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I’m with you, I feel us older fans need to keep in training for a Green Day show and that’s who I want to see. Standing around for days watching other bands is not on my list of things to do and honestly after two Bellahouston park shows I want to be warm too 😂😂

I'm in the same boat, no interest in going to Download (or any festival really) so I'm going to Vienna and making a little trip of it. I'll get more memories doing that too than going to a festival for a day, imo. (This isn't a dig at people who will go to festivals, different strokes for different folks and all that. It's just not my vibe)

@solongfromthestars we love your posts but completely understand what a huge undertaking this is, please don’t feel bad if you have to give it up.

On this day 5 years ago (3 November 2019), Green Day attended the EMAs in Seville, Spain. They won the Best Rock award. More photos: 7 years ago (3 November 2017), Green Day played the Arena Anhembi in São Paulo, Brazil on the Revolution Radio Tour. More photos: 15 years ago (3 November 2009), Green Day played the Olympiahalle in Munich, Germany on the 21st Century Breakdown Tour. More photos: 19 years ago (3 November 2005), Green Day played Holiday at the EMAs in Lisboa, Portugal. They won the Best Album award for American Idiot. More photos: 24 years ago (3 November 2000), Green Day played The Warehouse in Toronto, Canada on the Warning Tour. 26 years ago (3 November 1998), Green Day played the Teatro Monumental in Santiago, Chile. 27 years ago (3 November 1997), Green Day played the Jannus Landing in St. Petersburg, FL on the Nimrod Tour. 29 years ago (3 November 1995), Green Day played the Centrum in Worcester, MA on the Insomniac Tour. "You'd have to be numb to the idea of worldly pleasure to not have enjoyed a good chunk of Green Day's sold-out concert at Worcester Centrum last night. Hey, it was alienation, aggression and rejection all wrapped up in spikey, but listener-friendly, punk-pop melodies and played at rat-a-tat rhythms. All to make you pogo, sneer and smile. But you'd also have to be brain-dead vis-a-vis the history of punk rock to not see and hear antecendents everywhere, and figure Green Day to be very canny, successful, manipulators and emulators. Let's see: Billie Joe Armstrong plays guitar like the Clash's Joe Strummer and sings in a faux Brit accent a la Strummer and Mick Jones; he affects a hunchback stance like the Sex Pistols' Johnny Rotten; he writes songs like Buzzcocks' Pete Shelley; and, at the end, for When I Come Around, he appeared buck-naked (save shoes, socks and strategically placed guitar) like the Damned's Capt." — Boston Globe 30 years ago (3 November 1994), Green Day played a second night at the Hollywood Palladium on the Dookie Tour. That's very kind of you all 💚 I'm glad you've been enjoying it. I may well decide I can't bear to abandon it after I've put all this effort in But I'll see how I feel in a few days.

Totally! This is a great project @solongfromthestars and I love reading your posts, and the fact that it also opens the floor for other people to tell their stories from a show they experienced. But indeed we know it's a huge amount of work and time you put into this, so don't feel pressured into finishing it.

I'm just tired of all the festivals and huge shows with three or four support bands (or worse for festivals).

I think FOAM is as it is on purpose. Everything from the songs, to the artwork, to how they promoted the album (the few interviews I have seen at least) sounds to me like they wanted that album to be different from their usual, and to be fun: to be short, fast paced, and most of all not to be taken too seriously. That's why for me it makes perfect sense that they saved such a political song as TADIKM for Saviors. They probably also saved songs that they felt had a lot more of potential for the next album.

You are such a buzzkill, always. Do you even like Green Day? Why not find something better to do with your time?

Jumpy salty is a national treasure! banner is the one I listen to more than GD. Shoot the moon and Elston ave are 10/10 no skips, compulsive and all the b-sides rival anyone’s discography. Unt seems to be the one that finally made them big stars! The rightly pushed for more promo and exposure this go round! This one’s for Kircsh!

