~GD.com says that Green Day will be appearing live in New York on May 22 in ABC News Good Morning America concert series, which is open to the public. They also have scans of Billboard magazine. Green Day is on the cover of Kerrang, and the new NME has a review of 21st Century.
An adorable clip of Green Day was shown on Much Music in Canada… wait for the kiss and pat on the leg at the end…
And another clip from Much Music is also on YouTube. In this one the band talks about American Idiot, the musical. Billie Joe: “I thought that American Idiot had more in common with Rocky Horror than with London Calling.”
~MuchNews Weekly in Canada will air an interview with Green Day Monday at 10pm ET. Some quotes from the interview are posted here [Via GDA].
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~According to MTV Asia, Green Day will perform live at the MTV Japan awards on May 30, 2009. “Making the trip to Japan to perform at the MTV VMAJ 09 show are Green Day…” [Thanks to Angie for sending the info.]
~There are photos of Green Day from last night’s Grammy awards on Wireimage. Or you can see them on GDA. 1039 Sweet Children promises a video soon for those who missed the show. [Edit: View it here.] Sorry for the lack of updates; I’ve been sick.
Holy shit! As everyone now knows, at least everyone who lives in the US and had a chance to watch My Night at the Grammys on TV tonight, Green Day’s performance of American Idiot from 2005 was voted the number one favorite Grammy moment by fans!
If nothing else, it shows that Green Day has the most dedicated fans, who took the time to vote, but surely many people who are not hardcore fans must have voted for their performance as well for it to come out on top.
And Billie Joe’s little comments throughout the show? Sigh! He’s so lovely and unassuming, always. I think his was the very first comment they showed, when he said, “The Grammys, that’s like the big cheese, you know?” Not an exact quote, it’s from memory. How cute is that?
He also commented on the tribute to Joe Strummer of The Clash, in which Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, and Dave Grohl (and someone else I don’t remember) sang The Clash’s London Calling. Billie Joe said something along the lines of, “The tribute to Joe Strummer was amazing, just to see those guys trading off different verses.”
And he also said that he thought it was great when Linkin Park and Jay Z played together, and the best part was when Paul McCartney came out at the end: “I thought that was pretty amazing.”
But the best comment of his was about Green Day’s own performance. He said they’re at their best when they’re performing, on award shows and TV shows, and being invited not only to the Grammys but also to perform, they really wanted to be the best they could be. “We really tried to be the best band that we could that night.” Double sigh!
Well, I have no doubt this will be all over the internet in no time for all to see. It’s great just seeing his little face…
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Update: There’s a video on YouTube of Green Day’s performance. It includes the introduction by Melissa Etheridge, and halfway through the song you can see Billie Joe’s commentary about Green Day’s performance. The person who taped it is heard singing along and squealing, which is kind of funny. It doesn’t include the earlier bits where Billie Joe commented on the various performances during the other parts of the show.
Well, we knew that Green Day’s performance of American Idiot will be included in the telecast as one of the top 25 performances voted on by viewers. At least that’s certainly the impression that’s been given: there’s even a tiny clip of Green Day in the TV promo for the show. The latest news is that Billie Joe will be among the artists offering up their recollections of their own Grammy moments.
Christina Aguilera, Billie Joe Armstrong, Beyoncé, Mary J. Blige, Bono, Elvis Costello, Celine Dion, Alan Jackson, Elton John, Ricky Martin and Usher will join hosts Etheridge, Hill and Keys in remembering their own remarkable moments as performers and winners on past GRAMMY telecasts.
So, that’s exciting news, to see Billie Joe even for a few minutes. Hmmm, is it wrong to be giddy? Nah!!!!
My Night at the Grammys will be aired November 30 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.
I suppose I’ve been a bit of a fickle fan: I loved Green Day in 1994, with a near-obsessive (some might say quite near…) sort of fervor, then I sort of lost track of them for a few years, and then came back, wondering how I could have gone astray!
I don’t really save stuff, but now and then I come across some old Green Day tidbits that I still have from the old days. I had taped their Saturday Night Live appearance from December 3, 1994 on a VHS tape (I think that’s the right date), and it turns out I still have it. I’ve since seen video online of the two songs they did, When I Come Around and Geek Stink Breath, but I haven’t seen any online video of the goodbyes at the end of the show, though they may be around. Billie Joe features prominently, but it’s only about 15 seconds, so I screen-capped some of the goodbyes.
This isn’t from the goodbyes, it’s from one of the songs, I’m just putting it here cos I like it:
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