Green Day On This Day

[Cris.]

@solongfromthestars and @Rumpelstiltskin2000 I didn't know you two had been to the show in Costa Rica! I loved so much reading both your recounts of the show, and the lengths you went to to get there... and you bought the ticket the morning of? I would have died from stress thinking "I flew all this way and spent all this money and I bet you the tickets will be sold out by the time I get there" 😅 That show was legendary, I still feel like we should all talk about it in a hushed, reverential tone, so I'm really happy you both got to experience it!

[Rumpelstiltskin2000]

1 hour ago, Cris. said:

@solongfromthestars and @Rumpelstiltskin2000 I didn't know you two had been to the show in Costa Rica! I loved so much reading both your recounts of the show, and the lengths you went to to get there... and you bought the ticket the morning of? I would have died from stress thinking "I flew all this way and spent all this money and I bet you the tickets will be sold out by the time I get there" 😅 That show was legendary, I still feel like we should all talk about it in a hushed, reverential tone, so I'm really happy you both got to experience it!

There was a Costa Rican girl on the forum back then and she was able to keep checking  the ticket status for everyone on GDC. Without that I wouldn't have dared to go without tickets! It wasn't even close to sold out. Had it said sold out I wouldn't have even tried to go

[solongfromthestars]

On this day 5 years ago (30 October 2019), Green Day played La Riviera in Madrid. Fun fact: they also played La Riviera in 1998 and 2000.

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 15 years ago (30 October 2009), Green Day played at the MEN Arena in Manchester, England on the 21st Century Breakdown Tour.

I still remember a few bits clearly from this show – "I split my pants," the crowd singing Boulevard of Broken Dreams, 2000 Light Years Away, Coming Clean and the general magical feeling.

Here's what younger me wrote:

"On the bus to our hotel, we met another mother-and-daughter pair on their way to the show. I stuck six A4 sheets together to make a ‘PLAY ¡VIVA LA GLORIA!’ banner before we left.

This time our seats were on Mike’s side. Watching Prima Donna and the drunk bunny, I was nervous. But once I heard those opening chords of 21st Century Breakdown, saw my heroes run onstage, I knew I would be alright. The songs I was hearing for a second, third time were as fresh as ever.

Security followed Billie as he ran up into the seats in Know Your Enemy and East Jesus Nowhere. In Boulevard of Broken Dreams, he announced he’d split his pants. ‘Did anyone see my balls?’

After Boulevard of Broken Dreams, I held up my banner. Billie stopped and squinted. People around us were screaming ‘he’s seen it, he’s seen it, he’s seen it!’ and he pointed before yelling into the band mic. They began 2000 Light Years Away. The guys behind us were laughing, saying he misread it. I have no idea if it was really anything to do with my banner, but it was funny either way – and thrilling since they weren’t playing that regularly.

Hitchin’ a Ride was followed by Coming Clean. It was a furious performance of a poignant song. Everyone was dancing. This time, I noticed a stencil of Gloria was the backdrop for She. With that, the 15 year-old song joined the narrative of 21st Century Breakdown. In King for a Day, Billie sang snippets of Stand By Me, I Fought the Law and Champagne Supernova. 21 Guns remained as emotional as that first night. Maybe even more so. Because, though I hadn’t quite figured out what yet, I knew something was worth fighting for. That bridge was my favourite moment of every set.

It was all surreal. Watching the confetti spray out again; hearing a passionate Jesus of Suburbia and seeing the show close, lights dimmed and band bowing, with Last Night on Earth, Wake Me Up When September Ends and Good Riddance."

Disclaimer: The bannner was only out for a minute between songs but I wouldn't take anything like that to a show now. I was 14.

The merch:

A typically crappy photo I took during King for a Day:

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20 years ago (30 October 2004), Green Day played the Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford, NJ on the American Idiot Tour.

25 years ago (30 October 1999), Green Day played the Bridge School Benefit at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA.

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27 years ago (30 October 1997), Green Day played Deep Ellum Live in Dallas, TX on the Nimrod Tour.

32 years ago (30 October 1992), Green Day played the Berkeley Square nightclub.

"This show was hella weird, but not the first time that Green Day played with terrible funk rock bands that were inexplicably popular in the Bay Area back then. Bands like Psychefunkapus, Limbomaniacs, Fungo Mungo, Bluchunks (who were not terrible), Compost, etc. I still went because it was only $6 and it was Green Day!" — Anthony Lew

33 years ago (30 October 1991), Green Day played BZ Huset in Aarhus, Denmark.

