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Church On Sunday - enjoy everyone!

Wow. What a fucking setlist. I am so envious of every single one of you who were fortunate enough to be able to go see the show! Whatsername? Church on Sunday? Scattered? Murder City?? Warning?? Christie Road!???? IN FULL!!?? Holy fuck! It's almost as if the band have been listening to us in here, if you are, then thank you so much...

Watched some of it and I’m surprised how well some of these songs hold up. I like Warning but I wouldn’t expect it to be a highlight of a show in 2022. Same for TDTD or Murder City. Whatsername was a crazy emotional performance

I love this

That setlist..

I'm pretty sure it is just an EP turned into a standard album.

My show recaps are often a collection of my thoughts throughout the gig and little details I picked up and things I noticed. So here goes. I left Madison at 7:30 in the morning and got to the venue by 10:00, good for #14 in line. When I got there, the majority of people ahead of me did not have tickets. Many had traveled from out of state. Even by the time doors opened, a few people ahead of me still did not have tickets and were going to try to plead once they got inside. Wisely, they moved out of the way to let some ticket holders by. There was no warm act and no hype song, although some members of the crowd sang Bohemian Rhapsody on their own which was amusing. Obviously the band deviated from the setlist after just two songs, with Billie calling Revolution Radio instead of KYE. I think that caught the band by surprise as Kevin rushed out from behind the cabs and onto the stage just in time. This would become a common theme throughout the set, with Billie either calling the next song after referencing the setlist or just seemingly deciding on his own. Earlier in the set, I think either just before or just after Longview, Billie called the next song to Tré and it was evident that Tré was trying to catch his breath - he mouthed to Billie “I’m tired!”. He was an absolute workhorse all night. I saw him taping a finger between songs - probably blisters. Tré drums hard. I’m pretty sure he added some new fills that I hadn’t heard before into a couple of songs. I thought the three song Kerplunk sequence would be my favorite moment of the show - that is, until Billie Joe tuned down his guitar and started Whatsername. I was completely in shock when they started it - no way in a million years did I ever think I would hear that song live. Interesting that it wasn’t on the printed setlist, so I wonder what inspired them to play it. Maybe it was always planned - we can only speculate. Billie was definitely red-eyed for most of the song, not unlike the BIAB performance of Wake Me Up When September Ends. A very, very emotional performance of Whatsername, one that I’ll never forget. They just kept playing and playing and playing! 10 songs in and it felt like they had been playing forever, just due to the sheer excitement and the unknown as to what would come next. It felt like it would never end. When Billie called out JAR, the gentleman who I believe to be the band’s head of security pulled a setlist out of his pocket and looked at it in confusion, as if to say “when will this end?”. That was a really funny moment that made me laugh out loud. And still two songs followed! I recorded Too Dumb To Die (my favorite from RevRad) and Church On Sunday, both of which I will post to YouTube and link here in this thread. Wow, what a show - I’m still trying to process it all. A dream setlist, one that probably won’t be topped anytime soon. This will go down as an all-time show for sure. Incredibly lucky and grateful to have witnessed it! Thanks for reading and feel free to ask any questions you may have.

I don't think it will be another September single, February album. I think that was announced so early just to coincide with the Hella Mega announcement. My prediction would be a February announcement, May album release. Similar timeline to 21CB.

If there’s any hope for them adding a deep/medium cut or two tonight, all 3 previous headliners went 15 minutes over the 10:00 curfew (Metallica went 25 mins over). Gives them 2 hours basically, 20 minutes longer than the hella mega set.

What an incredible setlist! I think this is the first time I'm happier about some of the "newer" songs being played rather than just "old-school" GD deep-cuts. I mean, Christie Road (full version) definitely deserves to be on every setlist, it's such a great song and I felt blessed to at least have heard the partial version back in 2017. Other than that though, I think newer songs like Oh Love, TDTD and Murder City are all great songs to pay tribute to those eras and it was also fabulous to see them play Church on Sunday and Warning again. On the HellaMega tour, they've played very few songs from the RevRad and 21CB eras and none at all from the trilogy era. Obviously, I still think a small club tour in the US, Canada and Europe with deep-cuts would be amazing, but even if they incorporated the odd song from all eras into their standard shows, rather than just predominantly sticking to the same Dookie and AI songs (as much as I love that record), that would improve the setlist tremendously. Also, Whatsername, holy fk, I think this is actually the first time they've played it in full i.e. without any backing tapes. I think they could easily throw this in every now and again at the expense of some other AI song and do the same for Dookie songs.

