#green day rock and roll hall of fame

[greendayauthority]

Tré and Billie Joe at the 17th Annual Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in New York City, 18 March 2002

[z0mbi3tr4mp]

[behindtheband420]

my mom's friend went to the rock n roll hall of fame and sent me these because she knows I hyperfixate on green day im gonna cry 😭😭😭

[scary-ivy]

I think one of the things that makes being a fan of My Chemical Romance so tense is knowing that they're one of the greatest rock bands of all time, but there's a very high chance they will never be acknowledged as such. Like basically, no matter what your personal opinions on their music is, they're very much in the vein of like The Beatles, Queen, Radiohead, giant rock bands with tons of great songs that people hear and instantly like before they even realize that it's all one band. They have that kind of Rock n Roll Hall of Fame energy. And furthermore they're probably The last rock band to ever have that kind of energy and still get radio play, since rock itself is kind of fading from the mainstream. But the problem is, MCR is an emo band. And nobody takes emo bands seriously yet. They used to not take metal/punk/new wave/alt rock bands seriously, but now even Green Day is considered classic rock. But MCR isn't considered classic rock yet. And if we don't keep crusading for MCR to be valued on the level of other iconic Rock bands, they will be written off merely another emo band just coasting on nostalgia. So it feels extra important to hype them up and get other generations to listen.

[omegaremix]

Innersleeve Records, 2022

There was one more store on the list that I planned on going to. That was Innersleeve Records in Amagansett, located all the way out at the Eastern tip of Long Island. It’s the one trip I really had to prepare for. At 60 miles and 70 minutes to get there, Innersleeve- would be the furthermost locale of any stops I’d make this year. Out east is where the most scenic parts are - the farmland, the famed beaches, lighthouses, and resorts that partially define it and give Long Island its identity.

Innersleeve- was on the list of my last record-store victory tour (‘18). It was to be on my last stop between mid-July and the end of summer in the event that anyone could go with me, because I refused to go all by myself. So I asked all of my radio-station friends if they wanted to join but all I heard from them was deafening silence. I was also dealing with a personal collapse that rocked me like no other before it. Hence why I didn’t take the ride. But this year is a different one which didn’t deal me a bad river card or rolled snake eyes. Like the last, I had plenty of sizeable victories. I was finally going to give Innersleeve a chance I’ve been putting off, even if gas prices were at an all-time high.

It was the day I was going to head out there, a partially cloudy Thursday. I sat in front of the computer having a breakfast egg-bowl with bits of green peppers, tomatoes, mushrooms, and bacon with a glass of orange juice. I popped in a cassette in the deck and let it run through to be digitized while auditioning my music finds for an upcoming radio show. I asked my friends on social media who visited Innersleeve- what they thought and told me it was a pretty good spot, but they also cautioned me that their prices were not cheap but reasonable. WUSB’s all-around good guy Evan told me that he nabbed some spaghetti western soundtracks and giallo for his mother-in-law. (Nice. I guess he was feeling Italian that day.) So, how ‘not cheap but reasonable’ are they, really? Why not visit their page and find out.

Here’s the daily record flip…oh, the fucking horror.

I saw the stickers on what they were selling and it didn’t look good for me. For example: a copy of Talk Talk’s The Party’s Over for $26.99. New records from Interpol, Soccer Mommy, Harry Styles, and King Diamond went for $25.00 to $35.00, some frightening more. Here’s an original pressing of Talking Heads’ '77 album going  for $40.00. The Doors R.S.D. (Record Store Day) sold for the same. A yellow vinyl version of The Smile’s A Light for Attracting Attention spun handsomely for $50.00.  Billion Dollar Babies by Alice Cooper was asking for a whopping $60.00. Wow, seriously? Marie Antoinette would tell me to fuck right off and go choke on a cake.

I’d assume that being they’re located in the trendy uptight part of Long Island, that their selection was pretty straight. I saw nothing but pop, rock, common reggae, all-too-familiar indie artists, American standard jazz greats, and Rock & Roll Hall-Of-Famers. Maybe the occasional Amyl & The Sniffers record? Nothing daring, challenging, or defying to throw in the face of the power-move-making status quo in an uppity part of - wait, nevermind - they carried a copy of GG Allin’s Brutality And Bloodshed For All. That’ll scare all the socialites, Seinfeld, and the rich and powerful back into their bank-account vault homes in no time, eh? I had a laugh for five seconds before I resumed hate-watching their stock. It seemed like they didn’t even attempt to care in hiding their price tags while flipping through their new arrivals.

