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Today I'm 15 years away since the very first time I saw Green Day. Time flies

Thought this might be appreciated in here too - a new photo from Alice Baxley (not on her Instagram - might be from her website - first saw it on some of the other fansites)

Another album another tour. So many since the first in '91, and all so special with unforgettable memories. And Saviors is no different. So many special moments. This was the first, when it all begins, the journey goes on. Québec July '23, first song from album performed live, 1981. This view of the band like so many times, not near the stage, but sharing the elation surrounded by adoring fans. There's no better place to be. Even when things go wrong. That's live music for you. Prior to album release I was so lucky to catch the band in London pub, up close and intimate, took me back to those live shows in tiny venues in '91. After high of local pub, the low of the planned live show in London with band being sick. So concerned and worried, not knowing if they were ok until next day. Still got to see them later though on Saviors tour. The set lists was something else. And as always, those special moments meeting fans and making new friends, and meeting up with old friends from previous tours. And then, as always, expect the unexpected. Up pops a new Pinhead Gunpowder album. Just like the '90s when new GD album arrived PG not far behind. Not to forget the 2 aniv' box sets. Another high, got to see Coverups for first time. One thing I do want to mention which I think is important. I want to say a big thank you so much to everyone on here. I feel as though I've been on tour with the band. Thanks to everyone sharing their photos, experiences at shows, and set lists. From Quebec at the start to San Bernardo at the end. Can't wait till the next time. Thanks GD you did it again. Lov yer. ❤️

i know i said this in the random thoughts thread a while back but like, Green Day should pull a metallica and make every single concert in their archive available for streaming, downloading, hell id kill for live SBD All the Time on CD or vinyl

New photo of Billie from Alice Baxley popping up on the fansites. Can't see it on her Instagram. Might be from her website?

One of my favorite moments of the show I went to was a random interaction I spotted. The father and son next to me before the show were saying how they wished Green Day would play brainstew. And it was so freaking cute to see and hear their excitement when that riff started. The dad was like YES BRAINSTEW! I was so happy for them.

I tried to contribute to this but I couldn't finish my story on time... However, I wanna share it!! Well guys, my name is Ricardo and I'm a proud Green Day fan from Chile, since 2000. I went to the GD show in Santiago, Chile on August 30th. Although this was the shortest GD gig I've been, it was the perfect mix of my experiences lived from the first two shows I attended in Chile (2010 and 2017). Why do I say this? Well, in 2010 I was so hyped for my first time to watch Green Day live, 10 years waiting for that moment and the show BLEW MY MIND, almost 3 hours the band playing, so many classics and deep cuts like Geek Stink Breath, Nice Guys Finish Last, Stuck With Me, Paper Lanterns, Burnout, 2000 LYA, etc. However, I was alone. I met some people and we shared our expectations prior to the show. Then in 2017, the band played in the same place as 2010 (Bicentenario de la Florida Stadium, Santiago Chile) and I enjoyed it, too. However, I didn't feel the same impact I think. On the other hand, they played one of my favorite songs ever... WAITING. Also they played Knowledge. The best thing for me in that show it was I met some Internet friends from Chilean GD forurms and GD Chile fan club. I got some pictures with those friends. Finally, my third show, Saviors era... What can I say when the word "Special" is not enough to describe my feelings about how glad I was to be there? Now I'm 41, I've been a fan for 25 years and I had the chance to go to the show with one of my dearest cousins, Julio (or "Julín", as he likes to be named). I love him as a big brother, he's 43. Thanks to him, when I met Green Day music, he taught me about punk bands like Ramones and other punk bands from Chile and Argentina when we were teenagers. He is not a Green Day fan, but he loves Dookie album since that times. However, he wanted to go and listen to the band live for first time. He just knew Dookie tracks and some of the biggest hits like BOBD, Brain Stew, Holiday, American Idiot, Hitchin' a Ride, Minority, etc. The show was shorter but I was so happy to watch Green Day, they looked so inspired and enjoying to be there with all of us. When Bohemian Rhapsody started, it was a huge "sing along" moment, then my cousing enjoyed the Punk Bunny show with Ramones' Blitzkrieg Bop. Then, Green Day came out and we reacted with all the exciment , singing, jumping like we were teenagers again. When the show almost ended and Billie started to play Time of your life I cried like a little boy meanwhile I was trying to sing and hug my cousin, telling him: "Thank you Julín to be here, living this moment with me". He was telling the whole night and the day after how good the concert was, how good green day are live, and stuff like that. He got a great impression from the band. Also, the best moment of the show... HAUSHINKA!! GOD I WAS YELLING SO LOUD!! What a deep cut?! From my favorite album, NIMROD!! Splendid surprise from Green Day to all of us, the Chilean fans!! After the show, I met again with some friends (the same ones from 2017 show), and they took some photos. Then we had to leave, because my cousing had to be at his job in a restaurant. There was a The Doors tribute band playing there. However, before we left the Estadio Nacional, I wanted to give a souvenir to my cousin and bought something for me, too. So, I bought a T-shirt for him and a Hoodie for me. He wore that T-shirt with proudness. With no doubt, one of the best times of my life and being a Green Day fan!! I'm the guy with the blue jacket and next to me is my cousin.

