Chords for Green Day Special - MTV Debut of "Geek Stink Breath"

[Gb] You know what I'm saying?
But it wasn't long before they went back into the studio [Eb] to record their new album, [C] Insomniac.
Now in the next half [G] hour, we're going to bring you the [Ab] entire [Eb] Green Day video collection,
[Bb] including the MTV [Dm] premiere of their brand new one, Geek Stink Breath.
That's right, Geek [C] Stink Breath.
But first, let's [G] take a look back to February [Ab] of 94, a chilly day,
when MTV talked to Green Day for the [Bb] very first time.
It was just two [Ab] weeks [Gm] after the smash record Dookie was released,
and the [N] power trio that now sells out big old [D] stadiums were still playing their [Gm] gigs at clubs,
but the buzz on [C] the band had already begun.
_ [Abm] It's weird, I mean, when you hear [Eb] feedback from people, I don't know, [Bb] _ [G] it's_
[Dbm] You know, you don't really know who to believe.
[Am] You don't really want to believe [Db] anybody because, [G] I don't [Eb] know,
_ [Ab] _ _
[Dbm] you just need to shut up for [Ab] a while and just let things kind of [Db] fall into place.
Listen to it for a [Eb] while and stop talking about it and listen to it,
because [Db] we spent, you know, [A] a lot of time making it.
[Db] It's hard work.
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[Gb] _ _ _ _ [Db] We've always done the same thing.
You [Ab] _ [Eb] know, just this [G] album we got to, instead of_
As for like our first [B] album was recorded on a $600 budget in [A] two days,
[N] this one was obviously a lot more and we got to go in and spend some time on it.
Do what we [Gbm] wanted to.
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_ _ _ _ [Abm] You better [Ab] make up your _ mind
_ [Db] What you gotta do with [Ab] [G] yourself
When you're in [E] and [Gb] out of town
[B] Billy [Db] writes, will write the majority of the music
and he has [Ebm] a really good direction [E] of what he wants to write as [B] far as songs, you [Fm] know.
And [C] I think growing up we had [N] a good idea, just all three of us together,
had a good idea of what we wanted to sound [Bb] like.
[Ab] _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ [Ab] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Bb] _
Now [F] I rest my head but [Eb] such a_
We [Bb] just wanted to avoid all the _ _ [Ab] _
_ [Eb] super group, you [Gm] know, dinosaur rock.
We just kind of do what we always do.
We wanted to make it just like a straightforward punk record,
you know, [Ab] just like in your [Abm] face all the time.
No cutting to the [Gm] guitar solo.
[Eb] _
No long [F] tangents of [Gm] any kind.
_ That's the main thing, it's [Eb] like all these short [F] pop songs,
and it's like [D] the album [Gm] isn't even that long. _
And [Ab] it kind of goes along with just a generation that has no [Bb] kind of_
[Am] I think you're right.
[Ab] _direction
span at all.
[Eb] _ [Bb] _ So [F] it's just like, _ you better don't blink or you [C] might miss it. _
Well, [Ab] Dookie was definitely a record that people didn't miss.
Their eyes were on it.
We all got our first taste of [Gm] Green Day when within a month of the release of Dookie,
the band landed in the coveted MTV buzz bin with a song and video
about small town life in a [Ab] one-horse town and the [Bb] boredom that comes with it called Longview.
I [Ab] kind of wanted to [Eb] _ _ [Bb] _
have something that would come [Eb] across
that kind of [C] sounded like good sex, [Eb] you know, musically.
But then at the same time it kind of contradicts [Ab] itself
because _ _ it's about lack of [Bb] sex, you know, [Ab] being totally bored and _ apathetic
_ [Gm] _ _ and being a complete loser, which is, you know_ Slacker.
There's _ nothing wrong with being a loser.
[Ab] It just depends on how good you are at it.
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_ [Db] _ _ _ _ [Dbm] Hey, John Cencio here.
[Ab] We've got the MTV premiere [Db] of the new Green Day video,
Geek Stink [Abm] Breath, coming up in a little [G] while.
[Db] But first, as [G] I said earlier, Green Day spent [Ab] almost [G] [Dbm] all of last year on the road.
What started out as a [Ab] tour of clubs progressed into stadiums
as their [B] album Dookie became more and [Gb] more popular.
It's like a snowball.
Roll down [Ebm] the hill and it gets [B] really big.
[N] But being not your average band,
Green Day didn't have your [Eb] average approach to hitting the road.
[G] _
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_ _ _ _ It was a traveling library that was [C] found in [G] Phoenix, Arizona
_ [Ab] and it was [Eb] converted into an RV.
[Bb] And we wanted to, I guess, upgrade our situation
because we knew we were going to be on the road for the next year. _
_ So, _ _ _ Trey's pop, _ _ _ he knows a lot of people in the underground trucker _ thing.
[D] And we ended up with the [Gm] bookmobile.
This is where we sleep.
_ [D] In the back of the bus.
[Gb] This is my bed.
[Cm] This was my bed, Seth.
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[Ab] Pouton.
_ _ _ _ A lot of people come [Db] up to the bookmobile,
do you [Gb] have books for sale in there?
[Ab] No, I'll be [Db] standing in line with [Gm] the library cars. _
[Fm] _ [G] [Db] One inch.
It's like, we don't even read, so.
