watch Billie Joe Armstrong & Jesse Malin's all-star NYE covers show (full set video)
videos by Dana Distortion
We recently mentioned that Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong and his pal Jesse Malin played a covers show on New Year’s Eve at Malin’s Lower East Side club Berlin, with an all-star lineup that included appearances by The Replacements’ Tommy Stinson, The E Street Band’s Steven Van Zandt, Blondie’s Clem Burke, The Hold Steady’s Tad Kubler, Jesse Malin collaborator Don DiLego, Billie Joe’s sons, and others throughout the night. We posted a short video of Billie Joe & co playing The Replacements’ “Color Me Impressed” (with Tommy Stinson), and we’ve now got good quality videos of almost the entire set, taken by Dana Distortion.
They did over 20 covers, including a few Ramones songs and a couple Clash songs, plus The Plimsouls’ “A Million Miles Away,” Dead Boys’ “Sonic Reducer,” Paul Collins’ The Beat’s “Walk Out of Love,” Tom Petty’s “American Girl,” New York Dolls’ “Pills,” The Kinks’ “Father Christmas,” “The Undertones’ “Teenage Kicks,” Cheap Trick’s “Surrender,” Wreckless Eric’s “Whole Wide World,” Blondie’s “One Way or Another,” and more. Billie Joe and Jesse mostly split vocals but a few songs had guest lead singers, including Jesse’s D Generation bandmate Richard Bacchus for D Generation’s “Capitol Offender,” East Village vet Tom Clark on the NY Dolls song, Kris Gruen on The Clash’s “Janie Jones,” and Berlin bartender Amanda Cross on the Blondie song. Watch all the videos below.
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Ramones – Do You Remember Rock ‘N Roll Radio
The Plimsouls – A Million Miles Away
Ramones – Can’t Make It On Time
Dead Boys – Sonic Reducer
The Replacements – Color Me Impressed
The Beat – Walk Out of Love
Tom Petty – American Girl
New York Dolls – Pills (with Tom Clark singing)
The Kinks – Father Christmas
The Undertones – Teenage Kicks
D Generation – Capitol Offender (with D Generation’s Richard Bacchus singing)
Ramones – I Wanna Be Sedated
Cheap Trick – Surrender
Wreckless Eric – Whole Wide World
The Clash – Janie Jones
Lords of the New Church – Russian Roulette
Blondie – One Way or Another (with Amanda Cross singing)
The Clash – Rudie Can’t Fail
Jesse Malin – Winter
Bob Dylan – You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere
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videos by Dana Distortion