Green Day Bash Bush At End of Year Bash

by Paul Cashmere

December 19 2005


Green Day finished 2005 in Melbourne, Australia on Saturday night before 37,000 fans by bashing US President Bush. Lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong sent “a big fuck you to George W. Bush” while he strutted the stage draped in an Australian flag. The audience loved it.

Green Day have just had their best ever year off the back of their angriest ever album. The ‘American Idiot’ record has sold more than 10 million copies now worldwide and the American President should be thanked for the inspiration. “My name is Billie Joe Armstrong and I was sent to make George fucking Bush’s life a fucking nightmare” he screamed, again with full support of the fans.

Armstrong was relentless with the message. “No matter who we elect into office, don’t let them dictate your life. We are the leaders” he said off the back of “Minority”.

This was the Green Day at their best. The vitriolic performance with punctuated with songs from across their entire career dating back to the Operation Ivy cover ‘Knowledge’ which they recorded before the breakthrough album ‘Dookie’.

http://www.undercover.com.au/news/2005/dec05/20051219_greenday.html

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:applause:

:loveya:

My 10 y.o. loves Green Day. He got me into them a little, too.

I think they're "Tre Cool". :hi:

of Green Day recorded on tour this past summer in England
A must have for any Green Day fan & don't let the title put you off it's from something they
came across at the British War museum that saved a Soldier's Life "A Bullet in a Bible"
"Tre Cool" indeed :)

It's great that they have a whole new Legion of young fans !

His birthday's coming up in Feb. I'll get it then.

They remind me of the days of my youth.

http://www.greenday.com/greenday.html

Happy New Year !:toast:

Have all their albums and play them all the time!

and I am 2 years older than you.

I had never heard of them, but they opened for Bad Religion and the Doughboys in Toronto about two months before Dookie came out.

They were better than either headlining act.

:toast:

Got their DVD\CD Bullet in a Bible the other day & I can't stop watching it.

It's that good!

Are you in Toronto?

Some great crowd surfing that day LOL

I was sore for days after :)

I have their first ever albums from the early 90's.

I want their new live dvd. Bullet something or another. It looks really good. :) I like when Armstrong said "it's not anti-American, it's anti-war." :D I get goosebumps with that. Mike, the bassists, is pretty damn hot. *sigh*

Here
http://www.greenday.com/greenday.html

click on the bottom where it says Video

Enjoy! :)

when Green Day first appeared...
I thought "what a bunch of unoriginal poseurs"
But good god have they gained my respect over the years...
they found their own sound and their own voice
and they are defiantly shouting "UP YOURS" to creeps like the Chimp.

Makes me want a green mohawk... again :-)
hahaha Hooray for Green Day !!

Zieg Heil to the president gasman
Bombs away is your punishment
Pulverize the Eiffel towers
Who criticize your government
Bang bang goes the broken glass and
Kill all the **** that don't agree
Trials by fire, setting fire
Is not a way that's meant for me
Just cause, just cause, because we're outlaws yeah!


Long live my favorite band Green Day!
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If you don't have it yet it's worth every penny and then some
Bullet in a Bible

We cannot depend on democrats in congress to remedy the situation - we the people must MAKE them do it.

:yourock: I would have been in heaven at that concert! Bullet in a Bible? Is that a new CD?

Recorded at the National Bowl in Milton Keynes, England, in June 2005, the Bullet in a Bible CD/DVD captures Green Day at an astounding height in their career. Playing for 130,000 people over two days, Green Day have performed what must be the largest punk rock gig in history. It's incredible to think how far they've come from their roots as silly street punks with three chords and a Clash record. Their last studio effort, 2004's American Idiot, was a grab for greatness, a punk rock opera with lofty aspirations and richer rewards -- a Grammy for Best Rock Album and sales over nine million. Bullet commemorates this success while creating a moment all its own.

In 2004, American Idiot became Green Day's most celebrated work yet. It was not only more musically ambitious and complex than anything they had done, but also more intelligent. "Hear the dogs howling out of key / To a hymn called 'Faith and Misery' (Hey!) / And bleed, the company lost the war today", sings Armstrong in "Holiday". Political and social reactions to a post-9/11 America fueled the record, but did not overpower it -- listening is as fun as it is challenging. Cool recalls in the Bullet in a Bible video how the band's approach to American Idiot had a "Let's take on the planet" vibe. Armstrong and Dirnt reflect on the motivations behind it -- a desire to try something new, reach a new height of expression, and as Dirnt says, "step out of Dookie's shadow".

In their first decade, Green Day's greatest accomplishment was to bring punk music to a new audience. Over halfway into their second, Bullet in a Bible proves that Green Day will be forever remembered for their own identity. These are the same three guys as always -- the same tats, the same stylishly punk rock rags, the same Clash haircuts, the same irreverent attitudes. During the Milton Keynes concerts, Armstrong runs the gamut from pretending to pleasure himself to delivering a political rant. Green Day are still punk rockers. But they are also pop idols, to which the adoring fans portrayed on Bullet can attest.

Because it's a document of a concert from their most recent tour, Bullet is heavy on American Idiot tracks -- seven in all, mostly culled from the first half of the record. It also functions as a live best-of, featuring some of the finest songs from the band's back catalog. From Dookie we hear "Longview" and "Basket Case"; from Insomniac, "Brainstew" (but it's missing its alter-ego, "Jaded"); from Nimrod, "Hitchin' a Ride", "King for a Day", and "Good Riddance"; and from 2000's Warning, "Minority".

http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/g/greenday-bullet.shtml

Watched it twice last night think I'll do the same tonight it's that good!!

I can't wait to watch it. Thanks!:hi:

:)