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Resyinc by Richard Ari Bona
work with HDTV
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Why hello there.
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How're you doing?
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I said heeeey-o!
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There's people that like
to do things the safe way.
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And that's just never been
part of my vocabulary.
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♪ As time ticks by ♪
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♪ Still I try ♪
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♪ No rest for crosstops in my mind ♪
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♪ On my own, here we go ♪
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I don't know, I just,
I like to make my own path.
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But I never thought I'd end up,
you know, doing Broadway.
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♪ I walk this empty street on
the boulevard of broken dreams ♪
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♪ Where the city sleeps ♪
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♪ And I'm the only one
and I walk alone ♪
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♪ I walk alone, I walk alone ♪
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Billie Joe's a punk
rocker from the East Bay,
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working class kid.
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- Tickets.
- It's just me.
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I'm from Rockville, Maryland,
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upper middle class family and theatre geek.
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We have nothing in common.
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There's absolutely no reason
why this should work.
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Again, you can be as
cocky as you want to be.
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Broadway is such a foreign thing to me,
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Stairway to your right, please.
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This is crazy.
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Tonight Billie Joe Armstrong
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will be making his
professional theatre debut,
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and his Broadway debut at one time.
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Fucktime!
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The role of Saint Jimmy,
usually played by Tony Vincent,
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will be played by Billie Joe Armstrong.
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I can't act, I can't dance.
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Compared to a lot of these people,
I can't even sing.
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Come on!
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I was thinking to myself,
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"What the fuck are you doing here?"
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♪ Don't wanna be an American idiot ♪
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♪ Don't want a nation
under the new media ♪
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American Idiot, the album,
exploded on the scene
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in those really hideous post 9/11 years.
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♪ The subliminal mindfuck America ♪
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It was a fierce stance
about the state of America.
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♪ Everything isn't meant to be okay ♪
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As a band we really wanted to make
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some kind of concept record.
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Drawing from like Tommy to Sergeant Pepper.
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England!
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Mike Dirnt kind of started it off,
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and then we all just sort of joined in,
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and we were all like,
"this could be really great."
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♪ Well maybe I'm the faggot America ♪
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To me, bringing American Idiot to Broadway
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seemed like a really great idea.
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♪ Don't wanna be an American Idiot ♪
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♪ One nation controlled by the media ♪
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I'm open to big crazy ideas.
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But, you know,
I mean this album's, it's my baby.
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So I wanna make sure nobody fucks it up.
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♪ Calling out to idiot America ♪
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♪ Welcome to a new kind of tension ♪
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♪ All across the alien nation ♪
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♪ Where everything
isn't meant to be okay ♪
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♪ Television dreams of tomorrow ♪
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♪ We are not the ones meant to follow ♪
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♪ For that's enough to argue ♪
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I never put so much emotion into any record
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like I have into every song
that's on American Idiot.
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♪ Summer has come and passed ♪
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There are times where I
feel like I get choked up
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and I feel like it's hard to
sing the next line
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because everything comes from
some emotional place
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that i've experienced in my life
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and it resurfaces every time
that I play those songs.
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♪ Like my fathers come to pass ♪
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♪ Seven years has gone so fast ♪
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♪ Wake me up when September ends ♪
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It was the first time
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I ever wrote about like my father dying.
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So when I moved out I was 17,
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you know, I started living in warehouses.
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My dad died when I was 10,
so I said seven years
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- as if it was seven years later.
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And then you go to, um,
at the end, at the last verse,
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- it says 20 years.
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So it's an adult reminiscing
about being a young adult.
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♪ As my memory rests ♪
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♪ But never forgets what I lost ♪
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♪ Wake me up when September ends ♪
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And it just happened to be September?
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Is that when it was?
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Yeah, well he passed away in September,
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and it's like the whole thing
is kind of like that,
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it's like the worst month of the year,
you know.
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I mean for some weird reason,
some strange like coincidence,
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I mean whether it's like
my parent dying or...
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To me it was all-it was a
9/11 kind of thing.
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That's what resonated for me.
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Here's the deal...
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When we started
really kicking around this idea,
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we did not know if Green Day
would give us permission
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to do the production.
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My heart was in my throat
a little bit because I thought,
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"what if this doesn't work for them?"
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When people think of Broadway,
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they think of everyone's singing
and dancing and life is swell,
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and you know,
the Rockettes or something like that.
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What we're gonna try and do today
is map out the harder stuff.
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My fear was that it was just
gonna be sort of absurd,
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and not relatable and corny.
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♪ I'm the son of rage and love ♪
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♪ The Jesus of suburbia ♪
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♪ The Bible of none of the above ♪
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♪ On a steady diet of... ♪
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At the start of the show
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I lead my friends into this catharsis of
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"there's gotta be something else out there.
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This can't be all there is-
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this town that's just sucking us dry."
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Note to self...
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get me the fuck out of turd town.
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Let's start a war shall we?
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American Idiot...
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I would say 90 percent is
sort of based on my life.
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I just wanted to get the
hell out of my town.
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I wanted to leave with reckless abandon.
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I didn't car where I ended up,
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as long as I saw as much
as humanly possible.
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And it had nothing to do
with where I came from.
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That's what I was looking for.
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♪ I beg to dream and differ
from the hollow lies ♪
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♪ This is the dawning
of the rest of our lives ♪
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♪ On holiday ♪
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And then break,
and we'll just figure out who calls that,
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and who makes the break.
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In terms of the way
that we plan to tell our story
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in American Idiot,
the closest thing would be opera.
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In opera, you're telling your story
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through the physical actions
and character behavior
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that accompanies the singing.
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This is the dawning of
the rest of our lives.
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You're in the city now,
so it's like this massive exultation
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that you've finally arrived here.
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So sing the sh-out of it
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and then your bodies should
just be like wild and mad.
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♪ Sieg heil to the president gasman ♪
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♪ Bombs away is your punishment ♪
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♪ Pulverize the Eiffel Towers ♪
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♪ Who criticize your government ♪
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We put the stuff together.
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And you never really knew if Green Day
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would dig what we're going to
do with their material.
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It was terrifying and incredibly important
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to get Billie Joe's okay on it.
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But we didn't see him
again for quite a while
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because they were touring in Europe.
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♪ Starry nights,
city lights coming down over me ♪
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We started Green Day
when I was about 15 years old.
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Coming from Berkeley we were always
exposed to different politics
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where people were really confrontational.
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So around 2003,
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because of what was happening
in the administration
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what was going on in the war in Iraq,
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we started to take more
of a personal stance.
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I remember going on this walk
and then thinking,
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"I'm the son of rage and love,
the Jesus of Suburbia".
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Those two lines right there for me were,
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"Oh my God, here we go".
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Those two lines came out
and they excited me
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and scared the living piss
out of me at the same time.
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♪ Rage and love, the story of my life ♪
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♪ The Jesus of Suburbia is a lie ♪
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♪ And screaming Are we we are ♪
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I remember cranking that record
as loud as it would go,
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and really just feeling understood.
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For me,
coming of age in post 9/11 United States,
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there was this sense of
sadness and disillusionment.
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♪ Everyone's so full of shit ♪
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♪ Born and raised by hypocrites ♪
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♪ Hearts recycled but never saved ♪
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♪ From the cradle to the grave ♪
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♪ We are the kids of war and peace ♪
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♪ From Anaheim to the Middle East ♪
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♪ We are the stories and disciples of ♪
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♪ The Jesus of Suburbia ♪
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If you really take the time
to sit with the lyrics,
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they are wonderfully poetic.
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I am the king of fuckdom!
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Billie is writing about
the world of suburbia
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and convenience stores,
and those things that you grew up with
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that you hate so much.
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I've never seen a
cast connect to their characters
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in such a profound way.
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These characters are sort of us,
extensions of us.
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I've gone through those periods of time
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where I've just felt this desperate longing
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to get out into a bigger world than this.
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You just feel like, you know,
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you're just sinking in to quicksand.
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♪ To fall in love and fall in debt ♪
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♪ To alcohol and cigarettes ♪
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♪ And Mary Jane to keep me insane ♪
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♪ Doing someone else's cocaine ♪
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♪ And there's nothing wrong with me ♪
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♪ This is how I'm supposed to be ♪
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♪ In a a land-♪ Everybody!
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♪ That don't believe in me ♪
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Whether it has to
do with romance or politics,
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I'm just trying to figure things out.
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A theme of mine, is just,
you know, sort of just being...
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you know, lost in chaos.
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When I came on board,
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the question was how do we
take this iconic album,
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that primarily is sung by one person,
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and create characters and stories
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for a number of different people.
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So after the...
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♪ With every breath that I
am worth here on Earth... ♪
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I love your falsetto.
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Me and Barry Gibb.
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For example the song "Last Night on Earth"
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is going to be this moment
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where Johnny and Whatsername
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are shooting up on drugs
in a very romantic way.
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So, already the image of
romantically getting high...
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was in my head, and I thought,
"Well how can we make this...
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...how can we make this
a trippy love ballad?"
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And I was on the train one day
and I started thinking about it,
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and then I just thought...
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...how about a wall of sound,
beautiful vocal arrangement,
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kind of in the style of the Beach Boys,
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these beautiful falsetto harmonies,
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just raining down on them.
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♪ I text a postcard sent to you ♪
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And I remember saying to Michael, I said,
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"This is kind of crazy and it's going
to take a while for them to learn,
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but I promise you, if it sounds anything
like my head, it's going to be worth it".
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You take turns singing, right?
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We put the stuff together and
today we have to show Green Day.
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Baritones, you guys can really
ease up on the volume there.
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♪ I walked for miles 'til I found you ♪
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With "Last Night on Earth"
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they won't know
what song it is when we start.
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It doesn't have any of the signature chords
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or instrumentation.
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So when Declan starts singing,
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♪ I text a postcard sent to you,
did it go through ♪
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I think they are going to be like,
"Oh my god, that's the song".
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Hey, Michael?
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We have to get the go-ahead from Green Day
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or the show is over.
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They're one of the biggest
rock bands on the planet.
254
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They're not gonna sign
a piece of paper that says,
255
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"Oh yeah, you know,
256
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you seem like a good guy
and I liked your play.
257
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So here, go do whatever you want."
258
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They need to make sure
259
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it's something they can really get behind.
260
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Whoo!
261
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This one, um, this is a...
262
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you'll know this song when you hear it.
263
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Okay.
264
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♪ I text a postcard sent to you,
did it go through ♪
265
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♪ Sending all my love to you ♪
266
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♪ You are the moonlight of my life,
every night ♪
267
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♪ Giving all my love to you ♪
268
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♪ My beating heart belongs to you ♪
269
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♪ I walked for miles 'til I found you ♪
270
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♪ I'm here to honor you ♪
271
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♪ And if I lose everything in the fire ♪
272
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♪ How can I ever make... ♪
273
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♪ it through? ♪
274
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Oh my God!
275
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That's so...
276
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...oh my god that was-that
was fucking sick.
277
00:18:04,121 --> 00:18:05,521
That was so good.
278
00:18:05,522 --> 00:18:07,891
That was incredible, that was so good.
279
00:18:07,892 --> 00:18:10,012
I was sitting next to Billie
Joe and I was so nervous.
280
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And at the end of it he just
grabbed my leg and squeezed,
281
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and told me how beautiful
he thought it was, so...
282
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I was happy on two fronts.
We're telling our story,
283
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and as importantly, the band is happy.
284
00:18:21,238 --> 00:18:23,373
Man, I mean that's like...
285
00:18:23,374 --> 00:18:26,976
you know I was just-I was floored.
286
00:18:26,977 --> 00:18:29,312
As soon as I was able to hear it that way,
287
00:18:29,313 --> 00:18:31,681
I was completely into it.
288
00:18:31,682 --> 00:18:34,183
I could visualize it.
I was like, "Oh, this can work".
289
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I didn't wanna, like, do it without-
290
00:18:35,986 --> 00:18:38,254
Yeah, play with it and then, you know-
291
00:18:38,255 --> 00:18:40,456
I kind of do it like how
I did on the record,
292
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which has nothing to do with
293
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the way you guys are
gonna do it whatsoever,
294
00:18:44,060 --> 00:18:46,261
but, I mean, that'd be cool.
295
00:18:46,262 --> 00:18:50,833
The band not only gave us
permission to do the show,
296
00:18:50,834 --> 00:18:55,137
they've encouraged us
with great enthusiasm,
297
00:18:55,138 --> 00:18:59,174
and with a kind of appetite
298
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to hear their songs in a
really different way.
