Green Day pulls me onstage to play bass for 12,000 people

October, 2005, Live in Albuquerque, NM. Green Day likes to pick people from the crowd to play their instruments for this Operation Ivy cover, Knowledge. I lucked out because I managed to get Mike's attention.

After 2 failed attempts to find a capable guitar player, they picked my guitar-player friend, Joel, who I briefly played music with years before. This experience reunited us and led to the formation of the band we play in today called Flood The Sun:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=fRB8rOuuuJ4


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They picked two people before the guitarist you see in the video. The first one was a girl, but she couldn't play the guitar well enough, neither could the second kid. Billie Joe sent her to the side of the stage and later gave the guitar to her saying, "This is for you. Now practice, Dammit!".

I had to edit the video down because it was too long for youtube, and it's a little boring sitting through the other two guitarists. The drummer and I were on stage 10-15 minutes.

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[clownfish51]

Actually, one of the coolest things I've ever seen a band do.

[KrikoUndAnttu]

At 1:10 he's like "don't fuck it up"

[traindude95]

how did u get the vid?

[Chaos77766]

lucky

[nosaintiger12]

@coachman4000 well most people who go to concerts like this actually can play an instrument and the notes they gave them were not that hard and the guitarist did have a few fuck ups

[gmarcum07]

awesome man.. congrats!!



[RedBassplaya]

@DiabloJr420 so you're saying pink floyd weren't rock because they made something like the wall?

[DarkAero94]

@DiabloJr420 rock and roll is a total different genre than green day... elvis sang rock and roll, green day sings alt rock and pop punk. plus you have no life if you just typed 2 paragraphs of hate to green day on youtube. i cant get what a Broadway musical have anything to do with being gay but no one really cares what you think... if you dont like green day then good for you, go listen to whatever you like. they matured and stop smoking weed all day, thats why their lyrics changed

[ACD5401]

@coachman4000 That wasn't flawless, they made a few mistakes and it was sorta sloppy.

[Jimmymillmo]

@coachman4000 and if u listen the guitarist screws up a few times

[Jimmymillmo]

@coachman4000 actually billie didnt get a good guitar player until his third try