MTV Chat Transcript with Green Day
10/13/97 Greenday in the MTV Arena
MTVixen: Welcome to the MTV Arena for this chat with Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt & Tre Cool of Green Day. Green Day hit the big time with their single "Longview" in 1994, a frenetic punk romp that catapulted these California kids into the center of the alternative music storm. Their album Dookie and follow-up effort Insomniac went on to sell a combined 14 million copies in the U.S. "Nimrod," Green Day's fifth full-length album will be out tomorrow. In addition to the familiar pop-punk melodies, expect to hear violin music from That Dog's Petra Haden on this album, as well as (!) horns. During the chat, *There Will Be a Contest!* -The first 10 people who have their question asked during this live chat will each win an autographed Green Day poster and the brand new "Nimrod" CD. Welcome guys!
GD B Joe: Hello.
GD TreCool: hullo everybody
GD Mike D: Your'e walkin' a thin line.
GD B Joe: What the hell is going on?
GD Mike D: Howdy Pardners
MTVixen: Lets get to those questions!
MTVRock: Evil Zen has a great opening question: Hey, where did you guys get the name Green Day?
GD B Joe: It was a song about some green stuff.
GD Mike D: We got it online. and that's that, I guess...
GD B Joe: Yep, and that's that.
MTVOnstage: SkaGenie asks: have you recieved anything from fans that was really cool lately?
GD B Joe: We've gotten fanzines...
GD TreCool: got some dead flowers... ...in a bedpan
GD Mike D: Trying to think
GD Mike D: A Gay Barbarians 7" record in San Fransisco.
GD B Joe: Once someone requested that I send them my dirty socks...the guy had a foot fetish.
MTVixen: Logic1313 asks: What was it like working with No Doubt?
GD B Joe: We didn't work with No Doubt...
GD TreCool: who's No Doubt?
GD B Joe: we worked with Gabriel and Steve who coincidentally are their horn players live.
MTVixen: SHORTIE13 asks: billie, what would you do if your guitar broke beyond repair? would your music be the same?
GD B Joe: Hell no. Tre Cool is fine.
GD TreCool: Billie Joe is the king of punk
MTVRock: Akasha5 asks: IS IT HARD TO REMAIN A "PUNK ROCK BAND" AND BE SUCCESSFUL"?
GD B Joe: No.
GD TreCool: nope
GD B Joe: Nope.
GD TreCool: eh eh
GD Mike D: Ask The Offspring.
MTVixen: Pk93ss asks: I got the new album and was listening to Prosthetic Head. It sound just like walking catastrophe guitar-wise. Was this on purpose? Nimrod Rocks!!!
GD B Joe: Now that you mention it. It does sound like walking catastrophe.
GD Mike D: It's okay to rip yourself off.
MTVRock: Ok2bombu asks about the families: tell us about your wives billie,mike and tre, i dont hear much about them.
GD TreCool: nope
GD Mike D: They're all great. All of my wives are great.
GD B Joe: Everything is fine. Don't worry about it. We met in Minneapolis in 1990. Her name is Adrienne
MTVixen: TaliaK asks: What made you guys decide to go back with Mark Kohr as your video director after using different directors for "Brain Stew/Jaded" and "Walking Contradiction"?
GD TreCool: nimrod
GD B Joe: We work more smoothly with Mark Kohr. His videos go with our songs better than everyone else.
GD TreCool : NIMROD*NIMROD*NIMROD*NIMROD*NIMROD*NIMROD*NIMROD*
GD Mike D: Mark Kohr is the cutest director we know!
MTVRock: TreCool17 asks: Tre.....Do you think your drumming style has changed at all for this album compared to the others? If so, in what ways?
GD TreCool: i am the greatest rock and roll drummer on the planet and you suck
GD Mike D: He finally gained some.
GD B Joe: Yep.
MTVRock: GTPen asks: In your Kurplunk CD you say "in memory of Gravy" whos that?
GD Mike D: This is a great story... Gravy was like a twisted Grover with one eye, fur of grey, and an ill temper.
