GD sued by 'American Idiot'

2006-10-25 by metallicaman8 | 24 Comments
Most folks have occasionally heard a new song and thought, "Gee, I feel like I've heard this somewhere before." But it takes a special kind of person to take things to another level, by coming to the conclusion that they actually wrote the tune sometime in their distant past, says AOL Music.

Paul McPike, a 30-ish grocery store employee from Medford, OR, placed himself firmly in the latter category this week when he filed a lawsuit charging that Green Day's "American Idiot" album is entirely made up of songs that he wrote when he was in high school. McPike says that he used to regale his high school pals with the "original" versions of "Jesus of Suburbia" and other classics back in 1992, and believes that some devious ex-pal surreptitiously recorded one of his performances and traded them to Billie Joe Armstrong and co. for 30 pieces of silver (or at least unlimited access to Green Day's backstage deli trays).

A U.S. District Court Judge seemed to take McPike's pile of evidence -- which consisted entirely of a copy of the album and a claim that the lyrics sung on the album don't match those in the sleeve notes -- with a barrel of salt, but suggested he could file a more detailed copyright infringement complaint in the future. An interesting suggestion -- and one that jogs our memory of the elementary school writing class where we wrote that line about "buying a stairway to Heaven."

All information gathered from www.ultimate-guitar.com

Tagged: Green Day

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The Jungler
October 25th 2006
4826 Comments


Thats pretty amazing.

Cesar
October 25th 2006
2732 Comments


this interesting to say the least

metallicaman8
October 25th 2006
4677 Comments


I find this to be pretty amusing, regardless of whetehr or not it's true.

burton.and.gas
October 25th 2006
641 Comments


ok great idea. but he has no evidence. I also find it hard to believe that soem kdi at high schoo lwoudl be as self-involed as to wriet a 9 minute song made up of power choards and not much else. whilst with Green Day it makes sense.This Message Edited On 10.25.06

FlawedPerfection
Emeritus
October 25th 2006
2807 Comments


Hahaha.

Oddsen
October 25th 2006
1127 Comments


Wow. Thats pretty ridiculous.

Tweed
October 25th 2006
46 Comments


this is funny. Jesus of Suburbia was the only good song on that album.

Otisbum
October 25th 2006
1913 Comments


[quote="Paul McPike"]...unlimited access to Green Day's backstage deli trays...[/quote]

:thumb:

Probably the funniest news this week (aside from Lil' Jon's Crunk Rock).

AmericnZero02
October 25th 2006
3957 Comments


Thats really lame. If this is at all true, why did it take so long for him to take the issue to court? American Idiot came out in 2004.

Patrick
October 25th 2006
1891 Comments


What a bastard, I wrote the album!!!!!
Just kidding, but I'm pretty sure Whitesnake wrote Boulevard of Broken Dreams.

AnyColour74
October 25th 2006
1054 Comments


LOL

fisky009
October 25th 2006
813 Comments


Lol.

Yay for the disolustioned phycopath!

pulseczar
October 25th 2006
2385 Comments


i actually wrote american idiot, but i'm too embarrassed to take credit.

The Sludge
October 25th 2006
2171 Comments


I wrote the Nimrod album, just not King For A Day, cause that is too fucked up.

TheMisterBungle
October 25th 2006
861 Comments



Why not to do drugs kids.

Bfhurricane
October 25th 2006
6284 Comments


I hope this is true

notasnewasyouthink
October 25th 2006
107 Comments


You hope this is true? You're an idiot. And so is this guy.

Two-Headed Boy
October 25th 2006
4527 Comments


What is Mike doing to Billie Joe in that picture?

Anyway, I could care less what some grocer says.

rustysurf84
October 26th 2006
327 Comments


I'd really like for this to be true, however.

This will make for a very good "Above The Influence" ad.

teen_rocker
October 26th 2006
260 Comments


why'd it take him so long to realise? I think its amusing. I'd laugh if it was true.

sellthekidsforfood
October 28th 2006
14 Comments


Hahaha, well...maybe Green Day isn't so bad after all :p

*sarcasm*

craigy2
October 29th 2006
551 Comments


Surely if it were true, that guy would have filed a lawsuit as son as American Idiot came out.

talentsdead
October 30th 2006
30 Comments


i actually wrote all the above posts.

muchtallerthanu
March 10th 2007
648 Comments


This is f**ed up!

A grocer taking on pop punk legends is pretty crazy to me!



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