Please, Give me Green Day!!

Une chtite interview pour vous pour bien démarer l'année avec GD :

Green Day

Punk Forever

Voilà plus de 16 ans que Green Day roule sa bosse avec succès.Mais la consécration est arrivée avec "American Idiot", fulgurant requisitoire électrique contre l'Amérique de Bush, récompensé aux derniers MTV Europe Music Awards.Et pourtant, jure Billie Joe, "on est toujours punks!"Green Day en question un sujet hot pour Tribu Rock. Est-ce bien raisonnable?

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On appelle ça la rançon de la gloire : au royaume du rock, dès que vous avez du succès, beaucoup de succès ( et l'argent qui va avec), vous devenez forcément suspects.Toutes les superstars connaissent cet étrange phénomène et Green DAy n'a pas échapé à la règle.Alors que son groupe venait de triompher aux derniers MTV Europe Music Awards, Billie Joe a tenu à remettre les pendules à l'heure :

"Ce n'est pas le succès qui nous fera changer.

Nous étions des punks et nous le resterons."

                       Hollywood Punk

C'est vrai.Ces derniers temps, Gren Day a souvent été la cible des critiques.Notamment lorsqu'on a annoncé, l'été dernier, que le trio comptait transposer son "Américan Idiot" au cinéma.Trois punks à Holliwood, vous rigolez?Billie Joe confirme que l'argent n'est pas sa principale motivation dans la vie : "J'ai parfois l'impression qu'on nous trouve superficiels tout ça parce que nous sommes un groupe célèbre et nous avons gagné pas mal d'argent.Mais même si l'environnemet punk qui était autrefois le nôtre n'est plus ce qu'il était, on ne nous enlevera jamais notre âme de punk!Quand on a débuté, c'était evident pour tout le monde punk rock en marcherait jamais, donc on peut vous jurer que notre but n'était pas de devenir célèbres."

                          Opéra Punk

Au fait, ce projet de film, il en est où, Mister Billy Joe?"On voit ça comme une sorte d'opéra rock, comme ceux de la grande époque... Eh, rien à voir avec Pavarotti, hein!"Comme l'opéra rock "Tommy" des Who (ils sont fans!), Green Day envisage de recruter d'autres musiciens pour ce projet sur grand écran qu'ils entendent "contrôler de A à Z".Billie Joe verrait bien les frères Benji et Joel de Good Charlotte dans le rôle des frères Madden, ou encore Tim Armstrong (Rancid) en Whatsername, le personnage principal de la dernière chanson de l'album.Ca va dépoter!

                    Money Maker

La question qui énerve le plus Billie Joe Armstrong? "C'est quand on me demande : "Mais qu'est-ce que vous faites de tout cet argent?" dit-il. Ou bien "Combien gagnez-vous?"... Oui, c'est vrai, on gagne plein d'argent. Cela m'a permis d'acheter une maison à maman et mes petites soeur ne sont plus obligées de vivre dans un mobile home. Je ne vois pas ce que cela a d'indécent."

                    Histoire de...

Billie Joe n'a pas pour habitude de pratiquer la langue de bois.Quand on lui demande si Green Day s'est compromis pour accéder au sommet, il y va carrément : Nous n'avons jamais embrassé les fesses de quiconque pour en arriver là où nous en sommes aujourd'hui." Qu'on se le dise! Le leader de Green Day ne porte d'ailleurs pas les rock critiques dans son coeur. Pour lui, ce sont les fans qui ont fait le succès du trio et personne d'autre : "Si ns fans n'étaient pas venus à nos concerts pour nous apporter leur soutien pendant ces dix dernières années, nous n'aurions pas vécu toutes ces expériences géniales. On leur doit tout!"

               Rock Attitude

Affirmatf! Billie Joe, Mike et Tre sont vraiment très rock! Voici quelques années, ils se sont fait expulser de deux hôtels (deux, la même nuit) pour avoir jeté des télés par la fenêtre de leurs chambres. Billie Joe a déjà montré ses fesses sur scène. Il a été mis en prison pour ça! Quant à Tre, le batteur, c'est un pur cinglé. Par exemple? "J'adore manger du chewing-gum et boire du café en même temps!" Oops!

[Je vais terminer l'article, mais patience c long!!xD!!looooooooool]

"Viens Chérie, viens, approche...."

Le fou du village

Bj, t'sais qu'en faisant ça, tu m'a fait craquée??[xD]

"Bullet in a Bible" not only marks the end of an astonishing chapter for Green Day, but Bayer as well. In a rare move, the director, who had helmed only a couple of clips over the past few years (Good Charlotte's "Hold On" in 2003, Papa Roach's "Time and Time Again" in 2002), was hired for all five of American Idiot's videos (the fifth being the upcoming "Jesus of Suburbia"). "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" swept the MTV Video Music Awards, and "Wake Me up When September Ends" may go down next to "Thriller" as far as epic masterpieces are concerned.

