Green Day - At the Library Soundcheck @ Good Morning America, NYC

[MsAlicia11]

Sad...they use one of their best and oldest songs for soundcheck only, and just the intro. Holy blah....I miss Green Day so much...

[StJimmy501]

@MsAlicia11 green day is still great

[GreendayCI]

Awsome one of my favorite songs from 1039

[blooded80]

billie joe really cool!!

[xPo1S0nXs0DaX]

I bet no one knew what that was...Ugh, its great having fans but when it turns into a big group of young girls who only know what 21 Guns its getting pretty sad.

[RainbowSnow101]

What year was this? :)

[smashbros287]

@RainbowSnow101 2009

[RainbowSnow101]

@smashbros287 Thanks :)

[ArmstrongLady]

KEEP PLAYING FOR GOD SAKE BILLIE

[Flip22023]

A morning smile from Billie. It's like he just woke up. Hehe...

[greendayrocks270]

hes got blue

[Brigister]

@greendayrocks270 Dude he always has blue but it's not the real one, it's just a replica... the original one almost broke back in 1994

[GreendayBluecovers]

@Brigister ok... just to clear things his mom bought the original blue for his 10th b day. it got damaged in 1998. so in late 1998 he made a replica which has been the same replica since. so yes the blue he is playing with in this video is the replica.

[joseph507357]

@GreendayBluecovers He still uses blue. But rarely. It was bought for him at 11 years old. This is not copy of blue. This guitar name is Azul. I don't think blue was damage in 1998. That's when he did get his first replica. He destroyed it the first time he used it.

[NirvanaNerd364]

I really love these guys i think theyre power pop and punk theyve been doing alternative recently which is cool too.

[dsliteps3]

haha when that guy shouted 86 I don't think that Billie was expecting anyone to name that song.

[67gargoyle]

why does he stop at the middle of the song??

[SuperMegabar]

@67gargoyle Its a soundcheck. They were basicly just testing if the guitar and drums and stuff was inline with each other.

[DroyD91]

shame they can only manage to play an intro for a sound check of their non sell out music...

[PrizePirate]

@DroyD91 Bro, I don't know if you know but they can play all their old songs, I've seen them play a lot of songs from their Kerplunk album live in Boston a few times. There's a reason why they don't play them anymore. Billie said his older songs were souless and didn't capture what he really wanted to send out as a message. He wanted to be a political activist like some of the other bands that influenced him like the Sex Pistols.

[greendayrocksmuch]

@DroyD91 actually...they play their old songs more than newstuff

[xPo1S0nXs0DaX]

I bet almost none of these people even knew what they were even playing.

[danny355]

This is a slow motion action replay of Green Day

[acHAMMAmusic]

check myy channel out every1 it would mean da world to me!

[rockersdawg7]

I love green days old indie punk music but i still love them. Give em a break guys. there growing up

[JoeladoreMCR]

I think there is no band which is better live than Green Day

[MsGiovanna2011]

billie lindoo

[redstar5583]

am I the only one that notices that billie messes up a little after 0:26

[TheGuitardude94]

I went to that mini concert thingy, everyone wanted to hear there old songs instead of the brand new ones they just came out wit,some green day fans...i was like the only one tht wanted to hear their new stuff

[Korvfighter]

hahaha billie just smiles :)

[greendayrocksmuch]

Billie..the older he gets the Calmer.Professional , and better he gets...this man never fails to amaze me ^_^

[PUNKrockJUNKY108]

coverfield 2? ur camera quality fuckin sucks

[cmoneverybody16]

they should play it live. much more times

[zgraka1]

@cmoneverybody16 they played it in birminghan, england (27th oct 2009)

[cmoneverybody16]

@zgraka1 kk, i meant more times. MORE.

[Lilyannah07]

86! YES MAN IN THE FRONT!!!!!