299
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Say! Hey!
300
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♪ Hear the sound of the falling rain ♪
301
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♪ Coming down like an armageddon flame ♪
302
00:19:21,932 --> 00:19:27,836
♪ The shame,
the ones who died without a name ♪
303
00:19:27,837 --> 00:19:30,008
♪ Here the dogs howling out of key ♪
304
00:19:31,008 --> 00:19:34,611
♪ To a hymn called Faith and Misery ♪
305
00:19:34,612 --> 00:19:40,482
♪ And bleed,
the company lost the war today ♪
306
00:19:40,483 --> 00:19:46,588
♪ I bed to dream and differ
from the hollow lies ♪
307
00:19:46,589 --> 00:19:53,328
♪ This is the dawning
of the rest of our lives ♪
308
00:19:53,329 --> 00:19:56,500
♪ on holiday ♪
309
00:20:02,806 --> 00:20:06,678
The representative from
Jingletown has the floor.
310
00:20:07,678 --> 00:20:10,880
♪ Sieg heil to the president gasman ♪
311
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♪ Bombs away is your punishment ♪
312
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♪ Pulverize the Eiffel Towers ♪
313
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♪ Who criticize your government ♪
314
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♪ Bang bang goes the broken glass and ♪
315
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♪ kill all the fags who don't agree ♪
316
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♪ Trials by fire, setting fire ♪
317
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♪ Is not a way that's meant for me ♪
318
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♪ Just 'cause ♪
319
00:20:35,739 --> 00:20:39,209
♪ Just 'cause,
because we're outlaws, yeah ♪
320
00:20:53,222 --> 00:20:58,895
♪ This is our lives on holiday ♪
321
00:21:17,413 --> 00:21:20,982
You're just trying to create
a vessel for this...
322
00:21:20,983 --> 00:21:23,585
this event to happen inside of.
323
00:21:23,586 --> 00:21:29,225
And to create as much potential
for all kinds of action to happen,
324
00:21:29,226 --> 00:21:32,563
whether it's the video action
or physical action.
325
00:21:35,098 --> 00:21:37,499
So I made a very large room,
326
00:21:37,500 --> 00:21:41,076
which ultimately became
a room of 40 foot walls.
327
00:21:46,076 --> 00:21:48,044
The scene shop has layered in
328
00:21:48,045 --> 00:21:50,515
all the things that we printed digitally,
329
00:21:51,515 --> 00:21:53,883
And now that we're here in the space,
330
00:21:53,884 --> 00:21:57,353
what I want to try to do is
make it feel like a real place.
331
00:21:57,354 --> 00:21:59,555
And I always like to say,
like giving it its soul.
332
00:21:59,556 --> 00:22:05,563
This one is like Will's room so this
is going to get like full of CDs...
333
00:22:06,352 --> 00:22:07,563
What I'm starting to do
334
00:22:07,564 --> 00:22:09,364
is to put things in the nooks and crannies
335
00:22:09,365 --> 00:22:12,268
where the actors will kind of
see them as they're living here.
336
00:22:12,269 --> 00:22:14,370
Things that the audience will never see,
337
00:22:14,371 --> 00:22:16,305
but the actors will kind of discover
338
00:22:16,306 --> 00:22:18,374
as they're here and working.
339
00:22:18,375 --> 00:22:22,245
Alright so, um,
now why don't we move this square...
340
00:22:22,246 --> 00:22:27,717
We have a team of designers who
are all after the same vision.
341
00:22:27,718 --> 00:22:30,688
- They look too clean?
- Yeah, just a little clean.
342
00:22:31,688 --> 00:22:37,429
The challenge is to create an
image of chaos on stage.
343
00:22:38,429 --> 00:22:40,230
It's like writing a simple song.
344
00:22:41,230 --> 00:22:45,367
You know, "Eleanor Rigby"
is a simple song...
345
00:22:45,368 --> 00:22:48,136
but it doesn't mean that you
can fucking do it. You know.
346
00:22:48,137 --> 00:22:49,905
There's... you know,
347
00:22:49,906 --> 00:22:53,342
and what Christine Jones does with the set
348
00:22:53,343 --> 00:22:54,743
is almost the same thing.
349
00:22:54,744 --> 00:22:58,314
It's able to go-take you
to all these different places,
350
00:22:58,315 --> 00:23:01,317
but what you're looking at is
a warehouse full of flyers.
351
00:23:19,736 --> 00:23:22,338
We'll do this one for time
from the same place.
352
00:23:26,242 --> 00:23:28,710
♪ I walk this empty street ♪
353
00:23:28,711 --> 00:23:32,280
♪ on the boulevard of broken dreams ♪
354
00:23:32,281 --> 00:23:34,650
♪ Where the city sleeps ♪
355
00:23:34,651 --> 00:23:38,354
♪ And i'm the only one
and I walk alone ♪
356
00:23:38,355 --> 00:23:41,156
American Idiot is based on my life
357
00:23:41,157 --> 00:23:43,092
and old friendships.
358
00:23:43,093 --> 00:23:46,162
The story's all about the character,
Jesus of Suburbia,
359
00:23:46,163 --> 00:23:49,899
wanting to figure things out
and step up and-and-
360
00:23:49,900 --> 00:23:52,216
you know, stand for
something he believes in.
361
00:23:53,103 --> 00:23:56,338
It's about learning the hard lessons.
362
00:23:56,339 --> 00:24:02,345
♪ Sometimes I wish
someone out there will find me ♪
363
00:24:02,346 --> 00:24:07,818
♪ 'Til then I walk alone ♪
364
00:24:08,529 --> 00:24:11,687
If you study musicals,
they talk to you about "I want" songs.
365
00:24:11,688 --> 00:24:13,154
That song at the top of the show
366
00:24:13,155 --> 00:24:16,325
where a character expresses
their wants for the evening.
367
00:24:16,326 --> 00:24:18,260
So in terms of this,
368
00:24:18,261 --> 00:24:20,262
I wanted to think about,
well, where is that moment?
369
00:24:20,263 --> 00:24:23,932
♪ I want adventure in the
great wide somewhere ♪
370
00:24:23,933 --> 00:24:27,702
♪ I want it more than I can say ♪
371
00:24:27,703 --> 00:24:30,672
"Boulevard of Broken Dreams"
is kind of Johnny's "I want" song
372
00:24:30,673 --> 00:24:32,374
we get into his character.
373
00:24:32,375 --> 00:24:35,778
♪ I'm walking down the line ♪
374
00:24:35,779 --> 00:24:39,281
♪ that divides me somewhere in my mind ♪
375
00:24:39,282 --> 00:24:41,683
♪ On the borderline ♪
376
00:24:41,684 --> 00:24:45,556
♪ of the edge and where I walk alone ♪
377
00:24:48,158 --> 00:24:51,460
Your face should be out for the
"I" but it could be right on it.
378
00:24:51,461 --> 00:24:53,563
I, you know, okay cool.
379
00:24:53,564 --> 00:24:56,332
i play a character called Whatsername.
380
00:24:56,333 --> 00:24:58,668
And um...
381
00:24:58,669 --> 00:25:04,273
Whatsername is a woman who Johnny
meets when he's in the city.
382
00:25:07,844 --> 00:25:11,948
They have an immediate,
exciting and sparky energy
383
00:25:11,949 --> 00:25:13,349
with each other.
384
00:25:19,355 --> 00:25:20,355
Okay, hold.
385
00:25:21,301 --> 00:25:22,459
That's good, isn't it?
386
00:25:22,460 --> 00:25:24,893
Johnny primarily sings
"Boulevard of Broken Dreams",
387
00:25:24,894 --> 00:25:28,331
but we found a way to bring
Whatsername into that song
388
00:25:28,332 --> 00:25:30,533
so we establish the romance at that point.
389
00:25:30,534 --> 00:25:32,102
Awesome, thank you.
390
00:25:34,570 --> 00:25:36,939
♪ I walk alone I walk alone ♪
391
00:25:36,940 --> 00:25:39,307
There's this beautiful melodic line
392
00:25:39,308 --> 00:25:41,911
that the guitars play in the turn around
393
00:25:41,912 --> 00:25:43,912
between chorus and verse.
394
00:25:43,913 --> 00:25:47,682
It's the da nun da nun da nun daaa nun
395
00:25:47,683 --> 00:25:49,285
which I find so evocative,
396
00:25:49,286 --> 00:25:52,287
and I actually took that and
I put it in the strings
397
00:25:52,288 --> 00:25:54,089
at the beginning of the song,
398
00:25:54,090 --> 00:25:56,325
because I wanted to
really set up that motif
399
00:25:56,326 --> 00:26:00,363
because later on she sings it
in the last chorus.
400
00:26:00,364 --> 00:26:05,735
♪ Sometimes I wish
someone out there will find me ♪
401
00:26:05,736 --> 00:26:10,139
So we feel their worlds
intertwine a little bit.
402
00:26:10,140 --> 00:26:13,577
♪ I walk alone ♪
403
00:26:15,112 --> 00:26:21,450
♪ Ah ah, ah ah, ah ah, ahh ah ♪
404
00:26:21,451 --> 00:26:26,889
♪ My shadow's the only
one that walks beside me ♪
405
00:26:26,890 --> 00:26:32,862
♪ My shallow heart's the
only thing that's beating ♪
406
00:26:32,863 --> 00:26:39,067
♪ Sometimes I wish
someone out there will find me ♪
407
00:26:39,068 --> 00:26:48,380
♪ 'Til then I walk alone ♪
408
00:26:50,380 --> 00:26:52,882
Did it feel a hair too fast just now?
409
00:26:52,883 --> 00:26:55,116
Carmel, are you clicked on that?
410
00:26:55,117 --> 00:26:56,285
Yes.
411
00:26:56,286 --> 00:26:58,554
We can bring the tempo back if you want,
a little bit.
412
00:26:58,555 --> 00:26:59,654
Maybe like 2?
413
00:26:59,655 --> 00:27:01,556
What are you clocked at?
414
00:27:01,557 --> 00:27:02,725
159.
415
00:27:02,726 --> 00:27:04,327
Ca we try 157?
416
00:27:05,327 --> 00:27:08,163
♪ She's a rebel, she's a saint ♪
417
00:27:08,164 --> 00:27:11,499
♪ She's the salt of the
earth and she's dangerous ♪
418
00:27:11,500 --> 00:27:13,903
♪ She's a rebel, vigilante ♪
419
00:27:13,904 --> 00:27:17,573
So this is what it's supposed to be,
and I think it's really good.
420
00:27:17,574 --> 00:27:20,742
♪ From Chicago, to Toronto ♪
421
00:27:20,743 --> 00:27:23,746
♪ She's the one that they call ol'
Whatsername ♪
422
00:27:23,747 --> 00:27:26,716
♪ She's a symbol of resistance ♪
423
00:27:26,717 --> 00:27:30,053
♪ And she's holding on my
heart like a hand grenade ♪
424
00:27:33,222 --> 00:27:36,727
I always wanted like
some form of community.
425
00:27:38,062 --> 00:27:40,062
So if we could just do that each time.
426
00:27:40,063 --> 00:27:43,199
To have that in the rock world is rare.
427
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:44,581
Same power strokes but just
doing all downstrokes?
428
00:27:44,781 --> 00:27:46,302
Oh, okay, yeah,
play all the downstrokes just on that
429
00:27:46,303 --> 00:27:48,773
♪ da da da daa da da da da da da bum ♪
430
00:27:50,695 --> 00:27:52,274
- Do you have Facebook?
- Yeah.
431
00:27:52,275 --> 00:27:54,977
I've just kind of seen that
world for the first time.
432
00:27:54,978 --> 00:27:56,979
It's terrifying.
It is weird, man.
433
00:27:56,980 --> 00:27:59,914
Billie Joe is so famous
and he is so careful
434
00:27:59,915 --> 00:28:02,951
to protect his family from so many people
435
00:28:02,952 --> 00:28:04,653
who want a piece of him...
436
00:28:04,654 --> 00:28:06,188
I'm lucky to have a cellphone right now.
437
00:28:06,189 --> 00:28:08,891
...that he's really carved
out a very private life
438
00:28:08,892 --> 00:28:10,925
for himself and his family.
439
00:28:10,926 --> 00:28:15,264
And you can't have that
and be involved in a show.