Blood, Sex and Booze Live now available to stream.

Actually I didn't have the best time bc I lost my ID and my money in the show, and I had to come back to Chile the next day. I lost the Chile 2010 show for that. I had to overstay in Argentina 3 more days. But I learned a lot. Life gives another chance, but you have to seek for it. I loved the show anyway, even if I ruined everything. I was devastated, then they played Coming Clean and all my problems went away. At least for an hour. That's how much love gives the music of Green Day

Not for the article (since it’s past the deadline anyway), but I have great memories from this tour. I saw them three times—in San Francisco in 2024, then BottleRock (where I also saw the Coverups) and San Bernardino this year. They were all amazing concerts, but I can definitely say the one in 2024 was the best concert I’ve ever been to. And it was special because I got to take all three of my kids and their significant others. It was the first time I’ve taken all three kids to a concert together, and the only band we can all agree on! I love sharing my love of Green Day with them!

No. Sorry, not meaning to be rude but couldn’t resist. 😂

i wish green day pulled a metallica and had all of their live shows available for streaming/download...

In @That Dude‘s defence (we have had this discussion for a while now) he’s not saying it’s bad, it’s his least favourite. Fair enough I think. I think it’s awesome but think Amy is just bad. We all have our opinions.😁

BOBD has apparently just achieved 2x Platinum in the UK https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1MZHjeQcsu/

Tut, tut @That Dude you can't use the word bad in association with GD being bad, it's just not allowed. As Mike famously said: "Listening to Green Day is like sex. When it's good, it's really good. When it's bad, it's still pretty dam good". 😜

I'm actually so fucking excited for this, Warning is my (current) favorite Green Day album.

Thank you so much @solongfromthestars for taking your time in organising and pulling together yet another amazing project. Loved reading everyone's journey with Green Day during this awesome tour. I could feel their excitement and joy from all over the world. Demonstrating not only is the band still performing amazing Iive performances, but the support and love from fans is as strong as ever.

1.) Do Da Da great poetry and melody love it. 2.) Dreamcatcher I’ve been in love with this song the second I heard of ever recorded properly on an album could be a hit IMO 3.) Olivia love the sound kinda has an Irish jig folksy flair to it. Hopefully one day it gets released. 4.) Suffocate this song is so catchy would have fit on Insomniac or Nimrod great melody. 5.) Don’t Wanna Fall in Love/Rotting both are awesome love the bleakness in them and Billie’s voice. Mid 90’s style.

Fluffy hair, short sleeves and Converse. Perfect for me!😍

New one:

cannot wait to see how the CGI floats look in Minority (maybe thats why these are AI upscales rather than direct remasters from the film?)