 

14 hours ago, Cris. said:

@solongfromthestars and @Rumpelstiltskin2000 I didn't know you two had been to the show in Costa Rica! I loved so much reading both your recounts of the show, and the lengths you went to to get there... and you bought the ticket the morning of? I would have died from stress thinking "I flew all this way and spent all this money and I bet you the tickets will be sold out by the time I get there" 😅 That show was legendary, I still feel like we should all talk about it in a hushed, reverential tone, so I'm really happy you both got to experience it!

In hindsight I can't believe we did that!!! I do remember that all the Costa Ricans on GDC were absolutely certain there'd still be tickets left, but I'd be shitting myself all the way to San Jose if I did that today.

[Rumpelstiltskin2000]

Halloween 2009 was my fourth and last show on this leg of the 21st Century Breakdown Tour. We were buying our t-shirts for the night when @solongfromthestars said "Kevin's singing the Foxboro Hot Tubs" and I turned and said  "that's not Kevin, that's Billie!" and we literally ran to our seats (me knocking someone's beer out their hand on my way) and we were treated to three songs from the FBHT. It was incredible. I never ever for one second thought I would ever get to see them. I'd been following people's stories about their shows on GDC but could only long to be there!

The whole show just had this incredible atmosphere. Tre had dyed part of his hair red for Halloween.

This time when we saw the buses leaving on that rainy Manchester night it was really sad because we had no clue when we'd see them again.

[solongfromthestars]

On this day 15 years ago (31 October 2009), the Foxboro Hot Tubs played a surprise set at the MEN Arena in Manchester, England, before Green Day came on. They played Stop, Drop & Roll, Mother Mary and Sally.

This was such an incredible treat for the fans who thought they were "just" getting a Green Day show. I was 14, it was my fourth show and I was not expecting anything like this. I thought I'd just never see the Foxboro Hot Tubs. Here's what I wrote back then:

"It was Halloween. I hung back while my mum looked at merch after Prima Donna. Music was playing inside. It sounded awfully familiar. Was I hallucinating? Because I was sure I could hear Stop, Drop & Roll! I squeezed past people to alert my mum.

‘Prima Donna are playing the Foxboro Hot Tubs!’
My mum stopped. Listened. Then her eyes widened.
‘That’s not Kevin, it’s BILLIE!’

We ran from the merch stand to our seats. In our mad charge down the steps, we knocked over someone’s beer. They just laughed. The steps buckled and we almost fell. Everyone around us looked baffled as we stumbled clapping and singing into our seats. The Reverend Strychnine Twitch, AKA Billie, sprayed Carling beer – a British replacement for his signature Pabst Blue Ribbon – over the front row. His blond head darted all over the stage. Tré wore a leopard print shirt and Jason a fluffy white coat. In Mother Mary, Billie threw down his tambourine to leap into the crowd. Security helped him back up.

'My name is the Reverend Strychnine Twitch and yes, we are the proverbial Foxboro Hot Tubs.’"

Another fan who submitted his story for the We Are Revolution Radio book also wrote about this, so I'd like to share that too. The mention of the show is towards the end but I'm including the whole thing because it's a lovely story and it shows how special this was for everyone who realised what was going on (crazily many didn't).

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And then Green Day played their show afterwards.

My recap:

"The intro to 21st Century Breakdown still unleashed butterflies in my stomach. In Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Billie told us, ‘last night in the last song I split my pants. I did that splits thing and my whole  butt was hanging out after that.’ It was also the last outing of the leopard print thong.

That night, as 21 Guns faded to drum rolls, I expected Minority. Instead, in an explosion of pyros and energy Billie roared ‘MASS HYSTERIA!’ and I was swept up in exactly that; mass hysteria as I screamed along to one of my all-time favourite songs, American Eulogy, that I missed on the second night in Birmingham. In my own blurry video, I’m deafeningly loud as I bellow ‘vigilantes warning ya, CALLING CHRISTIAN AND GLORIA!’ over Billie’s ‘RIGHT HERE IN MANCHESTER!’ It was unreal. Thousands of people were in a shared ecstasy conducted by a tight performance. We watched through moments of quiet while Billie stamped his foot to solos, basking in the band’s talent and energy, religiously echoing ‘heeeeeey-ooooohhhhhh’ as Mike sang his last verse…

…and we screamed in unison – ‘I DON’T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT THE MODERN AGE!’