I remember when I went to Plainview’s Vinyl Bay 777. I looked around and experiencing the freshly-built interior felt like finding a hidden gem in the middle of nowhere. The excitement started to die slowly when I saw that all of their stock was priced three to four times what other stores were selling. They were big on condition and rarity. I only lasted 45 minutes before walking out with nothing and feeling ashamed of myself.

I’m more of quantity over quality. I can care less if the album in question is in tattered condition. As long as I have the physical product and can get it for less as possible then great. I can always stream it afterwards. I knew that -777 and Innersleeve were playing the vinyl revival game and were competing to see who can sell their stock for the highest price possible. They’ll have their case as to why they mark up their selection and even you’d agree it’d make sense. It doesn’t mean you’d want to go broke, and that’s if you were in my position.

That said, their selection didn’t excite me and reeling from sticker shock wasn’t helping, either. Along with the mania of high gas prices ($4.40 a gallon at the time of posting) and spending $893.00 in two days at Amityville’s High Fidelity, it wasn’t worth it. Instead, Innersleeve Records will be replaced by taking a ‘bonus’ trip to (Greenpoint) Brooklyn’s Captured Tracks. After that, I’ll declare my ‘22 Record Store Victory Tour over.

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TL;DR: Imagine if I was batting for the Yankees and I hit a zippy ground ball that rolled right to the Red Sox pitcher’s glove. He catches it right before I take my foot off the dirt and then throws it to his first baseman for the out. Now you know how I felt choosing to stay home instead of going to Innersleeve Records.

Innersleeve Records shopping list: no dice.

[fob4ever]

why was patrick wearing a t shirt and not a dress shirt when they were doing green day’s induction into the rock and roll hall of fame.. fob moments that will haunt me forever

[fuck-you-upmusicbracket]

oh and of course, deep femme transgender musical icon. deep femme should be in the rock and roll hall of fame

pink pepper spray - baby bought me a pink pepper spray, transphobes and nazis all best keep away

zombie by the cranberries by ajj - deserving of your horror, perhaps your derision, but the only thing that separates us is a rather large incision! / i wanna be an anonymous fleshlump, a visible phenomenon, an invisible person, knowing that this too is made in god's image, this horrifying visage

psalm for the risen dead - nothing left to say, just headstones with old names / on that last day we'll tear down the cemetery gates. rise singing from the grave, everything's gonna be remade

scaffolding - we're all raising up the scaffolding to make cathedrals of our bones

and other songs i love that are not about transgenderism:

dumb punk love songs - one of my favorite love songs ever

drexel avenue death church pt2 - also one of my favorite songs ever

the watcher of point pleasant (full band vers) - mothman song

the cannibal's love song - see tin

bob ross resurrection blues - see tin

don't bury me - when i die don't you dare bury me no don't you do that shit to me!!! it's anti-lawn it's pro-green burial it's got a tempo change it's a minute and 13 seconds long what more could you want

November Song II: December Song (or Green Capitalism is Still Capitalism and Will Surely Kill us All) - the other november song is also good & u should listen to it, this one's just my favorite

^^^^^

[greengay]

I used to be on tumblr in the Green Day fandom back in 2011-2016. I lived through the 21st Century Breakdwon release, the iHeart Radio meltdown, rehab, Rock n Roll Hall of Fame induction. I made some great friends that I still keep contact with to this day. I used to make edits and gifs and write fics…. I just stumbled on your blog by accident and you made me feel all the things I felt back then. Thank you. I’m 30 now and my 20s are long gone, but you made me feel 20 again.

Oh, wow, we just missed each other! I got into Green Day in 2017 after seeing them on their club tour at the end of 2016!

