Another show tonight, at DNA Lounge in SF

[rudiecantfail]

The "Rock Candy" blog from the the Arkansas Times is reporting that Jeff Matika, musician from Little Rock, AK, is joining Green Day on the next tour. This is the only source we've heard from.

http://www.greendayauthority.com/news/show...st-archive&

Think this is it..

One of my teachers does work with them...and he told me the other day they weren't going to add another guitarist on the upcoming tour, but had been thinking about it. He didn't elaborate on it, so I don't know the whole situation.

[Katarina.]

Great review and pics, looks like you guys had one awesome time there!

[apocalipstick]

I'll bet you'll be surprised by how many details start coming back to you in the next few weeks. A little bit of song or something will bring something back that you'd totally forgotten up until then. That's the way it was with me for the Foxboro shows and it's still going on for the HLaHG premiere. Be sure you write everything down (and then share it with us when you get the chance ).

I'm just delighted you two had such a great experience. I told Anja before she left that I had a really good feeling about it .

You're so right!! I just remembered someone requested Bab's Uvula Who? and Billie said "That shit's hard" and then said something about the F chord being difficult to reach!

[J'net]

I'm kinda sick in a way that all these amazing things are always happening in a certain area and no one else is getting Jack

Kryssi, no one could possibly understand your feelings better than I do. Part of me has acid indigestion because I couldn't be at those shows. But it's my life that's preventing it, not the band. Try thinking of it from their point of view. They are about to start touring for approximately 2 years - rarely seeing their family and friends. I remember - I think in one of the AI interviews, Billie saying the last time he cried was right before they went on tour, because he and Adie were fighting about him leaving her for so long.

Now, they're about to leave again. They want to do a few preview shows, and what makes more sense than to do them right in their own backyard? I wouldn't expect them to be taking planes all around the globe just to do preview shows for everyone right before they do a huge tour. I don't blame them for wanting to stick close to home for as long as possible. I just blame my boss for choosing next week to visit Tulsa. Otherwise, nothing would stop me from taking a few days off and making that Fox Theater show. But I'm at a time in my life when I can usually be flexible like that - not everyone is there yet, but you will be.

I SO understand your longing to be there, but no matter where they did these shows, someone would be missing out. I truly believe that we will all have our opportunities to see them and even meet them if we want it badly enough, and I do speak from experience. Your turn will come - just as Anja's did last night, and it will be so wonderful you won't be able to believe it's true!

((((big hugs from Tulsa)))

[Hermione]

You're hella lucky to be able to have seen them the amount of times you have, too

I only saw them once which was the first night at the Bowl the other year. My mate left too late for me to get anywhere near the front

I'm definitely going the crack of dawn on this tour! Hope you're up for that haha.

Psh, I've never seen them. I win

One thing hearing all about these shows has done is made me even more excited to see them when I finally get the chance, can't wait

[valeria carci]

omg worry rock??????

that's my favorite gd song too

i hope someone had recorded it

thanks for all the recaps and pics etc.

[J'net]

Psh, I've never seen them. I win

One thing hearing all about these shows has done is made me even more excited to see them when I finally get the chance, can't wait

I'm so excited for you, Hermione, because NOBODY, and I mean NOBODY puts on a show like Green Day. Not to sound sappy, but it's full of fun, excitement and LOVE for their fans. I've never felt anything like it emanating from any other band. I hope I'm there with you at your first show so I can see just how bowled over you are!!!

[greendaytone]

I'm so excited for you, Hermione, because NOBODY, and I mean NOBODY puts on a show like Green Day. Not to sound sappy, but it's full of fun, excitement and LOVE for their fans. I've never felt anything like it emanating from any other band. I hope I'm there with you at your first show so I can see just how bowled over you are!!!

Ditto to all of that! Hermione deserves it too, just for how positive you are about other peoples experiences, and patience in waiting for your turn!

[farley drexel hatcher]

I've never seen them either, so I really can't wait after reading all these reviews. Even if I don't get to see them in an small place and i'm right at the back of Wembley Stadium or something, i'm sure it'll be great.

