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8 years ago yesterday (17 October 2016), Green Day played the Hollywood Palladium on the Revolution Radio club tour. Stuart and the Ave. is the most interesting song on that setlist. More photos: 14 years ago (17 October 2010), they played the Ginásio Nilson Nelson in Brasilia, Brasil on the 21st Century Breakdown Tour. That photo seemed to be in everyone's signature back then. More photos: 15 years ago (17 October 2009), Green Day played the Sportpaleis in Merksem (Antwerp), Belgium on the 21st Century Breakdown Tour. Photos by Leen Hubau. More photos: 19 years ago (17 October 2005), Green Day played the Ervin J. Nutter Center in Fairborn (Dayton), OH on the American Idiot Tour. These photos were kindly shared by thetoph_drums who got onstage to play the drums Another one: "After Number One Fan completed their set, the roadies began the process of moving Green Day's gear onstage. Around 7:45, the Drunk Bunny staggered onto the dimly lit stage. The crowd went wild, screaming and hollering, as he guzzled down his first beer. Continuing to stagger around, he almost fell headfirst into the mosh pit full of eager fans just waiting to discover his identity. Before ending his little preview show, the Bunny capped off another beer, hidden in his suit, and proceeded to 'get happy' on the stage floor. He seemed to enjoy it as much as the crowd, and then, his show was over as he made his way backstage. The crowd yelled and moshed until their faces were blue. Finally, Green Day made their entrance. The fans were crazy. The pit began to move faster and faster until they were in an all-out mosh as Green Day began their show with American Idiot, the title track off their multi-platnium record released September 21st, 2004. After finishing the kick-off song of the Dayton show, Billie Joe Armstrong took the mic and introduced the guys he had been with for 17 years. He also asked for the date and alerted the crowd that 'the day after this show will be our 17th fucking anniversary!' Not only was the Dayton show the band's anniversary show, it was the last show on the bill for the American Idiot Tour 2005. As Green Day continued on through the night, they played the entire American Idiot album straight through, with breaks of course, so Billie could begin all-arena waves, spotlight jumps, and, his favorite, 'heeeey-hoooo!' He could induce the crowd into doing anything, whether it be jumping, headbanging, waves, or swaying. Billie, with the help of Mike and Tre, turned the crowd into a raging pack of punks, even the young kids staying up way past their bedtime to hear their favorite band. At one point during the show, Billie held 'heeey' for, what was probably a record, one full fucking minute! His convinced the crowd that they could hold that note, and they tried. Few actually completed the task, but everybody tried. Now, it seems to be a tradition that at every Green Day show they pick people from the crowd to play their instruments. This time around a guy wearing a red and black striped shirt played drums, and the crowd seemed to love the way he played! A girl was chosen to play bass, and Mike seemed to like her because he kept whispering tips in her ear. And, the mother of all instruments was left, guitar. A girl was also chosen to play this. She seemed to have been dying to play because once she got on stage, she owned it. She was running around hugging everybody and yelling at the crowd to make some noise. The three chosen musicians played Knowledge while Billie picked up the vocals. The girl who played guitar was allowed to keep Billie's guitar as long as she 'got her fucking ass off my fucking stage!' And, the drummer dude got to keep Tre's sticks and do a stage dive. And, I do believe the bass girl got to keep Mike's bass. In my personal opinion, I do believe this was the best Green Day show I've ever seen, but that might just have been because I was there. I enjoyed this concert so fucking much that it will be the best night of my life forever!" — Sunset Veins 29 years ago (17 October 1995), Green Day played the Seattle Center Arena on the Insomniac Tour. "I remember going to see Seattle Opera's wonderful production of 'Madama Butterfly' there in 2001, and chuckling to myself about how I'd seen Green Day and the Riverdales put on a very different great show in the exact same spot in 1995." — Sid Spencer "The first time I saw Green Day is when they played an arena in Seattle in 1995. Someone threw a shoe at Billie Joe and he got pissed off and cut the set short..." — John Goar (one of Billie's teachers at John Swett High School) Green Day were also interviewed at the Seattle Center Arena. More photos: 30 years ago (17 October 1994), Green Day played the Cambridge Junction in Cambridge, England on the Dookie Tour. "I scored some gear for Green Day that night after they came and talked to me in the launderette on Cheery Hinton Road! I think it may have been more than a Henry too. But don't tell the fuzz." — hairyarsenal 31 years ago (17 October 1993), Green Day played the Moore Theatre in Seattle, WA while supporting Bad Religion. "I saw Bad Religion a couple of weeks ago in Seattle, as I think that they're one of the best bands ever I expected (and got) a great show. What I didn't expect was the fantastic opening band Green Day, one of the tightest and most energetic bands I've ever seen." — Michael Hurd A ticket from the show: 32 years ago (17 October 1992), Green Day played SOMA in San Diego, CA on the Kerplunk Tour. "I remember it was funny because all the talk was that Green Day were gonna be signed to a major label, and back then there were lots of arguments as to whether people should to major labels. Billie Joe was onstage and he said, 'Hey everyone, make sure you clap really loud because the executives from the label are trying to decide whether they want us to sign or not tonight, so let them know what do you think.' He was making a joke out of it which was pretty cool." — Mark Hoppus 33 years ago (17 October 1991), Green Day played the Moore Theatre in Seattle, WA for the first time. 37 years ago (17 October 1987), Green Day played their first gig ever at Rod's Hickory Pit in Vallejo, CA, where Billie Joe's mum worked as a waitress. The small audience was impressed enough to invite them back. The diner has since been demolished and replaced with a Starbucks. For more information, check out the Green Day landmarks tour. I also wrote about visiting the Starbucks and many other landmarks on my own website. ---------------------------- On this day 24 years ago (18 October 2000), Green Day played the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney, Australia on the Warning Tour. "Green Day played an awesome gig last night in Sydney to a packed out Hordern Pavilion. The whole set lasted for an hour and 45 minutes during which a fan from the audience got to play Platypus (I Hate You). Billie Joe had half the crowd screaming, 'Fuck you!' and the other half screaming back, 'Go fuck your mums!' For the finale, Tre Cool, after smashing his drumkit with a little help from Mike, climbed on top of a speaker two metres high, and threw his drum down. All in all, a kick ass concert." 29 years ago (18 October 1995), Green Day played the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, Canada on the Insomniac Tour. More photos: 30 years ago (18 October 1994), Green Day played the Leadmill in Sheffield, England on the Dookie Tour. Billie had broken his ankle in Amsterdam on 13 October. Photo: Di Coke We've got yet more spitting quotes: "From what I remember, Billie Joe spat and caught it, then did it again, but someone from the crowd got up and caught it then stagedove into the mosh pit. Gross." — James Matthews "I've seen them at the Leadmill and at Leeds Uni and they were great. Specially at Leadmill. They used to spit onto the lights and then catch it in their mouths when it came back down." — NEKRO138 33 years ago (18 October 1991), Green Day played at 924 Gilman Street in Berkeley, CA.

