Green Day, Light Switch Cover, American Idiot
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Officially Licensed Green Day Light Switch Covers
Green Day American Idiot Light Switch Cover
This Green Day light switch cover fits a single light switch and features a hand holding the heart grenade.
American Idiot is a concept album that tells the story of a central character named Jesus of Suburbia. The album was a departure from Green Day's typical way of writing music.
Armstrong said, "As soon as you abandon the verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge [song] structure . . . it opens up your mind to this different way of writing, where there really are no rules."
Armstrong said the band aimed to be ambitious, which he felt many contemporary rock bands were not.
The band favored loud guitar sounds for the record; Armstrong said "we were like, 'Let's just go balls-out on the guitar sound--plug in the Les Pauls and Marshalls and let it rip'".
The guitarist played more lead guitar on the album than he had on any previous release, which he said he previously shied away from for fear of sounding "corny".
Armstrong added tracks of acoustic guitar-playing throughout the record to augment his electric guitar rhythms and Cool's drumming, creating a percussive sound.