"There will be someone who was at a show, and I’ll look up their Instagram posts and see the experience they had where it’s like: “I was right there. I was up front, I danced with my friends, I got drunk on PBR and it was amazing.” That’s the stuff that I love. It’s not just about the big lights and the big stages." He loves seeing our reaction to the shows...if he looks up people's IG posts then he definitely checks in at GDC to see our reaction to shows, etc... 🥰 What would be really awesome is if he would interact with us just a bit...💚

If they took the time to rehearse all these songs, please, please, please play them more than once. Make the most out of it goddamnit!

Here’s hoping. The Insomniac 25th and BBC Sessions releases give me hope that they’re starting to not feel as squeamish about opening up the archives.

Probably. They film everything for archival purposes but very little ever gets released. They have pro film of the FBHT shows and it makes me insane that we’ll never see it

I think after the tour in autumn they will have a break and in the new year the first single will be released, the album will follow in spring and the tour in summer and autumn. Maybe some hints in November/December

Plus he never actually said it was an EP, just that at that time they had recorded six songs in London. It could have just been early on in the process and they didn’t know what it was going to be

What significance does August 1st have? I’m thinking we’re a ways out from anything.

Can’t quite believe they managed to go 17 years without a full performance of Whatsername. Hopefully the reaction to these songs will encourage them to change things up a bit more often (we can only hope). During my Rev Rad gig he asked what fans wanted to hear and we got Armatage Shanks. I’d like to see him ask fans what they want to hear more often. Once per show is enough.

Whatsername is one of my all time favorite Green Day songs, if not my favorite period. Haven't had a chance to watch anything yet, but I'm looking forward to seeing them play that song again.

According to an obituary shared by the band, McKean passed away yesterday (July 29) from a brain haemorrhage. In 2001, McKean moved to Los Angeles to work with producer Rob Cavallo, and went on to receive two Grammy Awards for his engineering work on Green Day’s ‘American Idiot’. https://www.nme.com/news/music/my-chemical-romance-pay-tribute-to-producer-doug-mckean-who-has-died-aged-54-3280056

Brainstew

Uploaded Metro Livrestream to Youtube

It was going to a six song full length album, but then Billie saw how angry people were about the 10 songs Father of All and went and wrote more songs. Haha

Me neither, but eventually it’s going to be nice to get to see it all as I knit for my grandchildren

It's all starting to make sense to me now. We all want it to come out ASAP because we're going by how soon they started teasing, December 2021. At that time, there was a rumor, or I think it was Billie himself that told a fan that they were putting out a 6 song EP soon. The initial teasers showed them at RAK in London. And then we started seeing them in LA, back to London, and then back in LA. And a recent TikTok has the hashtag #NewAlbum!! I think we're possibly looking at a double album here, or maybe even a triple, as we're approaching the 10th anniversary of the Trilogy!!!

Thanks for uploading that videos in 4k! I also just noticed that She and Still Breathing from last year were re-uploaded in 4k. Thanks for these also.

I noticed that too. No Sweet Home Alabama. These performances were all very true to their studio versions and I think they all sounded great. Billie’s voice was perfect and the band sounded tight and very well rehearsed, particularly for the setlist songs.

Same! I love it. That and Bang Bang are my favorite RevRad songs. It’s crazy they never played it much even on that tour. It really sounds so good live ❤️

I'm so used to the live version of Minority that whenever I hear the studio version, I sing ''a free for all, fuck em all, jump jump, let's go!"

Maybe unpopular opinion but I love Too dumb to die! So cool they played it!

Am I the only one that sings “On my own here we go” out loud whenever I watch a live version of Brain Stew on video? It’s like a Pavlovian response I can’t help it 😂

Ugh I really hope they rehearsed all these songs because they're planning on playing more club shows...