440
00:28:15,265 --> 00:28:17,098
The minute you're in a show,
441
00:28:17,099 --> 00:28:19,669
you are part of that extended family,
442
00:28:20,703 --> 00:28:24,940
for good or bad. For both, right?
443
00:28:24,941 --> 00:28:27,143
- Billie, is that right?
- He's right.
444
00:28:27,144 --> 00:28:28,912
Bon appetite.
445
00:28:33,916 --> 00:28:37,353
I haven't experienced that sort
of camaraderie with-you know-
446
00:28:37,354 --> 00:28:41,958
with people and making friends
like that in a long time.
447
00:28:42,893 --> 00:28:44,927
Everyone was on the same level.
448
00:28:44,928 --> 00:28:46,228
Like, there was one night,
449
00:28:46,229 --> 00:28:48,430
people started picking
things up and jamming,
450
00:28:48,431 --> 00:28:50,695
and then all of a sudden
we started playing.
451
00:28:51,567 --> 00:28:54,737
And then Adrienne had the photo booth also.
452
00:28:54,738 --> 00:28:56,271
And so there was bonding going on...
453
00:28:56,272 --> 00:28:58,536
pretty wild bonding going on in that booth.
454
00:29:01,178 --> 00:29:03,746
I think it just grew from there.
455
00:29:03,747 --> 00:29:08,750
♪ She's an extraordinary girl ♪
456
00:29:08,751 --> 00:29:12,220
♪ in an ordinary world ♪
457
00:29:12,221 --> 00:29:14,890
♪ And she can't seem to get away ♪
458
00:29:14,891 --> 00:29:17,927
Any audience normally observe only
a quarter of the playing space,
459
00:29:17,928 --> 00:29:19,728
and there's three quarters from their heads
460
00:29:19,729 --> 00:29:21,497
that go up to the top.
461
00:29:21,498 --> 00:29:23,766
I wanted to make sure that
was part of our playing space
462
00:29:23,767 --> 00:29:25,300
and not to kind of rule that area out.
463
00:29:25,301 --> 00:29:27,971
Pop back is on the two of that fourth bar.
464
00:29:32,107 --> 00:29:35,277
♪ She's all alone again ♪
465
00:29:35,278 --> 00:29:38,479
♪ wiping the tears from her eyes ♪
466
00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:39,748
I thought it was going to be easier.
467
00:29:39,749 --> 00:29:42,351
I was like, "Oh, I can do this.
This is easy, this is nothing."
468
00:29:42,352 --> 00:29:45,054
But... I don't know.
469
00:29:45,055 --> 00:29:48,959
♪ From the one called Whatsername ♪
470
00:29:51,361 --> 00:29:53,729
♪ She's all alone again ♪
471
00:29:53,730 --> 00:29:57,132
It's difficult because
not only am I flying,
472
00:29:57,133 --> 00:29:58,299
but i'm also singing.
473
00:29:58,300 --> 00:30:01,836
♪ Some days he feels like dying ♪
474
00:30:01,837 --> 00:30:06,275
But it's my job to show comfort
so we can deliver the story.
475
00:30:06,276 --> 00:30:09,711
Because it's not about the flying,
it's about the story.
476
00:30:09,712 --> 00:30:14,317
♪ She's an extraordinary girl ♪
477
00:30:18,721 --> 00:30:21,923
Because all of the material
has already been written
478
00:30:21,924 --> 00:30:23,726
and is being sung,
479
00:30:23,727 --> 00:30:25,928
we can't really change what they're saying.
480
00:30:25,929 --> 00:30:27,429
Johnny's walking through New York...
481
00:30:27,430 --> 00:30:32,534
So we had to figure out
how to plot out a real story
482
00:30:32,535 --> 00:30:35,738
and make them three dimensional characters.
483
00:30:35,739 --> 00:30:39,107
Johnny is the vulnerable one that gets...
484
00:30:39,108 --> 00:30:40,776
never had a family.
485
00:30:40,777 --> 00:30:44,512
Michael Mayer saw something in what I do
486
00:30:44,513 --> 00:30:47,682
that no one has ever really
been able to make sense of.
487
00:30:47,683 --> 00:30:48,784
Not in the rock world.
488
00:30:48,785 --> 00:30:51,653
Whatsername...
I always wish Whatsername had a name.
489
00:30:51,654 --> 00:30:53,655
And so I just trusted him.
490
00:30:53,656 --> 00:30:56,692
I knew what he was doing was-was cool.
491
00:31:01,897 --> 00:31:03,866
5, 6, 7, go, 1...
492
00:31:12,541 --> 00:31:15,510
We kept working to make the story clear
493
00:31:15,511 --> 00:31:17,717
through the choreography.
494
00:31:20,717 --> 00:31:22,554
Soft.
495
00:31:24,554 --> 00:31:26,287
Steven had an idea
496
00:31:26,288 --> 00:31:29,490
that the chorus in "When September Ends"
497
00:31:29,491 --> 00:31:35,264
would do a kind of ballistic
searching for slumber
498
00:31:35,265 --> 00:31:37,365
almost under the stage floor,
499
00:31:37,366 --> 00:31:39,169
and it was thrilling to watch.
500
00:31:43,673 --> 00:31:48,445
♪ 20 years has gone so fast ♪
501
00:31:49,445 --> 00:31:51,079
But when we put it all together
502
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:54,384
it became very clear that it
was almost too much.
503
00:31:55,384 --> 00:31:58,354
And it was taking away from
the simplicity of the story
504
00:31:58,355 --> 00:31:59,722
of these three guys.
505
00:32:02,358 --> 00:32:05,760
Yeah, I think I wanted to put
all the whistles and bells on it,
506
00:32:05,761 --> 00:32:07,563
and actually when we
watched the whole thing
507
00:32:07,564 --> 00:32:11,232
there's literally a moment
that described everything.
508
00:32:11,233 --> 00:32:12,968
And as long as we held on to that moment,
509
00:32:12,969 --> 00:32:16,337
right in front of us,
the nugget of the sequence,
510
00:32:16,338 --> 00:32:19,174
everything else was able to fall away.
511
00:32:45,435 --> 00:32:46,934
We've ended up with a version
512
00:32:46,935 --> 00:32:49,037
that's got more stillness
than anything else,
513
00:32:49,038 --> 00:32:51,512
which is the last thing
I thought it would have.
514
00:32:51,907 --> 00:32:54,610
But working on it over the-over the weeks
515
00:32:54,611 --> 00:32:56,445
and then looking at the whole show...
516
00:32:56,645 --> 00:32:58,614
it's one of the pieces
that I'm most excited about.
517
00:32:58,615 --> 00:33:00,348
♪ She puts her makeup on ♪
518
00:33:00,349 --> 00:33:03,952
♪ like graffiti
on the walls of the heartland ♪
519
00:33:05,387 --> 00:33:09,026
♪ She's got a little book of
conspiracies right in her hand ♪
520
00:33:11,594 --> 00:33:12,805
♪ She is paranoid ♪
521
00:33:13,028 --> 00:33:16,532
♪ Endangered species
heading into extinction ♪
522
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:19,535
♪ She is one of a kind ♪
523
00:33:19,536 --> 00:33:21,937
♪ Well she's the last of
the American girls ♪
524
00:33:21,938 --> 00:33:23,044
♪ She's a rebel ♪
525
00:33:24,039 --> 00:33:25,606
When you're doing a new show,
526
00:33:25,607 --> 00:33:29,044
it's really important that you
try it out somewhere
527
00:33:29,045 --> 00:33:30,711
before you bring it to New York.
528
00:33:30,712 --> 00:33:32,480
Who do you have coming tonight?
529
00:33:32,481 --> 00:33:36,751
I got my mom, and my sister...
530
00:33:36,752 --> 00:33:39,354
What you wanna do is give
yourself an opportunity
531
00:33:39,355 --> 00:33:42,857
to put a show on its feet
with full production values
532
00:33:42,858 --> 00:33:44,127
and learn what you can.
533
00:33:45,127 --> 00:33:46,233
Put your damn top on!
534
00:33:47,151 --> 00:33:49,730
You want to make sure it's
the cast that you want.
535
00:33:49,731 --> 00:33:51,933
You wanna work the kinks out.
536
00:33:51,934 --> 00:33:53,335
Oh shit my nails aren't dry!
537
00:33:53,336 --> 00:33:55,863
And you wanna try it out in
front of an audience.
538
00:33:58,842 --> 00:34:00,608
I usually am angry
539
00:34:00,609 --> 00:34:02,477
when the audience comes for the first time.
540
00:34:02,478 --> 00:34:04,413
I'm like, you know,
I've been having a great time
541
00:34:04,414 --> 00:34:05,580
here in rehearsal,
542
00:34:05,581 --> 00:34:07,883
and now you're going to come
with all your opinions...
543
00:34:07,884 --> 00:34:10,051
so I'm like, "fuck, the
audience is coming."
544
00:34:10,052 --> 00:34:13,455
Sound bright!
8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8...
545
00:34:13,456 --> 00:34:15,323
But I don't feel that way at all.
546
00:34:15,324 --> 00:34:18,493
I just can't wait to, like,
just to get them there
547
00:34:18,494 --> 00:34:20,898
and like, see what happens.
548
00:34:22,498 --> 00:34:24,299
You know what?
I have no idea what's going to happen
549
00:34:24,300 --> 00:34:25,834
or what it's going to be like.
550
00:34:26,034 --> 00:34:30,305
and so that's incredibly-
that's incredibly thrilling.
551
00:34:30,306 --> 00:34:34,878
So just like, bring it.
Come on, fuckers. What?
552
00:34:45,121 --> 00:34:47,956
♪ Don't wanna be an American idiot ♪
553
00:34:49,626 --> 00:34:55,129
Go. Lights 10, go. Lights 11, go.
554
00:34:55,130 --> 00:34:58,267
By opening night at the
Berkeley Repertory Theater,
555
00:34:58,268 --> 00:35:03,404
the story that we had was 3
guys in a shitty little suburb
556
00:35:03,405 --> 00:35:06,274
decide that they're going to get out.
557
00:35:06,275 --> 00:35:10,846
So i lead my friends into a
farewell to our little town.
558
00:35:10,847 --> 00:35:13,147
♪ Everyone's so full of shit ♪
559
00:35:13,148 --> 00:35:15,850
♪ Born and raised by hypocrites ♪
560
00:35:15,851 --> 00:35:18,453
♪ Hearts recycled but never saved ♪
561
00:35:18,454 --> 00:35:21,256
♪ from the cradle to the grave ♪
562
00:35:21,257 --> 00:35:23,725
♪ We are the kids of war and peace ♪
563
00:35:23,726 --> 00:35:26,227
♪ From Anaheim to the Middle East ♪
564
00:35:26,228 --> 00:35:28,997
♪ We are the stories and disciples of ♪
565
00:35:28,998 --> 00:35:31,668
♪ The Jesus of Suburbia ♪
566
00:35:32,425 --> 00:35:34,268
We're all getting ready to leave...
567
00:35:34,269 --> 00:35:36,671
Will's girlfriend is pregnant...
568
00:35:36,672 --> 00:35:37,839
I'm like "fuck".
569
00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:39,808
She's like "oops, we have this problem".
570
00:35:39,809 --> 00:35:45,147
♪ I don't feel any shame,
I won't apologize ♪
571
00:35:45,148 --> 00:35:48,649
♪ When there ain't nowhere you can go ♪
572
00:35:48,650 --> 00:35:52,754
So I end up having to stay at home.
573
00:35:52,755 --> 00:35:56,091
♪ When you've been victimized ♪
574
00:35:56,092 --> 00:36:00,297
♪ Tales from nother broken... ♪
575
00:36:02,297 --> 00:36:08,137
♪ Home! You're leaving, you're leaving ♪
576
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:13,308
Tunny gets to go,
577
00:36:13,309 --> 00:36:17,511
but Will is trapped
in his suburban wasteland.
578
00:36:17,512 --> 00:36:23,852
♪ I beg to dream and differ
from the hollow lies ♪
579
00:36:23,853 --> 00:36:29,223
♪ This is the dawning
of the rest of our lives ♪
580
00:36:29,224 --> 00:36:32,127
We turn the scaffolding
into a bus and we tip it over
581
00:36:32,128 --> 00:36:34,196
And head off to the big city.
582
00:36:34,197 --> 00:36:37,132
♪ This is our lives on holiday ♪
583
00:36:48,510 --> 00:36:51,145
Johnny takes to the city like a troubadour.
