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Honestly, this is looking worse every day... Here's a timeline for you... Billie relocates to London > The Queen dies > Billie and his band flee to South America Pretty disturbing stuff. Not hard to put the pieces together...

I think this one is worthy of a place in this thread too

OMG I WAS THEREEE!!!!! I disconnected myself from the entire world to see three of my favorite people ever I'm so happy!!! My body still hurts, I was almost crushed by a sea of people at the front row but I don't care- IT WAS WORTH IT. Classic setlist, and always the same good energy and love... and i'll stop writing because i'm starting to cry. Love U Green Day. Gracias!!!

How about 2112. 5150? 8701. 1984? Anyone? Bueller?

Yeah for sure, Green Day are better at making it look spontaneous. How many reviews have we seen from cities where the journalist seems shocked and amazed that they brought someone up to play and gave the guitar away and we’re like uh, he does that every show 🙄 I mean yeah it’s awesome of them but was not an off the cuff crazy spur of the moment move, they just make it look that way every time.

From Green Day’s Instagram story

Green Day with @bastardosdelunder who were one of the support bands at the show https://www.instagram.com/p/CibG3MIMWoB/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= And from their Instagram story https://instagram.com/stories/bastardosdelunder/2925626009183936498?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=

What a show, it was absolutely insane. Short but intense and powerful, my body is still destroyed. Finally they played Welcome To Paradise for first time since 1998, which for obvious reasons i couldn't attend to that concert (I was 5 years old in 1998).

Every big live act is a piece of theater. I’d say Green Day’s is centered around the songs a bit more than what some other artists do, but that’s just a creative choice.

Rock in Rio Buenos Aires

19-19-1985.

Totally agree with you but I kinda think that only diehards can see this as highly scripted -- it's scripted to not feel scripted to a first-time viewer, in a way? Coldplay has been headlining huge festivals/concerts in Brazil for 10 years now and this is Green Day's first time. I think the "illusion" is revealed only when you see the big picture -- yes you get to be on stage but always at the same parts of the same songs -- which is a highly controlled form of freedom

From Green Day’s Instagram story

Don't think this has been posted before (apologies if so)

Okay, I was nice about the last show but gosh dang, Green Day. Think about the rich, rich fans who are front row center at every show in the world. Not that they are bored with your setlist, noooo. But whoever they are....they can now perform your show with their hands tied behind their back. They could hit the road as Green Day 2.0 and everyone will go see those rich weirdos instead of you because they might switch it up every 1000 shows or something. I'm going to go see if Viagra Boys or Highly Suspect have really cool message boards like this one. And if they do..... Well... I'll become obsessed with them. I guess I should see if they play the same show every night for 20 years in a row first. But gosh darn it, Green Day. I known it a huge production and things are timed and Yada Yada, but there's room for audibles. For these sucky setlists, I demand the next audible be a Know One Knows / Jerry Caldwells Pool Party / Kill the DJ medley. And bring back the Midwest medley too, but add Southern Girls to it. Kidding, kidding. But if we get 1972 and they don't perform any songs from it, I'ma actually email Billie and ask what the deal is.

An article by Julio Maria from Estadão. I'm gonna translate the part where he writes about Green Day because there's a paywall. "Green Day versus Coldplay Anyway, what's the best show of Rock in Rio? Everybody has its own, but here there's an argument in favor of Green Day. Both bands, Billie Joe Armstrong's and Chris Martin's, work with very different emotional registers. Green Day access the anger - not hate, but anger, something sweeter - and Coldplay binds to love. But, independently from the part of the brain they operate, Armstrong and Martin's positions on the stage are very different and this will be definitive on the concert they do. More honest, Green Day lets their crowd feel with freedom what the band does on stage. Feel with freedom, that's the point. Just like literature or cinema, the emotions can be manipulated in a concert, making it possible the timing of the exact moment the first tear will drop from the face of a fan. This is Coldplay. The souls controlled all the time by the centralizer Chris Martin don't even decide when the lights binded on their arms will be triggered. Leave everything with uncle Chris Martin and just do what he says. A livestock-like behavior that would be concerning if Martin was a bad guy. How nice he isn't."