(Villain origin story: I had never really been into Green Day, but my dad was always really into punk rock and liked Green Day. I remember him telling me that it was lame that the East Bay Punk scene turned their backs on GD for wanting to be successful. I'm from New Jersey and my favorite venue in the whole state, Starland Ballroom, posted on their FB or IG or something that Green Day tickets were going on sale in a few hours and I was like, oh, huh, maybe that can be a birthday present for my dad! So la di da I easily got tickets, stress-free (AS OPPOSED TO NOW, WHERE IF GD CLUB TOUR TICKETS WENT ON SALE I WOULD BE SHITTING MY PANTS AND WORRYING FOR DAYS ABOUT GETTING ONE) and my dad and I went and it rocked my absolute socks off... and here I am lol)

I've made soooo many great friends through GD fandom also! Omg, you seem to have done a lot, I wonder who you are??? Haha. I've probably read your fic and reblogged your gifs/edits.

I'm glad I was able to trigger some nostalgia! Although, I would say, I don't think there's an age cap to fandom. Like, you don't just stop having interests and hobbies once you hit 30. I know there's a lot of 30+ people in tumblr GD fandom, and I have a lot of 30+ friends I've met irl from going to GD shows!

So I hope you drifted away from fandom because of your waning interest in Green Day/fandom, and not because you felt "too old" to be tumblrina, haha.

I'll admit, I haven't been throwing myself into tumblr GD fandom like I used to the past couple of years, but the pandemic was whack, and any sort of social media made me really anxious lol. Like I used to overshare a LOT on here, and maybe I'll go back to that, but I realized... that I sacrifice some of my "real" life to be online. Like, I'm personally not able to maintain my irl friendships and hobbies etc. while I'm obsessing over GD and posting about it online. HOWEVER, I don't think I would ever delete this blog unless I got famous or something lol... I would keep it up as an archive, cos I know I've always been really sad when online friends would delete ;-(

ALSO... idk if you've heard about the J**y situation... you can prob find my posts about it, but I think it led to BJA being less active on social media, which weakens the parasocial relationships which affects the Obsession™... Uhg, 2017/2018 was peak Bibbie.

Lastly... idk if you're still into GD fanfic, but the last couple of years have been a RENNAISSANCE... so go on AO3 lol

But anyways! Thank you for this anon, it was really sweet ;-;;;

[1solone]

Happy 77th Birthday to JOHN McVIE (born 26 Nov 1945)

NOTE: I've put together this video montage to go with THE CHAIN - the only song from RUMOURS with writing credits from all five members (Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Christine McVie, John McVie, and Mick Fleetwood).

As the bassist for Fleetwood Mac -- and, indeed, providing the "Mac" in that group name -- John McVie may be the most circumspect, self-effacing rock musician ever to achieve anything like superstar status. This fact could be explained when one recognizes that he never set out to be a rock musician, or a superstar.

Among bassists whose names are (or have been) household words, he's positively a shrinking violet next to figures such as John Entwistle, Paul McCartney, Jack Bruce, John Paul Jones, Sting, et al., all the while appearing on just about as many records as any of them (save McCartney) that are in people's collections.

He is best known as a member of the rock bands John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers from 1964 to 1967 and Fleetwood Mac since 1967. He joined Fleetwood Mac shortly after its formation by guitarist Peter Green in 1967, replacing temporary bass guitarist Bob Brunning. McVie and Fleetwood are the only two members of the group to appear on every Fleetwood Mac release, and for over fifty years have been the group's last remaining original members.

In 1968, McVie married blues pianist and singer Christine Perfect, who became a member of Fleetwood Mac two years later. John and Christine McVie divorced in 1977, but remained on good terms. During this time the band recorded the album Rumours, a major artistic and commercial success that borrowed its title from the turmoil in McVie's and other band members' marriages and relationships.

McVie was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998 as a member of Fleetwood Mac.

THE CHAIN

Stevie Nicks wrote the lyrics about Lindsey Buckingham as their relationship was falling apart. Buckingham and Nicks share lead vocals on the song.

Pieces of different studio takes were spliced together to form the track. The bass line that comes in at about the 3-minute mark through the song was written independently by John McVie, who was originally planning to use it in a different song.

This began as a Christine McVie song called "Butter Cookie (Keep Me There)," which which is available on the expanded edition of Rumours. The beginning of the track wasn't working, but the band loved Mick Fleetwood and John McVie's ending, which was now on tape. So, they counted back from the bass line, used the kick-drum as a metronome, Nicks gave them the lyrics for the verses, Buckinghan and Christine McVie wrote the music and the chorus lyrics, Lindsey added the guitar over the ending, and "The Chain" as we know it was born.

