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Looks like HM was pretty successful in spite of everything https://flipboard.com/topic/entertainmentindustry/green-day-fall-out-boy-weezer-s-hella-mega-tour-lives-up-to-its-name-with-blo/a-8QBkfkRCRNi0aqOiEb50zg%3Aa%3A344362025-39adaca2f4%2Fbillboard.com

I've put this in the Billie picture thread but thought it would be appreciated here too

Green Day's 'Ha Ha You're Dead' among controversial songs requested at UK funerals https://planetradio.co.uk/kerrang/entertainment/music/green-day-ha-ha-youre-dead-funeral/

Wow, oh my GOD, we’re never gonna see a normal show after this. Impressive.

Some more random band photos

“The Hella Mega Tour averaged 33,000 tickets each night across its 20 shows -- more than double the pace of Green Day’s previous peak” That must be what they meant by more effective touring, make more money with half the amount of shows. They never tell you this part but after all the parties involved get their cuts, I wonder how much each band walks away with per person per show. Also I assume this number includes merch sales not just tickets sold?

Beautiful! I’ve loved his HM look 😍😍😍

Bodies would pile up... 🔥💥

HLAHG has some great moments, but since it's a DVD, the SD quality is a bit disappointing 😓 I wish they would release it on Blu-ray disc.

This is big news: See YouTube caption. A song a week to be released until the album drops December 10. 2000 LYA out now on Spotify and video here! Finally they’re opening up the vault. BBC Sessions from 1994-2001 Insta post: https://www.instagram.com/p/CVUSE3TMUrw/?utm_medium=copy_link

'Green Day, Fall Out Boy & Weezer's Hella Mega Tour Lives Up to Its Name With Blockbuster Ticket Sales' The U.S. leg brought in $67.3 million & sold 659,000 tickets along the way, according to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore. https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/chart-beat/9653154/green-day-fall-out-boy-weezer-hella-mega-tour-boxscore-earnings

Possibly not traditional rock as the likes of AC/DC say, but they do lean that way to me anyway. Green Day aren’t really traditional rock either - at severe risk of starting a genre discussion!

I wouldn't say any of those (including Olivia Rodrigo and Willow Smith) are truly rock. They're mainly pop and some have shades of hip hop. There's a concerted effort by ClearStream to remove traditional rock from the airwaves. Nowadays, you have to have some extra flare or spice to your music. I don't see traditional rock music making a comeback until the next generation of kids is older.

Agreed. People keep telling us rock music is dead and yes, we struggle (certainly in Uk) to hear it on mainstream radio and tv, but clearly there is still a good appetite for rock. Hopefully with the interest around Machine Gun Kelly, Yungblud, Nova Twins and the like it will increase.

It’s a common thing to do on photo negatives. Ex out the bad.

The Basketcase live video has black Trilogy X's that pop up at seemingly random frames. TRIGITAL BLACK, the new Trilogy from Green Day....Just as epic as the first, but this time....Billie is around to make you buy it!

I don’t know, I can imagine the nightmare it was to organise, even before COVID, and can just hear all those in the background going “never again” 😂😂

@Rumpelstiltskin2000 you were not wrong.

When you see a boat called Whatsername and you take a photo of her.

When you see a car number plate ending in HAR and you automatically think of Hitchin a Ride

Listening to this beast again, I stand even more by my opinion: such a beauty.

Tre posted a video from London https://www.instagram.com/p/CVnJWt4g7Sq/?utm_medium=share_sheet

This was posted in the Billie photo thread, but god damn does it need to go here! If he looked in my direction like that I would die on the spot.

From @bubukittyfk on her Instagram story

This is a beautiful photo from the show at the LG Arena in Birmingham, UK back on 27 October 2009

My phone just reminded me yesterday was the 5 year anniversary of the first time I saw these guys.

I got this photo from greendaysminority on Instagram. She posted it in a story a few months back, so I requested the full image from her and she finally saw the DM and sent it to me. She also reposted my new Billie drawing. @The Grohl I LOVE his eyes in it. Just absolutely stunning. Very mesmerizing as you mentioned. This one's just super cute. I love it when he gets wide-eyed like this.

I just listened to them and they both sound so good (especially hearing an old track like OOML done so tight and dookified) that it’s a shame they were left off. But I wonder if it was for the simple reason that they didn’t have clean live tracks of those two because here you can see these are the only two tracks that have the DJ talking over them either at the beginning or the end.

No doubt I'll end up buying it for "completion of collection" purposes but I need more Green Day stuff like I need a hole in the head (I don't know if you have that expression in the US?)

WHERE DID GDA GO?

I got “what is mike dirnt’s bass” that’s a pretty cool question. Better than “is Billie Joe Armstrong alive” 😳

If you type in "what is Green Day's..." it actually comes up with "what is Green Day"! For Billie "what is Billie Joe Armstrong doing now" Tre "what is Tre Cool's real name" And Mike - looks like people don't ask because nothing comes up! Year's ago when Tre was single the most asked question was "what is Tre Cool's net worth" which is kind of sad

From setlist.fm seems they did play it. This is the average setlist from 12 of 13 shows https://www.setlist.fm/stats/average-setlist/foxboro-hot-tubs-bd6198a.html?tour=23d7083f From a quick search couldn't find a video but maybe someone else knows of one?

Did Foxboro Hot Tubs ever play Red Tide live and if so, is there footage?