"Sam said something to me that the other directors didn't say, which was really important to us 'cause it was kind of like the way we made our record," Billie Joe recalls of their first meeting. "He said, 'I want to make the greatest video of all time.' ... I mean, a lot of our videos in the past have been animated and funny, and this was the first time where it was this more serious side of us, which we've been trying to portray for a long time, and he was the one that got it right."

"He also kept talking about the whole record," Dirnt adds. "He wouldn't just focus on one song ... which kind of showed us he was emotionally invested in the record."

Since the end of the mid-'90s, when he was the hottest rock director in town, Bayer had felt his passion for music fizzle. That changed the first time he heard American Idiot.

"I was pretty blown away," remembers Bayer. "It was courageous. Here's a band that's reinventing themselves not because it's the popular thing to do, but because they're artists."

Bayer also felt he instantly got the message of the album.

"This is what I wrote in some of the treatments," he explains. "There are kids that need to hear music and see images that don't celebrate a lifestyle and level of celebrity they will never reach. To me, American Idiot is written for kids in suburbia, for kids going off to the war, kids working in bad jobs. It's their anthem, the soundtrack to their lives."

As much as he understood the story of Jesus of Suburbia, Bayer chose not to tell it in his videos.

"I think videos can spoil songs and I hope these don't," he says. "None of them were literal interpretations. I wanted stuff to get [viewers] excited, but let them buy the record and figure it out for themselves."

Bayer describes his relationship with Green Day as the best he's had with a band and doesn't expect to ever have that sort of experience again, so he's shifting his focus to directing his first film and says he might not ever return to music videos.

As for Green Day, they feel similarly fulfilled by American Idiot, the accompanying videos and "Bullet in a Bible."

"We can walk away from our career, if we were ever to, knowing that it wasn't just about success and wasn't just about the bling or about fancy cars or having lots of money, but ... walk away going, 'Wow, I really said something and I really felt it,' " Armstrong explains. "I think that's why we still have so much energy for this record ... 'cause we really stand proud for the music and the things that we say."

Fortunately for fans, the band plans to return to the studio in early 2006, taking a bit of time off to "reflect on what the hell just happened," but not too much, as Billie Joe says, because for so many bands "the victory lap usually is the downward spiral.

"I think it's exciting, whatever we come up with next, 'cause we know it's gonna go into our career, it's gonna be another chapter," he continues. "We're gonna take our time and just reenergize and refocus and then come up with a new concept for what we want to do after American Idiot, 'cause there's definitely a lot more in the tank for us."

If all else fails, Green Day have tossed around the idea of continuing Jesus of Suburbia's story.

"Sometimes I could see something like that," Billie Joe says.

"We've joked around it might be kind of fun to do American Genius," Dirnt adds. "It's gonna be like 'Star Wars.' "

There's a moment on Green Day's new DVD, "Bullet in a Bible," when bassist Mike Dirnt recalls performing "Longview" on their latest tour and for the first time noticing fans unfamiliar with the 1994 smash.

"That was the point where I knew we'd gotten out of the shadow of Dookie," he says in the black-and-white clip that precedes the song. "We're in a whole other place."

Three months later, in a ritzy hotel in Beverly Hills, California, Dirnt finds himself expanding on that thought as frontman Billie Joe Armstrong and drummer Tre Cool nod along.

"That record was so huge that it definitely cast a shadow, and at the very least we can stand side-by-side with it now," Dirnt says, his wide smile nearly reaching his signature sideburns. "With [the 2001 compilation] International Superhits! we really put our flag in the ground and as a band said, 'Let's start our career right now and go forth as musicians and men and really enjoy this crazy world we're in.' "

There are risks involved anytime an artist takes a creative leap, but not only did Green Day pull it off, it may have been the smartest move the band ever made. Aside from meeting the massive challenge of living up to the landmark Dookie, the punk opera American Idiot reignited and reinvented Green Day.

The fictional tale of Jesus of Suburbia and the smash hits that tell it ("American Idiot," "Holiday," "Boulevard of Broken Dreams," "Wake Me up When September Ends," etc.) marked a new chapter for the band — one that few saw coming. And while moving on from such fantastic success must be hard, Green Day are making it a little easier for themselves by ending on a high note, with a video for the epic "Jesus of Suburbia" on the horizon and "Bullet in a Bible" hitting stores November 15.

