Billie Joe on the new issue of Total Guitar
"I played this old '65 Double Anniversary Gretsch a lot and I played my Les Paul Juniors. ... I'm on the left side of the speaker and Jason White is on the right side of the speaker, and he'd play a lot of Les Paul Juniors and he'd mess around with Silvertones and things like that."
He also talks about playing more solos in the new material,
"I always had [solos] in my arsenal of guitar playing, if you will. I used to use it live, but not really, and on the very early records I did it more often. On ¡Dos! and ¡Tre! it gets even more intense. It's more just about having fun. [...] On American Idiot, I started getting into more tasteful, appropriate things. But, this time, I almost wanted to play things that were deliberately not tasteful and inappropriate! So, we were just like 'Fuck it, lets fucking tear up a fucking guitar solo right now'"
The interviewer also talks about Troublemaker and Rusty James, songs that "seem to be a slight middle finger to those attitudes from the punk scene elite". Billie Joe responds about a fine line between being an "angry young man and a bitter old fart", then goes on to talk about John Lydon from the Sex Pistols.
Billie also gives a good answer to the question "Do you still consider yourself a punk guitarist?". Read the full interview over the articles section.
Thanks to stuart_and_the_ave for posting these scans on our forum.
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