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https://www.billboard.com/charts/billboard-200/ Due to 20th anniversary release, according to greenday.fm, original album American Idiot is listed as re-entry to Billboard top 200 albums at number 39. Nice one https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/albums-chart/ And re-entry to UK top 100 albums at 32

7 years ago yesterday (5 November 2017), Green Day played in Curitiba, Brazil on the Revolution Radio Tour. More photos: 9 years ago (5 November 2015), Green Day played at the afterparty for the first screening of Ordinary World at the 41 Ocean Club in Santa Monica, CA. A few fans won entry through the Idiot Club. More photos: 15 years ago (5 November 2009), Green Day played Know Your Enemy and Minority at the EMAs. They won the Best Rock award. They were also nominated for Best Group (Tokio Hotel won) and Best Live Act (U2 won). More photos: 19 years ago (5 November 2005), Green Day played Wake Me Up When September Ends on the German TV show "Wetten, dass?" 24 years ago (5 November 2000), Green Day played the Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco, CA on the Warning Tour. "It was supposed to be a 'million band march.' It didn't quite make it to a million bands… a lot of my friends were getting thrown out of Downtown Rehearsal Studios, a place that bands had been practicing for years, because the new owners wanted to raise all the rents. That sort of hit home with me because it was about music and art, and it wasn't just that studio; every day you could read in the paper how it was getting worse and worse for musicians in San Francisco. Rents were skyrocketing, even to the point where clubs were having a hard time staying open. After a while it starts to piss you off, and I thought my band could at least help bring attention to the issue. It's funny, because there a guy who buys and sells property who hangs out at my mom's work, and he was telling her, 'Oh, your son doesn't understand.' Well, that’s obviously coming from someone who doesn't see the other side, that's never even been on the other side, that doesn’t know what it's like to be thrown out of where you live." — Billie Joe More photos: 26 years ago (5 November 1998), Green Day played the Ginásio Mineirinho in Belo Horizonte, Brazil on the Nimrod Tour. 27 years ago (5 November 1997), Green Day played the Embassy Music Hall in Orlando, FL on the Nimrod Tour. 29 years ago (5 November 1995), Green Day played the State Farm Show Arena in Harrisburg, PA on the Insomniac Tour. 33 years ago (5 November 1993), Green Day played in Mannheim, Germany. ---------------------------------- On this day 8 years ago (6 November 2016), Green Day played Bang Bang and American Idiot at the EMAs in Rotterdam. They were nominated for Best Rock and Best Live Act, but won Global Icon. More photos: 15 years ago (6 November 2009), Green Day played the Stadthalle in Vienna, Austria on the 21st Century Breakdown Tour. More photos: 19 years ago (6 November 2005), Green Day played on Top of the Pops at the BBC Television Centre in London, England. More photos: Green Day's page on the Top of the Pops website at the time: 20 years ago (6 November 2004), Green Day played the Cobo Arena in Detroit, MI on the American Idiot Tour. More photos: This photoshoot was also done for NME that day. 26 years ago, Green Day played Metropolitan in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on the Nimrod Tour. 29 years ago (6 November 1995), Green Day played the Baltimore Arena in Baltimore, MD on the Insomniac Tour. 31 years ago (6 November 1993), Green Day played the CMJ Music Festival in NYC. More photos: For now I'm carrying on. I decided to stop, then predictably felt sad about it after putting in all this work. I'll say if I do eventually decide that a post is going to be the last one.

Something tells me this is gonna get a resurgence of popularity on Spotify this week!

Having just watched the new documentary and HLAHG, I looked around a bit on YouTube and found this. I think it’s interesting, a lot of material not included in those films.

To be honest, I quite like that! Those physical tickets are nice souvenirs afterwards…

Billboard chart update- Alternative Airplay: 8 (up from 11 ) Rock & Alternative Airplay: 7 (up from 8) Mainstream Rock Airplay: 11 (up from 13) Canada Rock- this chart seems to have disappeared. Comes up as a page 404 and isn't showing as an option under GD as an artist either.

And it's easier when it's doors and they check tickets. At the stadium shows this summer some had issues with accessing their tickets. I prefer tickets that I can either print myself or get sent by mail.

Very tempting! Even without factoring Green Day in, a trip to South Africa should be pretty amazing! And I don't expect to get many excuses to go there. Making adult and responsible decisions is tough!

Oooh how tempting! I can understand that it’s really difficult to decide that reasonably. As for me, my mood right now is „let’s enjoy everything as long as we still can…“

I've finally cracked into this set. I haven't listened to everything, but most of the demos are interesting to hear, but don't do much for me. Aside from a few songs most of them sound like the final version. What I do love is the documentary. I didn't expect it to be almost 2 hours! It was fantastic! It's such a nice trip down memory lane. A great mix of archival footage, live stuff, and new interviews with the boys. I really enjoyed it. This is what I wanted from HLAHG. Speaking of which, I wish that movie wasn't included with the box set. It received its own release, so it feels a bit redundant. I'd rather have a full live show or a blu-ray full of AI era performances.

