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theodoreliao Coolest gift ever!!! Love how their signatures perfectly match each of their personalities. Thanks, Billie, Mike and Tré https://www.instagram.com/p/CSQD4nQnDnA/ theodoreliao Words can’t describe… @greenday you made my dreams come true 🖤. Locking eyes with Billie Joe and singing and playing with him is the best moment of my life. Thank you thank you thank you for this unforgettable night. I F’N LOVE ROCK N ROLL https://www.instagram.com/p/CSNwZNgnvqy/

New dance move?

I found the video for that dance. Source: Reddit

Definitely noticed this too. Tré has been my fav ig poster lately. The shower posts 😆 Except for Tré I find the posts very generic promo-ish and cold/disconnected compared to other tours. Nothing too fun or behind the scenes stuff. Just the kind of stuff you’d find on any media account or stock images or reposts of images from the crowd which is kind of nice but we’ve all (for the most part) been in the crowd. We know what that’s like and the pics kind of meld together and the magic of that is mostly if you’re there at the show in person. Otherwise the pics all look the same and it could be any moment at any show it’s all the same. Covid, a stressful tour and (boring) Instagram posts. Although I am very happy for the posts! Kinda like kept in the loop knowing all the sets are the same and it’s same same same it’s ok but there’s nothing too exciting to report. No hi-jinx or silly fun to be seen. Except for shower scenes ❤️ And tbh I find Instagram a little more disappointing and almost boring (except for Tré) since the singer guy in the band deleted his accounts. Held out a bit of hope there would be new posts and the accounts would be reactivated once the tour started. Tré is the only exception for this tour. Feels like fun and behind the (shower) scenes 😆 I love him ❤️ The Oakland Coffee behind the scenes video was great. Maybe stuff is being saved up for more of those. Well edited, neat and tidy behind the scenes footage. Hopefully cool stuff to look forward to. But we have been spoiled in the past and I miss the messy livestreams and stories and the shut up Gregs etc.

When you turn on the Olympics and they're showing the baseball and it reminds you of this:

It's not just about money. Imagine if a bootleger t shirt has such a horrible quality that the person who buys it gets rashes or something like that. Green Day then gets connected with bad quality and this is something that every brand and band wants to avoid. They can control the quality of their own products but not of the fake products. And of course it's "unpunk", but if you want to organize a world tour which grosses many million dollars, you have to care about money, doesn't matter how unpunk it is 😅

He’s too busy FaceTiming his wife. This tour has felt corporate in every way but one of the most disappointing ways is the lack of social media engagement by the band members themselves when you think of how much they shared during RevRad: backstage, soundchecks, hotel photos, bus videos, livestreams, etc. Now it’s just stage photo after stage photo posted by management interns and they’re all starting to look the same.

Or these And speaking of baseball, you know you're a GD fan when you see this Jeopardy question And, despite being a die hard Sox fan who owns a Southpaw pillow, when you read "a fuzzy green guy", your first thought is of this

It feels like if the lead singer/songwriter of the band posted something fun it wouldn’t feel as strange/disconnected. The pandemic has left this icky isolation and sadness. Even though live concerts are “back”. Yeah there’s a strangeness like nothing is quite exactly alright. I miss random IG stories like the one of Tré buying Billie little treats (that Billie asked for 😆 he wanted a nice little treat/surprise from the truck stop or wherever they stopped… ) And Tré brought him a nice penis mug? Billie seemed pleased and faux bratty chagrined and wanted to share the story and it was the best! This did happen right? Oh so long ago… Once again: Tré for the win. Billie is spoiled. All is right with the world.

There is too much of a contrast between the content that we got during the Rev Rad tour and what we are getting now. And the pandemic isn't helping with the interaction between the band and the fans as the tour has a strangeness to it even though the performances on stage so far have been great. I'm still hopeful that we'll get some more Oakland Coffee videos or maybe an end of tour video like the one that the did at the end of the Rev Rad tour.

So glad they gave him the guitar!

It would be cool if merch at shows wasn’t so expensive. Tickets are very pricey. Taking the day off work to go to the show is a bit much for someone who lives in a society that barely (often not even) pays a living wage. Travel to the show is expensive. Drinks and snacks are pricey. It would be nice to be able to buy a shirt without thinking if I’d rather eat a snack or get a drink of water or get an official t-shirt or afford a train home or whatever. Bootlegging sucks but merch at shows like this is so expensive. But still I’d never buy a bootleg. I wonder if any band would ever drop the price of merch at an arena show. Indie bands at small clubs sell their shirts for $10-$15. Plus, a band shirt is like free advertising. It’s a win-win if there’s a few more sales = more revenue + free authentic advertising if the merch was more affordable on top of everything else. I don’t know. I’m not a band merch manager or marketing expert. However, I’d rather have no shirt at all if my only budgeting options were nothing or a bootleg shirt.

Found another one of GD drowning in confetti Putting this one here as Tre is in the background (look at his expression!)