HD upscales for Waiting and Minority are up on Apple Music. (spoiler: they're both AI upscales again)

Not so much a motivational rant but this livestream always makes me laugh: 😂

After living through the release of another awesome GD record and witnessing another amazing live tour, my mind suddenly remembered another amazing album released not too long ago. No, not FOAM, but GD BBC Sessions released December 2021. It consists of live recordings for the BBC from 1994 to 2001 held at the Maida Vale Studios in London as you know. There's nothing to compare seeing GD live and being there. But the next best thing is GD live in the studio. And I really love this one. Songs from Dookie, Insomniac, Nimrod and Warning. 16 tracks in all on the record. Although two other tracks from 1998 sessions, "One of My Lies" and "Scattered" where not included. But can be downloaded. You can almost feel you are there in the studio sensing the electric atmosphere and knowing that the band are really enjoying themselves. But the best way to explain and share this feeling is from an article from Steve Lamacq, which was part of an insert that came with the gatefold cover. This album is one of my most treasured GD records. GREEN DAY – BBC Sessions It’s really quite difficult now, given the phenomenal success they’ve achieved, to conjure up images of Green Day before they were famous. Mind you I do vaguely remember that they played an early London show in 1993 at the Dome, a vintage, dimly lit, boozer of a venue in the north of the capitol. The next day, I was sat in the offices of the music paper The New Musical Express when my friend and writer colleague, Simon Williams, arrived looking strangely unkempt muttering about what an odd morning he’d had. Williams lived in a slightly worn-out looking shared house with a collection of nurses, one of whom. Aidan, also happened to be in a Slint-style punk band called Joeyfat. “I went to go to the kitchen, but the door to the front room wouldn’t open,” Williams opened. Turns out there was a band sleeping on the floor in there, wedged up against the door. Impressed by this, I asked who they were. “Oh, some of Aidan’s mates… I think they’re called Green Day?” Out of curiosity, I went out and bought the album Kerplunk and then repeatedly kicked myself for not having been to the gig. Fast forward 18 months and I was rifling through the post at my new job, hosting a radio show called The Evening Session, when an envelope fell open revealing an advance cassette of an album called Dookie by the same Green Day. It was the record that would change everything. The record some of us had been waiting for. The Evening Session was a two-hour show on the national pop station Radio 1, which sort to champion the ever-rising tide of alternative music from across an array of genres. Airing Monday to Thursday from 7 to 9 p.m. – and at its height luring an audience of 2 million listeners a week – we’d already has success with the burgeoning Britpop bands of the time like Blur and Oasis and new urban artists Massive Attack and The Prodigy. The missing part of the jigsaw – especially as a former punk rock fanzine writer – was where American rock music would venture next, following the fractured implosion of the Grunge movement. The answer came in that envelope. Since The Dome, Green Day had returned to the UK a couple of times winning new friends on both occasions. They just needed the right record. Two days later I arrived back in the office waving the cassette in my producer’s face as if I’d invented penicillin or was declaring world peace, and pleaded with her to book Green Day for a session the next time they were in the UK. Tucked away in a sleepy, but desirable North London back street, lies one of the most influential recording complexes in the world: the BBC’s Maida Vale Studios. A former indoor ice rink, the BBC had taken over the huge but anonymous looking building in the 1930s where it had primarily housed its classical orchestras until the launch of pop station Radio 1 in the 1960s. From then on, its seven studios played host to a who’s who of rock bands, with most of the biggest names in music recording there. The Beatles, Bowie, Led Zeppelin, Joy Division, Nirvana…all of them, plus hundreds of others, has passed through the building on route to fame or obscurity. In fact, by the 80s and 90s, the “Maida Vale session” had become a rite of