A Message to you, Greenday

 Hey Dudes. I started listening to you when I was fifteen when Dookie came out in the 90’s and you blew up. You became a household name practically overnight. You were an anomaly that developed out of the small warehouses and dejected, lovely little punk community venues.  You started out in DIY spots in the East Bay. I’m sure places like the Ghost ship. So I think at this time you should use your resources just like what we have been doing to help our subculture scene that is so vital to making the bay area such a desired place to live and thrive. Just the other night I attended a benefit dinner in which they raised nearly 10,000$ that night. That was just from us banding together no matter how broke we were and doing something about this whole tragedy.  Use your resources that you have TODAY that was born from the nooks, basements, attics, warehouses of yesterday BECAUSE the bay allowed you to be who you wanted to be. Go get yourself in a big ass arena and sell all the tickets and take ALL of that money and donate it to helping us keep these sacred spaces of music and art forums safe places for us to find friends and inspiration and outlets. Play the fuck out of your music and take all of that money and help get our places up to code so none of these fuckers from the city can shut us down. Leave them with no excuses for giving us the boot. Take all that money and throw some sprinkler systems in one of our warehouse sanctuaries. Because it’s no sweat off your back right? You love playing music. You've been doing it all your life, beginning here in the bay. The absurd rents are already oppressing the creatives in this community, leaving them working two jobs and living in some renovated garage just so they can REMAIN in this community. Because where are we to go?? Greenday, get your ass to the closest coliseum and sell the shit out of it and give it back to us, your people, so you when you get older you can look around and see why you were so inspired when you first started playing music here to begin with. It doesn’t have to fade away. Stick to your fucking roots!