GREEN DAY
Years active: 1987-
Formed in: East bay, California, USA
Style: Punk-Rock, Pop-Punk, Alternative Rock
Location: Press conference
City: Montreal, Canada
Date: 1997
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Filmed by: Andy Mak for Punk Empire
Uploaded by: JF HAYEUR
JF says: We wanted to interview Green Day and Warner invited us to their hotel where they’d be giving their press conference. I don’t think Green Day were very excited about it, as you can see.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_day
Green Day is an American rock trio formed in 1987.[1] The band has consisted of Billie Joe Armstrong (vocals, guitar), Mike Dirnt (bass guitar, vocals), and Tré Cool (drums, percussion) for the majority of its existence.
Green Day was originally part of the punk rock scene at 924 Gilman Street in Berkeley, California. Its early releases for independent record label Lookout! Records earned them a grassroots fanbase, some of whom felt alienated when the band signed to a major label.[2] Nevertheless, its major label debut Dookie (1994) became a breakout success and eventually sold over 10 million copies in the U.S. alone, and 15 million copies sold worldwide.[3] As a result, Green Day was widely credited, alongside fellow California punk bands The Offspring and Rancid, with reviving mainstream interest in and popularizing punk rock in the United States.[4][5] Green Day’s three follow-up albums, Insomniac, Nimrod and Warning did not achieve the massive success of Dookie, but they were still successful, reaching double platinum, double platinum, and gold status respectively.[6] Green Day’s 2004 rock opera American Idiot reignited the band’s popularity with a younger generation, selling five million copies in the U.S.[7]
The band has sold over 65 million records worldwide,[citation needed] including 22 million in the United States alone.[8] They have won three Grammy Awards; Best Alternative Album for Dookie, Best Rock Album for American Idiot, and Record of the Year for “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”.
Green day interview 1997 in Montreal for PUNK EMPIRE.
Approved by Warner. We faxed our request to video interview GREEN DAY in 1997 and we were invited by Warner to attented this small press conference and ask our questions.
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