If there are 8,000 people ahead of me in a Ticketmaster queue...

pjl44

BF25394 said:

pjl44 said:

I started going to shows in college in the very late 90s so my little club show stories are all Kid Rock, Creed, Nickelback, etc. What a time to be alive.

Oof. You should have petitioned your parents to be born five years sooner.

There are a few good ones sprinkled in but yeah it's a lot of that. (Look up the SnoCore 2000 tour - System Of A Down, Incubus, and Mr. Bungle.)

tempo_n_groove

brianlux said:

I hope you get to see Green Day!  I know some people make fun of, even massively slam Green Day as phony punk rock (I don't recall them ever calling themselves punk), but in my book, they are A-OK (yeah, I'm biased, they got their start in the same town I spent my first 11 months).  Besides, any band that's good enough for Paul, is good enough for me.

Greenday is most definitely punk.  The songs they cover and bands they site as references, all punk.  They were also in the punk scene in the bay area when they started.

brianlux

tempo_n_groove said:

brianlux said:

I hope you get to see Green Day!  I know some people make fun of, even massively slam Green Day as phony punk rock (I don't recall them ever calling themselves punk), but in my book, they are A-OK (yeah, I'm biased, they got their start in the same town I spent my first 11 months).  Besides, any band that's good enough for Paul, is good enough for me.

Greenday is most definitely punk.  The songs they cover and bands they site as references, all punk.  They were also in the punk scene in the bay area when they started.

The "Is Green Day punk?" argument has been a long standing one and I certainly admit they have punk influences.  But I always hesitate to pigeon hole them as "punk" because I think that puts too much of a limit on the kind of work they've done over the years.  I would be OK with going along with calling them "rock", however.