584
00:36:51,146 --> 00:36:53,314
He meets up with Saint Jimmy.
585
00:36:53,315 --> 00:36:55,552
12 34!
586
00:36:56,552 --> 00:36:58,287
Saint Jimmy is basically
587
00:36:58,288 --> 00:37:00,955
everything Johnny kind of wishes he was.
588
00:37:00,956 --> 00:37:03,692
♪ My name is Jimmy and
you'd better not wear it out ♪
589
00:37:03,693 --> 00:37:06,928
♪ Suicide commando that
your momma talked about ♪
590
00:37:06,929 --> 00:37:10,198
♪ King of the 40 thieves
I'm here to represent ♪
591
00:37:10,199 --> 00:37:13,234
♪ The needle in the vein
of the establishment ♪
592
00:37:13,235 --> 00:37:15,037
He's this rush of adrenaline,
593
00:37:15,038 --> 00:37:17,074
whether it's through drugs or sex.
594
00:37:18,074 --> 00:37:20,042
When Johnny meets Whatsername,
595
00:37:20,043 --> 00:37:22,307
their relationship is just wild and sexual.
596
00:37:24,213 --> 00:37:28,450
♪ I text a postcard sent to you ♪
597
00:37:28,451 --> 00:37:32,154
♪ did it go through ♪
598
00:37:32,155 --> 00:37:36,325
♪ Sending all my love to you ♪
599
00:37:36,326 --> 00:37:40,429
But then Saint Jimmy starts
to ruin him through drugs.
600
00:37:45,034 --> 00:37:47,868
Meanwhile,
Tunny has gone down to Times Square
601
00:37:47,869 --> 00:37:48,904
and enlisted.
602
00:37:48,905 --> 00:37:51,606
♪ Ah, Novacaine ♪
603
00:37:57,512 --> 00:38:00,082
He gets shipped off to the Middle East,
604
00:38:00,083 --> 00:38:03,251
and he loses a leg in battle.
605
00:38:06,422 --> 00:38:09,758
Michael really
stuck to the heart of the album
606
00:38:09,759 --> 00:38:12,295
and then he created new characters.
607
00:38:13,295 --> 00:38:16,864
I find all of those characters
very relatable.
608
00:38:16,865 --> 00:38:18,332
Those people remind me of my friends
609
00:38:18,333 --> 00:38:21,539
and they remind me of myself.
610
00:38:23,539 --> 00:38:26,875
At the end of the show
Johnny has gotten off drugs
611
00:38:26,876 --> 00:38:30,679
and comes home clean and sober.
612
00:38:38,253 --> 00:38:44,826
♪ Home, we're coming home again ♪
613
00:38:44,827 --> 00:38:46,995
Tunny has come back without a leg
614
00:38:46,996 --> 00:38:50,665
but with a loving girlfriend.
615
00:38:50,666 --> 00:38:53,868
And Will finally tries
to initiate a relationship
616
00:38:53,869 --> 00:38:56,705
with his ex-girlfriend and their child.
617
00:38:56,706 --> 00:39:00,542
♪ And in the darkest night ♪
618
00:39:00,543 --> 00:39:04,879
♪ If my memory serves me right ♪
619
00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:08,216
♪ I'll never turn back time ♪
620
00:39:08,217 --> 00:39:13,255
♪ Forgetting you but not the time ♪
621
00:39:20,829 --> 00:39:23,098
It's not Norman Rockwell.
622
00:39:23,099 --> 00:39:26,568
This is a portrait of America today.
623
00:39:35,244 --> 00:39:38,245
They knocked it out of
the park as they say.
624
00:39:38,246 --> 00:39:39,246
It was amazing.
625
00:39:50,060 --> 00:39:52,627
We've had a month and a half
of rehearsals for this,
626
00:39:52,628 --> 00:39:54,495
so we were really ready for tonight.
627
00:39:54,496 --> 00:39:58,200
Um, but having a crowd that
was on board with us like that
628
00:39:58,201 --> 00:40:00,302
is a phenomenal feeling.
629
00:40:01,503 --> 00:40:04,638
It's always a little bit like,
"Ohhh" you know,
630
00:40:04,639 --> 00:40:07,808
"please,
please like it" and part of me is like,
631
00:40:07,809 --> 00:40:09,710
"you know what, we're
making a piece of art.
632
00:40:09,711 --> 00:40:11,814
We're putting it out there to the world,
633
00:40:12,014 --> 00:40:15,952
If we love it, if we believe in it,
that's what matters."
634
00:40:16,952 --> 00:40:19,386
I'm hoping the future is Broadway,
635
00:40:19,387 --> 00:40:20,988
which is something I've never touched.
636
00:40:20,989 --> 00:40:22,357
I've never been on Broadway before,
637
00:40:22,358 --> 00:40:23,925
so this would be huge.
638
00:40:26,329 --> 00:40:29,363
I felt sort of validated as a song writer,
639
00:40:29,364 --> 00:40:31,433
my melodies felt validated.
640
00:40:31,434 --> 00:40:33,502
You know,
people don't really talk about these things
641
00:40:33,503 --> 00:40:35,035
like that in the rock world so much,
642
00:40:35,036 --> 00:40:37,439
that, you know,
it's either a good song or it's a bad song,
643
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:38,772
or it's-you know, does it rock?
644
00:40:38,773 --> 00:40:40,709
Is there a riff? Where's the hook?
645
00:40:40,710 --> 00:40:42,176
Where's the blah blah blah blah?
646
00:40:42,177 --> 00:40:43,646
Here we go.
647
00:40:54,389 --> 00:40:57,392
When Tom Kitt put his spin on it
648
00:40:57,393 --> 00:41:00,794
we were able to sort of
create sort of a dialogue
649
00:41:00,795 --> 00:41:03,365
I think I've been waiting to
have my entire life.
650
00:41:07,702 --> 00:41:11,605
So after we yanked Billie
Joe into our world,
651
00:41:11,606 --> 00:41:15,109
he turns around and invites us...
652
00:41:15,110 --> 00:41:17,748
into the world of Green Day.
653
00:41:18,748 --> 00:41:19,748
Fuck.
654
00:41:26,054 --> 00:41:28,957
The cast was in Berkeley
doing the show every single day
655
00:41:28,958 --> 00:41:31,392
and playing "21 Guns" every day.
656
00:41:31,393 --> 00:41:36,032
We were on tour playing
"21 guns" at the same time.
657
00:41:36,632 --> 00:41:39,701
So we said, "Well,
why don't we just do this thing together?
658
00:41:39,702 --> 00:41:42,706
Like-like let's do a recording."
659
00:41:43,706 --> 00:41:45,540
The challenge with "21 Guns"
660
00:41:45,541 --> 00:41:48,844
is that it has so many
different layers to it.
661
00:42:00,489 --> 00:42:03,692
So we had to keep track of
how they're supposed to fit
662
00:42:03,693 --> 00:42:05,641
when we were recording one at a time.
663
00:42:19,541 --> 00:42:24,414
♪ Do you know
what's worth fighting for ♪
664
00:42:25,414 --> 00:42:31,386
♪ When it's not worth dying for ♪
665
00:42:31,387 --> 00:42:35,823
♪ Does it take your breath away ♪
666
00:42:35,824 --> 00:42:41,164
♪ And you feel yourself suffocating ♪
667
00:42:43,164 --> 00:42:49,104
♪ Does the pain weigh out the pride ♪
668
00:42:49,105 --> 00:42:54,408
♪ And you look for a place to hide ♪
669
00:42:54,409 --> 00:42:57,044
For me recording and producing is...
670
00:42:57,045 --> 00:42:58,812
it's psychological.
671
00:42:58,813 --> 00:43:03,721
♪ You're in ruins ♪
672
00:43:05,721 --> 00:43:08,790
Cool. One more.
673
00:43:08,791 --> 00:43:11,192
Alright, let's do one more, Rebecca.
674
00:43:11,193 --> 00:43:13,627
♪ Did you try to live on your own? ♪
675
00:43:13,628 --> 00:43:15,196
You have to wait for the person
676
00:43:15,197 --> 00:43:16,598
to get in their comfort zone.
677
00:43:16,599 --> 00:43:17,698
One more!
678
00:43:17,699 --> 00:43:22,703
♪ When you burned down
the house and home ♪
679
00:43:22,704 --> 00:43:23,705
One more.
680
00:43:23,706 --> 00:43:27,741
♪ Did you stand too close to the fire ♪
681
00:43:27,742 --> 00:43:29,544
Yep, that's it. Do it again.
682
00:43:29,545 --> 00:43:31,645
♪ Like a liar looking for forgiveness...
♪
683
00:43:31,646 --> 00:43:34,149
And then all of a sudden, she's got a voice
684
00:43:34,150 --> 00:43:36,584
that can bring you down to your knees.
685
00:43:36,585 --> 00:43:41,257
♪ from a stone ♪
686
00:43:42,257 --> 00:43:44,226
Yeah, nice.
687
00:43:45,226 --> 00:43:47,384
Sorry, my heart is beating faster than...
688
00:43:48,064 --> 00:43:49,064
Take a deep breath.
689
00:43:49,065 --> 00:43:51,170
Awesome.
Just relax.
690
00:43:54,170 --> 00:43:58,506
♪ One, 21 guns ♪
691
00:43:58,507 --> 00:44:01,642
♪ Lay down your arms ♪
692
00:44:01,643 --> 00:44:04,111
♪ Give up the fight ♪
693
00:44:04,112 --> 00:44:07,448
God damn. She sounds so good.
694
00:44:07,449 --> 00:44:10,852
♪ 21 guns ♪
695
00:44:10,853 --> 00:44:17,392
♪ throw up your arms into the sky ♪
696
00:44:17,393 --> 00:44:21,262
♪ You and I ♪
697
00:44:25,835 --> 00:44:26,600
Wow.
698
00:44:26,601 --> 00:44:27,669
- Hey, Christina?
- Yes?
699
00:44:27,670 --> 00:44:30,305
Just simple, like, rhythmically, you and I,
700
00:44:30,306 --> 00:44:32,306
you're sort of holding
on the note a little bit.
701
00:44:32,307 --> 00:44:33,274
- Okay.
- Yeah, just go right into it.
702
00:44:33,275 --> 00:44:36,175
Okay, great.
Maybe I should stop clenching my fist.
703
00:44:36,478 --> 00:44:38,513
I'm like holding on to every note.
704
00:44:38,514 --> 00:44:40,988
- That might help, too.
- That might help, yeah.
705
00:44:41,449 --> 00:44:43,250
♪ From a stone ♪
706
00:44:43,251 --> 00:44:49,424
♪ When it's time to live and let die ♪
707
00:44:49,425 --> 00:44:55,395
♪ And you can't get another try ♪
708
00:44:55,396 --> 00:44:59,933
♪ Something inside this heart has died ♪
709
00:44:59,934 --> 00:45:01,435
♪ You're in ruins ♪
710
00:45:01,436 --> 00:45:05,239
♪ Your in ruins ♪
711
00:45:05,240 --> 00:45:08,776
♪ One, 21 guns ♪
712
00:45:08,777 --> 00:45:09,944
Look at him!
713
00:45:09,945 --> 00:45:16,517
♪ throw up your arms into the sky ♪
714
00:45:16,518 --> 00:45:22,529
♪ You and I ♪
715
00:45:26,529 --> 00:45:27,962
That was awesome.
716
00:45:27,963 --> 00:45:30,266
Except can we do one without sunglasses?
717
00:45:33,969 --> 00:45:35,969
I don't think we're there yet, Billie.
718
00:45:39,842 --> 00:45:41,609
The new arrangement of "21 Guns"
719
00:45:41,610 --> 00:45:44,578
made me sort of re-
fall in love with the song.
720
00:45:44,579 --> 00:45:47,415
you know, I think some
of these versions are-
721
00:45:47,416 --> 00:45:49,585
are better than what we recorded.
722
00:45:52,554 --> 00:45:54,788
♪ She outs her makeup on ♪
723
00:45:54,789 --> 00:45:58,826
♪ like graffiti
on the walls of the heartland ♪
724
00:45:58,827 --> 00:46:00,194
When the Grammys
725
00:46:00,195 --> 00:46:03,897
asked Green Day to perform at the show,
726
00:46:03,898 --> 00:46:07,368
Billie Joe immediately said, "well,
I want to do it with my cast."
727
00:46:07,369 --> 00:46:10,471
- Here they are.