…and the song exploded into its final chorus.

‘I don’t wanna live in the modern world! I don’t wanna live in the modern world! I don’t wanna live in the modern world – MASS HYSTERIA! In the modern world – MASS HYSTERIA! In the modern world – MASS HYSTERIA! In the modern world – MASS HYSTERIA! In the modern world…’

Then the music stopped and 21,000 voices, alone with Billie’s and Mike’s, echoed that we didn’t want to live in the modern world, mass hysteria… until Billie sang like an anthem, ‘nobody likes you, everyone left you, they’re all out without you, having fun!’ over Mike and, as Tré conducted with his drumsticks, we joined him.

The world could have ended then and I would have felt the bricks crashing down were healing gold dust. I could hear the sound of my own beating heart. The heartbeat of a kid who was stifled but now impassioned, inspired and ready to smash the silence with a brick of self control."

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18 years ago (31 October 2008), The Saints Are Coming was released as a single.

20 years ago (31 October 2004), Green Day played the Patriot Center in Fairfax, VA on the American idiot Tour.

25 years ago (31 October 1999), Green Day played a second night for the Bridge School Benefit at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA.

26 years ago (31 October 1998), Green Day played the Parque Sarmiento in Buenos Aires, Argentina on the Nimrod Tour. It was their first show in Argentina.

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27 years ago (31 October 1997), Green Day played Liberty Lunch in Austin, TX on the Nimrod Tour.

29 years ago (31 October 1995), Green Day played the Metro Centre in Halifax, Canada on the Insomniac Tour.

30 years ago (31 October 1994), Green Day played the Sports Arena in San Diego, CA on the Dookie Tour.

33 years ago (31 October 1991), Green Day played Ungdomshuset in Copenhagen, Denmark.

"The list of now-superstars who have played in Ungdomshuset is very long. They came there before anybody else in Copenhagen knew who Bjork and Nick Cave were and in 1991 an American teenage punk band called Green Day played in the Ungdomshuset before shooting off to world fame." — Nikolaj Heltoft

"After the first week, when they discovered that it's a Danish tradition for punks to throw beer at bands they like, their instruments were toast. Luckily - for him - Armstrong had brought Lawrence Livermore's amp instead of his own. Replacing the instruments was out of the question, as they were barely earning enough money to keep everyone fed and traveling from show to show. The band ended up borrowing new equipment every night. 'Seriously,' says Tre Cool, 'I was using guys' kits where the drummer would say, 'If you screw up my kit, I'm gonna stab you.''"

35 years ago (31 October 1989), Green Day played the Los Robles Lodge in Santa Rosa, CA.

"We played this show with them, Halloween 1989 in Santa Rosa. Victim's Family and Green Day. It was a benefit. And people wouldn't give Green Day ten bucks for gas to get home in their fucking VW van. This alleged benefit, and people left them stranded with their van." — Ralph Spight

1 hour ago, Rumpelstiltskin2000 said:

"that's not Kevin, that's Billie!"

Your most iconic quote. Even better than, "I don't know anything about Turkey, Green Day don't play there (despite having been to Turkey)."

[Dingle]

1 hour ago, solongfromthestars said:

On this day 15 years ago (31 October 2009), the Foxboro Hot Tubs played a surprise set at the MEN Arena in Manchester, England, before Green Day came on. They played Stop, Drop & Roll, Mother Mary and Sally.

This was such an incredible treat for the fans who thought they were "just" getting a Green Day show. I was 14, it was my fourth show and I was not expecting anything like this. I thought I'd just never see the Foxboro Hot Tubs. Here's what I wrote back then:

"It was Halloween. I hung back while my mum looked at merch after Prima Donna. Music was playing inside. It sounded awfully familiar. Was I hallucinating? Because I was sure I could hear Stop, Drop & Roll! I squeezed past people to alert my mum.

‘Prima Donna are playing the Foxboro Hot Tubs!’
My mum stopped. Listened. Then her eyes widened.
‘That’s not Kevin, it’s BILLIE!’