I'm still in denial about Green Day only playing one date, and have that be a festival, in the UK. 2 solo shows in Vienna and zero in the UK? It feels like Green Day touring the US and not doing a stop in California. I have no info, no sources, no clues, and no leads, it's just my gut feeling. So much theorizing and none of us saw the Denmark show coming... maybe they'll surprise us again. Maybe I'm wrong and it will only be Download.

The complaint is partly about these stadium shows with multiple bands though. No one wants them and it's been 7 years since the last normal show in the UK (Sheffield Arena in 2017). There's a cost of living crisis here at the moment so not everyone can afford to fly out to the EU shows. It's inevitable that a lot of British fans will be disappointed if they play an exclusive festival. Disclaimer: Obviously I'm not personally affected because I've already seen them on this tour, but I'm sad for the British fans who haven't and won't if Download is confirmed.

For me personally the stadiums with multiple bands are equally bad as far as I'm concerned (and I was too sick to attend Hella Mega in any case). I'm an older fan and a festival is out of the question for me even if I was interested in the other bands which I'm not.

Agreed. And thanks @solongfromthestars for the link to the GDA site, it looks amazing. Hope they sort the technical issues for you soon. You are a star ✨

No, this album is fun. I'm by no means exclusively a fan of punk music. It's okay that some people enjoy this album and others don't. Music is subjective and I think this album is quite good. It's short, it's fun, it makes me happy. Not everything needs to reinvent the wheel. Sometimes a good song is just that, a good song.

Yeah, and apart from that the lyrics doesn't make sense (which lots of people somehow seem to have missed) also Billie have adressed his on TV, when asked about songs originally written with the story in mind that didn't make it unto the album:

Yeah, but the lyrics are actually 'but you'll be caught stealing"

I would like to know who wrote "Mumbles" because I believe the writer and I are Eskimo brothers.

Haha. I was kidding, but it would be kind of wild if Pinhead Gunpowder or Foxboro Hot Tubs became bigger than Green Day. Not likely in today's music sphere, but weird to think about.

Not sure if this was already mentioned (jumping back into the thread after a few weeks away) but was the intro to heart like a hand grenade redone? I don’t remember the bit where Mike talks about the old songs that pre-dated American idiot