passage for any aspiring artist looking to promote a new record or unleash new songs onto the radio. Maida Vale became a kind of Holy Grail. Big or small the sessions followed the same routine. Load in late morning or lunchtime; set up and sound check. And then bash through four songs, which would be mixed at a casual sprint in the early evening – possibly interrupted by an excursion to the local pub, the Truscott Arms. It was here, to this grand, labyrinthine sprawl, that Green Day came for the first time in June 1994, to record their debut session for us. “I remember it was very much an old school session,” says the BBC’s Mita Adhikari, who produced their first appearance. “We recorded the songs live, followed by a few overdubs, hardly anything, and it was done. Although they were a very three-way unit, Billie Joe was definitely the unspoken leader. Tre liked to clown about, and Mike was the guy who was sort of serious, but everyone took notice of him when he spoke because he had a very dry acid wit.” Green Day, though no one probably knew it at the time, had found a new home away from home. The pace and spontaneity of the BBC sessions suited them perfectly. There is no time to muck about. Some bands struggle in the session environment; they hate being rushed and miss the gloss and sheen that a weeklong recording session gives them. Green Day, however, absolutely thrived, as you can hear on these recordings. They sound like you’re in a good rehearsal room with them; nosily intimate and unselfconscious. The first session was broadcast a full three months before Dookie was released, unveiling “Basket Case” and “She” to radio listeners for the first time. It went down a storm. The songs sounded infectious and impulsive, and the performance was just what you want a session to sound like; it was in the moment, yet still ultimately timeless. As soon as they were finished, they loaded their gear back in the van and went off to play London’s prestigious Astoria 2 later the same night. Buoyed by the first session, they returned to Maida Vale around the release of their next three albums. With no gig to play after the second session, they agreed to stay on and perform live to air for us later that night. Just to check that the transmission line to Maida Vale was working, I prefaded the studio, to hear them happily thrashing along to the records we were playing on the show before they came on. By the 90s, it was customary for bands to simply turn up and record their required four-song set. Green Day, though, brought back the spirit of the late 70s and early 80s John Peel sessions where artists would also use the free studio time to record or rehearse new tracks. During the second session, they played around with, in Billie Joe’s own words, “an unreleased song called ‘Good Riddance’,” while also admitting on air that they’d recorded but discarded a new song during their first session. ME: “Is it true that you recorded a song and then got the engineer to throw it away?” BILLIE JOE: “Yeah, he erased everything. But I found the title for the first song here… I went to the bathroom and saw the words ‘Armitage Shanks’ (famous UK urinal manufacturers) and that’s what we called it.” Interestingly, they didn’t record ‘Good Riddance’ for the Nimrod session, but did do a great version of ‘Nice Guys Finish Last,’ complete with the F-Word, which I’m surprised they got away with. Famously one inhouse engineer once lectured an up-and-coming Britpop band about the language they could use, revealing tersely: “Shit, OK. F---er… no good.” The final session, you’ll note, comes sometime after the album Warning was released. But there was a good reason for this. Off the back of Nimrod’s commercial success. Radio 1 decided to pitch in properly and we broadcasted the band’s low-key UK album launch gig at Kings College in London on September 14th, 2000 instead. We couldn’t not let them do a session though at some point. And I’m glad they came back. For one, it includes a terrific version of ‘Church On Sunday’ which sounds like a punk rock E-Street Band in full flow. And secondly, it would have been like having a photo album with four pages missing. Because hard though it is to remember Green Day before they were famous, these sessions are evocative first-hand reminders of some important moments in their career. They are wonderful, unedited, snapshots of the time. -Steve Lamacq