- Hey.
728
00:46:10,472 --> 00:46:11,538
It's the Grammy party.
729
00:46:11,539 --> 00:46:13,841
- Grammy party's up in the air.
- Grammy party!
730
00:46:13,842 --> 00:46:16,877
I thought your hair might be down,
and sort of like that.
731
00:46:16,878 --> 00:46:18,546
♪ She is one of a kind ♪
732
00:46:18,547 --> 00:46:22,619
♪ She's the last of the American girls ♪
733
00:46:24,619 --> 00:46:27,421
It's a little too much fabric, though.
734
00:46:27,422 --> 00:46:30,058
Oh, yes!
735
00:46:30,059 --> 00:46:32,060
You're a firebird.
736
00:46:32,061 --> 00:46:34,900
Oh my god, this is the Grammy outfit!
737
00:46:37,900 --> 00:46:39,466
When we opened at Berkeley,
738
00:46:39,467 --> 00:46:43,538
there was a lot of interest in
bringing the show to New York.
739
00:46:43,539 --> 00:46:45,772
And so, we are at the Grammys
740
00:46:45,773 --> 00:46:51,613
and we find out that we're
definitely going to Broadway.
741
00:46:51,614 --> 00:46:55,383
So not only do we get to
perform with Green Day,
742
00:46:55,384 --> 00:46:56,783
on the Grammy Awards,
743
00:46:56,784 --> 00:47:00,587
we get to actually say that
we're gonna be on Broadway.
744
00:47:00,588 --> 00:47:02,824
- This is nuts.
- Yeah, it's crazy.
745
00:47:05,427 --> 00:47:08,006
Show 'em your talent, buddy.
Show 'em your talent.
746
00:47:08,206 --> 00:47:10,665
I don't know if you guys
have done award show thing
747
00:47:10,666 --> 00:47:12,834
or anything close to it, but it's like...
748
00:47:12,835 --> 00:47:14,768
kinda basically playing to cameras
749
00:47:14,769 --> 00:47:16,638
more than it is playing to the crowd,
750
00:47:16,639 --> 00:47:18,538
'cause everybody's a fucking zombie.
751
00:47:18,539 --> 00:47:20,741
Like they're all-everyone's nominated,
752
00:47:20,742 --> 00:47:22,209
like white knuckling it the whole time,
753
00:47:22,210 --> 00:47:23,377
you know, like.
754
00:47:23,378 --> 00:47:25,879
So that's one thing
we figured out a long time ago.
755
00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:29,951
In the beginning,
three punks created a rock masterpiece
756
00:47:29,952 --> 00:47:31,585
called "American Idiot".
757
00:47:31,586 --> 00:47:32,854
Their dreams live on,
758
00:47:32,855 --> 00:47:35,957
and "American Idiot"
has become a stage musical
759
00:47:35,958 --> 00:47:39,794
about to hit Broadway
in a big way this March.
760
00:47:39,795 --> 00:47:42,462
Here to set off 21 guns together,
761
00:47:42,463 --> 00:47:46,568
the cast of American Idiot and Green Day.
762
00:48:01,416 --> 00:48:07,254
♪ do you know
what's worth fighting for ♪
763
00:48:07,255 --> 00:48:12,262
♪ When it's not worth dying for ♪
764
00:48:13,262 --> 00:48:17,799
♪ Does it take your breath away ♪
765
00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:23,373
♪ And you feel yourself suffocating ♪
766
00:48:24,373 --> 00:48:30,845
♪ Does the pain weigh out the pride ♪
767
00:48:30,846 --> 00:48:36,451
♪ And you look for a place to hide ♪
768
00:48:36,452 --> 00:48:41,189
♪ Did someone break your heart inside ♪
769
00:48:41,190 --> 00:48:45,795
♪ You're in ruins ♪
770
00:48:47,795 --> 00:48:52,033
♪ One, 21 guns ♪
771
00:48:52,034 --> 00:48:59,774
♪ Lay down your arms,
give up the fight ♪
772
00:48:59,775 --> 00:49:04,245
♪ One, 21 guns ♪
773
00:49:04,246 --> 00:49:10,785
♪ Throw up your arms into the sky ♪
774
00:49:10,786 --> 00:49:14,757
♪ You and I ♪
775
00:49:17,860 --> 00:49:24,064
♪ When you're at the end of the road ♪
776
00:49:24,065 --> 00:49:29,604
♪ and you've lost all sense of control ♪
777
00:49:29,605 --> 00:49:34,542
♪ And your thoughts
have taken their toll ♪
778
00:49:34,543 --> 00:49:41,415
♪ When your mind
breaks the spirit of your soul ♪
779
00:49:41,416 --> 00:49:47,421
♪ Your faith walks on broken glass ♪
780
00:49:47,422 --> 00:49:53,761
♪ And the hangover doesn't pass ♪
781
00:49:53,762 --> 00:49:58,232
♪ Nothing's ever built to last ♪
782
00:49:58,233 --> 00:49:59,966
♪ You're in ruins ♪
783
00:49:59,967 --> 00:50:04,007
♪ You're in ruins ♪
784
00:50:05,007 --> 00:50:09,209
♪ One, 21 guns ♪
785
00:50:09,210 --> 00:50:16,817
♪ Lay down your arms give up the fight ♪
786
00:50:16,818 --> 00:50:21,221
♪ One, 21 guns ♪
787
00:50:21,222 --> 00:50:27,794
♪ Throw up your arms into the sky ♪
788
00:50:27,795 --> 00:50:33,702
♪ You and I ♪
789
00:50:34,702 --> 00:50:35,636
♪ Did you ♪
790
00:50:35,637 --> 00:50:40,374
♪ Did you try to live on your own ♪
791
00:50:40,375 --> 00:50:41,475
♪ When you ♪
792
00:50:41,476 --> 00:50:46,214
♪ When you burned down
the house and home ♪
793
00:50:46,215 --> 00:50:47,214
♪ Did you ♪
794
00:50:47,215 --> 00:50:51,352
♪ Did you stand too close to the fire ♪
795
00:50:51,353 --> 00:50:58,494
♪ Like a liar looking for forgiveness...
♪
796
00:50:59,494 --> 00:51:02,964
♪ From a stone ♪
797
00:51:02,965 --> 00:51:05,165
There's something about a Broadway musical
798
00:51:05,166 --> 00:51:07,935
that is magical.
799
00:51:07,936 --> 00:51:12,239
♪ And you can't get another try ♪
800
00:51:12,240 --> 00:51:15,308
As jaded as we might get
in this profession,
801
00:51:15,309 --> 00:51:17,044
there's something about hearing the words,
802
00:51:17,045 --> 00:51:19,312
"your show is going to Broadway"
803
00:51:19,313 --> 00:51:22,217
that is just an undeniable thrill.
804
00:51:23,217 --> 00:51:27,821
♪ One, 21 guns ♪
805
00:51:27,822 --> 00:51:34,928
♪ Lay down your arms give up the fight ♪
806
00:51:34,929 --> 00:51:39,567
♪ One, 21 guns ♪
807
00:51:39,568 --> 00:51:46,973
♪ Throw up your arms into the sky ♪
808
00:51:46,974 --> 00:51:51,145
♪ One, 21 guns ♪
809
00:51:51,146 --> 00:51:58,051
♪ Throw up your arms into the sky ♪
810
00:51:58,052 --> 00:52:00,023
♪ you and I ♪
811
00:52:04,458 --> 00:52:12,066
♪ Nobody likes you, everyone left you ♪
812
00:52:12,067 --> 00:52:16,136
♪ They're all out without you ♪
813
00:52:16,137 --> 00:52:20,576
♪ Having fun ♪
814
00:52:30,985 --> 00:52:32,653
We don't know what to call it.
815
00:52:32,654 --> 00:52:35,256
It's not an opera really,
816
00:52:35,257 --> 00:52:41,796
and it's definitely not your parents'
Broadway musical.
817
00:52:41,797 --> 00:52:44,534
So I don't know how-how it's gonna go down.
818
00:52:45,240 --> 00:52:46,767
The thing I was worried about
819
00:52:46,768 --> 00:52:49,169
is I wanted to make sure
people had open minds.
820
00:52:49,170 --> 00:52:51,571
When you're bringing your
family to go see something,
821
00:52:51,572 --> 00:52:53,140
on Broadway,
822
00:52:53,141 --> 00:52:54,575
it's hard to kind of go,
823
00:52:54,576 --> 00:52:56,877
"now,
do I feel like being challenged right now?
824
00:52:56,878 --> 00:52:59,747
Or do I want like, um...
825
00:52:59,748 --> 00:53:01,384
a nice little fairy tale?"
826
00:53:02,384 --> 00:53:05,688
American Idiot is like...
it's a cold reality.
827
00:53:07,688 --> 00:53:10,957
- Hi.
- Yes, yes yes yes.
828
00:53:10,958 --> 00:53:12,792
I skyped with Hoggett this morning.
829
00:53:12,793 --> 00:53:15,562
He sends all his love,
830
00:53:15,563 --> 00:53:20,401
he's "gutted" not to be here.
He's just "gutted".
831
00:53:20,402 --> 00:53:22,970
But I described to him basically
832
00:53:22,971 --> 00:53:25,339
the adjustments that
Lorin and I are making,
833
00:53:25,340 --> 00:53:27,774
and he thinks that all sounds great.
834
00:53:27,775 --> 00:53:29,542
So gear up.
835
00:53:29,543 --> 00:53:30,710
What will be required
836
00:53:30,711 --> 00:53:34,180
will be even more than
what was required prior.
837
00:53:34,181 --> 00:53:35,915
Here we go.
838
00:53:35,916 --> 00:53:39,352
♪ I lost my faith to this ♪
839
00:53:39,353 --> 00:53:41,122
As soon as the Grammys are over,
840
00:53:41,123 --> 00:53:44,792
we are starting up right away.
841
00:53:44,793 --> 00:53:47,595
Everything about this day is so fucked.
842
00:53:47,596 --> 00:53:49,062
What else is fucked?
843
00:53:49,063 --> 00:53:51,134
There's an incredible amount of stress.
844
00:53:52,134 --> 00:53:53,567
It's Broadway,
845
00:53:53,568 --> 00:53:56,972
and so you really are under the microscope.
846
00:54:03,144 --> 00:54:05,245
What we found in Berkeley
847
00:54:05,246 --> 00:54:10,750
was that we had a lot to do,
still, to improve the story.
848
00:54:10,751 --> 00:54:13,155
Saint Jimmy!
849
00:54:14,942 --> 00:54:17,258
As well as the staging,
and the choreography,
850
00:54:17,259 --> 00:54:18,392
and the arrangements.
851
00:54:18,393 --> 00:54:20,364
Casting is a gigantic part of it.
852
00:54:22,364 --> 00:54:26,001
♪ Beating out of time ♪
853
00:54:26,979 --> 00:54:28,401
Billie and I wanted someone
854
00:54:28,402 --> 00:54:32,305
who had a kind of all-American nature,
855
00:54:32,306 --> 00:54:34,140
even though the character of Tunny
856
00:54:34,141 --> 00:54:38,780
has become very pissed off
and aggressive and hostile.
857
00:54:39,780 --> 00:54:42,716
Hey Stark! Stark and Johnny!
858
00:54:42,717 --> 00:54:46,854
The most important thing for you,
is that the subtext
859
00:54:46,855 --> 00:54:50,957
is mother-fucking land of
make be-motherfucking-lieve.
860
00:54:50,958 --> 00:54:52,560
Do you know what I mean?
Don't worry about the steps,
861
00:54:52,561 --> 00:54:55,162
just plug in to what that energy is.
862
00:54:55,163 --> 00:54:57,598
♪ We are the kids of war and peace ♪
863
00:54:57,599 --> 00:55:00,167
♪ From Anaheim to the Middle East ♪
864
00:55:00,168 --> 00:55:03,136
♪ We are the stories and disciples of ♪
865
00:55:03,137 --> 00:55:05,705
♪ The Jesus of Suburbia ♪
866
00:55:05,706 --> 00:55:08,209
♪ Land of make believe ♪
867
00:55:08,210 --> 00:55:11,145
♪ And it don't believe in me ♪
868
00:55:11,146 --> 00:55:13,747
♪ Land of make believe ♪
869
00:55:13,748 --> 00:55:15,783
♪ And I don't believe ♪
870
00:55:15,784 --> 00:55:17,452
♪ I don't care ♪
871
00:55:18,487 --> 00:55:20,054
♪ I don't care ♪
872
00:55:21,155 --> 00:55:22,657
♪ I don't care ♪
873
00:55:25,327 --> 00:55:28,162
It's a trip to see your life experiences
874
00:55:28,163 --> 00:55:30,930
being interpreted on stage.
