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In an exclusive interview in the upcoming issue of Rolling Stone, Billie Joe Armstrong opens up about his years of alcohol and prescription drug abuse and his road back from his onstage meltdown at the iHeartRadio festival in Las Vegas last September.
“I’d wake up in a strange house on a couch. I wouldn’t remember how. It was a complete blackout.” says Armstrong. He finally confronted his problem after the Vegas radio festival, where the frontman smashed his guitar onstage and shouted obscenities.
“I remember tiny things,” Armstrong says of the Vegas incident. “The next morning, I woke up. I asked [my wife] Adrienne, ‘How bad was it?’ She said, ‘It’s bad.’ I called my manager. He said, ‘You’re getting on a plane, going back to Oakland and going into rehab immediately.’”
Read the full story in the new issue of Rolling Stone, on stands this Friday.
Green Day’s Chicago performance has been rescheduled to Thursday, March 28 at the Allstate Arena. Source: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/billie-joe-armstrong-opens-up-about-substance-abuse-20130226
Have you heard about the amazing concerts and events happening in Chicago in the coming days and weeks? A pretty solid lineup:
Of Monsters and Men: The Riviera, December 16 SOLD OUT (Where there’s a will there’s a way: Stubhub tix HERE)
Of Monsters and Men: The Riviera, December 17 SOLD OUT (Where there’s a will there’s a way: Stubhub tix HERE)
Grouplove: The Rivera, December 21, BUY TIX
The Killers: UIC, December 21, SOLD OUT (Where there’s a will there’s a way: Stubhub tix HERE)
Kill Hannah w/Dot Dot Dot, House of Blues, December 22 BUY TIX
Third Eye Blind w/Mutemath, House of Blues, December 31 BUY TIX
Green Day, January 8, 2013, Allstate Arena BUY TIX Postponed due to Billy Joe’s, uh, recovery. Get well bro!
Morrissey: Chicago Theater, January 26th, 2013 BUY TIX
UFC On Fox at The UC, January 26th, 2013 BUY TIX
The Darkness: The Riviera, January 27th , 2013 BUY TIX
Soundgarden: The Riviera, January 29th, 2013 SOLD OUT (Where there’s a will there’s a way: Stubhub tix HERE
Soundgarden: The Riviera, January 30th, 2013 SOLD OUT (Where there’s a will there’s a way: Stubhub tix HERE
¡Quatro! pulls back the curtain and takes fans inside the world of Green Day, from the various spontaneous live performances in select cities across the U.S. to the chronicling of their creative process while conceptualizing and recording their current trilogy of albums: Green Day ¡Uno!, Green Day ¡Dos!, Green Day ¡Tré!
¡Quatro! will premiere on VH1 on Wednesday, November 28th, followed by airings on MTV2 during 120 Minutes on November 30th and on Palladia the same day. ¡Quatro! is directed by Tim Wheeler and produced by Tim Lynch for Farm League.
READ MORE
http://www.alternativeaddiction.com/musicnews/article/2893/Green-Day-to-Premiere-Highlights-from-Documentary-on-VH1
While patiently waiting for Billie Joe Armstrong to complete rehab, we can watch the newly released trailer for “¡dos!”, which comes out November 13. We just get a small taste, which leaves us wanting for more. SEE IT!
Metallica will take over Green Day’s headlining slot at New Orleans’ Voodoo Music and Arts Experience later this month while Billie Joe Armstrong focuses on his rehab, festival organizers announced Friday. The Saturday night (October 27th) set will mark Metallica’s first time playing Voodoo.
Guitarist Kirk Hammet told Fuse that Metallica got the call to step in a couple of days ago. “We discussed it between the four of us and we all said, ‘Yeah.’ It would be a great thing for us to do and it would also be great to help out Billie Joe because he’s a friend of ours and we love Green Day. If we can help them out in any way possible, we’re always happy to do it because we love those guys.”
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/metallica-to-fill-in-for-green-day-at-voodoo-fest-20121013
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