GD TreCool: he's running amok in New Orleans
GD Mike D: In 1991 he was abducted in New Orleans along with $3000 cash, at least, we think he was abducted. At Large. One more thing... my cat, who also has fur of grey, is named after him.
MTVixen: ROUTE 16 asks: what are u going to do with all the songs that didnt make it on nimrod?
GD B Joe: They'll be on English B-sides. Go get em...you bastard!!!
GD TreCool: nimrod
MTVRock: Sinsuper asks: hey billy joe, mike, and tre. i was wondering what do you like the most about touring, and what do you like the least? ---® an
GD B Joe: I like to play shows...
GD TreCool: I like truck stops
GD B Joe: I like truck stops... I like truck stop food...
GD TreCool: I like lot lizards
GD B Joe: I like truck stop bathrooms...
GD B Joe: I like lot lizards, too.
GD Mike D: I like collecting roadkill.
GD TreCool: I hate Mike's roadkill collection
GD B Joe: I don't know what I hate. I hate getting the flu.
GD Mike D: What do I hate? I hate getting my teeth knocked out.
MTVixen: ChristieG asks: So how often do you go dumpster diving, and when did you start?
GD TreCool: I dumpster dived outside a prosthetic limb factory in Seattle
GD B Joe: The first time I dumpter dived was in 1991 in Spokane, Washington
GD TreCool: People throw a lot of stuff away in Japan
GD B Joe: Now I dumpster my own garbage.
GD Mike D: It depends on the dumpster.
GD Mike D: Usually, there's a security guard, guarding peoples' trash.
MTVRock: Teakwondo asks: What is your favorite song you ever wrote?
GD B Joe: I'm partial from 1-18 on the new record.
MTVixen: Viriod asks: Why did you decide to not make a double album?
GD Mike D: To keep the price lower for YOU.
MTVRock: Ad Dan asks: Who were your musical influences growing up and how have they affected your music?
GD Mike D: There's a Road Rules Dork in the room trying to hang out...
GD TreCool: I like anything that doesn't suck
GD B Joe: I like Bob Mould...Crimpshrine...lately I like Bikini Kill.
GD TreCool: which is practically nothing
GD B Joe: and a little Pretenders.
GD TreCool: I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song
GD Mike D: I second the notion.
MTVixen: User32212 asks: What brought on the change from alternative to horns and violens and non-alternative stuff like that.
GD TreCool: sex and violence sorry, violins ya nimrod ya
GD Mike D: Define alternative,
GD B Joe: You've just proven the fact that there is such a thing as a stupid question.
MTVRock: Greenman asks: I was wondering if Schreechin Weasel really broke up and if they didn't, will Mike be playing with them again? And also, for Billie, how's Pinhead Gunpowder doing? I love Pinhead and I wish you guys would do some shows in or around NYC,How's Mike's arm?
GD TreCool: write a novel, dude
GD Mike D: My mom said I can't play with them any more.
GD B Joe: Pinhead Gunpowder is doing nothing.
GD Mike D: But, they've reformed with members of Squirtgun and the guitarist from Zoinks.
MTVOnstage: SkaGenie asks: Billie : On a scale of 1-10,how angry were you when you wrote the lyrics to platypus (I hate you)
GD B Joe: 11
GD Mike D: I hate you
MTVRock: Bread99 asks: Billie, what are your influences for writing such great lyrics?
GD B Joe: Oh, you know, the classic literary joints. um...giants...
MTVixen: Mirage 84 asks: Hey what was it like being wrapped in duct tape for that photo shoot?
GD B Joe: My ear was itching and Mike scratched it with his nose...while in duct tape.
GD Mike D: I was naked underneath all the duct tape. Good thing I'm a hairless wonder.
GD TreCool: my sweat was coagulating and my nipples were pressed against Billie's muscular physique
MTVixen: Surf ova to the launch of the official Green Day website at http://www.greenday.com
MTVRock: CaptainEM asks: what do you think about the green day cover band, TOUGH GIRLS, creating a cult-like following to your band?