This is the only Fleetwood Mac song credited to all five members of their 1977 lineup. Since various pieces were assembled to make the song, they all had some contribution.

This song came to represent the resilience of Fleetwood Mac and the strength of their bond as they continued on for many years despite their personal and professional difficulties. It was often the first song they played in concert.

The low bass line in this song was used by the BBC for the Grand Prix theme tune for many years.

Mick Fleetwood: "'The Chain' basically came out of a jam. That song was put together as distinct from someone literally sitting down and writing a song. It was very much collectively a band composition. The riff is John McVie's contribution - a major contribution. Because that bassline is still being played on British TV in the car-racing series to this day. The Grand Prix thing. But it was really something that just came out of us playing in the studio. Originally we had no words to it. And it really only became a song when Stevie wrote some. She walked in one day and said, 'I've written some words that might be good for that thing you were doing in the studio the other day.' So it was put together. Lindsey arranged and made a song out of all the bits and pieces that we were putting down onto tape. And then once it was arranged and we knew what we were doing, we went in and recorded it. But it ultimately becomes a band thing anyway, because we all have so much of our own individual style, our own stamp that makes the sound of Fleetwood Mac. So it's not like you feel disconnected from the fact that maybe you haven't written one of the songs. Because what you do, and what you feel when we're all making music together, is what Fleetwood Mac ends up being, and that's the stuff you hear on the albums. Whether one likes it or not, this is, after all, a combined effort from different people playing music together."

[ncisladaily]

Mama said knock 2023 out.

Grammy winner, 2021 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and NCIS-verse vet LL Cool J has joined the slate of performers for this Sunday night’s Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest, airing on ABC.

LL Cool J featuring DJ Z-Trip is set to perform a medley of hits just before the clock strikes midnight, as the annual fête’s Times Square headliner.

Additionally, Grammy winner Cardi B is confirmed to perform poolside from Fontainebleau Miami Beach, as part of this year’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve line-up.

As previously announced, in addition to banter between Seacrest and his Times Square co-host Rita Ora, Dick Clark’s Rockin’ New Year’s Eve will feature performances from Megan Thee Stallion, Jelly Roll, Sabrina Carpenter and Tyla (live in New York), plus Aqua, Doechii, Ellie Goulding, Green Day, Janelle Monáe, Loud Luxury x Two Friends with Bebe Rexha, Ludacris, Nile Rodgers & CHIC, Paul Russell, Reneé Rapp with Coco Jones and Thirty Seconds to Mars (from Hollywood).

Some comedy segments are on tap, too, courtesy of YouTuber stand-up comic Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias, who will rank his least favorite fashion trends of 2023; comedian and impressionist Matt Friend; comedian and actress Patricia Williams aka Ms. Pat, who will discuss “things that went on strike in 2023”; and stand-up comic/Bookie star and EP Sebastian Maniscalco, who will share pop culture moments in 2023 that “ain’t right.”

[greendayauthority]

Tré Cool and Billie Joe Armstrong with Dee Dee Ramone at the 17th Annual Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in New York City, 18 March 2002

[greensparty]

My Hot Take on Jann Wenner

Over the last few days, Jann Wenner did an interview with New York Times about his new book of interviews The Masters: Conversations with Dylan, Lennon, Jagger, Townshend, Garcia, Bono, and Springsteen. As a result of his comments, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which he co-founded, removed him from their board of directors. The comments he made when NYT asked why there were no black artists or female artists in the book, included:

“The people had to meet a couple criteria, but it was just kind of my personal interest and love of them. Insofar as the women, just none of them were as articulate enough on this intellectual level.”

He continued, “Stevie Wonder, genius, right? I suppose when you use a word as broad as ‘masters,’ the fault is using that word. Maybe Marvin Gaye, or Curtis Mayfield? I mean, they just didn’t articulate at that level.”

