Green Day whipped her decades of pop-pitch successes in Coachella

Billie Joe Armstrong has invited enough members of the audience on stage to sing or play the guitar with Green Day for one or two songs that at this time you think she has developed a great meaning for what kind of fanatic probably he achieved.

But it is possible that the leader has never asked someone as sure as the guy who chose Saturday night to help finish Green Day's main performance at the Coachella festival.

Dressed in a black sleeve shirt and leather pants, with a dazzling belt buckle that shone under the lights of the stage: “Ooh, it is handsome,” Armstrong said as he opened on his way to the crowd, the guy turned the Armstrong guitar strap as if it were his own brush before you touch the chords of the “good ridiculousness (time of life).” “.” “.” “.” “.” “Then Armstrong sang the acoustic ballad while the fan played and Assaulted for Coachella cameras.

“Stop being so professional,” said the leader with a smile.

One is needed to know one, of course: almost 40 years after Armstrong and bassist Mike Dirnt founded the trio of the Bay area in 1987, Green Day is a rock band as polished and reliable as anyone on the road these days. The group (which also includes drummer Tré Cool, who joined in 1990) whipped his decades of pop-power successes with speed and precision, even when the size of the places he visits, last year, Green Day toured the stadiums to mark anniversaries of “Dookie” of 1994 and “American idiot” of 2004, means that it means that he has to play cheap seats.

Here, as one of the rare rock acts to head Coachella in the last decade more or less, Armstrong and his bandmates knew how to involve the giant crowd of the festival with clear video calls and response and production routines.

However, while the group roared through the old as “Basket Case”, “Holiday”, “Welcome to Paradise”, “Longview” and “Brain Stew”, you never forgot that you were seeing a punk trio that was once simple; Green Day still crosses the lovely zeal that promoted her general advance in the mid 90s after grunge.

Armstrong acts.

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As he has been doing for years, Armstrong modified a letter on “an agenda of Redneck” in “American idiot” to protest “a magician agenda”; He also changed a line in “Jesus of the suburbs” to express his concern for “the children of Palestine.”

Green Day distributed some new “Saviors” songs last year, which includes “Bobby Sox”, which the leader has described as a kind of queer love song. But for the most part, this typically safe action was about the successes, cunning, passionate, sometimes profane, in which Green Day's lasting popularity was built.