[Princess Consuela]

I SO understand your longing to be there, but no matter where they did these shows, someone would be missing out. I truly believe that we will all have our opportunities to see them and even meet them if we want it badly enough, and I do speak from experience. Your turn will come - just as Anja's did last night, and it will be so wonderful you won't be able to believe it's true!

((((big hugs from Tulsa)))

That's the thought that prevents me from cursing my life in this sucky country.

[valeria carci]

I think everyone around here is jealous

no i'm not i'm really happy and excited about all this news coming

[J'net]

I've never seen them either, so I really can't wait after reading all these reviews. Even if I don't get to see them in an small place and i'm right at the back of Wembley Stadium or something, i'm sure it'll be great.

Oh yeah, they make it great for everyone! I hope to catch a show with you, too! I have no idea where all of you are located over there, but wouldn't it be awesome to get everyone together at the same show (or at least a lot of everyones)? I am SO hoping to make a UK show and I'd love to meet up with as many of you as possible. I don't think I'm the only Idiot American who wants to come over for a show or two either!

[Hermione]

I'm so excited for you, Hermione, because NOBODY, and I mean NOBODY puts on a show like Green Day. Not to sound sappy, but it's full of fun, excitement and LOVE for their fans. I've never felt anything like it emanating from any other band. I hope I'm there with you at your first show so I can see just how bowled over you are!!!

That would be so cool, I hope so too! Haha rest assured I will be bowled over!! They are just amazing and it's about time I saw for myself.

[J'net]

That's the thought that prevents me from cursing my life in this sucky country.

Yeah, I never would have thought that, living in the middle of Oklahoma, I would ever see any great events like a Green Day concert. But the world is changing - it's easier to get around to different places. More places that used to be "the back of beyond" are accessible now.

Anything can happen!!!

[Hermione]

Ditto to all of that! Hermione deserves it too, just for how positive you are about other peoples experiences, and patience in waiting for your turn!

Aww thanks . We definitely need a GDC meet up!

[Haz]

I really wanna go to a show this time but unless my Mum will take me it's very unlikely I'll make it to one

[greendaytone]

Aww thanks . We definitely need a GDC meet up!

We really do. It'd be great if Green Day put on a show just for us. Come on guys, if your there!!

[Anja]

Okay, I have no words for last night but I try to find some!

When I woke up yesterday morning, I would never have thought of anything like this!!!! I know it sounds crazy but I kind of swore myself to never never never see this band live cause I wanted them to be untouchable for me!! (Glad, I changed my mind that fast lol)

So I got a message yesterday with a hint that they would play tonight! I stayed with my computer the whole afternoon and didn´t even got up from bed. I listened to Live 105 the whole time, hoping they would announce something. And then finally I heard the moderator saying that he has to make an announcement! Stupid as my computer is, it broke down exactly in the second when he made the announcement I restarted my pc as quickly as possible and went back online to the Live 105 website! And what did I see there? "Green Day live in the DNA Lounge. Get tickets NOW!"

I freaked out, klicked on the link and almost burst into tears when I noticed that the link didn´t work for me for some reason. I immediately called Paulina, telling her to get on that website and she ordered two tickets for us! Seriously, I never had a more exciting phone call lol We both freaked out and almost cried over that! This was an unbelievable moment for the both of us!

At around 4.30 I left the house to get the bus over the bride to San Francisco! I arrived at the venue at 6pm. At that time the line wasn´t very long. I would guess about 20 people which was fine with me! It was freezing cold there, though and it kind of remembered me on thuesday night when Paulina an I stood outside of The Independent in the freezing cold and just listened to the show! I still couldn´t imagine that I was about to see Green Day live! For the first time EVER! I guess the shock over that was too big to realize it.