[LoveBillieTreMike]

BLUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE­EEEEEEEE :D

[IfuckinLuvBillieJoe]

Green Day are my Beatles! :D

[creapyninja7724]

i luv how as soon as billie joe walks on stage, everbody goes nutzzz

[physchohead24]

I used to be greendays no. 1 fan untill they made that 21 century garbage, now, i just dont know. Its like there trying to be justin bieber or the jonas brothers. There fans used to be 18 year olds/adults. Now there fans are all little 8 year old girls.

[MrScrapy007july]

@physchohead24 haha u are totally wrong, you might be justin bieber´s #1 fan, because i cant watch a good music video without seeing stupid comments like yours, green day 4ever!

[physchohead24]

@MrScrapy007july Don't call me a justin fagger fan you prick! I still love greemday but they went garbage

[MrScrapy007july]

@physchohead24 whatever, but so why you introduced that faggot on this vid?

[physchohead24]

@MrScrapy007july All i was saying was that its like there trying to go all mainstream disney. What happened to the good old days!

[robinfinckisgod]

@physchohead24

Mainstream disney? Honestly, really? I suggest you actually listen to what music disney puts out before you try to jump on the green day hating wagon and try to justify it with ignorant comments like that.

[RaZesnipers]

@physchohead24 You got a point man. The shit their putting up now is shit compared to what they used to do.

[Astrixs2]

@physchohead24 Well honestly 8 year old girls?! lmfao They can't exaclty sing about getting high and masterbating at age 40. Bands change which I think is quite signifigant. I know its a free country but please keep the trolling away, and besides 21st Century Breakdown is very successful which is probably what they aimed for.

[physchohead24]

@Astrixs2 Dude im not trolling I just just sharing my opinion, the comment was almost a month ago, lets just forget about it.

[Astrixs2]

@physchohead24 Well I know when it was, I'm just letting you know my opinion.

[mikeinoakland]

best song ever. you kinda have to be 17...or 18...or 19 to sing it. (with a straight face). but hey man. ROCKS AS HARD as ROCK YOU LIKE A HURRICANE. in the category of "songs green day would play for 30 seconds near the end of a set then stop before the vocals started." annnnd yeah for sure rocks harder than fuckin Eye Of The Tiger.

billie green day once punk'd me at a SF Civic Audit gig by playing the intro to Ain't Talking About Love...an in joke. OHHHH and CITING (me) by name: PUNK'D

[xGREENxDAYY]

did they do the whole song?

if they did, you are so lucky you saw it live

[Billienfermo]

Great song!!! 1991 !!!!! my remenbers!!!

[MrBliss25]

I think the song at the library sounds better when Billie plays it like in this video because usually he plays it by playing chords only but here he also plays the G string on the guitar and it sounds awesome and just like on the first album :)

[mjttb1]

I have a Man crush on Billie Joe.

[dave3190]

fuck labels, i don't care what you call them. i just love the music.

[HannaLoveHorses]

0:09 - 0:14 aww <3

[Bullbasher]

can i get a link to the whole concert?

[ehorseluver12]

THIS IS SO BAD ASS

[karenrashkash]

Green Day is almost too good to be true. What a band. And yes, Billie is so way hot. So talented, and a really cool character.

[spammanism]

@karenrashkash thanks for the description of me... minus the talented

[MasterKEnnY2009]

@karenrashkash And don't forget abot Mike and Tre they're Green Day too !!!

[karenrashkash]

@MasterKEnnY2009 Mike & Tres are awesome musicians, and of course part of GreenDay. Billie being the front man just is right out there in front. No doubt the AMERICAN IDIOT masterpiece is the result of combined creativity and telent

[HigharollaKockamamie]

That dude's pretty hilarious...I agree, where's the vocals in At the Library, and why didn't they play 86?? Other than that, they rule

[spoty212]

its funny how billie joe goes to strum then he realizes hes guitar turned down lol!!

[Sparks217]

WHERES THE VOCAL!? lmao...

[9Livia7]

he's so hawtttttt!!!XDDD

[powertothechord]

how bout we call them green day. screw punk, screw indie, screw alternative. just call em green day and stop trying to label them

[bastardgear8]

@powertothechord screw punk? FUCK YOU!

