Green Day‘s new single ‘One-Eyed Bastard’ and Pink‘s 2008 hit ‘So What’.The opening riff of the Oakland rockers’ new song, which is taken from their forthcoming album ‘Saviors’, has been perceived to use a similar sequence of notes to the intro of ‘So What’.‘So What’ in itself attracted comparisons to Deep Purple’s 1970 song ‘Black Night’ when it was first released.However, Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has revealed that his idea from the riff actually came from a totally different place.“’One Eyed Bastard’ started off as just a riff that I had – a shuffle, almost like a Black Sabbath kind of riff.
Lyrically, I was just reflecting on bad times in life,” Armstrong explained in a press release.“That’s the thing about nostalgia, sometimes you think, ‘That was an awful time’,” he added. “Everybody’s got that ugly place in their life where they have to deal with ugly thoughts – it could be like revenge or whatever.
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