We ran from the merch stand to our seats. In our mad charge down the steps, we knocked over someone’s beer. They just laughed. The steps buckled and we almost fell. Everyone around us looked baffled as we stumbled clapping and singing into our seats. The Reverend Strychnine Twitch, AKA Billie, sprayed Carling beer – a British replacement for his signature Pabst Blue Ribbon – over the front row. His blond head darted all over the stage. Tré wore a leopard print shirt and Jason a fluffy white coat. In Mother Mary, Billie threw down his tambourine to leap into the crowd. Security helped him back up.

My name is the Reverend Strychnine Twitch and yes, we are the proverbial Foxboro Hot Tubs.’"

Another fan who submitted his story for the We Are Revolution Radio book also wrote about this, so I'd like to share that too. The mention of the show is towards the end but I'm including the whole thing because it's a lovely story and it shows how special this was for everyone who realised what was going on (crazily many didn't).

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And then Green Day played their show afterwards.

My recap:

"The intro to 21st Century Breakdown still unleashed butterflies in my stomach. In Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Billie told us, ‘last night in the last song I split my pants. I did that splits thing and my whole  butt was hanging out after that.’ It was also the last outing of the leopard print thong.

That night, as 21 Guns faded to drum rolls, I expected Minority. Instead, in an explosion of pyros and energy Billie roared ‘MASS HYSTERIA!’ and I was swept up in exactly that; mass hysteria as I screamed along to one of my all-time favourite songs, American Eulogy, that I missed on the second night in Birmingham. In my own blurry video, I’m deafeningly loud as I bellow ‘vigilantes warning ya, CALLING CHRISTIAN AND GLORIA!’ over Billie’s ‘RIGHT HERE IN MANCHESTER!’ It was unreal. Thousands of people were in a shared ecstasy conducted by a tight performance. We watched through moments of quiet while Billie stamped his foot to solos, basking in the band’s talent and energy, religiously echoing ‘heeeeeey-ooooohhhhhh’ as Mike sang his last verse…

…and we screamed in unison – ‘I DON’T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT THE MODERN AGE!’

…and the song exploded into its final chorus.

‘I don’t wanna live in the modern world! I don’t wanna live in the modern world! I don’t wanna live in the modern world – MASS HYSTERIA! In the modern world – MASS HYSTERIA! In the modern world – MASS HYSTERIA! In the modern world – MASS HYSTERIA! In the modern world…’

Then the music stopped and 21,000 voices, alone with Billie’s and Mike’s, echoed that we didn’t want to live in the modern world, mass hysteria… until Billie sang like an anthem, ‘nobody likes you, everyone left you, they’re all out without you, having fun!’ over Mike and, as Tré conducted with his drumsticks, we joined him.

The world could have ended then and I would have felt the bricks crashing down were healing gold dust. I could hear the sound of my own beating heart. The heartbeat of a kid who was stifled but now impassioned, inspired and ready to smash the silence with a brick of self control."

More photos:

  Reveal hidden contents

18 years ago (31 October 2008), The Saints Are Coming was released as a single.

20 years ago (31 October 2004), Green Day played the Patriot Center in Fairfax, VA on the American idiot Tour.

25 years ago (31 October 1999), Green Day played a second night for the Bridge School Benefit at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA.

26 years ago (31 October 1998), Green Day played the Parque Sarmiento in Buenos Aires, Argentina on the Nimrod Tour. It was their first show in Argentina.

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27 years ago (31 October 1997), Green Day played Liberty Lunch in Austin, TX on the Nimrod Tour.

29 years ago (31 October 1995), Green Day played the Metro Centre in Halifax, Canada on the Insomniac Tour.

30 years ago (31 October 1994), Green Day played the Sports Arena in San Diego, CA on the Dookie Tour.

33 years ago (31 October 1991), Green Day played Ungdomshuset in Copenhagen, Denmark.

"The list of now-superstars who have played in Ungdomshuset is very long. They came there before anybody else in Copenhagen knew who Bjork and Nick Cave were and in 1991 an American teenage punk band called Green Day played in the Ungdomshuset before shooting off to world fame." — Nikolaj Heltoft

"After the first week, when they discovered that it's a Danish tradition for punks to throw beer at bands they like, their instruments were toast. Luckily - for him - Armstrong had brought Lawrence Livermore's amp instead of his own. Replacing the instruments was out of the question, as they were barely earning enough money to keep everyone fed and traveling from show to show. The band ended up borrowing new equipment every night. 'Seriously,' says Tre Cool, 'I was using guys' kits where the drummer would say, 'If you screw up my kit, I'm gonna stab you.''"

