There's a pretty good punk fan base here. Or at least a lot of music fans of other genres that also enjoy punk. Punk proper fan bases were probably good and dead by 2005 here, but the late 30s and early 40s music fans remember their roots.
When I got my Green Day tattoo the shop owner stuck his head in on the session and said, "I saw the design in *artist's* agenda and had to come see who in *this town* was getting the
Kerplunk album art tattooed on them."
Man if Green Day wasn’t known for their California roots, I would assume
@SFH used to hunt crawfish with Billy Joe in the bayou with that level of intel.
I haven't, but I would if I could. He said in an interview that "Coming Clean" off of
Dookie was his way of expressing his sexual ideations. Other interviews through the years have occasionally had references or questions from the interviewer. A lot of my closest friends were also big into Green Day when they hit mainstream, some in my circle consume any bit of media, written or otherwise, involving the band and then share their research with me. The only reason I heard
Kerplunk first was a friend was in town talking about the band (he had the
Dookie CD at home) and we decided to just go to the mall and buy a Green Day CD. He already had
Dookie so he bought
Kerplunk and I was hooked.
Those two albums exclusively got me through the summer of 96 when I lived with my Grandparents while working a farm job. After I'd get showered, I'd lose myself in my walkman listening to the cassettes front and back over and over, StepGrandma oblivious to what the lyrics contained.
