Green Day

Released: February 12, 2013

["Boulevard of Broken Dreams" plays in the background]

[Billie Joe Armstrong]
I just wanted to get the hell out of my town
I wanted to leave with reckless abandon
I didn't care where I'd end up
As long as I saw as much as humanly possible

I never thought I'd end up doing Broadway

["Too Much Too Soon" plays in the background]

[Billie Joe Armstrong]
How loud are you gonna go?

[Director]
The plan would be as loud as it's tolerable

[Tré Cool]
Yeah

[Director]
My heart was in my throat because
What if this doesn't work for them?

[Billie Joe Armstrong]
My fear was that it was just going to be sort of absurd and not relatable and corny

["Jesus of Suburbia (Broadway)" plays in the background]

[Stage Director]
What we'll be trying to do is to get more coverage, in here

[Billie Joe Armstrong]
Do you feel like it's too fast?

[Director]
The subtext is puke could be coming out at the television set with George Bush in front of you

[Stage Director]
My thing is stories and working on emotional responses
It sounds really... I was going to say 'wanky' but that's not a good word to use is it?

["21 Guns (Broadway)" plays in the background]

[Director]
A little bit more of a drop

[Billie Joe Armstrong]
Go!

[Whatsername]
Yeah!

[Director]
I've got notes baby

[Billie Joe Armstrong]
We were able to create a dialogue I think I've been waiting to have my entire life. And it didn't happen in rock & roll music, it happened in theatre. That's the thing that blindsided me.

That was fucking sick

[Coordinator]
Welcome to the [?]tipsy road[?] ceremony for the opening night on Broadway of American Idiot!

[Billie Joe Armstrong]
It is really strange to see Donald Trump
I was like "what the fuck are you doing here? really?"

[Tré Cool]
This is the holy play

[Director]
Let's not make it too intense
We're gonna run this whole sequence
By the time I suggested he'd be in the show, I saw a little light behind his eyes flicker of excitement. He said "Oh my god, are you serious about this? I'm shitting"

Formed in East Bay, California in 1986 and still going strong today, Green Day is one of the biggest punk rock acts in the world. Along with other punk bands in California such as The Offspring, Sublime, Bad Religion and Rancid, they have been credited with popularizing and reviving mainstream interest in punk rock in the U.S. in the 90s.

First starting in 1986 as Sweet Children, longtime friends Billie Joe Armstrong (guitar and lead vocalist) and Mike Dirnt (bass guitar) teamed up with John Kiffmeyer to produce their debut EP 1,000 Hours. They eventually dropped the name Sweet Children and called themselves Green Day due to the band members' fondness for cannabis (it even inspired a song featured on their first album) and for their second studio album Kerplunk they replaced Kiffmeyer with German-born drummer Tré Cool, who had been drumming since the age of 12 in a punk band, The Lookouts.

It was their 1994 record Dookie that sent the band to stardom and gave them mainstream success. Dookie, alongside their following albums Insomniac (1995) and Nimrod (1997) were certified double platinum. Eventually, the band started to fall in popularity with their 2000 record Warning which only reached gold.

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