Haven’t seen too many ranking posts on here lately (recently had to make a new account because I forgot my old login info) so I thought I’d start a new one! What are your top 5 Green Day B-Sides? Can be any original Green Day song not released on a studio album (Including only played live, but not including covers)! My Choices are: 5. Minnesota Girl - I live only 50 Miles from Minnesota and love it there. The melody is great and reminds me of ‘Razor Baby’. 4. Desensitized - Highly underrated song with an impeccable chorus. Would have been amazing on Nimrod! 3. Dreamcatcher - Was glad to hear on These Paper bullets but would love to hear a studio version someday. Highly unlikely, but you never know. 2. Hearts Collide - One of favourite Green Day songs and works perfect on its own as a B-Side. If they ever issue C&V’s, would live to hear an updated studio version. 1. Do Da Da - Holds a special place in my heart as being my first random GD song uncovered in the early days of Napster. I had no idea what it was or where it was from only being 12 or 13, but was blown away by hearing a GD song not on an album. As close to discovering treasure as anything.

haushinka as worst song over Father Of All Demoes or Here Comes the Shock is crazzzyyyyy

Finally getting round to watching the longer of these videos and this is amazing! They sounded so good and were so confident, unbothered by all the stuff going on around them, great training obviously. Thanks for these.

Yeah me too. There's nothing like an SBD quality live show

I love these box sets, in particular for live tracks from previous live shows, I just can't help it, I'm so crazy about GD live there's nothing like it. I'm all for streaming music but live stuff is generally only available on record. Just listened to Blood, Sex and Booze (Live at Makuhari Messe, Tokyo, from March 2001). Released today. Holy shit that was awesome. Amazing quality. Like to close my eyes and pretend I'm there with all the fans. Can't wait for the box set to be released to hear rest of show. Thanks GD ❤️

Go home Reprise, you're drunk.

I saw that on Alice’s Insta in a post with several other photos and video clips, mostly behind the scenes stuff. It’s a great photo!

IT'S SO GOOD!

I think he meant "new song" in the sense that he wanted to play something else. Feels more likely while he was drunk.

they wanna save youtube from the horrors of the parade floats in HD or smth (most likely holding off until sometime later this week or when the deluxe actually drops in like, 3 weeks)

no love for Macy’s Day Parade… (at least now yet) I hope every visualizer every song on this boxset will inevitably get on YouTube ends up on Apple Music as well (like they did with the Dookie ones… something they didn’t do for American Idiot or nimrod.) I love having visualizers or music videos for every song. More video options the better imo!

My dream is for a band to release an official live show/film of a concert I attended. Seeing as Wrigley is Billie's favorite stadium Green Day could definitely do it for Saviors...😏

Still the king of fluffy hair

Not seen this mentioned here yet, American Idiot got named the biggest rock album of the 21st century by the official UK charts company! https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/official-biggest-rock-and-metal-albums-of-the-21st-century/ They keep mentioning it on the news so I'm sitting in hospital with the TV on in the background and keep getting American Idiot jumpscares 😂

My all time fav' MTV show has to be at the 'Live at MTV 120 minutes programme' from 1994. Great interview plus GD performing on stage at their awesome best. Still get goose bumps every time I watch this.

I know you've had a long standing dislike of "Haushinka" and I must respect that, but imho it's awesome.

Great stuff @solongfromthestars. I still haven’t had time to contribute properly but hope to!

Soundboard, like an official release or a TV broadcast

yup... every time i get a chance to go see my favourite bands, they're always the most expensive thing ever lol add that to taking flights all the way across the other side of the world, because bands seem to hate australia plus i missed the last time green day came here so i just don't go now

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=green+day+dookie+dog+reaction+figure&crid=16XY2C2N4PG1T&sprefix=%2Caps%2C212&ref=nb_sb_ss_recent_1_0_recent Just spotted. On Amazon UK ,@£37 plus £2.99 shipping. Delivery estimate Nov 24-28.

Thanks! Glad you think so!

Hmm. He said he wanted to play a new song instead of Basketcase, so I'm guess they probably would have played a bunch of Trilogy songs instead of the 1-21 Hits that they usually play. and Uno came out that exact same day, so a focus on that one. Theoretical: 1. American Idiot 2. Holiday 3. F Time 4. Longview 5. Oh Love 6. St Jimmy 7. Basketcase 8. Stay the Night 9. Let Yourself Go 10. Troublemaker 11. Coming Clean 12. Stray Heart 13. Waiting 14. X-Kid 15. 99 Revolutions 16. Rusty James 17. She 18. Letterbomb 19. Drama Queen

This is my favourite thing ever I had to force myself not to post it

My money soon

I can't believe it, I'm just totally overwhelmed, absolutely gobsmacked with this awesome band of ours. Since Jan' '23, We've had 3 box sets, now talk of 4th, and awesome new studio album, plus deluxe version, a world tour extended as usual meeting old and new friends at live shows, surprise shows, and to cap it all the return of Pinhead Gunpowder. GD just can't stop giving. Thanks GD luv yer. ❤️