The last time Green Day played at Golden Gate Park, front man Billie Joe Armstrong wasn’t even old enough to drink. It was June 30, 1991, and as Armstrong recalls, “we set up right there in the park — us and a bunch of other, more hard-core bands — and while we were playing, the cops showed up and started arresting a bunch of kids. That was our last ‘official’ Golden Gate Park show.” Armstrong expects Green Day’s second concert at the park headlining the 2022 Outside Lands Festival for the first time will have better results. From such scrappy origins, the East Bay punk group has blossomed into a major mainstream draw. Over three decades later, it’s hard to find a milestone Green Day hasn’t reached. In 2015, the group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The following year, Mayor Libby Schaaf proclaimed Feb. 19 as “Green Day Day” in its hometown city of Oakland, part of a special tribute concert in honor of the band’s 1994 breakthrough album, “Dookie.” Along the way, the band has managed to revitalize the rock opera and adapt it for Broadway, and even found a way to give Homer and his friends a concert in Springfield for “The Simpsons Movie.” For the trio of Armstrong (lead vocals, guitar), bassist Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tre Cool, it all remains massively surreal. But one achievement that has thus far eluded Green Day is getting the proper chance to play Golden Gate Park again. Speaking from Los Angeles, where he and his bandmates are in the studio working on an unannounced project, the 50-year-old Armstrong chatted with The Chronicle about his group’s “freakishly long” career, his fears for where America is heading, and why Green Day is the first true Bay Area-born act to headline Outside Lands. Q: Green Day just finished a run of shows in Europe. How did it feel to finally bring the Hella Mega Tour to fans? Any nerves after a pandemic-forced hiatus from touring? A: I’m always nervous and freaked out before any tour starts. Even before any show, but then as soon as we hit the stage, it’s like we were born to be there. It was great to get back onstage. The tour was amazing. It was postponed from 2020, so it was like living in the past but preparing for the future at the same time. It was a bit topsy-turvy, but the shows were big and people were losing their minds. Everybody’s had to deal with the pandemic, and now people have a new gratitude and appreciation for just being together. That was really noticeable when we toured the U.S. last year, too. We were the first big tour to head back out. I think maybe there’s a certain sort of urgency for people to have a good time because the world is in such disarray right now. Q: In response to the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, you said you felt like renouncing your U.S. citizenship during a show last month in the U.K. Would you like to see more musicians speak up at this moment? A: Yeah, but then it can almost be used against you. People will say something like, “Oh, you’re just another California liberal.” It’s like,” No, f— you. I’m an American and I’m practicing my freedom of speech right now.” It’s just so frustrating to see what’s going on in America when there are very simple — not easy, but simple — solutions. It’s crazy that we have this liberal, progressive government and yet we can’t get anything done. Especially with the Supreme Court being a bunch of religious fanatics who are pretty much governing the country right now. It’s just a really scary time. Q: As a band, Green Day is an Oakland-born hometown hero. Outside Lands started back in 2008. Are you excited to finally be checking this one off the band’s bucket list? A: Yes. We’ve always intended to play it, but every time we’ve been asked to do it, we were already booked or in the middle of making a record or on a tour. I’m psyched. I don’t know if there’s been a band that’s essentially, actually from the Bay Area that’s headlined there. Q: The only one I could make a case for is Metallica. A: Eh, they’re not really from the Bay Area. They’re all Los Angeles dudes, pretty much, except for Kirk Hammett. But for us? I mean, God, it’s our backyard. We’re just psyched to get to play in front of all our homies. Q: Does it feel fitting that Green Day is headlining a local festival that now offers attendees the ability to legally purchase cannabis on-site? Did you ever see that happening? A: I knew it was going to happen, eventually, because allowing people to buy marijuana legally was a no-brainer issue. But it’s crazy. There’s a generational thing about weed. Back when we were kids smoking weed, we always had to hide somewhere. I had a Datsun B210 and one of my favorite things that we used to do to smoke weed is we would drive it through the car wash and hotbox it inside there. That was one of the safest places you could smoke weed: driving your car through a car wash and smoking a bowl. That part of it — the mischief part of it — was really fun, and that spirit is gone now. I walk around Oakland, or wherever I’m at, and you can smell it everywhere, all the time. Los Angeles too. My reaction is always the same. I’ve got like a neuro reaction to it, which is: “Oh f—! S—! I hope the cops don’t come.” But for people who are Millennials and Gen Z, it’s just like smoking a cigarette or buying a Big Gulp. It is what it is now. Q: Many big bands claim to love where they’re from, but very few of them open local guitar shops and coffee joints or play small dives around the region regularly. What keeps Green Day in love with Oakland and the East Bay? A: I love playing live. I don’t like to shut everything down after we get done with a record cycle. I love to go and get onstage, whether it’s at the Ivy Room or the Golden Bull or even Eli’s Mile High Club. Those are all great clubs. Now there’s Crybaby as well, which used to be the Uptown. I’d love to play there. It’s weird because we have the option to play any size venue that we want, but you get stuck into a corner if you’re only playing giant shows where you have to have this massive crew. I still like to put my amp in the back of the car and just cruise down and play some intimate venue. I just show up, play covers and have a really good time. That’s a whole different way of playing live. I think you learn more from it. A big comedian, like Dave Chappelle, goes and plays small shows and tries out new material to see what sticks. For me, being onstage teaches me how to relax, and really, it’s all just for fun. I just feel like it’s something I was born to do, so I might as well do it. Q: I’m sure you can feel how much the folks who manage to catch those shows love the experience, too? A: It’s great when people have stories to tell about it. There will be someone who was at a show, and I’ll look up their Instagram posts and see the experience they had where it’s like: “I was right there. I was up front, I danced with my friends, I got drunk on PBR and it was amazing.” That’s the stuff that I love. It’s not just about the big lights and the big stages. Q: The recent reissues of Pinhead Gunpowder’s catalog on vinyl strike me as another valid portal to the past. A: Absolutely. I’m very proud of the Pinhead stuff. Aaron (Cometbus) is one of my favorite humans. It’s funny. I think we’ve always been able to bond because we’ve always been old souls — even when we were teenagers and in our 20s. We were also always both able to appreciate other people’s past work, whether we were talking about the Lemonheads or the first five Ramones records. With that thought in mind, I think Aaron was able to honor his own work and the work we’ve done with Pinhead Gunpowder with the reissues. Q: Green Day’s first record was released in 1990. Thanks to the unprecedented length of your career, you’ve now reached a point where the band is still fully active but also being written about in punk history books and being honored with tribute concerts. Is that somewhat surreal? A: It’s a trip because I’m always writing songs, just moving forward. I think a little nostalgia is good for the soul. It keeps you grounded. There are times when it makes you feel old, but that’s OK because it can also reinvigorate you for the future. In terms of evolving as an artist, I think it’s important to look at things in your past and go, “What about this did I get right? How can I think about my past as a way of staying grounded as an artist while, at the same time, also getting into some deep waters without drowning?”’ It’s great to be able to look back, but the view is freakishly long. We were a high school band, and now we’re middle-aged.

