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Billie Joe Armstrong’s Coverups Bring Electric Set to Benefit for Wildfire Relief at Los Angeles’ Troubadour
Billie Joe Armstrong's side band Coverups rocked out during a wildfire benefit show at Los Angeles' Troubadour.
On Thursday night, Billie Joe Armstrong joined his fellow Green Day members to open FireAid, setting off the nearly six-hour benefit with a three-song tribute to those affected by the Los Angeles wildfires. Thus, Armstrong compacted the stadium-sized scale of Green Day to West Hollywood’s famed Troubadour on Friday evening for an LA wildfire relief concert with his side band the Coverups, a rotating cast of characters that this time included vocalist/guitarist Jason White, bassist Bill Schneider and drummer Chris Dugan. The band, established in 2018 and sporadically active with one-off shows, ran through selections from a typical set — Bryan Adams’ “Summer of ’69,” Sweet’s “Fox on the Run,” Cheap Trick’s “Surrender” — with a few new ones thrown in the mix (Soul Asylum’s “Sometime to Return,” Ozzy Osbourne’s “Crazy Train”).
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