35 years ago (31 October 1989), Green Day played the Los Robles Lodge in Santa Rosa, CA.

"We played this show with them, Halloween 1989 in Santa Rosa. Victim's Family and Green Day. It was a benefit. And people wouldn't give Green Day ten bucks for gas to get home in their fucking VW van. This alleged benefit, and people left them stranded with their van." — Ralph Spight

Your most iconic quote. Even better than, "I don't know anything about Turkey, Green Day don't play there (despite having been to Turkey)."

Thanks, to you and to other contributers, once again, this is a very special thread your developing.

You said at the very beginning you are scheduling stories on GDA Instagram.

Can I be nosey and ask when finished, will it be generally accessible for fans, like a chronological database or something? Thanks.

[solongfromthestars]

On 10/31/2024 at 9:24 PM, Dingle said:

Thanks, to you and to other contributers, once again, this is a very special thread your developing.

You said at the very beginning you are scheduling stories on GDA Instagram.

Can I be nosey and ask when finished, will it be generally accessible for fans, like a chronological database or something? Thanks.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

 

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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/

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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.

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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

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33 years ago (2 November 1991), Green Day played JUZ Dampfmühle in Verden, Germany.

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[jengd]

@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.  

[Dingle]

16 minutes ago, jengd said:

@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.  

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 ✨ 

[Cris.]

57 minutes ago, jengd said:

@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.  

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.

[solongfromthestars]

On this day 5 years ago (3 November 2019), Green Day attended the EMAs in Seville, Spain. They won the Best Rock award.

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7 years ago (3 November 2017), Green Day played the Arena Anhembi in São Paulo, Brazil on the Revolution Radio Tour.

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15 years ago (3 November 2009), Green Day played the Olympiahalle in Munich, Germany on the 21st Century Breakdown Tour.

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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.

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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.

 

On 11/2/2024 at 10:26 PM, jengd said:

@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 11/2/2024 at 10:46 PM, Dingle said:

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 ✨ 

On 11/2/2024 at 11:28 PM, Cris. said:

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.

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.

[Cris.]

I never knew Green Day had been to South America before the 21stCBD tour until this thread. Now I feel slightly offended they didn't go to Venezuela in that '98 tour. It was a perfectly normal and thriving country back then and I'm sure they'd have enough of an audience back then for the type of venues they were playing in that tour. 

[Hermione]

On 11/2/2024 at 8:14 PM, solongfromthestars said:

 

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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

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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 

[solongfromthestars]

On this day last year (4 November 2023), Green Day played the Bataclan in Paris, France.

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20 years ago (4 November 2004), Green Day were on Musique Plus in Montreal, Canada.

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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

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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.

 

22 hours ago, Cris. said:

I never knew Green Day had been to South America before the 21stCBD tour until this thread. Now I feel slightly offended they didn't go to Venezuela in that '98 tour. It was a perfectly normal and thriving country back then and I'm sure they'd have enough of an audience back then for the type of venues they were playing in that tour. 

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.

6 hours ago, Hermione said:

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 

Thanks for sharing your story! I'm so glad you got to have this experience   It sounds absolutely wild!

[Cris.]

2 hours ago, solongfromthestars said:

On this day last year (4 November 2023), Green Day played the Bataclan in Paris, France.

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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.

 

[JasonofSuburbia]

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?

[solongfromthestars]

7 years ago yesterday (5 November 2017), Green Day played in Curitiba, Brazil on the Revolution Radio Tour.

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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.

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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).

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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

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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.

 

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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.

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15 years ago (6 November 2009), Green Day played the Stadthalle in Vienna, Austria on the 21st Century Breakdown Tour.

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19 years ago (6 November 2005), Green Day played on Top of the Pops at the BBC Television Centre in London, England.

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20 years ago (6 November 2004), Green Day played the Cobo Arena in Detroit, MI on the American Idiot Tour.

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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.

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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.

[solongfromthestars]

On this day last year (7 November 2023), Green Day played the Magazzini Generali in Milan, Italy on the Saviors Tour.

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7 years ago (7 November 2017), Green Day played the Anfiteatro do Beira Rio in Porto Alegre, Brazil on the Revolution Radio Tour.

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8 years ago (7 November 2016), the Still Breathing music video was released.

