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. It was Green Day operating like Green Day typically does these days: massive shows on massive platforms, not entirely out of the ordinary, this time for a good cause.
If there’s one thing the devastating LA wildfires brought to light, it’s a sense of the underlying community coursing through the city, the unspoken camaraderie of collective grief and support. It’s often hard to spot. Big philanthropic gestures typically go accounted for — FireAid raised $60 million
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