In hindsight it's easy to say this is where it all went wrong. Billy wanted to have his American Idiot -moment SO bad. His knack for composition was still there, sorta, but ever since Zeitgeist, the lyrics have been painfully sub-par. Compare that shit to Machina even.
That being said, I enjoyed some live stuff a lot. Even with faceless session musicians, in their best moments, they could still bring the magic for that tour:
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