Green Day have taken a trip down memory lane to revisit the legendary Berkeley punk club where they started out, a venue Billie Joe Armstrong fondly recalls as "Mecca" for the Californian punk community.
The trio returned to 924 Gilman, the non-profit, all-ages, proudly-independent and collectively-managed club where Operation Ivy and Rancid also cut their teeth, in the company of CBS News presenter Anthony Mason, for a segment taped for network TV show CBS Mornings. The three musicians - Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool - were ever-present patrons of the club long before they became Green Day, as is demonstrated by the fact that you can still see the name of Armstrong and Dirnt's pre-Green Day band, Sweet Children, spray-painted on one of the venue's rafters. Formed when the pair were just 15 years old, Sweet Children first played Gilman Street in November 1988, and recorded a demo cassette at the club that same year.
