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Although he telegraphed some of the punchlines from a mile away I still had to laugh at some of this. BTW I thought he was showing Boy George at the end for a second, is it that Green Day guy?

PSY seems like a swell guy. I like Green Day, but BJA is wrong here. PSY's music isn't herpes. It's shit.

John Lydon on Green Day...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L7d9QLgvh4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbPem6_duMA

Psy went to Uni in the United States, his English I suspect is much better than he makes it out to be. I'm far from a fan but well played calling 'em "Green Days"...

Don't care much for Green Day myself, but I found this entertaining.

>> ^Grimm:

Please enlighten me then....either one of you...how is "Billie Jo Armstrong is more like Justin Bieber than Justin Bieber is." insightful?
Yeah I can guess yuo don't like him...OK fine but that statement has about as much punch and originality as "I know you are but what am I".>> ^DuoJet:
For me, one of the more insightful.
>> ^Grimm:
One of the more ignorant things I've read today.>> ^oohlalasassoon:
Billie Jo Armstrong is more like Justin Bieber than Justin Bieber is. Get off the stage you diva.





I retract my statement.

At 154 million Google image results for billie joe armstrong to Justin Bieber's 502 million, Billie Joe is only 30.6% as Justin Bieber as Justin Bieber is.

For comparison:
PJ Harvey is a respectable 0.9% Justin Bieber, David Bowie is 13.9% Justin Bieber. Frank Black is inexplicably the equivalent of 2.7 Justin Biebers, but then he's a pretty big guy.

Please enlighten me then....either one of you...how is "Billie Jo Armstrong is more like Justin Bieber than Justin Bieber is." insightful?

Yeah I can guess yuo don't like him...OK fine but that statement has about as much punch and originality as "I know you are but what am I".>> ^DuoJet:

For me, one of the more insightful.
>> ^Grimm:
One of the more ignorant things I've read today.>> ^oohlalasassoon:
Billie Jo Armstrong is more like Justin Bieber than Justin Bieber is. Get off the stage you diva.

For me, one of the more insightful.

>> ^Grimm:

One of the more ignorant things I've read today.>> ^oohlalasassoon:
Billie Jo Armstrong is more like Justin Bieber than Justin Bieber is. Get off the stage you diva.

One of the more ignorant things I've read today.>> ^oohlalasassoon:

Billie Jo Armstrong is more like Justin Bieber than Justin Bieber is. Get off the stage you diva.

yeah and where's Avril Lavigne?!>> ^TheFreak:

Yeah, right? Where's the Green Day?
>> ^Sagemind:
I didn't hear one Punk Band on that album!
Top 100 Punk Bands as voted by MusicianForums.com

Yeah, right? Where's the Green Day?

>> ^Sagemind:

I didn't hear one Punk Band on that album!
Top 100 Punk Bands as voted by MusicianForums.com

>> ^blingaway:

No room for artist interpretation?
The thing with down-picking is it limits the speed at which one can play and it's very fatiguing in the long run. It's easier for a beginner to down-pick, and it looks cool, but it's a bad habit to cultivate if one wants to develop real technical proficiency.
Don't get me wrong, good alternate picking is important, but you seem to think that people down-pick because it's easier than alternate picking. It's actually not, especially if you want to play a fast song. Down-picking is a valid technique that produces a distinctly different sound than alternate picking. It's especially common in metal and punk. Master of Puppets by Metallica is a really good example of this. Almost the entire rhythm section of the song is down picked. Try playing along to it one day (or worse, a live version where it's even faster). I guarantee your picking forearm will ache by the time you get to the acoustic bit!

As for artist interpretation, if you don't like that kinda music, or even the down picking sound, that's fine, but the people doing it are not doing through lack of technical proficiency.
Full disclosure: I've been playing guitar for nearly 20 years. I don't claim to be a virtuoso, but I started out playing a lot of metal, so I know this stuff.

No room for artist interpretation?

The thing with down-picking is it limits the speed at which one can play and it's very fatiguing in the long run. It's easier for a beginner to down-pick, and it looks cool, but it's a bad habit to cultivate if one wants to develop real technical proficiency. >> ^ChaosEngine:

>> ^blingaway:
I'd get spanked by my guitar teacher for not alternate picking if that was me (that unschooled punk down-down-down don't fly) but Upvote for the sheer awesomeness of getting invited onstage! That was a risky sitch. Kid's got a rock-n-roll soul.

Then you guitar teacher is wrong. Down-picking is the correct (i.e. how it was written) way to play it.