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Phyllis Nefler
07/30/09

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Green Day have been pulling kids up on stage and letting them play for years. I've seen many shows where the kids couldn't play said instrument and Billie would toss them back into the crowd, haha. I did always notice that he didn't seem to pick girls all that much. I'm glad Stephanie got a chance to get up there and rock !!
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AliceMaz
07/30/09

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What a dream come true... I'm glad I work at home because, like everyone else, I'm crying like a proud mama over here. Go Rock Star Girls!!!
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bananastand
07/30/09

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Billie Joe is really starting to look like Liza Minelli.
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didntmeanto
07/30/09

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Awesome! I love when people given a chance completely deliver like that. I'm sure I would have messed up and then been embarassed and run away. Good for her!
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morninggloria
07/30/09

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One of my mosts embarrassing moments happened when Yo Yo Ma did this exact thing to me at one of his concerts.
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heavysyrup
07/30/09

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They did this last night in DC too.
First, he had two different guys come up and sing. One was pretty good, but the one who came after must have been living his dream. I was pretty far away from him, but I could almost hear the kid saying "i f*cking swear to you, I can sing this song!" over and over.

He totally rocked it! I was impressed!

Then later on, he had someone come and play the guitar. The guy got up on stage, hugged Billie, and KISSED HIM ON THE CHEEK.

He also danced with this really cute girl wearing a headscarf.

Billie Joe, you are my hero.
Even if you dislike GD, you have to admit they are nice to their fans.
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letitcrash
07/30/09

@heavysyrup: When i was in high school, my boyfriend got pulled up on stage at a green day concert (i wonder if because he had a huge green mohawk) and basically made his life when he got to play the drums with them. its really awesome that they do that.
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maybeimamazed02
07/30/09

@heavysyrup: Green Day blows my mind in so many ways--their intelligence, their raw talent, the fact that they were HUGE when I was a freshman in high school 15 years ago and they've maintained and increased their following since then.

The fact that they're amazing to their fans is just icing on the awesomecake.

Go Stephanie!
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Pandorasvoicebox
07/30/09

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I love how she starts in the chair, but then gets up and gets increasingly confident on the stage once she realizes she's rocking it. GO STEPHANIE!
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GeorgeFayne
07/30/09

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OK, this made me cry, but I got my period this morning (and I cry at dog food commercials on the best of days) so that's my excuse.
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andBegorrah
07/30/09

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I'm strangely comforted by Billie Joe apparently taking Freddy Mercury as a model.
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seat_5a
07/30/09

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I think Green Day does this at all their concerts, maybe? I went to one in St. Paul, Minn., four years ago and they did this. But yay for Stephanie! You go Glen Coco!
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wtfox?!
07/30/09

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This would have been my dream come true in 1994 when my friends and I listened to Dookie pretty much nonstop for months. (Remember when you couldn't escape from the "When I Come Around" video?)

As it is, this is still pretty awesome. Rock on, Stephanie!
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Le Kangourou de Kataroo
07/30/09

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So this means I need to quickly make the switch from strumming my acoustic guitar to playing power cords by the time i see them in 2 weeks?

Cool. Good talk, team!
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MizJenkins
07/30/09

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Also, what is that first song? Is it me or does the chorus have the exact same chord progression as "The Summer of '69" by Bryan Adams?
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Trulymadlyme
07/30/09

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They did this when I was in high school, in like 1998, at the HFStival in DC. My best friend was pulled up and he had the same sort of "you better be able to play" thing.

Thank God were were all in a Ska band.

Good God, this comment has confirmed it: I am so an old.
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laureltreedaphne
07/30/09

@Trulymadlyme:

Oh my god, I remember this happening! I was 14 and my parents had FINALLY consented to let me go to the HFStival. My best friend got her belly button pierced in one of those tents, showed everyone at school, but not her parents, and 3 weeks later it got infected on our school trip.
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bluewine
07/30/09

@Trulymadlyme: I saw him do this in like 2004 when I was about to graduate college. He seemed really pleased that the kid he chose could play.

I think this is an awesome tradition. I'm also officially getting old.
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Skellatrix
07/30/09

@Trulymadlyme: You and me both. If you can remember when Green Day sang about masturbation, you're an old.
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linnyt is a walking cliché
07/30/09

@Skellatrix: masturbation is better than politics. masturbation never loses its fun.
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wednesdayam
07/30/09

@Skellatrix: To this day, I'll still yell along with every word of "Longview" with my fellow Olds when it comes up on my 90s playlist that we tend to hit up on roadtrips...
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rah29
07/30/09

@Skellatrix: Oh, shit. I don't just remember the singing--I remember the boys in my class passing around the lyric sheet to the whole album and being like 'oh my god, the whore is a MAN'!
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eve804
07/30/09

@Trulymadlyme: I'm old right there with you. I went to HFStival in 1995 and 1996. I remember seeing PJ Harvey, Garbage, Primus, Mighty Mighty Bosstones... NO WAY would I be able to put up with being in a giant sweltering bowl full of people and beach balls today, but god damn, it was magical when I was 16.
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Grim Reaper of the Forest
07/30/09

@Trulymadlyme: I was no longer in high school in 1998. However, I went to the HFStival in 1996, when I took a year off after high school. I'm ooooold.
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littlemisslondon
07/30/09

@Skellatrix: I am 100% old then, because not only do I remember when they sang about masturbation, I remember when my friends and I used to sing that song all the time and we'd replace "masturbation" with "playing Scrabble" so our parents wouldn't get mad.

Ollllllllld.
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thecameralovesyou
07/30/09

@rah29: I remember figuring that our when I was about 13 when the album came out, and I was SHOCKED. and giggled for like 5 minutes. And then giggled some more at the masturbation. I was quite a lame 13 year old. Or ... you know, like many otherl 13 year olds.
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maybeimamazed02
07/30/09

@rah29: My friends and I (sheltered little Catholic school teens) were SO SHOCKED by this. One of said friends came out several years later. :)

Dookie MADE my freshman year of high school. And they're even more amazing now--21st Century Breakdown is sooooo good!
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BiteMeMitchell!
07/30/09

@Trulymadlyme: I'm officially out-olding everyone. I saw them in 1991 (weirdly, I can remember it was Friday the 13th of December) in my home town. There were exactly 26 people there.
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rah29
07/30/09

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I've seen them do this in concert a few times, but I've never seen a girl up on stage--brilliant!! Go Stephanie!
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