Paulina finally made it to the venue at about 7pm and we both just smiled at each other the whole time. After a while they split the line into two lines: one for wilol-call (people who have a ticket) and one for those who didn´t have a ticket. I couldn´t believe how many did not have one. We were the fourth and fifth people in line after they split it!!! That made us even more excited cause we knew we had a big chance to stand in the first row!

They split the line for a second time: one for people who got their ticket from the DNA website and one for those who got theirs from the Idiot Club! Luckily, they let us in first so we just ran inside to the stage and...there we were, in the first row!!!

The cold kind of took over me and I still had a hard time to realize what was happening right now!

The venue hold about 200 people and the stage was soo small that I could barely imagine that Green Day (the band who played in front of 65.000 people) would soon play on this stage!!!

I looked around the balcony, hoping to see Adrienne but I didn´t see here. But who I saw was Davey Havoc from AFI, one of my favorite bands!!! I could swear he noticed me when I looked up to him which I did like every two minutes! And I also noticed Bill Schneider (! ) He hang around the stage with some other roadies.

After a while, a guy came down with the setlist and put it right in front of us, next to mikes mic stand. Did I mentioned that I stood right in front of the mic stand?! haha I never thought I would ever be sooo close to them! The setlist was exactly the same as the one the played in The Independend. But we knew that they didn´t follow it so we hoped they would just play requested songs.

At around 10:15 the music stopped playing and everyone expected the show to begin now. I could swear, my heart stopped beating for a second but then another song started playing and everyone was like "Urgh". The same thing happened a few more times until FINALLY at around 10:40 the music stopped playing AND the lights went off!!! I screamed my heart out like everyone else around me and Tré was the first who came down the stage. Then Mike and then Billie! And Jason. Oh, and the other guitar player who´s name is Jeff if my memory serves me right. Billie introduced them all to us later.

He started by saying "Closer, closer, closer"... Surprise!

They started off with "21st century breakdown" and I could swear, Tré was kind of surprised when he saw me singing along to the whole song

Mike was right in front of me and so was Tré with the only difference that he was a bit further afar. But we had a lot of eye contact xD

It was so much fun watching Tré playing. He made funny faces all the time or just joked around with the people on the balcony like Davey Havoc (and is possibly girlfriend with whom he later left the venue together. Can´t tell who exactly it was)

Adrienne was now on the balcony, too and every time I looked at Billie, I could see her, too in the corner of my eye. I´m sure she saw us when we noticed here cause I got like super excited when I first saw her up there and smiled all the time and she smiled back.

One thing I noticed about the song: The line "From Mexico to the Berlin wall" was not in the song anymore!

The next track was "Know your enemy". Most people knew the lyrics to the chorus and it was sooo much fun to hear this song live! I´ve never seen a show with happier fans then last night! I wonder why my cheeks didn´t even hurt cause I smiled throughout the whole show!

Btw: Billie said they would play the entire album tonight! There was one song, though that I couldn´t find on the setlist. They played one between "Little girl" and "Restless heart syndrom". "Little girl" was also new to me. I never heard of it before but it was a kickass song.

The next few songs were "Viva la gloria" (the only song with this name that they played), "Before the lobotomy" and "Christian´s inferneo". All amazing songs!!!

The next one was "All my love" which did NOT remind me of the song from "Heart like a hand grenade" at all! I´m sure this one is a different one and it will be on the album. One song that we missed was "Last night on earth". I don´t know if they changed the title to this one or if it won´t be on the album...but there was no song at this show with a title like this. "All my love" was beautiful though. It was just Billie singing this song and the other guys playing their instruments. It was beautiful to see Billie singing such a beautiful love song and I always looked at Adrienne to see her look : D

There was one moment when Billie went down on his knees, getting closer and closer to his fans.

Later in this show he did the same and his face was right in front of me

At one point, Billie stepped on my hand (which wasn´t very nice and hurt me ) cause we all had our hands/arms on the stage and since they were so close to the crowd with no barrier between stage and crowd, it was kind of predictable that something like this would happen.

