you can't learn technique by watching someone play, unless they're in front of you and you can see their thumb etc

I didn't necesarily learn it from watching, but I did pick up on a few things. I have my own technique layed down, but when I play people say I look like Les Claypool.

okay I jsut googled it and it says the same thing countless times. he imitated billie joe.

We aren't doubting he did. We're questioning why someone would copy Billie Joe to learn how to play guitar. Or at least I am. :p

no i wasn't sure eithier because wikipedia is written by regular people who could have teh wrong sources.

his guitar isn't nothing complicted.

His guitar playing isn't anything if you ask me.

no its okay! im thinking that all his stuff is easy to play, which is good for me cos I can play it w/ out much difficulty.

If you want to [I]learn[/I] guitar, why play Green Day songs? :lol:

He wants to learn to become teh mainstream.

she doesn't want to learn to become mainstream. she likes teh music. I would still like them if they weren't ms, anyway.

They really need gender labels on these forums. X-|

i tihnk most people preferred them when they weren't mainstream. : /

I know I sure did. Even their mainstream/sellout hits I enjoy, except for BOBD, that song just plain-out sucks, hard.

yeh I really don't give a **** if the band's mainstream or not, some people are just determined to label all mainstream as being bad.

I don't have any of thioer earlier ones, i just have from dookie on.

I haven't labeled Green Day as a bad band. I have ratted on MCR because I cannot stand their sound, but that's all the harm I've done. :p

no not specifically you just people.

i can't figure out what bobd stands for...?

[I]I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
[insert horrible lyrics here][/I]

:thumb:

ohhh. yes I don't particularly like the singles they put out besides holiday. can you believe on the radio they still occasionally play american idiot?

Man that song blows even harder. xP Holiday is a good song though.

what pisses me off is how much they edit out. like fag. in england thats like a ciggarette or something.

In lots of songs they censor words like "kill" or "die" or "gun" even.

lol yeah, it's kind of pathetic.

thats pretty dictating. my radio station is pretty good about not doing that. you know crazy bitch by buckcherry? its like"hey your a crazy bitch but you (censor) so good..." and It's pretty awesome taht they don't censor bitch.

Soon they won't even censor f'uck.

that'd be the day.

Well it's public in movies and on CDs, I don't think it'll be too long. It's such a commonly used word nowadays.

yeh even little childern are running around screaming "**** you mom I don't want to."

That was my 'lil bro's first word. Haha.

my first word was dog, but not as in the animal, as in the food.
i know this little first grader who knows every swear word thats still used cause her dad teaches her them. on purpose. its like teaching a parrot.

[QUOTE=nag*with*a*gun]my first word was dog, but not as in the animal, as in the food.
i know this little first grader who knows every swear word thats still used cause her dad teaches her them. on purpose. its like teaching a parrot.[/QUOTE]

You eat dog in new york? Eww.

I saw a video on MTV the other day; The Electric Six - Gay Bar. The sensored the words "Let's Start A Nuclear War". Censorship on TV today is sickening.

[QUOTE=nag*with*a*gun]yeh even little childern are running around screaming "**** you mom I don't want to."[/QUOTE]

My mom learned about the F word when she was in kindergarten and saw it written in a bathroom. She then asked her parents at dinner that night what it meant and my grandma and grandpa were shocked. :p

As to the topic of the thread. I love early Green Day (Dookie & Nimrod, don't like pre-Dookie that much) and American Idiot has grown on me a lot now as well. Bullet In A Bible is sweet stuff too.

[QUOTE=nobodyblossomsforever]His guitar playing isn't anything if you ask me.[/QUOTE]

Billie Joe's? No, it really isn't. It's solid. He knows everything a punk player should know. But he doesn't go beyond that. I was talking to this guy who summed it up perfectly, though. This guy is a shredder, rips of Yingwie, etc. He said that if all you want to do is play 3 chords and mess around, then Green Day is fine.

Personally, though, I don't like shredding, Vai, Santrini, Yingwie. It all ends up sounding like technical exercises played really fast. A band like Green Day needs to focus on the song writing because they have less skill instrumentally to work with. I do like Buckethead, however, so shredding can be kind of fun.

well you cant really say vai and satch are shredders. Like there music once in a while has shred yes, but not as much as pretucci or as you mentioned, buckethead.

[QUOTE=Schqwnbean]You eat dog in new york? Eww.[/QUOTE]
I :lol:d at this.

yeh sure we eat dog and we worship cats. and everybody has a fish fetish.

^hah hah nice, teacup.

[QUOTE=Schqwnbean]

I saw a video on MTV the other day; The Electric Six - Gay Bar. The sensored the words "Let's Start A Nuclear War". Censorship on TV today is sickening.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, 'War' and 'Nuclear War' got censored with what sounded like a whipping noise playing over those words'. Thats so dumb although I heard it was because the song was released around the time of the Iraq invasion so was censored to prevent any possible complaints :rolleyes:

I know but seriously... if GreenPeace released a song with the lyrics "NO MORE NUCLEAR WAR" surely they'd have to censor that out of principle? If they didn't they'd be shooting themselves in the foot by censoring some songs and not others!

Alot of [B]s[/B]hit like that goes on in the world, but it's never really gotten in the way of anything I've done.

I watched a live clip of Basket Case from reading festival, they have some random guy playing guitar, he plays badly but it's a pretty cool thing to do stuff like that.

[QUOTE=yourstruly]Alot of [B]s[/B]hit like that goes on in the world, but it's never really gotten in the way of anything I've done.

I watched a live clip of Basket Case from reading festival, they have some random guy playing guitar, he plays badly but it's a pretty cool thing to do stuff like that.[/QUOTE]

A random guy from the audience? That's pretty cool.

I bought Kerplunk a couple of days ago. (I had it downloaded, but I wanted to buy it). The letter from the fan is hilarious.

Yeah something like that. Green Day are the only band i've seen do something that before.

What does the letter say?