The next day he issued an apology:

“‘The Masters’ is a collection of interviews I’ve done over the years,” he continued, “that seemed to me to best represent an idea of rock ’n’ roll’s impact on my world; they were not meant to represent the whole of music and its diverse and important originators but to reflect the high points of my career and interviews I felt illustrated the breadth and experience in that career. They don’t reflect my appreciation and admiration for myriad totemic, world-changing artists whose music and ideas I revere and will celebrate and promote as long as I live. I totally understand the inflammatory nature of badly chosen words and deeply apologize and accept the consequences.”

Let me begin my response to this by stating that from a young age of about 9, I was a big fan of Rolling Stone magazine. Over the years many readers have complained and said it's not what it once was, they are stuck in the 60s, yada yada yada. I always enjoyed reading it and I am still a subscriber of their print and digital magazine to this day. Which is why Wenner's interview is so disappointing, anger-inducing, and frustrating.

If Wenner just wanted to release a book of his personal favorite rock stars, just say that. But to call it The Masters and for one of the leaders of music journalism to call it that, it's implying that these musicians are the high standard of rock history. For him to respond to why there were no black or female musicians in his book by saying that they "don't articulate at that level" is false, racist, sexist, vile and ignorant for countless reasons. Off the top of my head:

Rock music as a genre was based on blues music, which was invented by black musicians. Therefore there would be no Rolling Stones, Beatles, etc without blues music and those musicians in his book would easily attest to that.

No black musicians could articulate at that level? Really? Did you really just say that Jann Wenner? Because Rolling Stone has often emphasized black musicians who were the architects of rock music like Chuck Berry, Bo Didley, Little Richard, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker and more, which is why I'm shocked you'd say that. To completely dismiss black musicians like Curtis Mayfield, Jimi Hendrix, Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Prince, Stevie Wonder, Al Green, George Clinton, Otis Redding, Sly and the Family Stone, Michael Jackson, Smokey Robinson, Sam Cooke, Bob Marley, Run D.M.C., Public Enemy, Living Colour, and the Bad Brains is denying rock history.

Female musicians were often in the background of the early days of rock music, i.e. songwriters, singing in a vocal group, or a back-up singer. But again, Rolling Stone often emphasized female musicians with their frequent Women In Rock issues, most notably their 1997 issue with Tina Turner, Madonna and Courtney Love on the cover. But to deny female musicians like Tina Turner, Dusty Springfield, Ronnie Spector, Aretha Franklin, Janis Joplin, Diana Ross, Joni Mitchell, Debbie Harry, Patti Smith, Stevie Nicks, Madonna, The Go-Go's, The Bangles, Courtney Love, Fiona Apple, Grace Slick, Kim Deal of The Pixies and The Breeders, The Runways, Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Aimee Mann, Liz Phair, Sinead O'Connor, Annie Lennox, Siouxsie Sioux, Beyonce, P.J. Harvey, Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth, Exene Cervenka of X, Tina Weymouth of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club, Moe Tucker and Nico of The Velvet Underground, The Donnas, and their contribution to rock is irresponsible.

If he is just kissing up to his famous friends and trying to show off the people he's known in his life then that is separate from illustrating the "master of rock music." His apology was just plain egotistical, i.e. 'look at me, I've hung out with Lennon and Bono and I was trying to show that.'

In the last few years it actually seemed like Rolling Stone was trying really hard to prove they were not just covering white males and their coverage / artists on the cover has been very diverse.

In 2020 when they revised Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list, The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper was de-throned at #1 and replaced by Marvin Gaye's What's Going On. Whether you agree with this or not, it definitely seemed like RS was trying to prove it wasn't just a list of white males and the list as a whole emphasized many more hip hop and female artists than the previous iteration.

RS itself has been a very progressive publication in music history. A place where they report rock music and the culture around it, i.e. politics, film, art, TV, comedy, etc. They have brought in extremely talented writers like Kurt Loder, Lester Bangs, Ben Fong-Torres, Cameron Crowe, David Fricke, Rob Sheffield, Jancee Dunn, Kim Neely and more. And the magazine itself was a lifeline for music fans everywhere to get the chance to read about music news and musicians you might not be learning about in your regional press and radio (pre-internet era that is). It's too bad that Wenner, who founded this publication is unaware of how out-of-touch his statements are in contrast with what the magazine represents. It does need to be stated that Wenner has not been involved with RS since 2019 and the magazine tried to distance itself from him after his statements. As for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, there is a lot to criticize about it, but at its core they are an institution that celebrates the history of rock music and have inducted numerous black and female musicians. Personally, I am appreciative of the fact that they added my documentary Life on the V: The Story of V66 to their Library and Archives' Permanent Collection last year. But I digress. Wenner's opinions do not align with what the Rock Hall is and should be about. This is a clear example of someone who founded a magazine and co-founded a Hall of Fame that is about celebrating music past, present and future and all that encompasses, but yet the founder is completely misguided and ignorant.

