Kembali
pada tahun 1993 Green Day sedang mencoba untuk mencari tahu bagaimana
mereka akan membawa akar punk rock mereka merekam album ketiga mereka , Dookie , dan album pertama pada label
rekaman besar . Rolling
Stone duduk dengan Billie Joe baru-baru ini untuk melihat kembali pada
20th Anniversary untuk artikel yang akan datang tentang " Road to
Dookie " , tapi untuk saat ini mereka merilis bagian dari wawancara
mereka dengan Billie Joe . Dia berbicara tentang proses yang terjadi dari sebuah band yang tumbuh di Lookout ! Catatan untuk memutuskan untuk pergi dengan Rob Cavallo dan Warner Brothers ,
"This was a critical turn in your future. What were band meetings
like? And how did you ultimately decide to go with Rob Cavallo and
Reprise?We were probably stoned. I gotta say that. We were always high [laughs]. It was this foggy process of elimination.
But we had a clear idea of what we wanted to do: "I'm playing my 'Blue' guitar [his first, serious instrument, a Stratocaster copy received as a Christmas present when he was 11 years old]. Mike is going to get the best bass sound. I want to use one amp. That's all we need." That's how we ended up making the record."
Mereka
pergi untuk berbicara tentang proses penulisan album dan makna di balik
lagu-lagu seperti Coming Clean , dan FOD , serta beberapa inspirasi
untuk karya seni . Di sini mereka berbicara tentang makna di balik Basket Case dan apa Billie Joe sedang berpikir saat ia menulis :
"But there is nothing silly in the lyrics to
"Basket Case" [about Armstrong's panic attacks], "When I Come Around"
[about his relationship with his future wife Adrienne], or "F.O.D."
[a/k/a "Fuck Off and Die"]. They suggest the guy living the songs wasn't
as happy as the one making the record.
I think so, starting from the opening line, "I declare I don't care no
more" [in "Burnout"]. I was getting high a lot. It was a gloomy feeling.
You're looking for someone to acknowledge your insanity. "F.O.D." was
just about seeing a particular person and I'm gonna beat the shit out of
them. I laugh about it now. But they were real feelings. Everything
felt so crazy. When we were on an indie label, it felt comfortable. Now,
in a lot of ways, I was feeling like I'd burned down my home.
"Basket Case" became this loser national anthem [laughs]. But to say it's about panic attacks is limiting. It's about going through total confusion. I think of a song like "American Idiot" as feeling, OK, there is a lot of chaos in the world, people getting murdered. There is no way to make sense of a world like that. You feel like a victim of it. "Basket Case" is the same way."
"Basket Case" became this loser national anthem [laughs]. But to say it's about panic attacks is limiting. It's about going through total confusion. I think of a song like "American Idiot" as feeling, OK, there is a lot of chaos in the world, people getting murdered. There is no way to make sense of a world like that. You feel like a victim of it. "Basket Case" is the same way."
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