Billie noticed it, raised his leg and hold it right in my face, pretenting he would kick me

Another great moment was when Billie got closer to Mike, holding his mouth to his ear as if he wanted to whisper something to him but then he kissed Mike on his cheek! And later he even kicked Mike in his leg which was unexpected to him as I noticed from his look

Billie later pulled up a young boy on stage who seemed very happy cause he jumped up and down all the time. Billie gave him a hug and then just continued playing the song. After they finished the song, Billie asked the boy to do a stage dive what he did of course.

Billie did a stage dive later, too, still having his guitar around his neck. And then there was a security guard on the side of the stage and he spontanousely ran over the stage and jumped into the crowd. That was very unexpected and I´m glad he didn´t jump on me cause he was like four times bigger and heavier than most of the people in the crowd.

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[farley drexel hatcher]

Oh yeah, they make it great for everyone! I hope to catch a show with you, too! I have no idea where all of you are located over there, but wouldn't it be awesome to get everyone together at the same show (or at least a lot of everyones)? I am SO hoping to make a UK show and I'd love to meet up with as many of you as possible. I don't think I'm the only Idiot American who wants to come over for a show or two either!

That would be awesome, and I think doable since they're likely to pefrom big shows in London and I think most of us (I know I am, since I live an hour away by train) will be seeing them in London as it's the easiest place to get to. We will definitely have to figure something out once we get the tour dates!

[tuwlol]

I think everyone around here is jealous

I am, but I'm happy for them as well.

This is going to sound so weird because I barely know anyone here.

But whenever I read your stories and see the pictures and watch the videos, I'm just..like..really glad for you guys.

Like in that picture of adie from germany and Paulina (I think?..sorry if I got the name wrong), you can tell they're really excited and stuff, which makes me jealous but really..like...happy (sorry for being repetitive, can't think of a better word) that you guys got to experience that and you're sharing it with people who never have.

That being said.... I'm glad you guys had such a great time

I can't wait until I finally get to go to one of their shows

[Princess Consuela]

What I regret the most is that I won't be able to see them playing such spontaneous and intimate shows like those two or the Foxies ones for example. I mean, GD shows are undeniably amazing, but that's not quite the same.

[apocalipstick]

I am, but I'm happy for them as well.

This is going to sound so weird because I barely know anyone here.

But whenever I read your stories and see the pictures and watch the videos, I'm just..like..really glad for you guys.

Like in that picture of adie from germany and Paulina (I think?..sorry if I got the name wrong), you can tell they're really excited and stuff, which makes me jealous but really..like...happy (sorry for being repetitive, can't think of a better word) that you guys got to experience that and you're sharing it with people who never have.

That being said.... I'm glad you guys had such a great time

I can't wait until I finally get to go to one of their shows

awwww thank you! you got my name right, by the way.

Anja i love your review so far!! you're helping me remember all the parts i forgot

[Hermione]

Wow that was great, so many interesting little details! LOL at Tre being surprised at you singing along, and Billie pretending to kick you in the head

[Anja]

Thank you guys! I´m having some breakfast now and then I will try to write on the second part of it!

[J'net]

I am, but I'm happy for them as well.

This is going to sound so weird because I barely know anyone here.

But whenever I read your stories and see the pictures and watch the videos, I'm just..like..really glad for you guys.

Like in that picture of adie from germany and Paulina (I think?..sorry if I got the name wrong), you can tell they're really excited and stuff, which makes me jealous but really..like...happy (sorry for being repetitive, can't think of a better word) that you guys got to experience that and you're sharing it with people who never have.

That being said.... I'm glad you guys had such a great time

I can't wait until I finally get to go to one of their shows

I know how you feel! I've said it before, but Green Day fans really are the nicest people. When I'm in this forum talking to everyone about the band, I feel so happy that someone can understand how I feel. I love their music, I love and respect them as people, and I'm just so excited about this new album, I want to stop people on the street and tell them about it (and sometimes, I do ).

I think lots of us are going to meet each other during the next couple of years, and aside from 20 years worth of great music, that's another huge gift that Green Day will be giving us!