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OAKLAND, Calif. -- Studio 880, where Green Day has worked regularly since about 2001, is in Jingletown, a not exactly gentrified neighborhood squeezed between train tracks, the Oakland estuary and the Nimitz Freeway, I-880, here.
Tre Cool, Green Day's drummer, was behind the wheel and playing tour guide, shuttling a visitor through Berkeley and Oakland to the rock band's landmarks. He cruised past the nonprofit, collectively owned, all-ages "conscientious punk" club 924 Gilman Street, where Green Day established itself in the early 1990s while the band members were still teenagers. He stopped at the house that Green Day shared while making its blockbuster 1994 album, "Dookie," which has sold almost 8 million copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. (Squatters, he noted, looted the house while Green Day toured.)See the full content of this document
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New Album Dawns for Green Day
One of the outer walls of the band's studio, visible from the freeway overpass, is currently painted black-and-white, professionally inscribed, graffiti-style, with the lyrics to "Before the Lobotomy," a song on Green Day's new album, "21st Century Breakdown" (Reprise), with rabble-rousing lines like, "Well, it's enough to make you sick/To cast a stone and throw a brick." The album is Green Day's most ambitious collection yet, the distillation of dozens of songs and years of work. "I came into the studio at one point," said Mike Dirnt, Green Day's bassist, "and I went: 'It's been over ...
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