Billie Joe Armstrong invited enough public members on stage to sing or play the guitar with Green day For a song or two, at this stage, you think that it has developed a keen sense for the type of fan which is likely to remove the bit.
But it is possible that the singer never called someone as confident as the guy he chose on Saturday evening to help finish the headliner of the Green Day at the Coachella festival.
Dressed in a black tank top and leather pants, with a dazzling belt loop that shone under the lights of the scene – “Ooh, it is beautiful,” said Armstrong while he was heading for the crowd – the guy swayed Armstrong guitar straps as if it were his before scraping the “good time of your life) agreements. Then Armstrong sang the acoustic walk while the fan played And Maguted for Coachella cameras.
“Stop being so professional,” said the singer with a smile.
Green Day works.
(All J. Schaben / Los Angeles)
It takes one to find out one, of course: almost 40 years after Armstrong and Bassist Mike Dirnt founded the trio of the Bay region in 1987, Green Day is a rock group as polite and reliable as on the road these days. The group (which also includes the drummer Tre Cool, who joined in 1990) Fouette through his decades of pop -punk tubes with speed and precision, even when the size of the sites he visits – the stadiums of the Green Day from last year for the 2004 “Dookie” brands and “American idiot” of 2004 – means that he must play cheap seats.
Here, as one of the rare acts of rock for Coachella's head in the last decade, Armstrong and his group comrades knew how to engage the crowd of the giant festival with call and response routines and net video production.
However, while the group roared through the old people as “basketball”, “Holiday”, “Bienvenue à Paradise”, “Longview” and “Brain Stew”, you have never forgotten that you are watching a formerly biting punk trio; Green Day always passes the charming zeal that fueled its traditional breakthrough in the mid-90s post-Grunge.
Armstrong occurs.
(All J. Schaben / Los Angeles)
As he has been doing for years, Armstrong has changed a word on “a Redneck agenda” in “American idiot” to protest against “an agenda of Maga”; He also changed a line of “Jesus on the suburbs” to express his concern for “the children of Palestine”.
Green Day has distributed some new songs from last year “Saviors“, Including” Bobby Sox “, which the singer described as a kind of queer love song. But for the most part, this generally guaranteed performance concerned the successes – cunning, passionate, sometimes profane – on what lasting popularity of the green day was built.
