Other Bands
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Other Bands
At a show in New York City, Billie Joe accidentally pissed on Joe Ragosta of Patent Pending.
Source: Rock Sound, 2019
Billie Joe and Green Day are mentioned in "Classic You" by Patent Pending: "Like when you left me there stranded at the Green Day show / You took off with a guy who looked like Billie Joe / And that night was so long / And now I walk this road alone."
Billie Joe wrote "Radio" by Rancid.
Deryck Whibley and Cone McCaslin of Sum 41 are huge Green Day fans. Nimrod is Deryck's favourite Green Day album. "Burnout" is one of his favourite songs.
Chris Martin of Coldplay said his band only got as big as they are because Green Day and U2 weren't active at the time.
Source: Contact Music, 2008
Superdrag (who had a minor rock hit in 1996, "Sucked Out") thanked Green Day in their 2000 release In the Valley of Dying Stars.
Green Day are thanked in the liner notes for The Donnas' album Turn 21.
Green Day is mentioned in "El Scorcho" by Weezer: "I asked you to go to the Green Day concert... you said you never heard of them."
Billie Joe and Adrienne are thanked in the liner notes of Jesse Malin's album The Fine Art of Self Destruction.
Green Day are thanked in the music video for "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)" by My Chemical Romance.
Green Day and other punk bands are thanked in the liner notes of Simple Plan's album Still Not Getting Any.
Bif Naked thanks Green Day on her album "Purge".
Green Day are thanked in the liner notes of Papa Roach's album Getting Away with Murder.
Tre Cool is thanked in the liner notes of AFI's album The Art of Drowning.
Green Day is one of Brett Gurewitz's favorite bands. He's the second guitarist in Bad Religion and founder of the Epitaph record label.
Green Day are thanked in the liner notes of the album Underground Network by Anti-Flag.
Billie Joe is thanked by Tony Lovato in the liner notes of Mest's album Destination Unknown. He says: "Billie Joe Armstrong - it's because of you so many great bands were created."
Green Day is thanked in the liner notes of Sing the Sorrow by AFI.
The Ataris mention Green Day in the liner notes of their first album, Anywhere But Here. They say that without Green Day their songs would be completely different.
Green Day is thanked along with MXPX and Homegrown in the liner notes of Squeaky Clean by Kilroy.
On "MTV's Top 25 People Under 25," Green Day was mentioned as one of Good Charlotte's influences. They showed a clip of "Hitchin' A Ride."
Green Day, Billie Joe and Adrienne Armstrong are thanked in the liner notes of Agent 51's album The Red And The Black
In the New Found Glory documentary The Story So Far, a Green Day poster can be spotted during an interview in the van.
Unwritten Law thank Green Day in the liner notes of their album Oz Factor.
MxPx thank Green Day in the liner notes of their album Ever Passing Moment.
Green Day is thanked in the liner notes of Reel Big Fish's album Why Do They Rock So Hard?
Green Day is thanked in the liner notes of NoFx's album Punk in Drublic.
Billie Joe and Kevin Army mixed and recorded the song "Worse To Bad" on Tilt's album Been Where? Did What?
Green Day is mentioned in the music video for "Still Waiting" by Sum 41. The manager suggests they change their name to "The Sums" like "The Green Days."
The Frenzal Rhomb song "Jesus" mentions Green Day.
Bad Religion thank Green Day in the liner notes of their Stranger Than Fiction album.
Blink-182 thank Green Day in the liner notes of their Enema Of The State album.
Sum 41 thanks Green Day in the liner notes of their album All Killer, No Filler.
Good Charlotte thanks Green Day in the liner notes of their album The Young and the Hopeless. Benji from Good Charlotte also has a small Green Day sticker on his guitar. He told Courtney, the founder of GDA, that he had been a Green Day fan for almost 9 years when she met him.
Billie Joe and Adrienne Armstrong are thanked in the liner notes of Rancid's Let's Go!
Rivers Cuomo studied the songwriting techniques of Kurt Cobain and Green Day before he started writing songs himself.