GD Mike D: Cool name.
GD B Joe: I had no idea that they existed. Send me a LIVE show on video to the idiot club.
GD TreCool: I am currently going out with the Tough Girls and I love them.
MTVOnstage: FunDip4 asks: Do you know that people online pretend to be you? What do you think of that?
GD TreCool: good hustle
GD Mike D: Duh
MTVRock: S0L0Anaki asks: How did you come up with the video for Hitchin' a ride?It's an awesome video.
GD Mike D: Since you put it that way, yes.
GD B Joe: Song has a swing feel, so we thought it would look great with vaudeville.
MTVRock: Cobain420 asks about the all but gone, GN'R: does anyone in GREEN DAY like GUNS N ROSES
GD B Joe: Yes. I think their first record is great.
GD Mike D: Yes, but not the band.
GD TreCool: who's Guns and Roses? I'm more partial to Guns and Wankers
MTVOnstage: PuMpKiN75 asks:Why did you decide to name the album Nimrod?
GD TreCool: why'd you name yourself Pumpkin?
GD Mike D: We're big cartoon fans. ie. Bugs Bunny
GD B Joe: Yep.
MTVOnstage: Hemicuda5 asks: Why was your mom mad when you mooned the crowd at Woodstock?
GD B Joe: My mom is 65 years old.
GD Mike D: My mom was mad she couldn't be there.
GD B Joe: Matt Pinfield is bald.
MTVRock: GreeneDaa asks: in 1039 smoothed out slappy hours and kerplunk, howcome alot of your songs were love songs?
GD B Joe: Because I like to write love songs.
GD Mike D: because we weren't jaded fools (then).
GD TreCool: I love ya
GD B Joe: I still write love songs. Just not as many.
GD B Joe: I love you Tre.
GD TreCool: I love you too Billie Joe
GD B Joe: No...I really love you.
GD Mike D: Hey, what about me, guys?
GD TreCool: Hey, Mike, you're swell
GD B Joe: Mike's got a cute ass.
MTVOnstage: WellOver1 asks: Is it true that the members of the band fasted for Yom Kippur?
GD Mike D: Mean is in the eye of the holder.
GD B Joe: Hell no. We're not Jewish...I'm Catholic. I'm Marilyn Manson.
GD TreCool: I'm not hungry
GD Mike D: I'm Marilyn Hanson.
GD B Joe: I think Marilyn Manson and the youngest brother from Hanson should do a duet together.
MTVixen: We have time for two final questions. PrivateAl asks: if you guys had one wish what would it be?
GD Mike D: Other than the obvious,
GD TreCool: that people would turn off their computers, go outside, talk to people, touch people lick people, enjoy each other's company and smell each other on the rump
GD B Joe: One wish...I don't know... I want to be the President of the United States.
GD Mike D: I'd wish for another wish. I was a little wishy-washy on that one.
GD TreCool: I wish that all you people will go out and buy two copies of Nimrod right as the record store opens tomorrow
GD TreCool: I wish that you would kiss the goat
MTVixen: One more question before this party gets busted:
MTVRock: And finally, BaBylnJaR seeks some advice: How do ya get rid of a nasty hicky?? Any advice?
GD Mike D: Wear your pants.
GD B Joe: Cold spoon.
GD TreCool: Poke a hole in your boyfriend's cheek
GD Mike D: Take an eraser to it.
GD TreCool: slice away the part of your neck where the hicky is, with an exacto knife
GD Mike D: On another note, you could always abstain from being nasty. Nah...
MTVixen: Thanks to Green Day for joining us here in the MTV Arena.
GD B Joe: This is Billie Joe signing off. Elvis has left the building.
GD Mike D: My daughter Estelle is my hero. Goodnight Irene.
GD TreCool: nimrodnimrodnimrodnimrodnimrodnimrodnimrodnimrodnimrodnimrodnimrod
MTVixen: And thanks to our audience for their questions, and participation. Nighty night
MTVRock: Thanks everyone... Goodnight.
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