Most people go to a Green Day concert expecting to walk away with some great memories. 11-year-old Juul walked away from a Green Day concert with one of frontman Billie Joe Armstrong’s guitars! Armstrong brought the youngster up for a jam onstage during Green Day’s set at the Pinkpop Festival in the Netherlands and afterwards gave him the guitar.
Juul got Armstrong’s attention from the front row during the show and the frontman asked him if knew three chords. The schoolboy said he did then Armstrong told him to come up onstage and handed him a guitar. Juul had a short jam with the band and showed off some great rock and roll stage moves while he was playing, as you can see below.
If you’ve ever been onstage in front of a huge crowd before you’ll know it can be very intimidating, but Juul was not fazed and very naturally rocked out with the band. He had a huge smile on his face and shed a few tears of happiness after the jam, and that’s when Armstrong told him he could keep the guitar. Juul screamed ecstatically and jumped up and down before heading offstage and all he could say in an interview afterwards was that he was “shocked”.
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Green Day are fond of getting fans up onstage for spontaneous jams at shows. At a gig in Chicago Armstrong invited a teen fan, Thomas Bulvan, from the crowd to join the band onstage. Bulvan convinced Armstrong that he knew “When I Come Around” and then played the entire song with the band, even adding a few vocal parts when Armstrong gave him the mic. Bulvan, much like Juul, showed off a really great natural stage presence, as you can see in the video below.
The video with Juul was a big hit online, attracting 8.3 million views. Many fans said they cried just like Juul did at the beautiful moment, while others commended Armstrong for his big heart, adding comments like “This is one of the reasons why Billie Joe Armstrong is one of the best guys in rock.” If you would like to see more from Green Day, you can subscribe to their YouTube channel. You can also visit their official website for more information.Aaron Waxler, 10, of Odessa was called up on stage to play guitar with Green Day during their concert on Sept. 5 at Tampa's MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre. (Jay Cridlin | Times)
What, do you know like three chords? the singer asked Aaron, 10, during Green Day's concert Tuesday at the MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre.
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Aaron nodded, eyes earnest. Armstrong kept scanning the crowd. But he came back to Aaron and gave him the wave: Get on up here, kid.
And that's how Aaron, a 10-year-old fifth-grader at Trinity Oaks Elementary School in New Port Richey, ended up shredding with Green Day in front of 13, 000 fans.
Of all the crowd-participation moments during Green Day's concert — a young girl stage-diving on Know Your Enemy, a fan singing along to Longview — Aaron's moment in the spotlight was the most rousing. Armstrong pulls a young wannabe rock star on stage to play with the band at every show, and in Tampa, that rock star was Aaron. By the end of their performance of Operation Ivy's Knowledge, the crowd was chanting his name.
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I was like, Oh my god, this is actually happening! Aaron, who lives in Odessa, said Wednesday. It was awesome. You're getting taught by a legendary rock star.
REVIEW: Green Day pleases the masses with epic concert at Tampa's MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre Aaron, whose favorite bands include Imagine Dragons and Twenty One Pilots, is a Green Day fan. So's his dad, Erik Waxler, a reporter with WFTS-Ch. 28 in Tampa. They had scouted out previous Green Day concerts on YouTube, and knew what Armstrong might do. So when the moment came, Aaron hopped on his dad's shoulders to try to stand out.
I was a bit nervous, because when you're looking off the stage, you can see everyone, and everyone's face is looking at you, he said. But after a quick lesson, he knew the chord well enough to hop atop a speaker at the center of the stage. There, I'm like, I got this, he said.
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At Armstrong's urging, Aaron punctuated the song by leaping off the speaker and then a drum riser. And at the end, Armstrong told Aaron he could keep the guitar ... sort of. Backstage, Aaron received a new Epiphone guitar autographed by the band; it was similar, but not identical, to Armstrong's. Walking out with it after the show, he said, he felt like a celebrity.
On Wednesday at school, he told parents and friends wearing T-shirts from the previous night; none of them could believe that was him. And as news about Hurricane Irma dampened spirits across Tampa Bay, he still found his own soaring high.
Everyone's been talking about the hurricane and how it's going to hit certain areas, and when I got up on stage, I just forgot about everything, he said. What stuck with him is that excitement of being up there, not only with the band, but being up on that stage in front of thousands of people.
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We're hoping this inspires him to play more on his own, Erik said. He's got a nice guitar to play with now.
I definitely want to start taking lessons again and getting better at guitar, because you never know, this stuff could happen again, he said. I want to be prepared.
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