Green Day: American Idiots & the New Punk Explosion. by Ben Myers

by Benjamin Myers

Green Day is the biggest punk band in the world. This is how it happened... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0953994295
• ISBN13: 9780953994298
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Independent Music Press
• Length: 205 Pages

Customer Reviews

Sick and Tired of Green Day HATERS...

I'm talking to the Rock N' Roll Ninja and all those just like him/ her...here's a tip, in case you all are hearing this for the first time: Green Day is a pop-punk band. If you don't like pop-punk, then you will not like Green Day. I personally do like Green Day, as will anyone else searching for these products. And I want to read an honest review on the product before I make a purchase, and not the biased opinion of a nostalgic Ozzy fan who doesn't even appreciate the music of Green Day. You are wasting space on the page, so please save us the "Green Day Wussies" rant and let everyone like whatever music they want to. Stop the hate already. And P.S. if you don't know the message and the meaning behind American Idiot, perhaps buying this book would do you some good...that way you wouldn't actually have to listen to the songs.

Recommended even for those who know nothing about Green Day

This is an unauthorized, but very favorable, biography of Green Day, one of the world's biggest punk music bands. The trio that became Green Day grew up in small towns near San Francisco. Each coming from difficult family circumstances, they fell in love with punk music (the Dead Kennedys, the Sex Pistols, the Buzzcocks, among many others). They formed a band, and soon became mainstays at a place called 924 Gilman. It was little more than a vacant building, but it quickly became a West Coast punk rock mecca. On any given night, veteran punk bands and bands playing their first gig would share the bill. In the early days, Green Day was constantly on tour. They played basements, squats, anywhere they could plug in their instruments. Some nights, their audience might reach double digits, and other nights they might actually get paid for their efforts. They were living the punk rock lifestyle, fueled by large amounts of alcohol. They were loose and slacker-like about many things, but they were totally serious about their music. Slowly but surely, they were building a fan base. Their first two albums, on a small punk label, did really well, eventually selling in the hundreds of thousands. Their first major label release, Dookie, in 1994, was a blockbuster, eventually selling 10 million copies. Marriage, fatherhood and burnout became a part of their lives, so they cut back on the incessant touring. But they were now filling major arenas. While some punk music can be indistinguishable from very loud, random noise, a big influence for Green Day was 1960s British bands, so there was actual music in their songs. In 2004, they released a concept album called American Idiot, another blockbuster and Grammy winner, giving their view of present-day America. I really enjoyed reading this book. Of course, this book is highly recommended for those who own any of the band's musical output. It is also recommended for anyone, yours truly included, who has seen a video or two of theirs on TV, but who knows little or nothing about punk music in general, or Green Day in particular.

Great book

I think this is an amazing book, I have been a big fan of green day for most of my life, though I know that it doesn't mean much seeing as im only 14... but green day are an amazing band and I stongely dissagree with the review that says that green day can't sing, he clearly hasn't even read the book, so is in no place to say anything about the item.

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well personaly i think that green day are the best band ever and i would recomend this book to any of thier fans i gave it 5 stars but there is something else i want to say as well. the person who wrote the reveiw saying that green day cant sing and are rubbish is very stupid and rather annoying to me because i am only 12 and im sure they must be older than that but even i know that a review is where you REVEIW the product and im sure that judging by that persons hatrid towards green day that they didnt even buy it so therfore dont really have any right to reveiw it

Green Day :Anerican Idiots & the New Punk Explosion

I like this becausetheir cd's are awsome & this discribes their cd very well