{"id":792181,"date":"2019-01-18T14:29:54","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T21:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=781412"},"modified":"2019-01-18T14:29:54","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T21:29:54","slug":"green-day-want-your-guitar-to-sound-like-dookie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/green-day-want-your-guitar-to-sound-like-dookie\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Day Want Your Guitar to Sound Like \u2018Dookie\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GettyImages-582217763W.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p>It was 25 years ago when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/billie-joe-armstrong\/\" id=\"auto-tag_billie-joe-armstrong\" data-tag=\"billie-joe-armstrong\">Billie Joe Armstrong<\/a> first made his guitar sound like \u201cdookie.\u201d Now, he\u2019s ready to (excuse the pun) dump his formula for the perfect gut-busting sound all over guitarists worldwide. Armstrong teamed up with effects company Jim Dunlop on a new guitar pedal for its MXR brand that sports the cover art to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/green-day\/\" id=\"auto-tag_green-day\" data-tag=\"green-day\">Green Day<\/a>\u2019s 1994 breakthrough LP, <em>Dookie<\/em>, on its face. Armstrong teased the announcement in an Instagram post that asked if any of his fans were going to NAMM, a semiannual confab for musical instrument merchandizers.<\/p>\n<p>The stompbox will likely be an overdrive pedal, according to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/news\/namm-2019-billie-joe-armstrong-teases-green-day-dookie-mxr-pedal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Guitar World<\/a><\/em>, since it sports a \u201cgain\u201d setting in addition to knobs for \u201coutput,\u201d \u201ctone\u201d and \u201cblend\u201d along with a button for \u201cscoop\u201d (a function that usually drops a signal\u2019s midrange). The guitar magazine notes, though, that Armstrong\u2019s tone on the album mostly came from a hot-rodded amplifier Amstrong calls \u201cPete\u201d (it\u2019s a Marshall Plexi 1959SLP reissue to be exact) and did not cite any further gear, suggesting he plugged straight into the amp.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dookie<\/em>, the trio\u2019s third studio LP and major-label debut, came out on February 1st, 1994, and became a runaway hit thanks to the singles \u201cLongview,\u201d \u201cBasket Case,\u201d \u201cWelcome to Paradise\u201d and \u201cWhen I Come Around.\u201d It paved the way for pop punk to become a major commercial force in the mid to late Nineties. It\u2019s since been certified diamond by the Record Industry Association of America, meaning it sold more than 10 million copies in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The NAMM conference will take place from January 24th to the 27th in Anaheim, California.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BswO-FQltvH\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\" readability=\"-10.471223021583\"><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/green-day-want-your-guitar-to-sound-like-dookie-781412\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was 25 years ago when Billie Joe Armstrong first made his guitar sound like \u201cdookie.\u201d Now, he\u2019s ready to (excuse the pun) dump his formula for the perfect gut-busting sound all over guitarists worldwide. Armstrong teamed up with effects company Jim Dunlop on a new guitar pedal for its MXR brand that sports the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-792181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 16:19:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}