[SGTCloudrunner]

@powertothechord Ya know what? I like the way you think.

[johnrjmoore]

@powertothechord it's true they have their own style and sound that doesn't fit into anything else, it's amazing

[Americaneulogy2011]

@powertothechord green day is pure ROCK!!

[juliobarca07]

green day still beign a punk band because in their concerts everything changes...they play every song including the 39/smooth and dookie songs .

[StStevie96bjfan]

and what are the clash indie too??they signed to a major label.....actually one of the biggest....columbia, now sony.................

[mikey2583]

Eiggghty SIX!

[l4dlover92]

too everyone who says "bring back the old green day" they cant, A. this is who they are now if you dont like it deal with it that's what punk is, B. Biliie Joe says that punk is doing everything your own way, and if this is their own way then i'm not going to argue because although it isnt the classics like at the library or basket case its still kick ass, C. they've grown out of the gurning punks of those years and they grew up from it, and now they're tackling serious political shit.

[jjstat]

THEY ARENT EVEN PUNK ANYMORE. get ur facts strait they are not punk. they are altrn/indie rock. they havent been punk since kerplunk

[l4dlover92]

of course they are! they're punk rock, at the least they are (shudder) POP punk

[jjstat]

whats shudder? some stuff they do is Punk-Pop and Punk Revival. but they are mainly Alternative/Indie Rock

[chanman2525]

I agree with you, but anyone signed to a label isn't indie.

[jjstat]

ther indie cause they wont sell their albums in some places and that is ther dissition so that makes them somewhat indie

[kouradoman]

no man i think they are more rock! now

[jjstat]

all the things i said are classified under rock

[skatertumen]

Thats not !!!!GREEN DAY!!!!

thats one of the best, but old band.. billie really going be older and older, loose his energy.. or maybe so fucking tired, i dont know

[Bunjamin27]

God, they're older stuff is SO much better :(

[garrettanderson983]

wtf did he like lose all of his talent!? maybe he that's why he has another guitarist doing all the work for him...

[WildNiteRecords]

hes had jason for a long time.... your just an idiot + billie writes it all,,,, he just likes to sing better i guess

[garrettanderson983]

um... i know that, and Jason wasn't with them when they were awesome (90s). Billie's a better music writer than me any day, i sure as hell couldn't write anything like American Idiot, though. it just is annoying for him to be in the front holding his guitar up like a stinky douchebag milkshake while Jason White is doing all the work off to the back. he's essentially a member of the band, but he hardly gets credit for it!

[garrettanderson983]

and youtube needs to fix the gotdamn retarded dysfunctional comment reply feature!!! GRRR!!!

[emphaticleech]

Someone didn't know Jason White played with them on the Dookie, Insomniac and Nimrod tours!

Watch the When I Come Around music video. Jason is in it. He's been playing behind them since the 90s.

And Billie Joe writes all the guitar parts. Jason just plays them. BJ can do what the fuck he wants.

[l4dlover92]

Jason has been their since dookie, "when i come around" he's the bloke making out with his then girlfriend

[yihd]

dude he's only helping out by appearing in their music video. THATS ALL. he did not help out at their gigs and shit

[l4dlover92]

he did/does he's always there in the back, im not getting into an argument about it im just stating jason has been there for years

[yihd]

Well I hope we're not arguing, you got any videos for me to see or something? cause even Green day fan sites say he joined in 1998.

[l4dlover92]

ok.......try going to the official green day website they might have info on that

[yihd]

Nothing. lol. Trust me man, he might have been with billie in another band but not Green day man lol

[bobgrover]

tight

[VivaLaGloria21]

the freked out when billie brought blue out

i want the old green day back!! please billie im begging!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[GreenDayIsntGay]

Little scratchy, but after all the song is almost 20 years old. Thank you Green Day for not forgetting about all of your old songs!

[morpher910]

they song is over 20 years old. there's a video of them playing it in 1988

[HigharollaKockamamie]

Wow, that is so cool. We're in the year 2009, Green Day has "changed their sound," and yet they still play the music of their old days...Nice work guys.