Why do you keep saying that? Nobody's saying to hide in the basement. It's just a good thing to be aware of the new variants and any major updates regarding covid

Hella Mega posted https://www.instagram.com/p/CSPhFSBrpaV/?utm_medium=copy_link

brian_the_mover <Photo dump> Clips setting up last weekend/testing pyrotechnics/Weezer’s set list/Billie’s guitar pic/Green Day leaving stage/crowd work https://www.instagram.com/p/CSPK1mYFY_O/

How can I stay mad at GD when Billie does something like that? 😂

I think part of the reason why merch at shows is so expensive is because the venue takes a cut of the sales made at the rmerch stand - or at least I know they do at club/medium shows (think size of House of Blues). I would imagine that an arena takes a good chunk of money made at the merch stand - if I had to guess 20-25%

Whoah goosebumps when „on holiday“ plays and Billie raises his hands up in the air ❤️

davidweier Green Day is out playing baseball stadiums on #hellamegatour2021. We first met just before American Idiot released. I happened to have a massive hangover the day they played me their record. I swear my hangover was over by the time it finished. They came to Fuse a lot during that cycle, I think every time they were in NYC. So often that Billie Joe and Trey started remembering Rachel and Cookies names. This laminate was the very last concert they played at the end of the American Idiot tour of nearly two years. They played over two hours in the Fuse studio. They began with all of of American Idiot, then continued played the hits. 200 lucky kids surrounded them just feet away. There were another 200 outside on the sidewalk. Awesome moments from my career. https://www.instagram.com/p/CSRtc_lswSu/?hl=en

Thank you… This is so good it’s probably illegal.

He is most excellent at trying new things and being a great success ❤️ 😂

From GD They have posted some really cool stage pics though. Just thought it strange they weren't uploading anything for Mike too

Anyone else noticed that whilst Tre, the Jasons and Kevin are posting regular updates about the tour on IG Mike isn't?

The set list IS God's Favorite Band, but instead of the new songs, it's more big hits. Now, I did notice they didn't play AS much of International Superhits, because of all the American Idiot representation at the show. So that's good that they are playing some newer stuff, at least compared with 2001. But yeah. For Green Day this is the God's Favorite Band Tour. Nothing wrong with that, just saying. If Weezer had a Greatest Hits, their set is kind of the same as well. Fall Out Boy take equal parts from their TWO greatest hits albums.

And me ☺️

Yep. While I understand his stance, and agree in a way.... Artists on labels have almost no control. We like to think Billie, Mike and Tre are designing the albums, making the track and set lists. making all these big decisions. Even writing about what is in their heart. But that isn't the case. Billie can't wake up one day, after September ends....and say that he'd like to make a folk-rap metal mix tape with 9000 tracks on it. Green Day is a company owned by the label. It's a business that was started by three guys but is now a corporation. Sounds cynical? That's just what popular music is. I love the music that is made this way, so it's NOT necessarily a negative thing. The corporate guys are bringing the music to the masses. Now the covid situation. Yeah, it sucks. Maybe Hella Mega should have been a bust. I don't know...

Suing bootleggers is about as unpunk as it gets. These guys , well at least BJA have to be worth $100 million dollars. Who cares if some guy makes a few hundred bucks outside the show? Tickets aren't cheap and some people want a souvenir without spending $50 for a t-shirt that costs $5 to $10 at most in bulk. I'm sure before they were rich the band may have bought bootlegs themselves. How would a guy selling bootleg shirts afford Green Day's expensive ass lawyer fees? Even if they win, good luck collecting.

From Kevin's IG story From Jason White's IG story

Agreed, he sounds like a punk purist with a personal code. Not only do they employ hundreds of people who depend on them and do need a livelihood but one look at this crowd and the bands’ faces and he’d realize it’s not about needing the money, it’s about needing music, live performance and togetherness again. That we desperately need, including these rich rock stars (who’ve gotten depressed like everyone else over the past two years)

**Not directed at you, That Dude. Good lord, Roecker.... They have employees. Bill, Greg, Chris, all of their techs... yeah, maybe the 3 of them don't "need" more $$ but it's also a business which employs others who rely on touring for their means. He seems rather bitter towards them.

Bless this tour and its untucked shirts.

This is still one of my favorites because it looks like he's melting.

I made it and it was awesome! I'm tired as hell and have no voice left but I loved every minute of it. Once Green Day took the stage, all of my anxiety melted away. I didn't think it was possible, but I love them even more now! 🥰

This one too.

Oh, yeah. Whoops! Kind of lost sight of the forest for the trees there. This does really make me concerned about the concerts, though. Massive gatherings of people like that are a perfect place for variants to be transmitted and the resistance some are showing is worrying. I've decided I'm going to sell my pit ticket after all. I'll try to get a seat ticket instead if I can still find any good ones. At least then I won't be shoulder to shoulder with people in a sweaty, screaming mass. I'm hoping there will be stricter mask rules again by then, though I'm not sure how that would be realistically enforced at an event like Hella Mega.

I guess I don’t really understand why they’re taking a stand now. Like... I went to the Worcester show back in 2017 and there were certainly bootleggers there too. And I have no doubt that even during the American Idiot era there were bootleggers. Hell, I’d believe it if someone said they bought a bootleg Dookie shirt back in 1994. I think this suit will go absolutely nowhere. It can’t go anywhere! They’re trying to fight one little itty bitty group of a huge system that has been around for a long time. So good luck Green Day management. Love ya, but this is stupid.

Hahaha I remember coming out of the rev rad tour and they took the merch down right after the show! I didn’t get a chance to get a shirt and a dude with shitty merch comes up to the car and sells me a shirt for ten bucks in like sure why not? The picture was so pixelated haha. Come to think of it I don’t know what happened to that shirt…

Yay studded belt ❤️

I think haircuts have always been doing wonders for him. Love this pic: Studded belt and a tiny hint of his hips

Doesn't look like those three charts take streaming into account, just radio airplay.