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Green Day have "a Machiavellian catalogue of sh*t" that will "all come out" at some point

Green Day have a huge back catalogue of music that will eventually see the light of day, the Green Day Authority reports.

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In an interview with MusicFeeds, an Australian publication, bassist Mike Dirnt called this unreleased material “a Machiavellian catalogue of shit.”

“We kind of have a Machiavellian catalogue of shit lying around,” says Dirnt. “We have SO much stuff, and some of it has morphed into other songs.

“A song that took 10, 20 years to evolve but started off as a jam or started off as us singing a different lyric to it or whatever,” he continues. “I mean, there’s little opuses in other songs and things like that we’ve done that people have never heard.”

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He adds that much of this material is recorded already.

“What’s cool is that a lot of it’s recorded really well, too,” Dirnt says. “There’s cassette tape, demo tape stuff, but there’s also stuff that was recorded very well that sounds like it could be on a record.

“We just didn’t put it out,” he continues. “Which is really nice the way recording is nowadays, it’s so cheap to record things that sound great, not like those crappy cassette tapes. But we do have a lot of those as well [laughs] it’s really neat.”

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Plus, all of it will eventually “come out.”

“I don’t know when they’ll see the light of day, but me and [frontman] Billie [Joe Armstrong] always said ‘at some point everything comes out in the wash',” Dirnt says. “At some point it’ll all come out.”

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Green Day tour dates:

8/1    Auburn, WA – White River Amphitheatre^
8/2    Portland, OR – Moda Center^
8/5     Oakland, CA – Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum^
8/7    Salt Lake City, UT – USANA Amphitheatre^
8/9    Englewood, CO – Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre^
8/11    Kansas City, MO – Sprint Center^
8/12    Omaha, NE – CenturyLink Center^
8/14    Maryland Heights, MO – Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre^
8/16    Noblesville, IN – Klipsch Music Center^
8/18     Toronto, ON – Budweiser Stage^
8/20     Cincinnati, OH – Riverbend Music Center^
8/21    Cuyahoga Falls, OH – Blossom Music Center^
8/26    Darien Center, NY – Darien Lake Performing Arts Center^
8/28    Mansfield, MA – Xfinity Center^
8/29    Hartford, CT – The XFINITY Theatre^
8/31    Camden, NJ – BB&T Pavilion^
9/1    Raleigh, NC – Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek^
9/3    West Palm Beach, FL – Perfect Vodka Amphitheatre^
9/5    Tampa, FL – MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre^
9/6    Orange Beach, AL – The Wharf Amphitheater^
9/8    San Antonio, TX – AT&T Center^
9/9    Austin, TX – Austin360 Amphitheater^
9/11    Albuquerque, NM – Isleta Amphitheater^
9/13    Chula Vista, CA – Sleep Train Amphitheatre^
 
^ With Catfish and the Bottlemen

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