You reminded me, I still want the full band version of Alison!

Okay, NOW this Anniversery set has my attention!

The song Jason performed solo last year was "Here Goes the Neighborhood"

Its just like how everyone was expecting Nimrod 25th to have that awesome full band version of Allison on it, the one that leaked as a bootleg. Instead they ended up putting out an acoustic version. I don't mind, we still got a studio version of Allison. But it means they have much better sounding demos and outtakes in the vaults. And if Green Day really did "leak" this.... then thank you boys 😚 We're really enjoying them! My hope was, and maybe it sort of came to fruition, the band would release the AI 20th, and then be like "Annnnnd here's a special edition with even more content with more demos and outtakes!". 😃

My first Green Day concert ever ❤️ Got to be on stage during 2000LYA The Cup Noodles costume was so unexpected 🥰

Zia Records has autographed CDs all locations in Las Vegas and Phoenix.

omg omg omg omg omg omg omg It's... a... pro-shot... recording... from the WARFIELD SHOW??? I honestly think I might faint... D-d-d-does... this mean... they... have the... whole thing... on tape, somewhere?

Really enjoyed this album. Fun and catchy songs! However. Billie says «razorblades» in Trash TV. I thoguht I made it clear that this word was banned for the next 10 years, Billie. Oh well..

From the video description.

Some of you guys are really insatiable and above non realistic. It's bizarre. The band have just released big Insomniac, nimrod and Dookie anniversary packages full of demos, b sides, videos, visualizers and whatnot, and you already want more? It's like, when is enough enough? Do you really not see the absurdity of you hoping for band releasing anniversary editions every five years?

