Equipment

Back in early May, we posted a video from Premier Guitar where they go on a gear tour of Green Day's live set up, and now they have posted a photo gallery. It's a great gallery (30+ photos) showing their instruments and equipment they use on tour. Here's a few ...

Premier Guitar stopped by one of Green Day's rehearsal shows in DeKalb, Illinois before the band kicked off their North American 99 Revolutions Tour to talk with the tech crew about the live sound. The video features interviews with Billie, Mike, and Jason's ...

Just recently, music printing company Hal Leonard listed guitar tab books for the last two albums of Green Day's recent trilogy. Back in February, an ¡UNO! tab book was also released by Hal Leonard. Guitar players, rejoice! We now have a comprehensive tab ...

Ever since I was little, I've loved to take souvenirs away from events I've attended. If I could snag a baseball from a game, I was happy. If I could get an autograph, I was happy. I guess it was only a matter of time until this fascination with event-related ...

Back in September, before the now infamous iHeartRadio festival performance, Clear Channel and iHeartRadio held a Green Day-related contest. One winner would travel to Las Vegas for the show, meet Green Day backstage, and receive band-signed instruments. This ...

[note]Editor's note: The post below was written by Lee Taylor (GetMyRocksOff on our forum, GDC). This is Lee's story of how he came to own the neck off of one of Billie Joe's copies of "Blue." I thought this was pretty awesome, so we wanted to share it with ...

Have you ever looked into buying one of Billie Joe's signature model guitars, but thought that they were just too expensive? Well, it looks like you might be in luck, two of Billie's signature guitars are currently on sale. The first is the new TV Yellow ...

Taylor Guitars' YouTube account posted a video of Rob Cavallo with a particularly special guitar. The video was posted in March (yeah, we missed it...), but it's still really interesting. This is the actual guitar that "Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)" was ...

This week, our featured eBay items are pretty unique. You probably can't buy these in too many places other than eBay. Thanks in part to the referral of one of our readers, we noticed that one eBay seller has made some really, really detailed miniature ...

Billie Joe is on the cover of the newest Total Guitar in an article titled "Return To Paradise". The four page article gets into some specifics about the equipment used to record the trilogy: I played this old '65 Double Anniversary Gretsch a lot and I played ...

On Monday, Gibson Guitars started a contest in which they'll give away one of Billie Joe's new Signature Double-Cut Les Paul Juniors. The guitars are based on a 60's-style Les Paul Junior, which Billie Joe frequently plays onstage. Check out this story for ...

So it seems that in the midst of all the recording, traveling, playing, interviews, photo shoots, and music releases, Billie Joe found time to collaborate with the Gibson Guitar Company to produce his third signature guitar. This model is designed to resemble ...

Here's a video of Mike Dirnt talking about his collaboration with Fender and the new Bassman amplifiers. You can get more info on the new amps on Fender.com. The amps are listed on Musicians Friend.com for $1800. Most exciting line "I'm ecstatic that I going ...

On April 14th, Green Day attended the 2012 Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. The band inducted Guns n' Roses into the Hall, and also opened the ceremony with a live performance of "Letterbomb." (If you didn't catch our original post, you can watch ...

Back in January we posted about Mike and Tré attending the NAMM show in Anaheim. At the show, we noticed that Tré spent quite a bit of time with Gretsch in their drum area. We speculated the he switched from Leedy to Gretsch. In fact, this is true. On ...

One of our forum members, Meeshy, recently had a birthday and received one of the coolest looking cakes I've ever seen in my life. It's a custom version of "Blue," Billie Joe's famous guitar. Here is what she had to say about it: Had a birthday party with some ...

Yesterday, bass entries were due for the GDA Record a Song Project. And we are pleased to announce David as our winner. He submitted a great bass track. You can listen to his entry on the RAS page. We are now accepting guitar entries. You can submit your entry ...

Yesterday, drum entries were due for the GDA Record a Song Project. And we are pleased to announce Jason as our winner. He submitted a great drum entry. You can listen to and/or download his entry on the RAS page. We are now accepting bass entries. You can ...

Currently Ultimate-Guitar.com is holding a contest to win Green Day's albums in the form of guitar tabs. One grand prize winner will receive: - All of Green Day's tab books - Stardust Elite Rebel Green Daze guitar You can enter the contest from now until July ...

GDA visitor Mickey wrote in to share a link to his tutorial on making your own "Blue" guitar for Rock Band. I created a Rock Band replica of Billie Joe's 1994 Fender for the upcoming Rock Band: Green Day. Stickers re-sized to fit Rock Band guitar included. ...

Ultimate-Guitar.com is having a contest right now to giveaway the full collection of Green Day tab books. The collections consists of tabs for every album, including Bullet in a Bible, and an extra "GREEN DAY: ULTIMATE GUITAR PLAY-ALONG". The full collection ...

We posted up the electric guitar entries for our 'Record A Sawng' contest. We got a ton of entries, so it wasn't easy to bring it down to only 5. Now you guys can go to the contest page and vote for your favorite. Thanks to everyone who entered. Sorry for ...

Today is the last day to submit entries for the acoustic guitar for our Record a Sawng project. We're recording 'Minority', you can find some more info here. Tomorrow we will put up our top 5 entries for a vote. Send in your entry by midnight PST (3am EST). ...

As I mentioned a few days ago, we're starting up our "Record a Sawng" project. If you're new and don't know what this is, read this post. Starting today we're accepting entries for Acoustic Guitar. You can find all the details and the form to submit your ...