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To echo what others have said, I love these posts but don't feel bad if you want to stop! Thanks for tagging me for Foxies . I've talked about it a million times but it was just the best thing ever. After following the US tour on GDC the previous year it was like a dream for it to actually happen here and only a week after seeing GD the first time. So glad my sister and I went for it and got on a train to London having no idea if we'd get tickets, we almost didn't even go but in the end everyone who turned up got in and the place wasn't even full (thanks to not being called Green Day and no social media from the band in those days). When we got our wristbands and then a bunch of people we knew from here and FB who we'd met the previous week arrived on a minibus and got theirs too it was the best feeling. Just a super fun, crazy show, absolutely surreal being so up close and intimate with the band, I noticed watching a video the other day that the first time Billie crowdsurfed was less than a minute into the show lmao. We were one back from the barrier first half and on the barrier the second half (perk of not going to the GD show beforehand), in front of Kevin who was awesome. The crowd interaction was constant and so was the beer Billie was drinking, handing out to pass around, and pouring over himself and the crowd, I was drenched from head to toe in beer. My sister got a kiss from Billie, he poured a beer in my mouth/over me, he leaned into crowd to sing so I was standing between his thighs , he crowdsurfed over us multiple times and I got to ruffle his hair lol, he never stopped interacting with the crowd and his Rev persona was a lot of fun, and the way the whole band all joked around. Blown away by the music and the fact they played so long. All the previous shows had been pretty short and especially since they were playing after a full GD show we were expecting it to maybe be under an hour. But then they played Stop Drop and Roll over and over which was greatest and most hilarious thing ever to me, and started doing covers, and it just went on and on, couldn't believe it. When they went off stage the way the crowd brought them back for the encore was by chanting "hey-oh" lol. During A Quick One I decided I would make sure to remember as much of this show as I could and because I think of it and watch videos of it and talk about it with my sister often I've achieved that, I don't think I've stopped feeling excited about it in the last 15 years. Feel very grateful that they kept their "I've got you on my mind, England" promise from the Rev's myspace message after the US tour and that I got to see it along with so many cool people! I think Tony (greendaytone) ended up getting the Rev's rosary beads This is the best picture I've seen from the show , I'm out of shot but my sister's hair is bottom right And that's my sister's hand with the ring and mine next to it lol Only bad thing is they filmed the entire thing with three cameras but never put out a second of footage of it

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.

I'm just sitting here day dreaming a day and had a thought. GD should play Milton Keynes bowl again! I mean, it will be twenty years since they played it, so it's about time and a nice anniversary. Bullet in a Bible 2.0! How epic would that be?!😍 I've got more chance of winning the lottery, but still a nice random thought.lol!

It's here!!!! See you all in a couple of hours in the other thread!

"Look! Wearing a big hat"

The title track has been stuck in my head like an ear worm for weeks.... dadadadadadadada dadadadada.... And I've always loved On The Ave

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

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!

So, after being absolutely obsessed with Green Day since January 2nd 2005 (yes I remember the exact date), the obsession faded away gradually, but steadily and completely (or so I thought at the time) some time around 2013. It was not too long after the Trilogy came out. For a decade I walked around having no idea what Green Day was up to. I heard they were releasing a new album, Revolution Radio, but paid zero attention to it. Life was too hectic at the time, my music taste had branched out a bit, and the name, Revolution Radio, I think reminded me too much of 99 Revolutions, which is one of my least favorite Green Day songs. Father of all... didn't even register on my radar. Then October 30th 2023 comes, I checked Instagram mindlessly scrolling while dngrinki my coffee after some morning meeting, and a Green Day post catches my eye because it has the words Bataclan and Paris in it. All this time I had kept Green Day on my Instagram, but I wasn't paying attention, I would very often skip their stories when they were promoting stuff (I know, I know), so I wasn't sure what this was. A memory from a show they played at Bataclan? No! It's a show in Bataclan for that weekend. I got the feeling that I owed it to my teenage/early twenties self to at least try to go. Back when I was obsessed with Green Day I was living in Venezuela, and I remembered often seeing Green Day (or one of their side projects) playing these "surprise" shows in small venues, and a lot of my online friends in the US or the UK going, and as happy as I felt for them, I also felt so left out. I would have given an arm and a leg back then for Green Day to play a small surprise show in my city. And now here I was, living in Paris, and Green Day was going to play here, in Paris, in a venue with a capacity of 1500 people no more than 40min away from my place! So yes, I felt I owed it to myself to at least try to get a ticket. On the other hand I genuinely had an ethical conundrum: because this had been my dream back then, I knew how much this could mean to people who were fans now, today. If I got a ticket, would I be occupying a place I no longer deserved, and someone else who deserved it more would be left out? I know it might sound silly, but I really struggled with this. In the end I decided to leave it to fate: I would try to buy the tickets, and I knew it wasn't going to be easy, so if I got them that'd be it, I'd go. Tickets went on sale next morning, October 31st, and I was the billionth person on the queue, by the time it was my turn it appeared to be sold it. "Oh well, I saved some good money at least!" Went into a zoom meeting for work, and when it was over some 30min later, I switched tabs and tried again, kind of just out of habit. And suddenly I have two tickets for the show in Bataclan! So I tell my partner we're going to see Green Day live this Saturday, and he's a bit confused by this (he has stayed confused by the effect this band has on me ever since ). So to hype myself up I decide to listen to their whole discography again and to catch up and listen to what they had released since the Trilogy. (Revolution Radio was love at first sight, Father of all.. has grown on me). So by Saturday I am very excited, but still sane We arrive to the venue about 20 minutes before doors and the line was huge! By the time we got in the area in front of the stage was very full, so I stayed back on a slightly higher level in which I was right at the front, so I had a pretty good view. I hadn't been to a Green Day show since 2010, I hadn't seen what their shows were like lately, so I had no idea what expect in terms of anything: setlist, duration, did they still sound amazing live? did they still have so much energy? And then they came on stage, and the moment they played the first chords of American Idiot (the opening song for that show) insanity came rushing back. It was instant. I was suddenly 15 again, living out a dream I didn't know I still had. They sounded as good as I remembered, they were still as full of energy, and full of surprises. They played Look Ma No Brains twice in a row, they also played TADIKM twice (but not in a row), Geek Stink Breath and Stuart and the Ave. They debuted 1981, the played Revolution Radio and Father of all, which were a debut for me at least, Letterbomb, which I didn't know had become less rare in their live shows, then they brought someone on stage to play Good Riddance, something I had never seen them do before. I just couldn't stop smiling and singing along and jumping up and down the whole time (and I had a bad foot and a bad knee at the time, but they also reverted back to their teenage version, because they didn't bother me once during the show). And I remembered all the lyrics too! The only song I couldn't sing along to were 1981 and Father of all. I loved and enjoyed every second of it.