875
00:55:30,931 --> 00:55:33,735
Let's start a war, shall we!
876
00:55:34,335 --> 00:55:35,855
So don't think about when you're here,
877
00:55:36,003 --> 00:55:37,203
as you turn around here.
878
00:55:37,204 --> 00:55:40,607
There's Tunny, in his naïve way.
879
00:55:40,608 --> 00:55:44,278
So that first step is commitment.
880
00:55:44,279 --> 00:55:47,180
♪ Drain the pressure from the swelling ♪
881
00:55:47,181 --> 00:55:48,381
And then there's Will.
882
00:55:48,382 --> 00:55:53,520
The guy who wasn't really
quite ready to be a grown-up.
883
00:55:53,521 --> 00:55:55,522
You know,
I've learned that lesson the hard way.
884
00:55:55,523 --> 00:55:58,392
♪ Give me a long kiss goodnight ♪
885
00:55:58,393 --> 00:56:01,796
♪ And everything will be alright ♪
886
00:56:01,797 --> 00:56:03,997
Can I give you some other
things to think about?
887
00:56:03,998 --> 00:56:05,198
Yes, absolutely.
888
00:56:05,199 --> 00:56:07,535
And Johnny with all of his
wanting to stand for something
889
00:56:07,536 --> 00:56:08,589
that he believes in.
890
00:56:09,003 --> 00:56:12,406
♪ Saint Jimmy's comin'
down across the alleyway ♪
891
00:56:12,407 --> 00:56:15,875
And then gets blindsided by himself.
892
00:56:15,876 --> 00:56:17,812
♪ Comin' at you on the count of 1, 2 ♪
893
00:56:18,012 --> 00:56:19,146
1, 2, 3, 4!
894
00:56:21,282 --> 00:56:23,149
And Saint Jimmy's just-
895
00:56:23,150 --> 00:56:24,677
he's just a bad motherfucker.
896
00:56:25,353 --> 00:56:28,555
♪ My name is Jimmy and you'd
better not wear it out ♪
897
00:56:28,556 --> 00:56:31,959
♪ Suicide commando
that your momma talked about ♪
898
00:56:31,960 --> 00:56:34,962
Saint Jimmy is part of myself.
899
00:56:34,963 --> 00:56:37,564
♪ The needle in the vein
of the establishment ♪
900
00:56:37,565 --> 00:56:40,201
You know, everyone's got their demons.
901
00:56:40,202 --> 00:56:42,569
Like, we're all creatures of habit.
902
00:56:42,570 --> 00:56:44,972
It's hard to shake that stuff off.
903
00:56:47,809 --> 00:56:49,179
Yow!
904
00:56:51,179 --> 00:56:56,383
Billie Joe, just like all of us,
has his dark side...
905
00:56:56,384 --> 00:56:58,719
Saint Jimmy!
906
00:57:01,356 --> 00:57:05,459
...the side that's self destructive,
manipulative,
907
00:57:05,460 --> 00:57:11,465
charismatic but dangerous
to himself and to others.
908
00:57:20,175 --> 00:57:23,276
♪ My name is Saint Jimmy,
I'm a son of a gun ♪
909
00:57:23,277 --> 00:57:26,014
♪ I'm the one that's from
the way outside now ♪
910
00:57:27,014 --> 00:57:29,149
There's a parallel between, you know,
911
00:57:29,150 --> 00:57:31,118
me going to New York for the show
912
00:57:31,119 --> 00:57:33,354
and what happened in American Idiot.
913
00:57:33,355 --> 00:57:36,055
♪ I really hate to say it
but I told you so ♪
914
00:57:36,056 --> 00:57:39,660
♪ So shut your mouth before
I shoot you down 'ol boy ♪
915
00:57:39,661 --> 00:57:42,162
But this time,
it's almost like a second chance
916
00:57:42,163 --> 00:57:43,965
to do it the right way.
917
00:57:44,733 --> 00:57:46,200
Everybody!
918
00:57:46,201 --> 00:57:49,270
♪ It's Saint Jimmy ♪
919
00:57:49,271 --> 00:57:55,378
♪ And that's my name ♪
920
00:57:58,146 --> 00:58:01,614
♪ Give my regards to Broadway ♪
921
00:58:01,615 --> 00:58:04,285
♪ Remember me to...
922
00:58:04,286 --> 00:58:05,451
Is that right?
923
00:58:05,452 --> 00:58:08,187
♪ Ba ba ba ba ba ♪
924
00:58:08,188 --> 00:58:11,091
♪...
and tell them I'll be there 'ere long ♪
925
00:58:11,092 --> 00:58:12,192
- Right?
- I'll be there 'ere long?
926
00:58:12,193 --> 00:58:13,893
I think that's what it is.
927
00:58:13,894 --> 00:58:16,197
- We gotta look this up.
- Yeah, look it up.
928
00:58:19,800 --> 00:58:21,968
I love the Saint James theater.
929
00:58:21,969 --> 00:58:25,738
It's got such a fantastic
feeling when you walk in.
930
00:58:25,739 --> 00:58:28,344
There's something grand about it.
931
00:58:29,344 --> 00:58:31,278
Give my regards to ol' Broadway
932
00:58:31,279 --> 00:58:33,817
and say that I'll be there 'ere long.
933
00:58:35,817 --> 00:58:39,553
You have the gorgeous
ornate architecture inside,
934
00:58:39,554 --> 00:58:44,591
and the décor,
and then there's American Idiot.
935
00:58:44,592 --> 00:58:46,561
I love that juxtaposition.
936
00:58:47,561 --> 00:58:50,263
We were watching TV on tour,
and Mike goes,
937
00:58:50,264 --> 00:58:51,698
"How do you know this shit?"
938
00:58:51,699 --> 00:58:52,700
And I was like,
939
00:58:52,701 --> 00:58:54,602
"I learned it when I was a little kid".
940
00:58:54,603 --> 00:58:57,471
♪ Isn't it rich? ♪
941
00:58:57,472 --> 00:59:01,207
♪ Aren't we a pair? ♪
942
00:59:01,208 --> 00:59:05,578
♪ Me here at last on the ground ♪
943
00:59:05,579 --> 00:59:10,183
♪ You in mid-air ♪
944
00:59:10,184 --> 00:59:13,287
♪ Send in the clowns ♪
945
00:59:13,288 --> 00:59:14,855
When I was a little kid,
946
00:59:14,856 --> 00:59:19,259
from the ages of like 4 and a half,
until I was about 14,
947
00:59:19,260 --> 00:59:22,197
I took, like, vocal lessons.
948
00:59:22,855 --> 00:59:24,698
But I never told any of my friends,
949
00:59:24,699 --> 00:59:29,268
Like I-because it was-it
was just something that I did.
950
00:59:29,269 --> 00:59:31,705
And I was just learning
music, and you know,
951
00:59:31,706 --> 00:59:35,209
maybe it wasn't the most masculine thing,
or whatever, in the world.
952
00:59:35,210 --> 00:59:37,343
♪ Why can't they be like we were ♪
953
00:59:37,344 --> 00:59:39,712
♪ Perfect in every way ♪
954
00:59:39,713 --> 00:59:42,018
♪ What's the matter with kids today? ♪
955
00:59:42,995 --> 00:59:44,417
My mom would take me around
956
00:59:44,418 --> 00:59:46,654
and sing, like, at convalescent hospitals.
957
00:59:46,655 --> 00:59:49,288
And I would sing anything
from like Frank Sinatra,
958
00:59:49,289 --> 00:59:52,259
Al Jolson, George M. Cohen.
959
00:59:52,260 --> 00:59:54,729
It would just be like stuff this woman,
Mrs. Favarone,
960
00:59:54,929 --> 00:59:56,562
she would teach me, and I didn't...
961
00:59:56,563 --> 00:59:58,732
I think it just kinds got
ingrained in my head.
962
00:59:58,733 --> 01:00:00,734
I wonder if that has had some impact,
963
01:00:00,735 --> 01:00:02,970
it must have,
in the way that you write songs...
964
01:00:02,971 --> 01:00:05,406
You take a song like "Wake me
Up When September Ends"
965
01:00:05,407 --> 01:00:07,508
which is the... you know,
one of the penultimate moment of the show,
966
01:00:07,509 --> 01:00:09,308
one of the penultimate
moments of the album,
967
01:00:09,309 --> 01:00:11,579
you know, and this progression...
968
01:00:17,818 --> 01:00:20,557
...which, you know, is so beautiful,
969
01:00:23,557 --> 01:00:27,661
and feels to me like Chorus Line,
"What I Did for Love".
970
01:00:32,500 --> 01:00:35,704
Yeah. Wow, that's a good one.
971
01:00:42,811 --> 01:00:47,980
And then you have this major to minor,
which you know.
972
01:00:47,981 --> 01:00:53,353
"Love is Here to Stay", too,
does that major to minor.
973
01:00:55,255 --> 01:01:00,960
So it's-it is, all I mean it's
melodic and it's major to minor,
974
01:01:00,961 --> 01:01:02,863
it's the-it's the-
975
01:01:02,864 --> 01:01:05,499
it comes certainly from
this whole tradition.
976
01:01:05,500 --> 01:01:08,167
Well I think album making,
977
01:01:08,168 --> 01:01:12,205
or the art of it for me, is like,
that it takes you on a ride,
978
01:01:12,206 --> 01:01:13,996
and the songs speak to each other.
979
01:01:16,945 --> 01:01:18,345
Okay that's a stretch.
980
01:01:18,346 --> 01:01:20,379
That's bad.
981
01:01:20,380 --> 01:01:23,018
I don't know how to explain
how Billie Joe and I,
982
01:01:24,018 --> 01:01:26,520
who come from such different worlds,
983
01:01:26,521 --> 01:01:29,957
manage to have such a
fruitful collaboration.
984
01:01:29,958 --> 01:01:31,491
To me what's so interesting
985
01:01:31,492 --> 01:01:35,162
is it's that Tin Pan Alley stuff.
986
01:01:35,163 --> 01:01:38,665
I think it's because both of us,
at our hearts,
987
01:01:38,666 --> 01:01:40,067
are entertainers.
988
01:01:40,068 --> 01:01:41,901
- So it's not just about drugs.
- Yeah.
989
01:01:41,902 --> 01:01:44,705
'Cause here, it's such a metaphor,
990
01:01:44,706 --> 01:01:46,540
that he became that kind of...
991
01:01:46,541 --> 01:01:48,174
In my rock world,
992
01:01:48,175 --> 01:01:52,513
things get so competitive,
that sometimes it's a-
993
01:01:52,514 --> 01:01:55,783
you get into a mode where
people become discouraging.
994
01:01:55,784 --> 01:01:58,518
This was just a different feeling.
995
01:01:58,519 --> 01:02:00,587
It was almost-people were-
996
01:02:00,588 --> 01:02:02,522
you know,
I don't want to over-romanticize about it,
997
01:02:02,523 --> 01:02:04,691
but it was-everybody was
sort of encouraging each other,
998
01:02:04,692 --> 01:02:08,995
and... you know,
it's just-it's New York, it's not like-
999
01:02:08,996 --> 01:02:13,005
it's not some bullshit Hollywood crap,
you know.
1000
01:02:17,005 --> 01:02:20,174
The whole theatre thing
is really seductive,
1001
01:02:20,175 --> 01:02:22,209
and it's just inspiring too.
1002
01:02:22,210 --> 01:02:27,715
♪ I left my blood like
bullets over Broadway ♪
1003
01:02:28,715 --> 01:02:31,618
Every day I had this discipline ritual
1004
01:02:31,619 --> 01:02:33,386
where I would just write about anything.
1005
01:02:33,387 --> 01:02:35,388
It doesn't matter what it's about.
1006
01:02:35,389 --> 01:02:37,290
It doesn't have to even make sense.
1007
01:02:37,291 --> 01:02:42,261
♪ With broken legs and
roses over New York ♪
1008
01:02:42,262 --> 01:02:45,098
I would just write something.
It would be 30 seconds,
1009
01:02:45,099 --> 01:02:47,500
it would be 40 seconds,
it would be two minutes.