Guys. Please, for the love of God's Favorite Band, schedule some more of these shows across the U.S.! Random songs. Full songs. Half songs where you forget the lyrics. We'll sing them for you. You know we'll pay anything!

What a show this looks to have been. I cannot criticise them for playing the hits, that’s what the majority of ticket holders at big shows want but they played some of my favourite songs on Friday, sounded great and seemed to have fun. I would love a deep cut tour. Whatsername seemed a tad fast but awesome!

I hope some songs get played at Lollapalooza

Really cool interview! I've missed those.

From Green Day’s Instagram story

dunno where else to put this, but I wasn't actually expecting this kind of response from the venue after I tweeted this out last night! At least it quelled my suspicion that a staff member streamed it without the venue knowing, and that's why it stopped. https://imgur.com/a/R3dUmAo

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cgpcpv5uzYP/

BTW, apologies for the formatting. I’m looking online for footage while on my phone. Video that contains snippets of various songs (including Letterbomb, TDTD, and Chump) Holiday whatsername Chump/Longview Too Dumb To Die clip of warning https://twitter.com/therealjoehe/status/1553285900335022081?s=21&t=0AaFIwsgsReOQCOJS_ke8w

Sources say they played Fire, Ready, Aim on loop for the last 30 mins

Did they play Too Dumb to Die I would actually love to hear that one live someday

... hot take

Oh god, don’t even get me started on the Longshot show I went to where crazy fans jumped on stage and grabbed the mic and started singing. Then when people realized there was no barrier or security, they all had to rush the stage for their forced “moment” with Billie and take selfies and act like it was something genuine. I came to hear him sing, not watch you make an idiot of yourself.