Landmarks Tours
The Ashby/Longview House
The Longview video was filmed in the basement here, where Billie Joe and Tré lived with another band called the East Bay Weed Company.
‘The record company guys would come to see us rehearse in the basement and their wives would go shopping on Telegraph Avenue. And when we went on tour we would come back to discover these crusty punks had squatted our place, and every single thing we owned was gone.’ — Tré Cool, American Idiots and the New Punk Explosion, p.82
‘[Basket Case] still reminds me so much of the Ashby house. That’s the house we lived in, in Berkeley and our first video, Longview, was filmed there. We’d be cranking that song out in there, all of us playing in this one tiny room and our neighbours getting pissed because we’d play it five times in a row.’ — Billie Joe Armstrong, 2005
‘The record company guys would come to see us rehearse in the basement and their wives would go shopping on Telegraph Avenue. And when we went on tour we would come back to discover these crusty punks had squatted our place, and every single thing we owned was gone.’ — Tré Cool, American Idiots and the New Punk Explosion, p.82
‘[Basket Case] still reminds me so much of the Ashby house. That’s the house we lived in, in Berkeley and our first video, Longview, was filmed there. We’d be cranking that song out in there, all of us playing in this one tiny room and our neighbours getting pissed because we’d play it five times in a row.’ — Billie Joe Armstrong, 2005
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