Sunday Musical Green Day Magic at the 2023 Birthday of Aquarian Billie Joe Armstrong
by Robert Wilkinson
Since February 17 was the birthday of musical powerhouse Billie Joe Armstrong, frontman for Green Day, today we enjoy power music! A band that can rally millions, his is the voice that's challenged authoritarian and brain-dead thinking for years. Tonight we have some awesome performances!
As I’ve written before, in case you've been on a trip to Sirius or Alpha Centauri, Green Day blasted their way to national influence in the so-called "grunge" alternative rock movement of the mid-1980s. The band originated in Berserkeley and soon blazed to global popularity through its uncompromising brand of neo-punk thrash rock that forced everyone to take note of what was happening. A major musical force and social conscience in our world, for your listening pleasure here are Billie Joe Armstrong (February 17, 1972), Taurus Mike Dirnt (born Michael Pritchard, May 4, 1972), Sagittarian Tre Cool (born Frank Edwin Wright, December 9, 1972), and Scorpio Jason White (November 11, 1973)!
And now, on with the shew. I've found early, middle, and relatively recent performances of the many phases of Green Day! Here’s the video to the title track of their most recent album “Father of all…”
In 2019 they also released the 35 minute video of their full Woodstock 94 show!
From 2017’s greatest hits compilation, here’s the music video from “God’s Favorite Band,” cranking it up!
“Back in the USA” (no, not the Chuck Berry classic, but classic Green Day!)
We now move to a video for a cause that really matters. Here's a great performance for Instant Karma: the Campaign to Save Darfur, Amnesty International's effort to bust genocidal war criminals. A powerful video of Green Day doing the John Lennon classic ”Working Class Hero” offering a chilling indictment of genocide! Here's their performance of "Working Class Hero" on American Idol that was said to "stun America." We can only wish that Amerika would wake up and remember.....
From Munich, their hit, ”Know Your Enemy.” Here they are in NY doing "Know Your Enemy." Also from that NY show, here's ”21st Century Breakdown.”
Let's move into some videos of early classics. From 2000 in Japan, here's Green Day performing "Basket Case" with another version from Chicago in 1994 of "Basket Case."
From Munich, a live performance of "When I Come Around." From the same show, (you really should watch this one!) the awesome "Holiday."
From a 1997 Live in the Alley performance, "Nice Guys Finish Last" with another version from the Chelmsford Festival V98 of ”Nice Guys Finish Last” and “Hitchin' A Ride” done as a medley.
Here's one of their best! From 2009 in England, complete with the crowd singing every single line, "Good Riddance (the Time of your Life)." From Japan, another great live performance of "Good Riddance (the Time of your Life)”
Recent material features some magnificent live performances. We now groove into my favorite Green Day song, "Holiday." Written as an in-your-face challenge to the Bush War Criminal administration, Billie Joe makes it clear that "This song is not anti-American. It's anti-WAR!"
This version is magnificent. From the Billboard Awards ceremony, "Holiday."
From the 2005 Bullet in a Bible tour in England, I found a bunch of their songs, which I’ve posted in the same order as the playlist! We begin with the title song from the album of the same name, here's a live performance of ”American Idiot.”
Billie Joe’s rousing the rabble! Another stunning performance of "Holiday.”
"Wake Me Up When September Ends.”
"Boulevard of Broken Dreams.” (This is from their 2005 MTV performance, since I couldn’t find the 2005 UK performance on the “Bullet in a Bible” tour.)
"Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)”
Last year I found the full two hour show, but it’s nowhere to be found this year. So instead, here’s another full two hour plus show! Green Day 2013 Reading Festival Performance
We now leave that concert for more live performances!
From American Idiot, here is "Boulevard of Broken Dreams," along with great performances of "Wake Me Up When September Ends" and ”Give Me Novacaine.”
Here’s a great 10 minute performance in Japan of "Jesus of Suburbia."
Last year I had the entire 2001 Bizarre Fest show, but they killed the audio. So instead, here’s the entire 1 hour 47 minute show of Green Day Live at Roseland 2000.
From Berlin at Live 8 in 2005, Green Day live performing “Minority” and ”We Are The Champions”
Here’s the entire 55 minute show of Green Day MTV Live in Italy 2005
Here’s the entire 92 minute show of Green Day Live Rock am Ring, Germany 2005
From their newest effort, the music video of the title track of "21st Century Breakdown."
From the same album, a live performance of "East Jesus Nowhere" with Will Ferrell on cowbell! Here's a better video from Letterman of "East Jesus Nowhere"
This time on Fallon, a great performance of "Last of the American Girls."
Moving things forward a few years to late 2016, we have four great videos! We begin with Billie Joe unplugged live doing "Ordinary World.” At the same show, he begins with the classic guitar line from “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” and then moves straight into “Know Your Enemy” We’ll follow with “Still Breathing” and close with “Youngblood” (No, not the Coasters classic, but again, classic Green Day!)
Our finale features U2 and Green Day in N’awlins in 2006 doing a great performance of "Wake Me Up When September Ends” and “The Saints Are Coming," finished with "Beautiful Day.”
For the encore, some covers! First, Green Day doing the Sonny Curtis classic, "I Fought The Law", and the Chuck Berry classic "Johnny B Goode." We'll move into their cover of the Rolling Stones' classic from Exile on Main Street, "Rip This Joint," and finish with their performance at the 2015 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame backing "the human metronome" (yes he is!), the great Ringo (whose voice is shot) in a rousing performance of the classic "Boys."
An interesting Live Audio 1990 performance that features fragments of several early songs set to still photos.
And if you still want more, here's the official Green Day You Tube channel where I'm sure you can get dialed in to what's up with this amazing group.
Happy 51, Billie Joe, a time of life when we “peel the onion.” Keep writing, keep rocking, and keep the fires burning bright!
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