Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has opened up about the impact the Sex Pistols had on him as a musician.Speaking about the first time he heard the punk icons, he told Rolling Stone: “Never Mind The Bollocks was one of the first punk records I ever heard.“The first thing that popped into my mind when I heard ‘Holidays In The Sun’ is how those guitars sounded so gigantic and real; and hearing [John] Lydon’s vocals, how he was just sort of this anti-singer.
For me, it just had a huge impact. Everything about it, from the lyrics to the guitar sounds to the songs, I thought was just perfect.”He also said one of the things he admired about the Pistols was their ability to destroy punk before it went mainstream.“The Sex Pistols killed punk before it had the opportunity to go mainstream back then.
What they had proved is that punk rock was not meant for the masses,” Armstrong continued.“If you’re picking up the guitar to play punk rock music, it’s not for fame.
You do this because it’s something that matters to you and it’s something that’s underground, and that was my early experience of being in a punk band with Green Day.
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