On this day last year (4 November 2023), Green Day played the Bataclan in Paris, France. More photos: 20 years ago (4 November 2004), Green Day were on Musique Plus in Montreal, Canada. More photos: Later that day, Green Day played the Centre Bell in Montreal, Canada. 27 years ago (4 November 1997), Green Day played the Theatre Club in Fort Lauderdale, FL on the Nimrod Tour. "The place was packed! Billie Joe even said, 'This place is way overcrowded, but I won't say anything.' Green Day started off with Nice Guys Finish Last, but only played about 4 songs from Nimrod. I was a little surprised to hear Green Day go back so far and play Knowledge and Paper Lanterns, but I was thrilled because I love those songs. Throughout the show, Billie Joe and Mike sprayed water from at the crowd in the front. In the middle of the show, one kid was on someone's shoulders, shining a flashlight in Billie's eyes, so Billie got a flashlight and said, 'How the fuck do you like it? No one wants to look at you, get the fuck down. My flashlight is bigger than yours.' Billie posed like Marilyn Manson and chanted, 'The beautiful people, the beautiful people,' when starting Longview. Billie was very funny. Tre was quite calm until the end when he trashed his drum set. He jumped on it, causing it to collapse and the picked pieces of it up, then smashed it back down. Mike didn't say much, except a few things that I couldn't understand. Finally, after their encore, Mike and Billie broke out the champagne and squirted it on fans in the front. Green Day sounded awesome, and put on a GREAT show. They were truly spectacular and no one was disappointed!" 29 years ago (4 November 1995), Green Day played the Community War Memorial in Rochester, NY on the Insomniac Tour. 30 years ago (4 November 1994), Green Day played the Olympic Velodrome in Carson, CA on the Dookie Tour. "This was a challenging shoot. The place was huge, the bleachers were a mile away so I had to get somewhat close to make it worthwhile. There were areas on the grass that had little humps of hills and I staked one out so I could shoot over the crowd, here is the results. WHAT'S UP YOU STUPID MOTHERFUCKERS!" — fromthenosebleeds More stills from that video: 33 years ago (4 November 1991), Green Day played Roter Sand in Bremerhaven, Germany. 35 years ago (4 November 1989), Green Day played in El Sobrante, CA. I had no idea they'd gone to South America so early in their career, or if I did know I'd forgotten. They totally could have played Venezuela. Thanks for sharing your story! I'm so glad you got to have this experience It sounds absolutely wild!

You can definitely tell they were both written during the same time period

They played huge stadium shows in the UK in the summer, so not really surprised they're not doing more next year outside of the festival circuit. If they're in the country though you know there'll be a surprise gig in London somewhere.

Just got a physical ticket in the post for the Vienna show. I’m surprised because 1) I’m 99% sure I selected eticket and 2) I legitimately didn’t know physical tickets were still knocking about - every show I’ve been too in the last 5 years or so has been eticket

I could not agree more. Jump salty has a very unique sound and style, banner, and goodbye is more close to green day style but with more roughness which i love. And shoot the moon is full of classics

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I’ll have to watch the documentary again, but I believe I can hear hints of pitch correction on Billie’s vocals during the Warfield show. Don’t get me wrong, that footage is amazing and I’m psyched they put out footage from that awesome show, but why do they feel the need to slap pitch correction on so many live shows they put out. I get using it in the studio, but live shows are different. I appreciate imperfections because it’s real. I wonder if this is the band’s choice or the label’s choice. I’d imagine it’s the band’s.

I still think both Lights Out and Too Much, Too Soon are straight up taken right from Cigarettes & Valentines. Same sessions at the very least as the production sounds the same and Billie’s voice sounds the same.

He’s such a fanboy! ❤️

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.

I love this post of Billie fangirling a bit "They played the album in its entirety and then a bunch of hits!" Yes Billie, that's how we feel too

From Tre's wife

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

I'm obsessed with Song For Myself, great cover.

Hope this reply is in time! Thankfully the other picture helped narrow it down. I think he's walking along the Regent's Canal tow path at the bottom of Treaty Street in Angel, Islington. https://maps.app.goo.gl/fNNxwFH5ai8ceTWv6 Surprised I haven't bumped into the dude given how much time he seems to spend here nowadays.