That's Spike singing

considering the higher key BOBD and the fact that WMUWSE has the lyric that was missing from the demo that they released last month thats probably the case what im wondering now is, how different are the demos of Whatsername, Novacaine and Extraordinary Girl in the box set are compared to the versions on this disk

Was this planted? Now I’m wondering the thrifting story was made up.

I Will wait to know what's songs from warfield are included... If It has something different from the rest of the album like the surrender/bastards of young cover i'm going to have to buy It too

Don't forget King Glizzard! (Dear east nowhere they have a lot of official bootlegs...) like what's stopping us from receiving 7/20/01 or bottom of the hill 99 on physical formats/streaming only or OR OR why just have a full show when we could confirm if songs like Jinx, Uptight, Deadbeats Holiday, Panic Song, Dont Wanna Fall In Love and Dirty Rotten Bastards were played live at the shows people claim that they were played at on setlist FM 😆

Whoa Warfield! This has to be Sam Bayer's work. The analog film, specific ways of zooming and framing.. I love it. Now THIS could've been a nice gift for the anniversary boxset. A full proper show from their prime days, almost like a sequel to Bullet In A Bible, with gems like Take Back, Disappearing Boy, J.A.R. and Rock The Casbah(!)..

I feel like I’m not gonna be able to listen to the OG anymore. It’s so good.

It helps that they’ve consistently played together all these years. It may have been 16 years since they released something but it’s not at all a reunion for them they never stopped.

I enjoyed it. Nothing incredible but found a lot of the songs catchy and surprised at how well they maintained the Pinhead Gunpowder sound.

Billie's voice in Song For Myself is somewhat closer to his old voice

10/10 what a solid great punk rock album! as if they never have been away personally for me, some songs could be a little bit "punchier/heavier" but all in all i expected phgd and got phgd love their music! i hope this wont be their last release

Love this song! Omg it totally is 😱 Guest feature! 😂 Trash TV is great too. Damn this is a fun album. What a treat

Listening now. Nothing Ever Happens is 🔥❤️

I hope whoever bought the one off discogs shares it eventually. 🥲 I wanted to buy it but 1000 dollars for a record seems steep.

Green Day fans are really sleeping on this.

Yeah.... they gave us a much better selection than the demos they were officially going to release lol. Perhaps the band wanted to give the fans a little something extra lol. idk.

Hola Canada! The most Greendayish one!

This is so great! Thanks so much for sharing

It's already out in Australia. 10/10 record. Gives me vibes of oldschool Green Day mixed with Longshot. Here Comes The Neighborhood and Trash TV are my faves

It seems the person who originally found it and posted about it deleted their own posts. My guess would be that they were contacted in not the most friendly terms by either band management or the record label? 😅 The timing is super weird and suspicious, I agree, and finding this in a thrift store sounds too good to be true, but on the other hand I don't see why the band would plant this. If they had wanted to release these demos, they could have released them in the Anniversary box next week. And not sure it's such a good promo move... the only people I see talking about this or even aware of this are the same people who already pre-ordered they Anniversary box. Even the number of upvotes and comments in the post was not crazy. I don't know what to believe anymore. I want the date of those songs though! 😂

This is a clever promo move if it's not an insane coincidence, but pretty sure it's the former. The person made their Reddit account just to post about it, yet knew exactly where to post and only asked about the Green Day CD

I just hope he explores the rest of the UK too. Despite some of what may be heard, we've got some beautiful places over here... Come up t'North Billie, we're very friendly!

London is my favorite place in the world, so the fact that Billie seems to spend a lot of time there these days makes me so happy. The image of this cute lil dorky dad rebelliously doing graffiti in the middle of the day is hilarious to me. I love him so much lol.

Boulevard sounds incredible! I love the different tuning!

And committing petty crimes again

Weren’t there rumors Joey had a baby on the way back in June? I’d imagine that’d be reason to be over here by about now

Billie’s latest IG posts look like London.

I’m missing out on both I can’t believe it. I was in an airplane between Pittsburgh and Berlin for the Saviors one and now for this one I’ll be in Savannah and no listening party there 😭 Why does this keep happening I don’t really travel that much but there’s always a conflict.

For the celebration of the new PG album, I would like to share the newly surfaced Pinhead Gunpowder concert with you here: