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Lmao that video with Tre and the candle. Trillie is still real!

Seriously, can we rename or do something with this thread? I don’t want to be reminded about the goddamn election results every time I log on here. I’m depressed enough as it is.

Billie is playing guitar on St. Jimmy for a change! Enjoying the livestream.

On this day last year (19 November 2023), Green Day played at the 110th Grey Cup in Toronto, Canada. In case you're like me and have no idea what that is, it's the game that decides the champion in Canadian gridiron football. More photos: 7 years ago (19 November 2017), Green Day played the Corona Capital festival in Mexico City. It was the last show of the Revolution Radio Tour. More photos: 11 years ago (19 November 2013), Green Day played the Dreamforce Gala in San Francisco, CA. The sound blew out but fans got a special show with air guitar, other funny antics and Angel Blue, Peacemaker and Rusty James. This is an excerpt from a fan story in the We Are Revolution Radio book. The lovely lady who wrote it described her journey with Green Day through her favourite songs from each album and from ¡Uno! it was Angel Blue, which she got to hear at this show. This is one of my favourite stories in the book. Sticking the full thing in a spoiler in case anyone would like to read the rest: More photos: 23 years ago (19 November 2001), Green Day played Hitchin' a Ride on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. More photos: They also played four songs on the Rockline radio show in LA that day. 27 years ago (19 November 1997), Green Day played at the Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto, Canada on the Nimrod Tour. They also played a set in an alley behind an HMV shop in Toronto. And they were interviewed there. More photos: 29 years ago (19 November 1995), Green Day played the CSU Convocation Center in Cleveland, OH on the Insomniac Tour. 30 years ago (19 November 1994), Green Day played the Roy Wilkins Auditorium in St. Paul, MN on the Dookie Tour. More photos: 33 years ago (19 November 1991), Green Day played in Saarbrücken, Germany.

Went on a transatlantic trip for work and got excited when: 1. I found the music section of the onboard entertainment had Father Of All. 2. Saw the Marshall headphones commercial with Billie in one of the screens right after immigration in Paris

On this day 20 years ago (18 November 2004), Green Day played the Rose Garden Arena in Portland, OR on the American Idiot Tour. 27 years ago (18 November 1997), Green Day did a press conference in Montreal, Canada and played the Metropolis later that day. More photos: 29 years ago (18 November 1995), Green Day played the Pepsi Coliseum in Indianapolis, IN on the Insomniac Tour. 30 years ago (18 November 1994), Green Day played the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago, IL on the Dookie Tour which, yes, was the infamous Jaded in Chicago show. More photos: 33 years ago (18 November 1991), Green Day played Villa Roller in Waiblingen, Germany.

Yesterday (15 October 2024), Green Day played the Corona Capital festival in Mexico. 19 years ago (15 October 2005), Bullet in a Bible was released and Green Day attended the premiere at the Arclight Theatre in Los Angeles. More photos: 27 years ago (15 November 1997), Green Day played Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel in Providence, RI on the Nimrod Tour. "Back in '97 I was sharing an apartment in Providence with Art Tedeschi, drummer for a now-defunct band called Waterdog. They sounded very much like Green Day and were on the same label. A couple of times they'd shared the stage. So one Saturday, Green Day was scheduled to play at Lupo's and Billie Joe had our address and decided to track Art down. So Art answered the door to find him standing there. He came in and sat around for a bit. Then he and Art went to Berk's Shoes on Thayer Street to buy himself some new shoes. I had other things to do. That's about it. Nothing much more to say about that one." — MyaloMark 30 years ago (15 November 1994), Green Day played the Mammoth Events Center in Denver, CO on the Insomniac Tour. More pics: 33 years ago (15 November 1991), Green Day played Flex in Vienna, Austria. ------------------------- On this day 7 years ago (16 November 2017), the Back in the USA music video was released. Some other behind the scenes photos: 20 years ago (16 November 2004), Green Day played the Everett Events Center in Everett, WA on the American Idiot Tour. 29 years ago (16 November 1995), Green Day played the Cobo Arena in Detroit, MI on the Insomniac Tour. More photos: 30 years ago (16 November 1994), Green Day played the Cotillion Ballroom in Wichita, KS. 33 years ago (16 November 1991), Green Day played Kapu in Linz, Austria. 36 years ago (16 November 1988), Larry Livermore invited Green Day to play at a kid's house in Garberville, CA. "Lawrence Livermore, the guy who owns Lookout, was also impressed by the fact that we came to play at his house. He lives about 300 miles north of San Francisco. The last 10 miles of which are on a dirt logging road. We played, powered by a portable generator, in the rain for about six people. It was so cold that Bill almost had to stop playing because his hands were numb. Lawrence paid us with a six pack of beer and we didn't get home until five in the morning. I think that experience convinced Lawrence that we were worth the money." — Mike Dirnt "They never 'auditioned' for me. That is a story that was more or less made up by Ben Weasel when he wrote the band bio for Dookie. The real story is that they came up to play a show with my band, the Lookouts. This was in 1988, when Tré was still in the Lookouts, and John Kiffmeyer aka Al Sobrante was drumming for Green Day (then called Sweet Children). It wasn't actually a real 'show', more of a party for a bunch of kids that went to high school with Tré. But because the weather was bad, and there was some snow on the roads up in the mountains where the party was supposed to be, almost none of the kids showed up. Even the kid whose house it was didn't show up, so the other kids ended up breaking into the house and setting up a generator, because there wasn't any other electricity. So Sweet Children/Green Day ended up playing for literally five kids, and yet they played as if they were the Beatles at Shea Stadium. I mean they played their hearts out, and I was thinking, 'I don't care whether anyone buys it or not, I'm putting out a record by this band.' As for what songs they played, I couldn't totally remember, except that they played most or all of the songs from 1,000 Hours and some of the songs that ended up on 39/Smooth. ...I watched from the back, only half paying attention at first. But before they'd finished even one song, I was absolutely riveted. I'd seen this level of performance before, but only in giant, packed arenas or stadiums, delivered by bands at the peak of their careers. 16-year-old Billie Joe exuded the casual self-confidence of a superstar, offset slightly but not entirely by a shy, self-effacing humility. Stopping every few songs to thank his minuscule audience, he sang and played as though he'd been doing this all his life - which, I would learn, wasn't far from the truth. Walking up to me afterward, he offhandedly asked, 'What did you think?' 'I want to make a record with you guys,' was all I could say. They were barely getting started - this might have been their third or fourth show ever - but I'd seen and heard all I needed to. They were like a modern, updated, punk rock version of the Beatles. They could seriously be that big, I caught myself thinking. Crazy talk? Of course. Yet at that moment it made perfect, undeniable sense. The Lookouts never played that night; by the time Sweet Children finished, it was midnight and our 'audience', worried they'd get in trouble with their parents, said goodbye and headed home. On the long drive back to Spy Rock, twisting the radio dial in search of an audible signal and thankful for my aging truck's slightly more than adequate heater, I had barely an inkling of how the night's events were about to change my life forever." — Larry Livermore

This title makes me question the priorities of people.

From Billie's Instagram story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkEMAYTJZBI Is this from the new documentary ? it's awesome!

Billie posted Glen Campbell's version of Good Riddance saying it's the "best version ever!" https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCfi0Tpypbx/?igsh=ejlicWlmaHdueXps Mexico City pics from Green Day's Instagram story

Billie's new profile pic

On this day 7 years ago (17 November 2017), God's Favorite Band was released. Green Day also played in Bogota, Colombia 7 years ago today. More photos: 13 years ago (17 November 2011), Green Day played Red7 in Austin, TX. More photos: 30 years ago (17 November 2004), Green Day played the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, Canada on the American Idiot Tour. More photos: 27 years ago (17 November 1997), Green Day played the Webster Theater in Hartford, CT on the Nimrod Tour. 29 years ago (17 November 1995), Green Day played the Convention and Civic Center in Niagara Falls, NY on the Insomniac Tour. 30 years ago (17 November 1994), Green Day played the Memorial Hall in Kansas City on the Dookie Tour. 34 years ago (17 November 1990), Green Day played the Playground at Paradigm Studios in Oakland, CA.

Some of the pics from last night's show that Billie posted on his Instagram story Screenshots from Billie's video post "Where's Tre Cool?"

https://greendaylive.fm/stats/green-day?year=2024&stat=most-common Stats for songs played live 2024

I think the festival thing is a bit of a double-edged sword for a band like Green Day. Playing big festivals is a great way to reach music lovers who aren’t necessarily into your music but who loved the performance and then maybe turn to your music, on the other hand, the fans want to see you on your own. Also, once you have played stadiums and been so lauded for so long as a great live band, it’s pretty hard to scale back just because your genre isn’t so popular. Did you all see Ryan Bailey’s post from the other day? Can’t find it to share, but he was saying he hadn’t realised before touring the GD that they have no backing or click track, he couldn’t believe it. I think it explains the lack of variation in set lists but if you want to compete with other huge productions (often part fake) then you have to make compromises. I can totally see why they do what they do.

