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When Green Day originally made their mark writing songs about smoking dope and jacking off, who would've thought they would become the modern day version of The Who, making ambitious modern rock operas and having the Berkeley Repertory Theater staging a production based on their work ? After all, the original rock operas like Tommy and prog rock bands like Boston and Steely Dan spawned a violent backlash and return to primal rock energy that ultimately led to the original punk explosion of the late 70's, the original inspiration for Green Day. By making these grander artistic [...]