He’s such a fanboy! ❤️

I've been doing monthly roundups of this stuff on GDA: https://www.greendayauthority.com/news/6215/ But I haven't been able to finish the last two because of a technical issue 😅 I can only post news so there's nothing I can do about that unfortunately. If/when it's fixed I'll finish them. This thread will obviously be here and in chronological order as long as GDC is. The GDA Tumblr can also be searched by date or place. To look for something specific, you can start with the URL https://greendayauthority.tumblr.com/tagged/ and add the place or date you're looking for to the end, eg. https://greendayauthority.tumblr.com/tagged/london or https://greendayauthority.tumblr.com/tagged/2 november. All the images that appear in the GDA Instagram story are also tagged on Tumblr with On This Day. If anyone is looking for anything specific and can't find it, you're also welcome to message me. To be honest though I don't know if I'll finish the project. I want to because it’s helping the GDA Instagram grow and I hope it’s helping GDC (which is why I’m doing it), but it’s taking up nearly all my free time. As supportive as my girlfriend is of everything I do, she’s very sick of hearing “I’m doing On This Day” 😂 Anyway, I'll do the next few days at least. Maybe I will finish it. I might decide I can't bear to give up on it at this point. The stuff will eventually be uploaded to Tumblr regardless. Anyway, 7 years ago yesterday (1 November 2017), Green Day played in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on the Revolution Radio Tour. More photos: 13 years ago (1 November 2011), Green Day played the Mezzanine in San Francisco, CA. They were supported by Kut U Up and if you think you know that name, it's because Billie branded Chris Cote on the Pop Disaster Tour. More importantly, they PLAYED 8TH AVENUE SERENADE. More photos: Shoutout to that photographer because all their photos from that show are brilliant. None of their pages are up anymore though. 15 years ago (1 November 2009), Green Day played Wembley Arena in London, England on the 21st Century Breakdown Tour. More photos: After the Wembley show, the Foxboro Hot Tubs played the Garage in Islington... and Stop, Drop & Roll was played no less than six times. "Green Day played a super-intimate impromptu show in their alternative guise as Foxboro Hot Tubs in the early hours of this morning in London (November 1). The band put in a chaotic performance at the Relentless Garage in Islington, hitting the stage shortly before 1am, playing to an audience of fanclub members, competition winners and invited guests. The venue had seen a show by poodle rockers Europe earlier in the evening, before shutting down and re-opening its doors at midnight. Arriving onstage dressed in a '60s-style suit, braces and trenchcoat, a clearly inebriated Billie Joe Armstrong introduced himself as his alter-ego The Reverend Strychnine Twist and proceeded to spend most of the show crowdsurfing, spraying and spitting beer into the crowd and addressing the front rows as 'baby girl.' Mike Dirnt arrived onstage smoking a cigarette while Tre Cool, also spraying beer into the front rows, was wearing a leopard print jacket. They were augmented by fellow Hot Tubs Jason White and Kevin Preston on guitar and Jason Freese on saxophone. The garage rock party band then played all the songs from last year's album 'Stop, Drop And Roll'. Green Day fans were in for a treat with a rare of airing of the main band's track Blood, Sex And Booze from their Warning album as well as Supermodel Robots, a track by the band's other alter-egos, The Network. As the night wore on, the band continued to goof around with Dirnt telling the audience: 'The only reason you’re here is you didn’t go to church yesterday.' Armstrong then asked the audience if they supported nearby football team Arsenal, before saying 'my favourite football team is Carling,' and spraying more of the beer into the crowd. With their entire catalogue exhausted after little more than half-an-hour, the band were not letting that put them off. Returning for the encore, the singer announced 'before anything else, we’re going to play the first song over again' - by the end of the show they would have played Stop Drop And Roll a total of six times, each time announcing that they could play it better than before. 27th Ave. Shuffle also got a second airing, and the band filled the rest of the time - close to two hours by the end - with a selection of covers including the Ramones' Blitzkrieg Bop, Chuck Berry's Johnny B. Goode and 'My Generation' and 'A Quick One, While He’s Away' by The Who, repeating the 'you are forgiven' line over and over again, before playing Stop, Drop And Roll one final time." — NME (they called him The Reverend Strychnine "Twist," not me) @Hermione More photos: 26 years ago (1 November 1998), Green Day played a second night at the Parque Sarmiento in Buenos Aires, Argentina on the Nimrod Tour. 29 years ago (1 November 1995), Green Day played the Aitken University Centre in Fredericton, Canada on the Insomniac Tour (and pissed on the crowd). "I went to see Green Day back in 1995, in Fredericton, NB, Canada. One of our local school bus drivers drove us all up there for the price of gas (we lived about two hours away), and he brought a couple dozen of us up there. It was one of the better shows I've ever been to, highly energetic, entertaining, and everyone had fun. Heh, I remember I had dyed my hair red with Kool