1010
01:02:47,501 --> 01:02:49,669
I just had this momentum of just,
like, writing songs.
1011
01:02:49,670 --> 01:02:51,772
And I would do that during the day,
1012
01:02:51,773 --> 01:02:55,110
and then I would end up going
to the show at night.
1013
01:02:57,110 --> 01:03:00,680
♪ In my own private suicide ♪
1014
01:03:00,681 --> 01:03:01,915
I just felt like a sponge.
1015
01:03:01,916 --> 01:03:04,686
I just kind of sucked everything up.
1016
01:03:09,023 --> 01:03:10,756
So, what I'm gonna do
1017
01:03:10,757 --> 01:03:13,694
is look at swapping you guys out.
1018
01:03:13,695 --> 01:03:16,062
I just want to make sure
it doesn't translate
1019
01:03:16,063 --> 01:03:17,864
as he's the father.
1020
01:03:17,865 --> 01:03:20,135
Today's our final rehearsal.
1021
01:03:21,135 --> 01:03:23,703
♪ Nobody's perfect and I stand accused ♪
1022
01:03:23,704 --> 01:03:26,707
We're going to do all of our
last little picky notes
1023
01:03:26,708 --> 01:03:30,112
or try new things for the last time.
1024
01:03:31,112 --> 01:03:33,586
What would be better is if
you were up here-ish.
1025
01:03:37,184 --> 01:03:38,718
- ...ballet thing.
- Uh huh.
1026
01:03:38,719 --> 01:03:40,587
From "Jimmy died today".
1027
01:03:40,588 --> 01:03:43,556
I don't think it should be busy. No.
1028
01:03:43,557 --> 01:03:45,591
Will!
Okay, hold.
1029
01:03:45,592 --> 01:03:48,694
So Carmel,
we're gonna make a small adjustment.
1030
01:03:48,695 --> 01:03:52,765
So it'll be "Oh shit,
this is my life." Bam bam-
1031
01:03:52,766 --> 01:03:54,402
as opposed to a question.
1032
01:03:55,402 --> 01:03:58,172
Oh shit, this is my life.
1033
01:03:59,873 --> 01:04:02,510
♪ I'm the son of rage and love ♪
1034
01:04:03,577 --> 01:04:04,679
Hold there.
1035
01:04:05,679 --> 01:04:07,980
Can we have the cast in the house please?
1036
01:04:07,981 --> 01:04:10,917
Full cast in the house, please.
1037
01:04:10,918 --> 01:04:14,087
The time has come. The show is now yours,
1038
01:04:14,088 --> 01:04:16,089
so fly with it.
1039
01:04:16,090 --> 01:04:18,792
It's in-we're in spectacular shape.
1040
01:04:18,793 --> 01:04:20,093
I couldn't be prouder of it.
1041
01:04:20,094 --> 01:04:23,196
It's such a weird feeling because since,
you know,
1042
01:04:23,197 --> 01:04:25,399
since the beginning we've
been working and working
1043
01:04:25,400 --> 01:04:28,301
and shifting things and finding it.
1044
01:04:28,302 --> 01:04:30,504
Um... but um...
1045
01:04:30,505 --> 01:04:33,373
we found it and it's fantastic.
1046
01:04:44,885 --> 01:04:47,486
♪ I got a rock and roll band ♪
1047
01:04:47,487 --> 01:04:49,989
♪ I got a rock and roll life ♪
1048
01:04:49,990 --> 01:04:52,658
♪ I got a rock and roll girlfriend ♪
1049
01:04:52,659 --> 01:04:55,294
♪ And another ex-wife ♪
1050
01:04:55,295 --> 01:04:57,797
♪ I got a kid in New York ♪
1051
01:04:57,798 --> 01:05:00,500
♪ I got a kid in the Bay ♪
1052
01:05:00,501 --> 01:05:04,870
♪ I haven't drank or smoked nothin'
in over 22 days ♪
1053
01:05:04,871 --> 01:05:06,573
♪ So get off of my case ♪
1054
01:05:06,574 --> 01:05:10,910
♪ Off of my case ♪
1055
01:05:10,911 --> 01:05:13,980
I'm here to welcome you
to the Gypsy robe ceremony
1056
01:05:13,981 --> 01:05:16,216
for the opening night on Broadway,
1057
01:05:16,217 --> 01:05:18,418
of American Idiot!
1058
01:05:22,889 --> 01:05:25,759
Everyone who's making their
Broadway debut tonight
1059
01:05:25,760 --> 01:05:28,396
come here to the center of the stage.
1060
01:05:36,070 --> 01:05:38,939
The Gypsy robe tradition began in 1950
1061
01:05:38,940 --> 01:05:41,341
when a chorus dancer in
"Gentlemen Prefer Blonds"
1062
01:05:41,342 --> 01:05:43,709
sent a dressing robe to
the Imperial Theater
1063
01:05:43,710 --> 01:05:45,278
where "Call me Madam" was opening
1064
01:05:45,279 --> 01:05:48,180
with a note proclaiming the
robe had been worn
1065
01:05:48,181 --> 01:05:51,917
by all the Ziegfeld beauties
and would bless their show.
1066
01:05:51,918 --> 01:05:54,955
the Gypsy robe is awarded
to a member of the chorus
1067
01:05:54,956 --> 01:05:58,225
who has the most Broadway
musical chorus credits.
1068
01:05:58,226 --> 01:06:00,160
The honored gypsy puts on the robe,
1069
01:06:00,161 --> 01:06:04,064
circles the stage three times
counter-clockwise,
1070
01:06:04,065 --> 01:06:06,399
and the show is blessed.
1071
01:06:06,400 --> 01:06:08,267
Yeah!!
1072
01:06:08,268 --> 01:06:09,803
It will be our pleasure
1073
01:06:09,804 --> 01:06:12,339
to see the Gypsy robe for American Idiot
1074
01:06:12,340 --> 01:06:15,876
presented to Andrew Call.
1075
01:06:21,983 --> 01:06:23,885
Congratulations!
1076
01:06:47,775 --> 01:06:49,776
I always looked at Broadway
1077
01:06:49,777 --> 01:06:52,078
as being some sort of impossible dream.
1078
01:06:52,079 --> 01:06:53,180
It is my goal, it is my dream,
1079
01:06:53,181 --> 01:06:54,848
and I'm living it right now.
1080
01:06:54,849 --> 01:06:56,652
It feels so good.
1081
01:07:00,387 --> 01:07:03,290
These actors,
they put so much passion and heart
1082
01:07:03,291 --> 01:07:04,659
into what they're doing.
1083
01:07:05,259 --> 01:07:07,160
I heard Liza Minnelli is coming tonight.
1084
01:07:07,161 --> 01:07:09,428
Oh you punk kids were just terrific!
1085
01:07:09,429 --> 01:07:13,466
I loved what you were doing-all
that stomping around on stage,
1086
01:07:13,467 --> 01:07:15,036
it was simply inspired.
1087
01:07:15,636 --> 01:07:17,971
I woke up today thinking,
"Okay, it;s just another show,
1088
01:07:17,972 --> 01:07:18,971
it's just another show."
1089
01:07:18,972 --> 01:07:20,107
But it's not just another show.
1090
01:07:20,108 --> 01:07:23,146
It's American Idiot! On Broadway, you know?
1091
01:07:27,981 --> 01:07:30,192
It was really strange to see Donald Trump.
1092
01:07:32,085 --> 01:07:35,654
I was like,
"what the fuck are you doing here? Really?"
1093
01:07:35,655 --> 01:07:37,124
In 3, 2, 1...
1094
01:07:37,125 --> 01:07:40,794
Green Day is used to the stage,
but now they're coming to Broadway.
1095
01:07:40,795 --> 01:07:42,696
I am Ann Craig. Coming up, I'm taking you
1096
01:07:42,697 --> 01:07:45,765
inside their brand new
musical American Idiot.
1097
01:07:45,766 --> 01:07:47,103
It's showtime.
1098
01:07:48,779 --> 01:07:50,569
Did you ever think you'd get here?
1099
01:07:50,570 --> 01:07:53,775
Uh...
1100
01:07:55,775 --> 01:07:58,481
I've been working for this for 30 years...
1101
01:08:01,481 --> 01:08:04,584
I hoped I would make it.
1102
01:08:04,585 --> 01:08:06,720
The application of eye shadow
1103
01:08:06,721 --> 01:08:09,189
is a very very delicate procedure.
1104
01:08:09,190 --> 01:08:11,424
We all believe in it so much...
1105
01:08:11,425 --> 01:08:13,225
But um...
1106
01:08:13,226 --> 01:08:16,765
I've never felt so lucky in my entire life.
1107
01:08:18,765 --> 01:08:20,002
You deserve it, man.
1108
01:08:21,002 --> 01:08:22,635
Thanks. Thanks.
1109
01:08:22,636 --> 01:08:24,403
Opening night, baby!
1110
01:08:24,404 --> 01:08:28,041
It's gunmetal grey. I had to.
1111
01:08:28,042 --> 01:08:31,211
I love boys, they're stupid!
1112
01:08:31,212 --> 01:08:33,613
I don't know what to expect.
1113
01:08:39,921 --> 01:08:42,988
It's kind of helpful to be like,
"I can handle it".
1114
01:08:42,989 --> 01:08:45,325
I'm saying this now I'm thinking,
1115
01:08:45,326 --> 01:08:48,233
"Okay, you're definitely
jinxing yourself right now."
1116
01:08:52,233 --> 01:08:54,170
And now we're at 15 minutes.
1117
01:08:55,871 --> 01:08:57,871
It's time to unleash this on New York.
1118
01:08:57,872 --> 01:08:58,438
Let's do it.
1119
01:08:58,439 --> 01:09:01,576
1, 2, 3, it's fucktime!
1120
01:09:17,658 --> 01:09:20,795
♪ Don't wan an be an American Idiot ♪
1121
01:09:22,729 --> 01:09:25,699
♪ Don't want a nation
under the new media ♪
1122
01:09:28,034 --> 01:09:30,837
♪ Hey,
can you hear the sound of hysteria ♪
1123
01:09:33,207 --> 01:09:37,443
♪ The subliminal mindfuck America ♪
1124
01:09:37,444 --> 01:09:39,413
The reaction was amazing.
1125
01:09:40,413 --> 01:09:43,116
One hard-core Green Day fan is like,
"Oh my god."
1126
01:09:43,117 --> 01:09:44,819
I go, "It's not what you
thought it was gonna be was it?"
1127
01:09:45,019 --> 01:09:47,454
He was like, "Not at all."
1128
01:09:51,024 --> 01:09:54,394
And then I heard someone say,
"I guess this was inspired
1129
01:09:54,395 --> 01:09:56,962
by a rock band or something like that."
1130
01:09:56,963 --> 01:09:59,431
I mean they had no clue what Green Day was,
1131
01:09:59,432 --> 01:10:01,201
and that was really exciting,
1132
01:10:01,202 --> 01:10:04,037
because it was reaching
a whole new audience.
1133
01:10:56,957 --> 01:10:58,892
Amazing performances,
1134
01:10:58,893 --> 01:11:00,727
incredible energy,
1135
01:11:00,728 --> 01:11:03,129
not like anything else on Broadway.
1136
01:11:03,130 --> 01:11:06,666
My next guests star in the
acclaimed new Broadway musical
1137
01:11:06,667 --> 01:11:09,301
based on the Green Day album
of the same name.
1138
01:11:09,302 --> 01:11:11,103
From the looks of things tonight,
I can tell you
1139
01:11:11,104 --> 01:11:13,939
this show is going to attract
a whole new crowd
1140
01:11:13,940 --> 01:11:15,341
right here on Broadway.
1141
01:11:15,342 --> 01:11:18,278
Okay, here's the deal,
and this is the honest to god truth,
1142
01:11:18,279 --> 01:11:20,714
I don't read the reviews. I really don't.
1143
01:11:20,715 --> 01:11:22,081
American Idiot is getting
1144
01:11:22,082 --> 01:11:23,750
- phenomenal reviews.
- Great reviews.
1145
01:11:23,751 --> 01:11:27,386
I know that we got some ecstatic notices.
1146
01:11:27,387 --> 01:11:29,788
Almost the best thing
I've seen on Broadway.
1147
01:11:29,789 --> 01:11:33,163
And some notices that were
carping about this or that.
1148
01:11:37,163 --> 01:11:42,736
But I will say the audience
response was over the top.