Update: The files with the name "1995 - New Age Punks" were now identified as being part of the story "Punk" and "New Age Punks" in the Magazine Music Life from May 1995, so the file names were changed accordingly. Today I received the parcel from Japan I mentioned earlier containing 11 magazines, 10 of those featured Green Day (partially on the cover) and I just scanned them all. So if you're interested in cool photos and interesting ads, stay tuned. There will be updates in the next weeks. I try to only update when I have uploaded a bulk of images. Just added: WARNING Tour Booklet (this is quite large and a little tricky to scan and edit, took me quite some time, but I uploaded it all for you ) -> "Green Day Warning Tour Booklet" in the folder 2000-2008

I presume Pinhead Gunpowder posts go in here? "How about some tunes on the jukebox? " From Billie's Instagram story a few days ago Henry Ruggieri posted some throwback pics

Yeah I really, really hate the autotune. Billie doesn't need that, I don't get it. Saw them in Atlanta in August and have watched several fan recorded videos from this summer, he sounded great. Grrrrr. Does he necessarily have to approve it though? Green Day's management company oversees the YouTube channel, at least according to Google. Hi btw, I am new here!! Been a fan for a loooong time. Like, remember hearing Longview on the radio when it was brand new, long time. 🙂

Giving up hope that they'll actually tour the US in 2025 tbh 😭 It's cool that they're part of such a big cultural event, but selfishly I hate festivals. I can't physically or financially swing them.

1234 Records is 40 hours away. I ordered Unt a few days ago and it arrived today. I ordered it from concord, NC which is less than 2 hours away on Halloween and it still hasn't shown up yet. Lol.

I got so excited when Air France had Father of All because I was impressed that a big airline had any Green Day, let alone their most hated album! I'd kind of checked out of Green Day land then, but I guess I knew I was still a Green Day fan because I took a photo anyway

Absolutely. My 3 and only 3 fav versions are the original demo, the album version, and Billie Joe's Welcome to My Panic version. No contest.

Billie's Instagram post (some pics are same but cropped differently)

"Gracias, Ciudad de México"

The fact they have no click track is phenomenal considering how in sync they are. Tré keeping everyone in line 😯

Well, that doesn't necessarily mean that it couldn't have had a underlying theme going through it. But yes, likely it did not. I'm pretty sure I'd have loved it if songs like Everyones Breaking Down, Shoplifter and The Pedestrian is the style there were going for, though. I personally have a soft spot for that Green Day era, especially Billies vocals.

That was such a delightful, joyful show. So happy they live-streamed it in such good quality, what a treat!

From Tre and his wife's Instagram stories

I don’t think there was any theme to the album, they’ve been pretty forward on the fact that Cigarettes & Valentines was just a solid power pop punk album, likely taking what they had been doing with Warning and mixing it with some classic high energy Green Day. It was good, but not “global phenomenon” good, which is what they needed at the time. The album was basically a rehash of what they had already done in the past, so of course the “American Idiot” concept won in the end. As people have been saying, Cigarettes and Valentines truly is the missing link between Warning era Green Day and American Idiot Green Day, and I think that’s whats so appealing about it. What COULD have been.

Copied comments the band made within aa general article I posted updating the Download festival in case you missed it:- Green Day will be hoping the festival gives fans the chance to check out some new music, as they previously told of their despair at people relying on TikTok algorithms to be introduced to other artists. Mike Dirnt told The Sun newspaper: “Social media is great for kids but if you’re finding your music via algorithms then that’s just lazy. “I like to organically find new things. All I can say is just clear your search history to find new [stuff].” Billie Joe Armstrong added: “I was told that 'Brain Stew' was a sudden popular thing on TikTok with a lot of hip-hop kids dancing to it. And that’s cool. “But I don’t have the patience to use it. It’s just like, eurgh. It’s cool for other people but we’re old- school man.” And the trio worry such algorithms are fuelling the rise of misinformation online. Billie Joe said: "With all the algorithms that people live on, there’s so much false information, and there’s people diagnosing themselves with Asperger’s off TikTok. That’s absurd to me."