[choucrouteday]

really thanks for this video

[leeperryismerry]

Friggin awesome song...

I love Old Green Day... I'm glad they still play it!

[costasawlove]

dude this is in 2009...not the 90's or 80's...

[caniac102678]

Green Day sporting a Walgreens banner? I would have never imagined this in 1993.

[MrNiceGuy1996]

I wonder if Billie still has his original "Blue" guitar that he used in the old days. I think he started using replicas shortly before "Kerplunk" came out. If you look at Green Day videos from the 80's you will see that his original guitar had different stickers and the BJ sign looked different too.

[Dillon0667]

he stopped using it right before nimrod came out

[RankielGuitar]

onw broke @ Miami 1993 and another one @Woodstock 1994

[BPhire]

that sucks.

[Sparks217]

maybe stickers fall off so he had to replace em?

[RankielGuitar]

he does

[morpher910]

you mean from the 90s. the only time in the 80s that have videos of him are crappy ones where you can't see anything.

he used replicas after 94 i think, when it got pummeled with mud at woodstock and he retired it.

[MrNiceGuy1996]

Could be but I still think that Billie used a replica at woodstock. In the pinole valley high school performance Billie's guitar looked different than at woodstock so that's why i think that in 1994 he already started using replicas which means that the mud at woodstock was thrown into a replica guitar.

[StJimmysHoliday]

He didn't do the bit at 0:41-0:44 right, and I love that bit! :(

[edyken77]

Billie has a happy stoney smile at the beginning. Eh there lookin' at me!

[weirdalfreakmm]

eh i was there i was pissed when he didnt finish it lol

[arsletirott]

u gotta love that guitar sound.. identical to the studio recording of this song.

[polilla32]

yeahhh

[Euromerican]

yeah most of the time they just play the chords to at the library. Its also the same guitar he used to record that album.

[guckert]

Love that riff at 0:29

[Aloverssoulz]

Aw man:(. Play it.

[JigglyMufasa]

lol he tricked us D:

[Sl4shRocks]

wow, that's the best guitar playing by billie I've seen so far

[GoingToPasalacqua12]

he's a great guitar player, go listen to the judges daughter, the solo in that is immense

[Sl4shRocks]

Yeah it's awesome, he's pretty good for being punk guitar player

[Jonny120205]

yea and dry ice

[LittleWhatsername91]

OMG I love At the library!!!!!!

[LpJunior537]

they should re record their first two albums

[dancingqueenn]

why? what would be the point of that? it would just be all the same songs.

besides, the raw recordings of their first two albums is what makes them so great!

[glimpus]

I disagree. There's some great songs on those albums, but the quality is so piss poor I barely listen to the studio versions, mostly live ones.

[dominatedface]

Dude, seriously? They reissued both 1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours & Kerplunk on Reprise like two years ago.

[LpJunior537]

his voice has gotten better though

[gr33ndayTL33]

i think they did to be honest

[nyzmrock]

@LpJunior537 their first two records album is raw, there is no need to re record

[sweepseirieslova]

the best soundcheck ever!!!!

[Aaron123rock]

ooo that song is awesome!!!

[GreenDayInsane]

What got thrown at him?

Amazing song btw! =D

[xGeneralxS]

Some guy threw their band's demo at him lol

[GreenDayInsane]

When did they throw it coz i didnt see anything haha =P

[Vader9]

They also played At The Libary at the Webster Hall gig on May 19 too. But the full song that time! I wasn't there I just read the setlist. But I wish I was there because they played my 2nd favorite Green Day song: Coming Clean. My favorite is The Grouch.

[spike339]

Lol that was my bands demo that got thrown at him at the end!

[uhhvideos]

I got so excited when he started playing this.

Then he was all like no, and I was sad.

But I got over that quickly. hahaha

[Chao200]

i havent seen him play that since 91 D:

its a great song and almost 18 years later he still knows :]

[MusicloverAmc]

OMFG AWESOME !

[JamesSnowden]

AWESOME

[ismadav]

fuck yeah