Aid. By the time we went home, my ears were ringing, my mascara had run down my face, my dye had run down onto my white T-shirt (but hey, I had my trusty gray plaid shirt on to cover it up, which was the style at the time, I felt like I'd been beat up, and Billie Joe had actually spit in my eye while singing Going to Pasalacqua. I lost my Doc Martin shoe (hee!) but ended up getting it back in the mosh pit of all places. We had snuck our cigarettes in, and lit up before the show started, and one of the security guys saw us and said, 'HEY! You kids! No smoking in here!' And three of us looked at him in horror, then simultaneously squatted down into the crowd. We were never caught, but we finished our cigarettes quickly. Toward the end of the show, Billie dropped his pants, shirt and underwear. He was up there wearing nothing but his socks and his guitar. Sadly, because it was an all ages show, they were banned from playing there for a couple of years. Oops. However, my best friend, Adam, who is gay and had the hugest crush on Billie, came away the happiest that night. The show rocked. They sounded tight, they had fun, we had fun. I'll never forget it." — fan 30 years ago (1 November 1994), Green Day played the Arizona State Fair in Phoenix on the Dookie Tour. “This was my first concert. 14 years old. It changed my life forever. The energy was palpable. I'd never felt anything like it before. Before the concert started, the floor of the stadium was empty and all the seats around the Coliseum were full with every single punk and delinquent that lived in AZ at the time. I didn't even know that many existed in the state. Right before the band took the stage, the lights shut off and the stadium went dark. When the lights came back on, all the seats were empty. Practically every single person ran from their seats, down to the floor. And as the first song started, a sea of mosh pits erupted across the whole stadium floor and didn't end till the show was over.“ — Neill Holley “I was there too... I was a new paramedic working in medical up on the 2nd concourse. Had maybe 20-25 people with broken arms and wrists, a couple with broken jaws, some missing teeth, and a few asthma attacks. Once I stepped out of the 1st aid station and went to the rail to look over, it was chaos! I remember even now there were 5 mosh pits, and t-shirts were on fire and flying left and right like artillery shells in the dark. I'll never forget it. That was almost exactly 30 years ago and tomorrow I go to the Saviors tour in Arizona! This time as a fan.” — aerojef 33 years ago (1 November 1991), Green Day played 1000FRYD in Aalborg, Denmark. ------------------------------------------ On this day last year (2 November 2023), the Look Ma, No Brains music video was released. 5 years ago (2 November 2019), Green Day played the MTV World Stage in Seville, Spain. My recap is still up on GDA. https://www.greendayauthority.com/news/5942/ More photos: 20 years ago (2 November 2004), Green Day played the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Canada on the American Idiot Tour. 24 years ago (2 November 2000), Green Day were interviewed and played 15 songs on Much Music Intimate and Interactive in Toronto, Canada. More photos: 27 years ago (2 November 1997), Green Day played the Buzz Bake Sale in West Palm Beach, FL on the Nimrod Tour. 30 years ago (2 November 1994), Green Day played the Hollywood Palladium on the Dookie Tour. They were supported by Pansy Division. "The audience tension during our set was more palpable. In the middle of one song, I got hit in the chest with a full Big Gulp-size cup of ice water. Pelted with coins, at one point I turned to David Ward midsong to see a trickle of blood dripping down from the middle of his forehead. He'd been hit with a quarter square on, but didn't know he was bleeding. Coins made big dents on my guitar. But we were defiant, Chris even more in-your-face than before, and it was exhilarating. After watching Green Day's set from the side of the stage, I walked out to where the T-shirts were being sold, and as the crowd dwindled, I saw a father buying his fifteen- or sixteen-year-old son a Pansy Division T-shirt. It was satisfying, after all that grief from the crowd, to see we'd gotten through to that one in a hundred." — Jon Ginoli of Pansy Division "After a summer playing to giant Lollapalooza and Woodstock audiences, Berkeley punk upstarts Green Day made a triumphant local return at the comparatively small Palladium, perhaps a bit road-weary but just as rowdy as ever. Short and simple, Green Day’s nearly hour long set (average by punk standards) packed an almost non-stop wallop as the band charged through such hits as psycho-rave Basket Case, mope-ish Longview and show closer She, a melodic ditty that’s as close to a love song as Green Day gets. Singer/guitarist Billie Joe, a 22-year-old flurry of power-chord Stratocaster moves and vocal howls, is the prototypical punk frontman, racing about the stage, arms beating the air, cheering on the moshing throng in front of the stage. Bassist Mike Dirnt (yet another Sid Vicious-styled punk bass player) and spastic drummer Tre Cool make for a solid if loose rhythm section. Aside from a lunk-head country-punk number and a sloppy Operation Ivy cover, the show was prime-form Green Day. Lots of attitude, very little posing and a great deal of fun." — Variety More photos: 33 years ago (2 November 1991), Green Day played JUZ Dampfmühle in Verden, Germany. More photos:

