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NGL these past few shows (especially the 2 with Forever Now) have given me hope that this will be the best mini leg of this tour

On this day in 2016 19 February was declared Green Day Day in Oakland https://www.punknews.org/article/60128/february-19th-officially-declared-green-day-day-in-oakland

People (mostly men) think they can get away with it in pits because its so crowded and squishy, and young people might be afraid to stand up for themselves. I try keep my eye out for stuff now, being a bit older I'm less likely to get felt up, but I can still be watchful and stop it if I see it going on (obviously if its consensual, knock yourself out 😅).

Yes, definitely something that wouldn't happen by accident even in the wildest pit. That is terrible! 😠

Oh nice! Thanks! I can definitely imagine it taking a while to see royalties come through, although I would have thought it might have happened by like September when they played that gig that got overrun and CERTAINLY by MSG, but hey... the more you know! 😅

Being felt up by a guy who literally put his hand UP my shorts leg, and then when I challenged him, claimed he "tripped" in the shoving and his hand landed there. Luckily i was glaring so hard, and the person next to me had heard, that he fucked off double quick. Like, I'm used to hands going on places because in the pit it gets a bit squishy and wild. But UP someone's shorts leg, basically to the crotch? That doesn't happen by accident. I think i was 23 at the time. These days I would have reported the fuck out of him.

The Bookmobile actually was the upgrade. They bought it with their first advance from Reprise around the summer of 1993, replacing a series of Econoline vans. They used it for just about a year, they had it on the Lollapalooza tour in 1994. I remember them showing the calendar pinned up inside it during the renovation (you can watch the West Coast Customs episode somewhere still) and I think the dates went through early fall. I also recall a story where they said they didn’t actually see any money from Dookie sales until about a year after it came out so I would guess that’s why it took until the 1995 tour dates for them to upgrade it again to a real bus.