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!

Wow, 39! I didn’t expect THAT high but I guess album sales right now are pretty sparse.

People can sell their tickets through ticketmaster. When there's tickets available you chose which ones you want to buy, you pay through ticketmaster same as with other tickets and then the ticket will be transfered to your ticketmaster profile. I have both sold and bought resale tickets before. It's very easy. 😊

Pretty much Weird how this short documentary has more behind the scenes than the heart like a hand grenade docu

I'm guessing that out of all of the demos AI Alt, Novacaine, Shes a Rebel, Clusterbomb, Just Another Year and Everyones Breaking Down all originate from C&V while the rest (including Lowlife) are all from the AI sessions

Something that just occurred to me that might support the fact that the demos came from cigarettes and valentines sessions: in HLAHG when Billie starts playing the into to homecoming to rob in the studio he looks up like he’s reaching to remember it - but clearly there was a demo of it somewhere that we now have from the box set that confirms it existed before the formal AI sessions. So would this be a potential discontinuity in the time line of “the songs were stolen” to we made a masterpiece? Or am I crazy and reaching - something I noticed when watching the DVDS now

The vinyl box set has some additional pictures, like the family with the bear trap from the American Idiot single and a few more pictures of the guys themselves.

Ugh, I'd do disgusting, terrible things to have a Rock Band guitar again. Would give me an excuse to dust off the PS3. Still can't believe both my favorite bands got their own Rock Band games. Shame we never got the Lookout era material for DLC like they were planning at one point.

That's true, I think he also just can't stop himself shouting out the Bay Area and Minnesota haha. No harm done to the message. The water bottle thing is classic Billie

At the end of the documentary, Mike says that looked like a 3 million dollar what video?

timestamped video For a long time this was the only demo material we had heard from AI whatosever so it was really satisfying to hear it on this version. I was looking out for it.

Billie's posts https://www.instagram.com/reel/DB-I4EAt7wa/?igsh=MXhoeTZqb3d5bjBrcw== https://www.instagram.com/reel/DB-KeFUNtqb/?igsh=MThobXZ5NmQ5OXpqYQ== https://www.instagram.com/reel/DB-K0NSNRuy/?igsh=bHdkY3J4ODM5NGNr Some screenshots

Bataclan was, by far, the best gig I've ever been too. I'd told work colleagues I was going to try for a ticket and one kindly offered to cover my shift if I got one. Sent her a message that morning saying I'd tried and failed, but thanks for the offer. An hour later, decide to try my luck again and, low and behold, I actually get one! Cue pandemonium trying to get her to take my shift again, booking flights and accommodation and all the gubbins that come with international travel. My flight home was standby (I work in the travel industry, so cheaper standby flights are a benefit). However the flight was oversold, so I was sat in CDG for 6 hours waiting for a flight home, wondering if I'm end up like Tom Hanks in The Terminal and living in Terminal 2's departure lounge. Fortunately I got on in the end, and never have I been so relieved to sit in a middle seat. Still, the stress of fighting with a ticket site in a language I don't read well, booking flights, hotels, shift swaps and the added stress of getting home was worth it to see my favourite band in such an intimate and iconic setting and I'd do it all again in a heartbeat. Hella Tiny Tour 2025, anyone?

I did a bit of digging in the internet archives. Green Day was announced as a headliner for the Hurricane and Southside Festivals 2017 (June 23-25, 2017) on September 6, 2016. However, their only standalone headlining show in Germany that summer (Munich, June 7, 2017) wasn’t announced until March 1, 2017—just about three months prior. Notably, in January 2017, Green Day was already on their own arena tour through Europe, which might have influenced these announcements. This year, the headliners for the Hurricane and Southside Festivals 2025 were announced on September 12, 2024.

I think your suggestion that Billie “disappeared” the tapes could well be spot on. It would be really tough for an artist to hear that a whole album they wrote was below par and well done to the whole band for having the guts to start again, for it turn out to be AI is nothing short of amazing. When Billie says in the doc that the tapes were stolen, he does look, fairly sheepish 😂

Then in the documentary they go back to the story about it being stolen. Dammit guys, we’re not that dumb 😂

Someone in my partner's work quit, which means he now has to fill in for them on a work trip to South Africa. To Cape Town. The same week Green Day is playing there. Good god, please give me the self control I need to be financially responsible and not tag along for this trip. Honestly since we found out about a year ago that he might be go on this trip to South Africa I wanted to tag along. And if he had been initially confirmed to make the trip I would have probably saved and planned for that, and then it would have been a happy coincidence that Green Day were there But like this it is so "last minute" that it just seems very unfeasible.

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!