[G] _
_ _ [Db] _ This is three quarters of the way down towards the back of the [Eb] bus.
_ [B] _ _ _ [Gb] _ _
_ [Db] Trey's dad is the driver.
Ladies and gentlemen, _ Trey Cool's pop.
_ Papa Cool.
[Eb] _ See, now [N] that's cool, your dad on tour with you.
When I go on tour, I'm bringing my dad.
Now in between all of their touring, Billy Joe, Trey and Mike still found the time to make videos.
Thank heavens, or where would we be today?
Now their [Ab] second video, Basket Case, showed [Eb] the sense of humor Green Day was beginning [Db] to be known for.
[C] _ Well, it [G] was Trey's idea [Ab] to do a video in an [B] insane asylum.
We [Bb] found this one in Palo Alto, California.
We [Eb] found _ _
[D] outpatient [C] files of [Ab] shock treatment [N] therapy.
And we [Gb] found, there was this really old dentistry that was [Bb] really awful looking.
We went inside it and there [Abm] was _
[Bb] moldings of people's teeth.
It was [Eb] gross, so we brought them [Ab] home and brought them using these ashtrays and stuff [Eb] like that.
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_ _ _ _ [Eb] Hey, John Cencio here.
[Ab] The MTV premiere of Green Day's brand new video, Geek [Bb] Stink Breath, is coming up in [Eb] just a little while.
So make sure you [N] don't go anywhere.
But first, I got a mental exercise for [Bb] you.
Imagine what last year must have been [Ab] like for Green Day.
[Eb] Just [Bb] imagine.
I mean, [Ab] one minute, they were playing with a good sized underground [Gm] following, playing the club circuit.
And [N] the next minute, boom, they've got a gold record, which is 500,000 copies to you and me.
And they're asked to play Woodstock 94, which had an estimated attendance of nearly _ 400,000 people.
That's almost a half million.
I was there, I know.
A lot of other bands might have been a little overwhelmed by this invitation, but Green Day isn't like other bands.
Hesitant, yes.
Overwhelmed, [E]
no.
[B] As usual, Green Day delivered the goods. _
So you may ask yourself, [G] why are we playing this [Ab] damn thing anyway?
[Ebm] _ _ [B] _ We're in it for [Gbm] the money. _
I mean, at [G] first we didn't even want to play it, [B] but for some reason we are.
[Gb] I think we got talked into it.
It might turn out [Abm] to be something.
_ _ [B] _ _ [Ab] _ _ No time to [B] sit so well, baby.
_ [Ab] _ _
Can't you know [B] where I'll be now?
I'm [Gb] not coming back.
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_ [B] Flash me, [N] when you phone me.
Get me a ticket for [Eb] America.
And then we're going [Bm] to parachute onto the stage with our guitars in our [Bb] hands.
And then [G] all of a sudden our parachutes go [Bb] into planes.
_ They disintegrate real quick and we break [G] into the first song.
But the first song is going to be Mike with _ [Abm] these prop wings [G] on, [Gb] _ going into his version of [G] Star Spangled Banner.
_ There's no way people can actually show up expecting to get _ _ _ the full intensity of one band's total [B] audience.
[Ab] _ _ _ No time to [B] sit so well, baby.
_ _ [Ab] _
Can't you know where [B] I'll be now?
I'm [Gb] not coming back.
_ [Db] _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ [B] _ _ _ [Gb] _ On [Dbm] stage and [Eb] now in person with the men of Green Day.
[B] Welcome, gentlemen.
How's it been?
[Gbm] Almost arrested.
_ You're almost arrested?
How come?
Because they're trying to get in.
They're only letting press.
[E] Press is the only people that are [Abm] allowed backstage now.
Well, it's much more important for press to come than for actual fans like you guys.
Of course, I know.
We just said we're from Rolling Stone.
I mean, without MTV, who would we be?
[C] That was a [G] major, major league [Ab] mess.
Mud everywhere.
Green Day actually [Bb] had to end their set early when they [N] could no longer play.
This is true because the stage got way too slippery with all the mud.
What happened, bassist Mike Durant wound up having to get oral surgery, which I know you're thinking, oral surgery?
It's not that funny.
He had to save a [Ab] few of his teeth [Gm] that almost got knocked out when [Ab] security couldn't keep the crowd off the stage.
That's a big, big nightmare.
[Gm] Now, a couple of weeks after [D] Woodstock, Green Day made a [Bb] video for one of the songs they played there.
It's called When I [Ab] Come Around.
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_ [B] [Gm] Hey, John Cencio here.
All right, guys, the time has come.
The new Green Day album is called Insomniac, which means some dude who can't really sleep.
[Eb] And it won't be hitting [Gm] stores until October [C] 10th.
But we are going to [G] give you a taste [Ab] of the action, what you can expect.
[D] But let me give you a little warning first.
I'm kind of serious about this.
This video [Abm] doesn't quite live up to [Gm] Green Day's usual good, clean, [Eb] wholesome, all-American standard approach to the [Ab] etiquette of video making.
You know what I'm saying?
[Bb] In other words, it's gross.
[Eb] It's sickening.
But it's [C] fun.
So if [Ab] you are [Bb] the least bit squeamish, please [Eb] beware.
Don't eat beforehand.
[Ab] With that said, here's the MTV [Gm] premiere of Green Day's new [Bb] video, Ghosting Breath.
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