1149
01:11:42,737 --> 01:11:44,403
It was crazy.
1150
01:11:44,404 --> 01:11:47,407
It was wild. Uh...
1151
01:11:47,408 --> 01:11:50,343
You know, I would just-all that
electricity, that excitement,
1152
01:11:50,344 --> 01:11:54,748
and sort of everything felt
like it was on fire.
1153
01:12:02,355 --> 01:12:07,693
Billie Joe went from being
moderately interested,
1154
01:12:07,694 --> 01:12:12,434
to getting more intrigued...
1155
01:12:13,434 --> 01:12:16,301
to becoming passionate
1156
01:12:16,302 --> 01:12:20,440
about what the whole Broadway vibe was.
1157
01:12:27,981 --> 01:12:32,285
So by the time I suggested to him
1158
01:12:32,286 --> 01:12:34,353
that my secret dream
1159
01:12:34,354 --> 01:12:38,090
was that someday he would
play Saint Jimmy...
1160
01:12:38,091 --> 01:12:40,359
he couldn't-I-I saw a little light...
1161
01:12:40,360 --> 01:12:43,362
behind his eyes, a flicker of excitement.
1162
01:12:43,363 --> 01:12:44,764
He said, "Oh really? You think so?"
1163
01:12:44,765 --> 01:12:46,198
I'm like, "Uh-huh."
1164
01:12:46,199 --> 01:12:49,536
And the next day he called and said,
1165
01:12:49,537 --> 01:12:53,305
"Oh my god, are you serious about this?
I'm shitting."
1166
01:12:53,306 --> 01:12:56,376
♪ My name is Saint Jimmy
I'm a son of a gun ♪
1167
01:12:56,377 --> 01:12:59,711
♪ I'm the one that's from
the way outside now ♪
1168
01:12:59,712 --> 01:13:02,881
♪ A teenage assassin
executing some fun ♪
1169
01:13:02,882 --> 01:13:06,385
♪ In the cult of the life of crime now ♪
1170
01:13:06,386 --> 01:13:08,420
The first day I rehearsed, Michael goes,
1171
01:13:08,421 --> 01:13:12,591
"Oh, there's something
I forgot to tell you.
1172
01:13:12,592 --> 01:13:16,395
This is going to be
really awkward at first."
1173
01:13:16,396 --> 01:13:18,363
And it was really awkward.
1174
01:13:18,364 --> 01:13:20,399
Don't look at the girls until the scream.
1175
01:13:20,400 --> 01:13:21,367
Okay.
1176
01:13:21,368 --> 01:13:23,368
Just be focused on him.
1177
01:13:23,369 --> 01:13:26,574
They don't even penetrate
your consciousness.
1178
01:13:27,574 --> 01:13:29,274
I was really really nervous
1179
01:13:29,275 --> 01:13:31,644
about whether I could do it at all.
1180
01:13:31,645 --> 01:13:32,645
Here we go, ready?
1181
01:13:33,180 --> 01:13:35,247
He didn't want the press to come,
1182
01:13:35,248 --> 01:13:38,251
he didn't want people to talk about it.
1183
01:13:38,252 --> 01:13:40,286
It was absolutely hush hush.
1184
01:13:40,287 --> 01:13:42,287
Do you mind? Just for me to see it again.
1185
01:13:42,288 --> 01:13:44,323
So we'd sneak him into a theater
1186
01:13:44,324 --> 01:13:45,657
where we would rehearse.
1187
01:13:45,658 --> 01:13:47,093
See how cool that looks?
1188
01:13:47,094 --> 01:13:50,030
She does that all in one.
You stop yourself.
1189
01:13:51,030 --> 01:13:52,899
She's a professional dancer.
1190
01:13:57,805 --> 01:13:59,774
Are you asleep?
1191
01:14:01,774 --> 01:14:04,176
I was nervous about acting in general,
1192
01:14:04,177 --> 01:14:06,446
you know, like, the silent moments,
1193
01:14:06,447 --> 01:14:08,915
the stillness in parts.
1194
01:14:08,916 --> 01:14:11,818
I'm not used to doing that at all.
1195
01:14:11,819 --> 01:14:16,589
It's dead silent and your
brain's going brrrrr you know...
1196
01:14:16,590 --> 01:14:21,094
"stay still, don't say anything."
1197
01:14:21,095 --> 01:14:24,266
You know, that part was hard.
1198
01:14:26,266 --> 01:14:30,169
He was freaked out.
He didn't know if he'd be any good.
1199
01:14:30,170 --> 01:14:32,505
Is life imitating me
or is rage imitating life?
1200
01:14:32,506 --> 01:14:35,508
I feel like a civil war,
like a knife in the heart!
1201
01:14:35,509 --> 01:14:39,178
I've got an axe to grind
and it's splitting my head open!
1202
01:14:39,179 --> 01:14:42,815
No friends, no girls!
1203
01:14:45,519 --> 01:14:48,256
I need both!
1204
01:14:49,256 --> 01:14:52,457
♪ Saint Jimmy's com in'
down across the alleyway ♪
1205
01:14:52,458 --> 01:14:55,528
♪ Up on the boulevard
like a zip gun on parade ♪
1206
01:14:55,529 --> 01:14:58,898
♪ Light of a silhouette
he's insubordinate ♪
1207
01:14:58,899 --> 01:15:00,801
♪ Comin' at you on the count of 1, 2 ♪
1208
01:15:01,001 --> 01:15:03,337
1, 2, 3, 4!
1209
01:15:08,576 --> 01:15:11,644
♪ My name is Jimmy and
you better not wear it out ♪
1210
01:15:11,645 --> 01:15:14,913
♪ Suicide commando
that your momma talked about ♪
1211
01:15:14,914 --> 01:15:18,451
♪ King of the 40 thieves
I'm here to represent ♪
1212
01:15:18,452 --> 01:15:20,820
♪ The needle in the vein
of the establishment ♪
1213
01:15:21,020 --> 01:15:23,989
♪ I'm the patron saint of the denial ♪
1214
01:15:23,990 --> 01:15:28,462
♪ With an angel face
and a taste for suicidal ♪
1215
01:15:30,898 --> 01:15:32,666
Whoa!
1216
01:15:34,467 --> 01:15:37,603
♪ Cigarettes and ramen
and a little bag of dope ♪
1217
01:15:37,604 --> 01:15:40,672
♪ I am the son of a bitch
and Edgar Allan Poe ♪
1218
01:15:40,673 --> 01:15:44,210
♪ Raised in the city
in the halo of lights ♪
1219
01:15:44,211 --> 01:15:46,712
♪ Product of war and fear
that we've been victimized ♪
1220
01:15:46,713 --> 01:15:50,049
♪ I'm the patron saint of the denial ♪
1221
01:15:50,050 --> 01:15:54,454
♪ With an angel face
and a taste for suicidal ♪
1222
01:15:55,389 --> 01:15:58,324
I'll give you something to cry about!
1223
01:16:08,902 --> 01:16:11,274
Saint Jimmy!
1224
01:16:15,274 --> 01:16:19,645
In the old days,
coming from sort of an underground scene,
1225
01:16:19,646 --> 01:16:22,381
there was a lot of bands
that you would watch
1226
01:16:22,382 --> 01:16:25,151
that were your friends'
bands and things like that.
1227
01:16:25,152 --> 01:16:27,586
You know,
everyone would sort of feed off each other,
1228
01:16:27,587 --> 01:16:30,587
and have fun, but at the same time be,
you know, learning.
1229
01:16:33,359 --> 01:16:38,697
Once Green Day took off,
we started losing that.
1230
01:16:38,698 --> 01:16:42,068
We were losing friends, which is fine,
1231
01:16:42,069 --> 01:16:44,103
you know, it's like, you only need a few.
1232
01:16:44,104 --> 01:16:47,576
But it's um... it's uh...
1233
01:16:49,576 --> 01:16:52,377
it gets, um... it just became difficult
1234
01:16:52,378 --> 01:16:57,250
to sort of find, um,
kindred spirits in that way
1235
01:16:57,251 --> 01:16:59,152
♪ We are the world ♪
1236
01:16:59,153 --> 01:17:01,453
Which charity is this for?
1237
01:17:01,454 --> 01:17:02,822
Mine!
1238
01:17:02,823 --> 01:17:05,692
When the cast came along
I started to feel it again
1239
01:17:05,693 --> 01:17:06,792
and Ive always wanted that.
1240
01:17:06,793 --> 01:17:10,095
I've always been,
almost-almost naïve about it,
1241
01:17:10,096 --> 01:17:12,800
where I wanted to make those
kinds of relationships...
1242
01:17:13,000 --> 01:17:14,527
Did we get it? Did we get it?
1243
01:17:15,101 --> 01:17:17,505
and it didn't happen in
rock and roll music.
1244
01:17:18,505 --> 01:17:20,774
It happened in theatre.
1245
01:17:23,844 --> 01:17:27,679
That's the thing that sort of,
uh, blindsided me.
1246
01:17:27,680 --> 01:17:30,782
♪ My name is Saint jimmy
I'm a son of a gun ♪
1247
01:17:30,783 --> 01:17:34,687
♪ I'm the one that's from
the way outside now ♪
1248
01:17:34,688 --> 01:17:37,456
♪ A teenage assassin
executing some fun ♪
1249
01:17:37,457 --> 01:17:40,760
♪ In the cult of the life of crime now ♪
1250
01:17:40,761 --> 01:17:43,696
♪ I really hate to say it
but I told you so ♪
1251
01:17:43,697 --> 01:17:47,599
♪ So shut your mouth before
I shoot you down ol' boy ♪
1252
01:17:47,600 --> 01:17:50,368
♪ Welcome to the club
and give me some blood ♪
1253
01:17:50,369 --> 01:17:53,672
♪ I'm the resident leader
of the lost and found ♪
1254
01:17:53,673 --> 01:17:59,845
♪ It's comedy and tragedy ♪
1255
01:17:59,846 --> 01:18:03,483
♪ It's Saint Jimmy ♪
1256
01:18:03,484 --> 01:18:09,457
♪ And that's my name ♪
1257
01:18:10,457 --> 01:18:13,092
And don't wear it out!
1258
01:19:04,845 --> 01:19:07,793
Did I tell ya how many times
I've been reprimanded for...
1259
01:19:09,215 --> 01:19:10,883
- That was the best.
- For bad behavior.
1260
01:19:10,884 --> 01:19:11,884
I know.
1261
01:19:18,792 --> 01:19:21,961
One night I grabbed a bottle of
whiskey and took a sip of it.
1262
01:19:21,962 --> 01:19:25,398
And then- and then um...
1263
01:19:25,399 --> 01:19:26,465
and I remember you going-you were like,
1264
01:19:26,466 --> 01:19:27,733
"You can't do that."
- Right.
1265
01:19:27,734 --> 01:19:30,670
You know, it was like, "note",
and it was like my notes was,
1266
01:19:30,671 --> 01:19:34,645
"Don't get bottle of whiskey
and bring it one stage."
1267
01:19:39,245 --> 01:19:40,779
Then the naked cowboy happened,
1268
01:19:40,780 --> 01:19:42,938
and then everything was off to the races.
1269
01:19:48,154 --> 01:19:49,755
And then another time,
1270
01:19:49,756 --> 01:19:52,058
I ran out and grabbed a bunch of Twizzlers,
1271
01:19:52,059 --> 01:19:54,193
and I threw it at the whole crowd,
1272
01:19:54,194 --> 01:19:55,627
and they were like "yeah!"
1273
01:19:55,628 --> 01:19:57,162
I was like, "Oh, that was pretty cool."
1274
01:19:57,163 --> 01:19:58,864
And then...
1275
01:19:58,865 --> 01:20:00,733
and then all of a sudden,
1276
01:20:00,734 --> 01:20:05,036
here comes Tom Hulce
walking back and he was like-
1277
01:20:05,037 --> 01:20:10,376
he goes, "Um... you... um...
1278
01:20:10,377 --> 01:20:14,380
there's this thing going on on the stage
1279
01:20:14,381 --> 01:20:17,884
and um... it's...
1280
01:20:17,885 --> 01:20:21,687
you can't run off of it because it's...
1281
01:20:21,688 --> 01:20:25,858
it's really disruptive to
what's happening on stage."
1282
01:20:25,859 --> 01:20:27,193
And I go,
1283
01:20:27,194 --> 01:20:31,198
"So, you don't want me to throw
Twizzlers at people anymore?"