on my face. It’s about Metal Mike Saunders, singer of the punk band the Angry Samoans, who is apparently a huge fan of Green Day and is proud to announce it to the world.

First off, you have to know about the Angry Samoans. They’ve been playing since 1978 (Metal Mike is 56), and they have a reputation for being silly and eccentric, and charmingly stupid in the best punk rock tradition. But they’re also very smart, and I think their music is pretty great, though it may not be everyone’s cup of tea.

I have to admit being a Green Day fan is sometimes embarrassing to own up to, especially being a fan who actually has uh, a website about them and is 44 years old… But hey, Metal Mike is even older than me, and he’s in an actual hardcore band, in a scene that tends to look on Green Day as mushy or too-popular for its underground tastes. But he’s happy to embrace them. As the article says, “One of the greatest things about Mike is that he is completely and totally free of music snobbery.”

‘They are the greatest band of the last thirty years,’ he says. He owns every 7, import, B-side, and alternative take the Berkeley boys have ever put out. ‘They are the greatest band since 1967; the best band since the Beatles, the Kinks, and the Beach Boys.’ To say that Mike has an almost autistic knowledge of the band is to put it lightly; he knows who owns the ’second best collection of early Green Day photos,’ what records they listened to when they were twelve, and what videos they show their kids now (Beatles cartoons, a gift from Mike himself).

Plus he actually got to play with them in the early days… Sigh! I don’t know if Metal Mike is Green Day’s number one fan. Some of you reading this may well qualify for that title. I don’t believe in ranking fans — I think we’re all one big gooey fandom — but the article is saying it jokingly anyway. Read it all here. I think it’s cute and funny, and you may see some of yourself in Mike.

For those who are unfamiliar with the Angry Samoans, here’s a couple of sample songs. These are both from 1982.
Angry Samoans - Time Has Come Today

Angry Samoans - Homo-Sexual

~I don’t really agree with this author’s point of view, but it was an amusing read anyway: Looking For A Green Day Album? Check Your Mom’s Minivan.

~This is too funny. Granted that the blog posts from the Reverend may not be easy to grasp for the uninitiated, but the editors of NME seem to be particularly clueless. They wrote, here, that the Rev said he had been partying with Sting! “After writing about their recent experiences touring the US, including recounting partying with Sting, the band wrote…”

Shanty Cheryl, who took some great pictures of Pinhead Gunpowder, posted a photo that Tre took with her camera. Does he have a future as a photographer?

I think he may have accidentally included the door to the alien mother ship in the shot… what’s that glow on that door? I always knew Tre had to have come down from another planet!

And she also comments on Billie Joe being a photographer: he was helping someone take photos of one of the opening bands on Feb. 1 because he was closer to the stage. Sigh, always so sweet!

I couldn’t just leave that last post at the top… too sad! So here’s a couple tidbits I thought were good for a chuckle:

A Green Day preschool? Who better to care for your kids?

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And I’ve seen this picture before but not with the caption still intact: “Basket Case or a Chump with a Short-view?” Maybe I’m juvenile, but that made me laugh. “Short view…” *snorts* Don’t click on this if you’re underage, k? [ Naughty ]

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