In the end, we are all entitled to our own opinions and we can say whoever we want is the best. And yes, this could be a case of a grumpy old boomer looking at rock history through his very narrow tunnel vision. But I just expected way more out of him and less offensive rhetoric.

[mjfass]

This is like when Green Day went in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and then finally got invited back to perform at Gillman Street https://twitter.com/watchonpremier/status/1657841075904561153?s=46&t=Lwmbo9rnV0W1_3YNeHjObw

I absolutely not understand your reference but I also absolutely understand your reference.

[artistamongthieves]

A short story about an artist who refused to keep living among thieves

Down By A River

That was it:

Lily died in his arms on a Tuesday afternoon and by Wednesday morning he was back in the big city. He had shuttered up the school bus , pulled the big tarp over it and put a sign that said “please no trespassing —hallowed ground “

he didn’t have any problem picking up his guitar —the songs just flowed one by one by one.

they came out like tears falling out of his eyes . they were fantastic songs that would live on forever.

even though Lily was just a memory now and the baby they had made in their lovely school bus paradise floating somewhere in the spiritual realm maybe waiting to get born again —he didn’t really know he if he believed in reincarnation or if the baby was in heaven —but he wrote song after song after song with all of that in mind .

his first big album came out And was a raging success. everybody thought it was a celebration : the festivities the balloons the champagne the interviews, but in his mind all it was was a tribute to Lily and their baby . They could not have known if it was a boy or a girl, but they named him River anyway deciding that if by chance it was a girl her name would be Willow .

Years and years went by . album after album came out .he fell into a bad place with drugs. he fell into a bad place with alcohol. he fell into a bad place with bad people —some he had to fire ,some he had to run from ,some he had to tell them to get lost.

But every time he picked up his guitar he thought of Lily —even if it wasn’t a conscious thought —for Lily was the one who inspired everything that he became. that wasn’t something he would ever forget . Lily-the sweet kind waitress he’d met and had love at first sight for as she poured him a coffee at opals cafe in the little Midwest town no one even knew about.

when he was finally inducted into the rock ‘n’ roll Hall of Fame in his speech all he talked about was that summer at the school bus by the river with Lily .nobody had ever heard him talk out loud about that time of his life ;in fact, nobody even knew where he had gone all those years ago.

nobody knew about Lily and their baby who died. nobody knew about the water moccasin in the river. nobody knew about the sun that shown down on her golden hair as she lay there limp in his arms ,waist deep in a river ,his eyes crying tears he didn’t even know he had in his head —but where his tears came from is the same place his songs came from so when he accepted that award and he made that speech there wasn’t a dry eye in the house.

after that he went away again. nobody knew where. he drove down that long road with green trees surrounding him —his old truck knew exactly where to go.

when he drove around the bend and went down the 2 miles of gravel he could smell and hear the water; he could smell the river weeds .

sure enough the tarp had been bleached out by the sun and was a little tattered from the wind but there it was —

he was leaving all that other life behind : the fame the money the groupies the fans.

it was time to rest . he tore the tarp off and pried open the door to the school bus went inside and was absolutely dumbfounded when he smelled the patchouly wafting from the quilt that he had left on the bed , the quilt that Lily made for them —all the nights they had loved under that quilt ,all the nights they had looked up through the school bus windows to the stars and the full moons of that long ago summer, listening to the river flow by.

he started to cry and then he thought “wait —there’s no need for tears I’m finally home “

so he started a fire and made a pot of coffee .

a song started to get born —just like they always did —he couldn’t help it when songs started coming to him

that day he made a decision he would never again return to the city. he would live out the rest of his days there by the river looking for Crystally rocks and making necklaces that he would send to his friend in the big city . Nobody knew that the sparkly crystally rock necklaces on hemp cords were coming from a famous man, a famous singer, a famous somebody who had disappeared once again into the woods to live out his days by the river.