I waited 4 hours in the pouring rain to see Busted at Haydock Park this year. You've now put the thought/hope/delusion in my mind that I'll be doing the same for Green Day at somepoint 😅

my best guess on when each song was written TADIKM: FOAMF era Look Ma No Brains!: FOAMF era Bobby Sox: 1972 era One Eyed Bastard: MM2020 PT2 era Dilemma: 1972 era 1981: 1972 era Goodnight Adeline: FOAMF era??? Coma City: 1972 era Corvette Summer: MM2020 PT2 era??? (considering how Trans Am and this song both relate to cars but this may be a stretch) Suzie Chapstick: sometime after Rob Cavallo joined the project Strange Days are Here to Stay: 1972 era Living in the 20's: FOAMF era Father to a Son: ??? (depends on what son this song was written for) Saviors: sometime after Rob Cavallo joined the project Fancy Sauce: 1972 era Fever: FOAMF era

I mentioned this days ago lol it also has similarities to the unforgiven he did with the go gos. also I don't think anyone has mentioned that one of Mike's parts in homecoming sounds like his part in american eulogy

Watching Heart Like A hand Grenade for the first time... its interesting 😅 John Roecker certainly made some directorial *choices*

Finally watched the documentary! I was talking to my dad throughout good chunks of it so I’ll definitely have to watch it again, but I enjoyed it a lot, specially the bits where they were just doing silly things on tour. Also read the booklet, so now I can say I’ve fully digested this whole thing.

Dude, what if Pinhead Gunpowder become super famous? I wonder if they can handle it, lol. My cd or vinyl or whatever finally shows that it shipped.

My friend shared this video with me about Trè's drumming style, and I really enjoyed watching it (even as a non-musician). I'm not sure if it's been shared here before or not, but here it is:

i have the same conclusion , Unt sounds more as gd bside album, but its a very good record and im verry happy that they are back with new music. For me Jump Salty still remains No.1 the impact Sarah Kirch had on this record is unbeatable!

I'm not really into this huge desire to talk about/get C&V but I will add what Rob Cavallo writes in the AI 20 booklet. "So, I got together with the band and they tole me they had written an entire album's worth of material. Wow! Awesome! But there was a problem. The guys were sounding, for whatever reason, just a little bit rusty. The music was good but was it really their best? I took it to my boss (the prescient Tom Whaley . He agreed with me. He said "let's meet with the band". A few days later in the Warner Bros executive conference room, Tom says to me and the guys " we appreciate what you guys have gone through and appreciate this new album. And while we are prepared to release it, we are not prepared to give it the big push (meaning marketing $) because we don't believe this is the best work you are capable of". BOOM! He was so brutally direct! I think I was sweating profusely. Billie looked directly at me and asked "is that what you think too?" "Yes I said, nodding my affirmation. Billie said "ok, let me think about this and process it, and we'll get back to you." Two days later, we were all back in the same conference room. Billie starts "So I';ve been thinking about what you guys said last time....and I think you're right. We want to make out best record and we want you guys to like it and to give it the big push. And we are willing to do what it takes to make that happen. The question is: Tom, are you willing to do it also?" Tom said "sure, what do you need?" The rest is about Rob going to work with them Monday to Friday in Berkeley.

INSOMNIAC IS THE MOST FORGOTTEN/UNDERRATED ERA…followed by 21st Century Breakdown…21st win a Grammy was nominated for a bunch had hits your was huge and world wide…so Insomniac and 21st Century Breakdown are my two favorites but those eras IMO are amazing!

So according to a new interview in Music Connection, those seven extra songs from FOAM ended up on Saviors https://www.musicconnection.com/green-day-american-saviors/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1VPiOda1skdxhyjJzMYycP9-1OCGE0d1aFOIDpHf_I4Sf6mY3EnR8cMoE_aem_TfmCM_s5iKC_7GPSWFZJcg Quote: “But it mustn’t be forgotten that Green Day is promoting the Saviors album, a typically brilliant slab of work that is snotty, zany, and important in equal measure. Armstrong has said that there are seven songs on this record that didn’t make it onto the last one, the Butch Walker-produced Father of All Motherfuckers, making it all the more startling that this album is so good, that it flows so beautifully.” I remember they said TADIKM was from those sessions and they added it later. What do we think were the other six? And how on earth could those FOAM songs be so underwritten and mid and these Saviors songs are great? They don’t sound like they came from the same time period at all, unless he completely rewrote them later and made them all better

Talking about C&V I found this in a box that hadn't been unpacked for 13 years the other day