Article on Download festival including some comments by the band (see highlighted print):- Green Day, Sleep Token and Korn to headline Download Festival Story by BANG Showbiz Green Day, Sleep Token and Korn will headline the 2025 Download Festival. The annual rock and metal festival will return to Donington Park in Leicestershire for its 22nd outing on 13-15 June, with all three acts booked to top the bill performing in the headline slots for the first time. Joining the bands on the bill are a number of other huge names, including Weezer, Sex Pistols featuring Frank Carter, Jimmy Eat World, Within Temptation, Eagles Of Death Metal, The Darkness, Poppy, Loathe, Spiritbox, Meshuggah, Steel Panther, Lorna Shore, Airbourne, Jerry Cantrell, Cradle Of Filth, Alien Ant Farm, CKY, McFly, Don Broco, Mallory Knox, The Ghost Inside, Turbonegro, Sylosis, Whitechapel, Fit For An Autopsy, Lorna Shore, Kittie, and Jinjer. Download Festival’s Andy Copping said in a statement: “Following on from last year’s sold out 21st edition, Download’s legacy not only includes the incredible artists who have performed at the hallowed grounds over the years, but also our unrivalled community, safe and warm atmosphere, and fantastic afterhours entertainment at District X, with something for truly everyone.” General tickets will go on sale this Thursday (14.11.24) at 9am from www.downloadfestival.co.uk. Green Day will be hoping the festival gives fans the chance to check out some new music, as they previously told of their despair at people relying on TikTok algorithms to be introduced to other artists. Mike Dirnt told The Sun newspaper: “Social media is great for kids but if you’re finding your music via algorithms then that’s just lazy. “I like to organically find new things. All I can say is just clear your search history to find new [stuff].” Billie Joe Armstrong added: “I was told that 'Brain Stew' was a sudden popular thing on TikTok with a lot of hip-hop kids dancing to it. And that’s cool. “But I don’t have the patience to use it. It’s just like, eurgh. It’s cool for other people but we’re old- school man.” And the trio worry such algorithms are fuelling the rise of misinformation online. Billie Joe said: "With all the algorithms that people live on, there’s so much false information, and there’s people diagnosing themselves with Asperger’s off TikTok. That’s absurd to me."

On this day 7 years ago (14 November 2017), Green Day played in Lima, Peru on the Revolution Radio Tour. More photos: 27 years ago (14 November 1997), Green Day played the Electric Factory in Philadelphia, PA on the Nimrod Tour. "Green Day, three guys from Berkeley, Calif., who have sold more albums than any punk band in history, aren't making millions off their originality. It's their energy, attitude and hooks, plus rock-solid musicianship, that have propelled them to the top of the heap. And in Friday's show at the Electric Factory, they had enough of all four to burn. The trio ignored most songs on its new album, Nimrod (Reprise), that vary from the punk genre. Except for the Stray Cat strut of Hitchin' A Ride and the show's closer, a solo acoustic Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life), from frontman Billie Joe Armstrong, this was a punk concert that could have been ripped right out of the late '70s. As at past shows, the restive bass riffs of Mike Dirnt and hyperspeed drumming of Tre Cool blasted the energy level through the roof, while Armstrong's four-chord rhythm guitar supplied the mighty hooks. Armstrong is a consummate showman, just as skilled at entertaining as Frank Sinatra or Neil Diamond. Though the comparison isn't an obvious one to make, all three know their audience's fantasies and act as a mirror for them. In Armstrong's case, however, the fantasy is of finding a place where misfits are accepted, even celebrated. It makes sense, then, that Armstrong both insulted and praised his audience, 'blessed' them with bottled water like a punk priest, introduced himself with a smirk as Paco Techsquala, and alluded to being a loser in funny, off-the-cuff comments full of expletives. Fans were both guessing what he'd do next, and feeling like his co-conspirators." — The Inquirer 29 years ago (14 November 1995), Green Day played the Convention Hall and Civic Center in Philadelphia, PA. 30 years ago (14 November 1994), Green Day played Mabel's in Champaign, IL on the Dookie Tour.

I have!

Love the video. Whoever you are wherever you're from, friendship is special coz your special.

It's official

i can hear billie now "coachellaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!"

The band does seem to be on a mission to play places/events they haven't before so could be

I’m glad Alice Baxley is still sorting pics, I have been disappointed in the quality of a lot of the pics this tour, mine included!

I'll be going alone to both Vienna shows and would also love to meet whomever is up for it from the community 🙂 I will also be at Amsterdam, although I'm going with a friend and his partner to that one. And... it's quite safe to assume there won't be any more dates in Europe, right? If this is it, I might buy a ticket for Luxembourg too.

I can't start each day without checking out "Green Day on This Day" thread. Memories.

Yes, I've been streaming it. I love the entire record and Mumbles is my favorite because with it's weirdly specific descriptions of moments and of the person, I really feel like I might know who Mumbles is! And with the song Asheville being a skip and hop up the road for me....it's entirely possible. Very weird.

From Palestine to the Middle East ”oh, la Luna” sorry, I’m just enjoying these small moments in Spanish.

Billie once mentioned in an interview—before Hella Mega, I think—that they want to tour “more effectively” in the future. Whatever that means. Maybe it suggests playing fewer solo shows and moving away from the idea of an exhausting arena tour. Does anyone know the interview I’m talking about?

Bobby Sox playing at the Washington Capitals vs Toronto Maple Leafs game 🥰🥰

They were the opening act to my first Green Day show 🥹

I‘ m really grateful for the few solo shows, especially the ones in Vienna. But I can imagine that playing a festival is relatively „carefree“ for a band as it needs less organizing. The stage is already there, someone else is responsible for selling the tickets, organizing security etc. On the other hand, isn’t it more gratifying to play for your real fans…?