Yes, but it’s their footage from RevRad! Good old Kerrang 😂

I'm surprised this hasn't made it here https://thisisjoy.tumblr.com/post/695055153355718656 I couldn't get the gif to upload properly this time https://www.instagram.com/p/CiXYqNVNvXW/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Likewise I couldn't find a thread for this show either and it will be happening soon

Or maybe Green Day should rename

I like the chain he was wearing it perked up an otherwise drab outfit

Kevin with fans in Argentina

Good shots (the second one!) and videos here. I don’t know what it is but he seemed happier and more into this show than Rio https://www.instagram.com/p/Ciar-WJOLML/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Interesting distinction. I’m not sure how true it is. With Green Day that “freedom” I think is an illusion. Both shows of this size are highly scripted, programmed and designed to elicit emotions at specific times. Whether it’s love or what have you is a distinction without a difference. I’ve seen Coldplay, and while it felt really unifying and lovely, I think it’s just the tempo and raw energy of Green Day’s music and Billie’s frontman antics that make it a superior live experience for me.

He's comparing two bands who put some of the best concerts of the festival. He says that both bands "operate" differently on the brain (Green Day access anger and Coldplay access love - first difference) and on stage (second difference). Green Day wins because on stage they let the crowd free to feel their own emotions during the concert (making them more honest) while Coldplay's is a big timed spectacle (for example, they distributed bracelets that have some kind of technology and during certain times of songs, they would all light up at the same time).

If that happens I think we'll all sign off on that email

just got back home from Rock I Rio! I'll try to write a quick recap... The show was nuts. The best part is that the big media, who ignored the band for so many years in Brazil, are completely delighted by their performance. And the guys just did their usal show.. My bet is that they willl be here in the next RIR again It was insane, elected the best show and Green Day was also the band who dragged the biggest crowd to main stage. Both people who got on stage were near me in the pit, the green haired girl, Barbara, got some cool photos with them in Rio in the days before the show, so she got everything that was possible a fan can get. Awesome I spent like 15 hours standing in the same spot, back aches since the early evening haha. Have no problemas drinking just enough water to no have to get out to piss (some girls around me were wearing diapers..................), didn't have lunch, just morning coffee and some crackers. Worthed it all, but it is exausting... I can't understand people saying that festivals are better than regular solo shows... no fucking way funny thing is that the next night our group went to a pub with the personal security guard that worked for the band in south america in 2017, and was working for Avril Lavigne this time, such a cool person, he even payed all of our expenses at the bar hahahha Those were three crazy days in Rio, amazing to met so many fans and to see people recognizing me for the work on Green Day Brasil, it was really unexpected Can't wait for the next tour!

Again the boring HM setlist. I don't get it. They come all the long way to South America and don't treat the local fans with a rare setlist.

It was a nice show. At least they played She in addition to the standard set. And I recorded it

The 4k video has been uploaded 🤩

Even the shirt is on our side! 😉

I know, I got very excited when I saw that!

These are just awesome And a smile here Love this one from Green Day also

That must mean we're getting a new Green Day single that same week!!!

No Elmo! No! Not you too 😭

It means he’s still relevant ❤️

Not even 10 minutes at work and I got the joke. *sigh*

The WMUWSE jokes are coming. Please remember it's only jokes. We know it's about his father. And no he didn't locked himself in his room and screamed to his mother ''Wake me up when september ends''

On Monday, American Idiot was certified double platinum in Italy https://www.socialartist.it/2022/08/29/certificazioni-34-2022/

coming back to it after a while, i’m once again amazed how beautiful the lyrics on this album are

Some of Billie's old Instagram posts