Is the live rock & roll experience so wild and uncontainable, so raw and unpredictable that bands just have to stretch the limits of the PMRC when they capture shows on tape? Green Day's upcoming live CD/DVD set, due in March, will chronicle their raucous "21st Century Breakdown" tour. The title, "Awesome as F---," follows in the footsteps of the Replacements (1985's "The S--- Hits the Fans"), Metallica (1993's "Live S---: Binge & Purge"), and the Beastie Boys (2006's live film, "Awesome; I F-----' Shot That!").
The Green Day title is not profane for profanity's sake, though we wouldn't put that past the band that sang a tune called "It's F--- Time" eight times -- yes, you read that correctly, and it was seriously painful in person -- during a two-hour set as their alter egos Foxboro Hot Tubs in New York last year. Fansite GreenDayMind explains the evolution of the phrase as it relates to Billie Joe Armstrong and Co.:
In short, Fans started to holding up signs simply reading "Thanks" at Green Day shows, and Armstrong began acknowledging them on Twitter. A fan named Abbey posted on a message board that the signs were "awesome as f---," and another fan suggested she bring a placard communicating that sentiment to a show. So she did, at the Denver show at the Comfort Dental Amphitheater on August 28th, 2010. The signs clearly caught Armstrong's eye -- he tweeted about them after the gig, and mentioned them during "Good Riddance" (4:12 mark of the video here). The signs became a movement and voila: new album title that could come off as a little egocentric but is really just enthusiastic.
In other Green Day news, Armstrong interrupted an interview with a New York Times reporter this week to put on a dress and crack up his "American Idiot" co-stars (taking notes from Dave Grohl, perhaps?) and says he's considering teaming with his Broadway collaborator Michael Mayer on an original new show. Here's someadvice from U2: Don't base it on Superman.
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