News Archives - November 2011

Billie Joe mentioned in Gibsons "20 Facts about the J-180" acoustic guitar

13 years ago / 0 Comments

Gibson has listed 20 Essential Facts about the J-180 and mention Billie Joe twice in the article, talking about his signature version of the guitar.

17. The Billie Joe Armstrong J-180 is the latest version of this legendary guitar. The Green Day leader has always favored Gibson acoustics, and his signature model is sumptuous indeed. It features a modified V-profile neck to Armstrong's specifications.

18. The Billie Joe Armstrong J-180 also adds a Fishman Matrix VT preamp and piezo pickup system; an under-saddle acoustic pickup along with active volume and tone controls in a soundhole-edge-mounted preamp. It also has a traditional pin bridge.

The Billie Joe J-180 was released earlier this year, only 100 were made for 2011, and they cost a cook $4,000. More info about his guitar can be read at Gibson.com

Thanks to desertrose for posting on the forum.

Video about Billie Joe & Jason White's guitar rigs and stage equpiment

By Amanda · 13 years ago · 0 Comments

For all of the guitar-tech fanatics in GDA-land, we've just seen a great tour of Billie and Jason's guitar rigs during the first 21st Century Breakdown tour in 2009. The band's guitar techs give away a lot of great information about the ... read story

Featured Download: "Look For Love" sung by Billie Joe at age 5

By Jimmy · 13 years ago · 0 Comments

[img=082911_lookforlove.jpg]When Billie Joe was just five years old he used to go around to hospitals and nursing homes with his dad to sing to the patients in hopes of making him feel better. This soon led to Billie recording his first ... read story

"On this week..." A look back at what Green Day were up to on this week in years gone by

By Tony · 13 years ago · 0 Comments

On this week... (click the year to watch a related video) Last Year:[img=083111_green day homecoming.jpg] Green Day were at the tail end of the 2nd leg of their 21st Century Breakdown North American tour. The band stopped in Dallas, ... read story

Live Version of "Words I Might Have Ate" from 1992

By Dylan · 13 years ago · 0 Comments

A video has surfaced of the band performing "Words I Might Have Ate" in East Orange, NJ, way back in 1992. Apparently, Billie broke a guitar string right before this, leaving Green Day no choice but to improvise. The result was a unique ... read story

Song of the Week: "16"

By Aska · 13 years ago · 0 Comments

This week's Song of the Week is the timeless 16, off Green Day's first album,1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours. 16 is Green Day at their beautifully simplistic best - it's a universally relatable song for any teenager approaching adulthood; ... read story

Article - The rise and fall of the Lookout Records empire

By Tony · 13 years ago · 0 Comments

[img=082911_Lookout.gif]Continuing our current theme of taking a look back at Green Day's early history, fansite greenday.net posted an article from the East Bay Express from 2005, which talks about the rise and fall of Lookout! Records, ... read story

Featured Green Day item on eBay: Shenanigans Blue Vinyl

13 years ago · 0 Comments

Once a week we want to highlight some cool Green Day items on eBay. If you guys come across anything rare, awesome, or interesting, send it over to me, andres@greendayauthority.com so we can post about it next week. To start us off we're ... read story

Larry Livermore writes about the first time he met Sweet Children in 'Spy Rock Memories'

By Tony · 13 years ago · 0 Comments

[img=082811_Larry Livermore.jpg]Lookout! Records co-founder Larry Livermore writes about the first time he met 'Sweet Children' - who of course went on to become Green Day, in part 8 of his Spy Rock Memories. In this installment of Larry's ... read story

Vote for Green Day to play in Indonesia

By Dylan · 13 years ago · 0 Comments

Recently, we posted that Indonesia has been campaigning for Green Day to play in their country. Well, Big Daddy Polls has created a poll to see which American bands, TV shows, and movies the Indonesian people want played there. According ... read story

Rock Seen: A New Book by Legendary Photographer Bob Gruen includes Green Day

By Tony · 13 years ago · 0 Comments

[img=082511_Rock Seen.jpg]Rolling Stone recently published a picture of a new book by Bob Gruen, called Rock Seen. The New York based photographer has taken pictures at many Green Day shows and events, as well as The Foxboro Hot Tubs. The ... read story

Green Day in MTV's 18 More Perplexing Band Names Explained

By Tony · 13 years ago · 0 Comments

[img=082511_mtv_21cb.png]Green Day are featured in MTV's 18 more perplexing band names explained... According to internet lore, the name Green Day was simply borne of the band's fondness for marijuana. And now they're Broadway stars ... read story

Court agrees that Green Day's use of artwork in "East Jesus Nowhere" backdrop did not violate artist copyright

By Tony · 13 years ago · 0 Comments

[img=082511_EJN.jpg][img=082511_selzer.jpg]In 2009, Green Day used a work of art (pictured right) for their own creative use which caught the angry attention of artist David Seltzer. The artist sued the band for "stealing" his scream icon ... read story

A small change in our comment system

13 years ago · 0 Comments

Hello my dearies, just a really short post to let you guys know that we're going to be changing the commenting a little bit.We've always shown the comments with the oldest first, so that you could read from oldest to newest. Starting today ... read story

Joey Armstrong talks about recording with his dad for Emily's Army

13 years ago · 0 Comments

Here's a short interview with Emily's Army from the Associated Press. Joey talks about recording with his dad, and there's a really small clip of Billie Joe talking about being a musician. Thanks to desertrose for [turl=http://www. ... read story

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