Originally published at: Punk legends Green Day sell out hometown stadium - Boing Boing
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Take that, 924 Gilman!
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Billie Joe is (checks internet sources) 52 YEARS OLD.
Guy could pass for 30 - which is quite an achievement in his line of work.
Here he is with his kids.
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They sold out to Keurig, too.
Coffee pods are punk as fuck, now.
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So Gilman was right to ban them!
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It’s something unpredictable. But in the end, it’s right. I hope they had the time of their lives.
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s/punk rock/dad rock/
ftfy
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People always talk about Paul Rudd as being immortal, but that just makes it easier for Billie Joe to hide in plain sight
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Saw this lineup in Boston a few weeks back. Pretty fun. My favorite bit was Smashing Pumpkins’ cover of U2’s “Zoo Station”, but in a minor key (terrible recordings from the concert floor available on YouTube).
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Is “whether Green Day are Punk” on the list?
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Should it be?
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Exactly, Punk Legends? Citation needed.
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I guess that if you are in an age bracket it’s quite likely they are “punk legends”.
Either side of that bracket probably not.
Not my scene but I believe they put on a value for your money all action show.
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Some evidence for you, @anon87143080…
but I’d argue that whether you think they’re punk is whether you view punk as strictly a genre of rock (hence, the selling out definition is absurd) or if you view punk as a social/cultural movement more interested in independence in how music is produced and consumed for the artists/fans… 
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I saw them at Shoreline amphitheater June '94… they were the opening act for a festival day, Live105’s BDF; went on early around noon… the venue was almost empty, no one came that early… but I think it was the first time they played something bigger than a club… and they were into it.
Billie Joe did whip out his dick during the gig; I remember. And it barely registerd, there were so few peeps there.
Was that a tribute to Jim Morrison?
(Come to think of it, is it fair to call him proto-punk? Punk before punk was punk?)
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Headline should read “punk” “legends”. To my mind, Rancid is the only punk band in that tour lineup. And even they are fairly pop-y.
^this part for me.
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Gatekeeping punk is not very punk (unless it means excluding nazis, which is very punk)
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