Feb
19
Sat • 1994
Set 1:
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#1 Burnout
Show Notes
Incomplete setlist
Gabe Meline: "As pointed out in my music column in this week’s Bohemian, the last time Dirnt played the Phoenix with Green Day, right after signing to Warner Bros., there was a group of protesters out front calling themselves the 'punk police.' I wasn't one of them. Instead, I was hanging around behind the theater with Billie Joe, playing one of Green Day’s new songs I’d taped from the Gilman soundboard back to him on a borrowed guitar. Except I’d written new lyrics for the entire song: 'I'm not bein' punk / I'm just sellin' out,' I sang to him, to the tune of Burnout. He winced. And laughed, sorta, when I finished the song. I was only trying to exaggerate and thus mock the ire of the 'punk police' - and later that night, while playing Burnout at the Phoenix, he got to the chorus and sang the same lines, about not bein' punk and just sellin' out. I knew he still had a sense of humor."
Gabe Meline: "As pointed out in my music column in this week’s Bohemian, the last time Dirnt played the Phoenix with Green Day, right after signing to Warner Bros., there was a group of protesters out front calling themselves the 'punk police.' I wasn't one of them. Instead, I was hanging around behind the theater with Billie Joe, playing one of Green Day’s new songs I’d taped from the Gilman soundboard back to him on a borrowed guitar. Except I’d written new lyrics for the entire song: 'I'm not bein' punk / I'm just sellin' out,' I sang to him, to the tune of Burnout. He winced. And laughed, sorta, when I finished the song. I was only trying to exaggerate and thus mock the ire of the 'punk police' - and later that night, while playing Burnout at the Phoenix, he got to the chorus and sang the same lines, about not bein' punk and just sellin' out. I knew he still had a sense of humor."