News Archives - October 2011

Billie Joe talks about Cheap Trick's "Surrender" with Guitar World

By Jimmy /13 years ago / 0 Comments

[img=062511_guitarworld.jpg]In the upcoming August edition of Guitar World Magazine, Billie Joe will be discussing the Cheap Trick song "Surrender" as a part of Guitar World's "100 Greatest Classic Rock Guitar Songs" issue.

In the past Green Day has covered "Surrender" during their live shows and combined it with The Replacement's "Bastards of Young" creating what Green Day calls their "Midwest Medley". Click here to listen to Green Day's rendition of the song.

You can order your copy of the magazine on GuitarWorld.com by clicking here. We will have scans up from the article in the next few weeks.

Thanks to Bruno for sending this news.

Happy Birthday to our webmaster Andres!

By Jimmy · 13 years ago · 0 Comments

On behalf of the whole GDA team I would like to wish our webmaster, Andres, a very happy 25th birthday! Without Andres this site would never run as smoothly and successfully as it does today. David, Andres, Courtney, J'net, Jimmy, ... read story

Would you like to see Billie Joe star in the American Idiot movie?

13 years ago · 0 Comments

With the [turl=http://www.greendayauthority.com/news/2375/]news that Billie Joe[/turl] might play St. Jimmy in the upcoming American Idiot movie, we've had a lot of feedback from you guys about this. So, here's a poll to see how many of you ... read story

Billie Joe listed as one of Rolling Stone's "Dads Who Rock"

By Jimmy · 13 years ago · 0 Comments

Rolling Stone has a list of 40 "Dads Who Rock", and included Billie Joe in the mix. He's listed between Paul McCartney and Rod Stewart. He's #19, but I don't believe the list is ranked (how could you rank who was a better dad...), but ... read story

Longview, Washington writes about their Green Day connection

13 years ago · 0 Comments

[turl=http://www.greendayauthority.com/music/dookie/][img=dookie.jpg][/turl] An article from a local Washington newspaper recently talked about the connection their town Longview has with Green Day. The town of 34,000 is known because it ... read story

Green Day songbooks now on iTunes

By Matt · 13 years ago · 0 Comments

[img=061711_songbooks.jpg]A couple official Green Day songbooks are now available for download from the US iTunes Store, including American Idiot Musical: Guitar Tab, American Idiot Musical: Vocal and Piano, and Green Day: Guitar Tab ... read story

St. Jimmy American Idiot Movie part unconfirmed

By Tony · 13 years ago · 0 Comments

Contrary to a [turl=http://www.greendayauthority.com/news/2375/]recent report[/turl], the St. Jimmy part in the upcoming American Idiot movie is unconfirmed, as per Bille Joe's latest tweet: Haven't totally committed to St Jimmy for AI ... read story

13 years ago · 0 Comments

Once a week we're going to be summarizing the weeks most popular topics on our forum, [turl=http://www.greendaycommunity.org]Green Day Community[/turl]. Here's the list for this week: 1. [turl=http://www.greendaycommunity.org/Forum/index ... read story

GreenDay.com receives a much needed face lift

By Matt · 13 years ago · 0 Comments

[img=061611_gdcom.gif]Two weeks ago we posted that GreenDay.com was going to be receiving a face lift sometime in the near future. Well, that update came earlier today and a new GreenDay.com is up and running. The new site has an Awesome ... read story

Mike Dirnt interview at newly opened Rudy's Cafe

By Tony · 13 years ago · 0 Comments

Check out this interview with Mike Dirnt, from a recent NBC news report. He gives a mini tour around the newly opened Rudy's Cafe, as well as talking a little bit about the Uptown 'revival' in the Oakland area. You can also read ... read story

Adeline Records set to release The Network's Money Money 2020 on vinyl

By Jimmy · 13 years ago · 0 Comments

[img=061511_networkvinyl.png]On July 26th, Adeline Records will be releasing The Network's first album Money Money 2020 on blue 180 gram vinyl. Originally Money Money 2020 was released in September of 2003, about a year before Green ... read story

Emily's Army debut album - 'Don't Be A Dick' - Out Now

By Tony · 13 years ago · 0 Comments

[img=061411_Emilys-Army-cover-11173.jpg]Don't Be A Dick is hitting the proverbial shelves today, "everywhere" according to the Emily's Army twitter page. The album, produced by Billie Joe, is well worth checking out. You can listen and ... read story

New Green Day wallpapers for download, send yours in

13 years ago · 0 Comments

[turl=http://www.greendayauthority.com/downloads/wallpaper/][img=061311_wallpaper.jpg][/turl]We finally have a [turl=http://www.greendayauthority.com/downloads/wallpaper/]new Green Day wallpaper section[/turl] for you guys. We currently ... read story

Mike Dirnt talks about his newly opened second "Rudy's Can't Fail Cafe"

By Jimmy · 13 years ago · 0 Comments

[img=061211_Screen shot 2011-06-12 at 5.47.52 PM.png]This past Friday, Mike Dirnt officially opened his second Rudy's Can't Fail Cafe in Uptown Oakland, California. NBC Bay Area News was at the official ribbon cutting ceremony of "Rudy's" ... read story

Billie Joe Armstrong will reprise his role as St. Jimmy in the American Idiot Movie - Update: Maybe

By Jimmy · 13 years ago · 0 Comments

[img=061111_bjastjgood.jpg]It has just been announced on HollywoodReporter.com that Billie Joe Armstrong (or rather "Billy") will be reprising his role as St. Jimmy from the American Idiot Musical to the upcoming American Idiot movie. ( ... read story

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