The DVD, which captures arguably the biggest punk show to date, came to life much the same way as American Idiot: There were new ideas to be tried, there were some doubts, and ultimately there was triumph.
"I remember when they first asked us about doing Milton Keynes," Armstrong recalls of the historic, 65,000-capacity venue where the DVD was filmed. "We'd played arenas in England before, but never like that. They were talking about Milton Keynes and it's where Queen played and U2 played. We're like, 'I don't know, we might be getting in over our head a little bit. It would suck if we like ended up not selling out or something like that, or just not selling at all.' So there was a risk there ... but with American Idiot and how far we pushed our own boundaries with making the record, it just seemed like we should just go for it."

Preparation began some six months before the June 18 and 19 shows, with esteemed video director Samuel Bayer (Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit") at the helm. During the planning stages, Bayer watched all the classic concert films and then some, not to replicate, but instead to make sure he was doing something different.

"If you see most concert films, you'll see dolly tracks, cameras in the front, the operators," says Bayer, who looks more like a surfer than a color-theory-obsessed ex-painter, with his tan skin and shoulder-length bleached hair. "When we first met with the people staging the show, we started pulling cameras off the stage. That [DVD] was done with 15 hand-held cameras. It was a really dangerous way to cover the show, but it made it much more exciting."

The result is a concert film with enough up-close action to make you feel sorry for people who merely had front-row seats. The entire thing was shot on film, sometimes using experimental stock. And remarkably, you never spot another camera.

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In between the concert footage, all of which was taken from the second night, are a variety of vignettes capturing the different sides of Green Day. The highlight is their private trip to the Imperial War Museum, which is partially set to the chilling sound of Billie Joe tapping on a hollow shell of an atomic bomb.

"It was worse than any haunted house that you could ever imagine," explains Tre, dressed up for the interview in a silver tie. "Like, these giant Nazi missiles that were designed to blow London up and all these artifacts and real machines that these people were cowering in and getting shot at and died in them and stuff. It was really creepy."

It was at the museum where the DVD got its title.

"[The curator] was talking about her collection and she's like, 'I've got a bullet that's stuck in a Bible, which either saved someone's life or just went right through 'em, you have no idea,' " recalls Billie Joe, with a sideways beret shadowing his eyes, thickly lined with black pencil. "I guess maybe just the irony of it, or I don't know, it was just pretty heavy the way she talked about it and it just kind of seemed fitting."

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                                      The Ultimate Critical Review

Voilà le nouveau DVD non officiel sur Green Day qui devrait sortir en France, le 30 Janvier 2006.

Ne vous Attendez pas à voir un concert ou des clips. Ce nouveau DVD sera surtout une étude critique de l’impact qu’a pu avoir leur dernier album American Idiot. Quelques interviews, des images inédites de concerts, de studios et quelques extraits live seront surement au rendez-vous.

Sinon, je n'en sais aps plus que vous, et je n'ai aps trouver de photos si vous en avez, ou si vous avez plus d'information concernant de DVD non officiel, donnez moi des renseignements!!merci!!

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Voici une série de tof's de Green Day [Sur tout de BJ] ça s'est passer dans un truc de MTV ya un an, bon vissionnage photos!! ;)

J'adore cette photo chez pas pk, dites le moi, si je me trompais Green Day dirais koi??

BJ et Snoop Dog, vous trouvez qu'ils vont bien ensemble?? [Au point de vue groupe lol!!]

A mon avis, vous savez ce qu'il veux nous dire, mais je suis aps sure que vous le sachiez, donc, dites le moi quand même!!xD

Ouille, comment BJ est tout chtit comparer au grand et [MOCHE loooooooool] snoop dog!!

THE photograph est là, toujours un photographe nul, qui prend toujours que ce soit Mike, Tre, ou bien BJ dans ce cas-ci, il les prend dans une posture choquante, là, il nous montre BJ en train d'avaler son CHAMPAGNE.....

Et ouais, a ta santé mon chtit BJ tout mignon!!

Oui BJ a ta santé mon chtit chou!!

RE ta santé BJ!!

Alors, j'ai vus quelques photos qui m'ont  Choquée

C ki cette femellette [où devrais-je plutôt dire, cette sal*pe!!!!]

On dirais que BJ est a moitié SAOUL c'est de l'harcèlement SEXUEL!!!!

Un petit aperçu de quelques photos de notre cher et très tendre Tre Cool

Là, c'est avec Mike Dirnt, notre bassiste préféré [Si c'est pô le cas la sortie est par là!!]Waouw, quel poseur notre Tre Cool

Hooooooo, Dieu m'a donné des doigt, et une main!!!!!!!

Et c'est pour aller.........LA-BAS

Ouille..........Tre, t'est pas un peu grand?!lol!!xD

Tre : Je sais me sucer tout Seul

Alors, on se dit Mais qui c'est cette fille qui danses a côter du BOW BJ?