he died there alone all by himself with just his memories and when one of his friends came from the city and found him , there was a note pinned to one of his most favorite guitars

it read :

bury me when I’m gone it doesn’t matter where I’ve gone to be with Lily now where I can brush her hair our baby is alive somewhere —alive amongst this earth ,don’t cry for me my friend for I died a happy man I had many things that no one ever dreamed could be and here it was I laid to rest don’t cry for me my friend don’t never wonder why I left the city for the woods and never did look back . take my guitar and burn it hot under the full moon sky and when you leave , the ashes take and spread them to the wind I’ve had a very blessed life I might be back again.

Sometimes when you see a star falling from the sky it might be him that famous guy who’s songs could make us cry

[steepedwonders]

https://www.tumblr.com/steepedwonders/766871512418500608/yall-talking-about-green-day-like-they-didnt?source=share

Green Day has always been politicial.

How have they lost popularity? They were inducted into the Rock and roll hall of fame in 2015 and still sell out stadiums over 30 years after they gave out their first major label album.

I saw them playing at sold out stadiums this summer and they are going on a huge tour again in 2025 where they're playing in several countries for the first time. If they weren't popular that wouldn't be possible and they're going to headline a bunch of festivals in Europe. I'm have my tickets. 🤗

☕︎

[vickiabelson]

Today LIVE! I met Grammy-winning bassist, Will Lee, a lifetime ago at The Rock ’N Roll Cafe on Bleecker Street in NYC. He was already a legend as the bassist of The World’s Most Dangerous Band, house band for the original Late Night with David Letterman. Will and Paul Schaffer hold the distinction of being there from day one, until the final days with the CBS Orchestra on Late Show, giving him the world’s record for longest-running bassist on late-night television.Our paths crossed there, too. More on that on the Live.

Other than his three decades on The Late Show with David Letterman, Will has lent his talents to well over 2,000 Pop, Jazz, Rock, Reggae and Gospel albums including those by The Bee Gees, George Benson, Michael Bolton, David Bowie, The Brecker Brothers, James Brown, Mariah Carey, Cher, Natalie Cole, Christopher Cross, Ray Davies, Gloria Estefan & the Miami Sound Machine, Roberta Flack, Aretha Franklin,  Al Green, Billy Joel, Alicia Keyes, Chaka Khan, Cyndi Lauper, Barry Manilow, Ricky Martin, Bette Midler, Laura Nyro, Diana Ross, David Sanborn, Carly Simon, Frank Sinatra, Ringo Starr, Steely Dan, Cat Stevens, Barbra Streisand, Frankie Valli, Luther Vandross, Dionne Warwick, Weather Report, Nancy Wilson and Akiko Yano, He has sung and played on an equal number of TV and radio commercials (he was the voice of Teddy Grahams, Stroh’s Beer, The US Army “Be All That You Can Be”) as well as many movie soundtracks. 

Will performed at Live Aid with The Thompson Twins and, with The CBS Orchestra, is in the house band for the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame. He has toured with Bette Midler, Barry Manilow, Horace Silver, The Brecker Brothers, and Herbie Mann. He has played with Miles Davis, Phil Woods, Dizzy Gillespie, and was held in Charlie Parker’s arms as a baby. Will’s performed or recorded with all 4 of the Beatles, pretty thrilling for a founding member of the world’s premier Beatles band, The Fab Faux! 

Will’s an inductee in the Musician’s Hall of Fame in Nashville, and has a permanent display (check out www.musicianshalloffame.com). His latest single, It’s All Too Much, and his new video, Hey Shorty can be accessed as well as Will’s last solo album, “Love, Gratitude and Other Distractions", a previous release "OH!" and a jazz album, BirdHouse, with his father, Bill are all accessible from his website  www.willlee.com 

I’ve had the great good fortune to see Will perform in numerous configurations. Talent plus. Plus we share a most fortunate life choice. I’m not sure there’s a nicer, kinder, lovelier, more humble human. Can’t wait to sit down with him again. Adore the man.

Will Lee Live on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson

Wednesday, 8/21/24, 5 pm PT, 8 pm ET

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