This is one of Green Day's best videos. I love all the different storylines and how they're all connected despite being completely different, which was what Billie said he wanted to achieve with the song. And of course it's lovely to see the ending where Billie returns to the practice space and Mike and Tre are there waiting for him.

12 years ago (7 November 2012), the Stray Heart music video was released. That's one of my favourite songs but I admit I don't care about the video because the band aren't in it.

26 years ago (7 November 1998), Green Day played Via Funchal in São Paulo, Brazil on the Nimrod Tour.

They were also interviewed there.

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27 years ago (7 November 1997), Green Day played The Roxy in Atlanta, GA on the Nimrod Tour.

32 years ago (7 November 1992), Green Day played at 924 Gilman Street.

33 years ago (7 November 1991), Green Day played Kulturstation in Munich, Germany.

35 years ago (7 November 1989), Green Day played Komotion in San Francisco, CA.

[Montclare]

The Milan shirt was my favorite shirt that Billie wore on the Saviors tour.

[solongfromthestars]

On this day 15 years ago (8 November 2009), Green Day played the Hallenstadion in Zurich, Switzerland on the 21st Century Breakdown Tour.

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19 years ago (8 November 2005), Green Day played American Idiot on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross in London, England.

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20 years ago (8 November 2004), Green Day played the UIC Pavilion in Chicago, IL on the American Idiot Tour.

23 years ago (8 November 2001), Green Day played four songs on The Chris Isaak Show in Vancouver, Canada. It aired on 13 November.

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26 years ago (8 November 1998), Green Day played a second night at Via Funchal in São Paulo, Brazil on the Nimrod Tour.

27 years ago (8 November 1997), Green Day played the Tremont Music Hall in Charlotte, NC on the Nimrod Tour.

“Great show! I remember it being the most packed I have ever seen Tremont Music Hall. You could hardly move, but the show was amazing!” — Jarrod Landahl

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29 years ago (8 November 1995), Green Day played 86 on the Late Show With David Letterman.

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33 years ago (8 November 1991), Green Day played UJZ Korn in Hannover, Germany.

  

18 hours ago, Montclare said:

The Milan shirt was my favorite shirt that Billie wore on the Saviors tour.

It really suited him. Stripes are good.

[solongfromthestars]

A year ago yesterday (9 November 2023), Green Day played at the Marquis pub in London.

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20 years ago (9 November 2004), Green Day played the US Cellular Arena in Milwaukee, WI on the American Idiot Tour.

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27 years ago (9 November 1997), Green Day played The Boathouse in Norfolk, VA on the Nimrod Tour.

29 years ago (9 November 1995), Green Day played the Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena in Binghamton, NY on the Insomniac Tour.

33 years ago (9 November 1991), Green Day played KOB in Berlin, Germany. There were only about 50 people there.

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35 years ago (9 November 1989), Green Day played at 924 Gilman Street.

 

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On this day last year (10 November 2023), Green Day didn't play the Electric Ballroom, so I made this to commemorate the momentous occasion.

7 years ago (10 November 2017), Green Day played in Buenos Aires, Argentina on the Revolution Radio Tour.

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15 years ago (10 November 2009), the 21st Century Breakdown music video was released. I always say the 21 Guns video is my favourite, but this one is bloody good too. There aren't any bad videos from that era.

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They also played in Milan that day.

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19 years ago (10 November 2005), Green Day were interviewed and played three songs on MTV Total Request Live.

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24 years ago (10 November 2000), Green Day played Minority on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

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27 years ago (10 November 1997), Green Day played the 9:30 Club in Washington D.C. on the Nimrod Tour.

"An amazing show! It was a sold-out crowd at the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC. Superdrag had done their set and now everyone was ready for Green Day! Their roadies were setting up the equipment and the Ramones were playing over the PA. After a while, Whip It by Devo was blasted over the PA speakers and everyone knew that signaled something. Before you knew it, the boys from Green Day trotted up on stage and the crowd went crazy. They opened up with Going to Pasalacqua. Crazy things were going on the whole show. At one point, Bille Joe walked out with an Elmo doll in his pants. He whipped Elmo out and had him clapping along to the song. Then he brought a member out of the crowd to play along to the cover tune, Knowledge. After the guy played along, he commenced in the traditional stage dive. When I Come Around was the second to last song. After they played that, Green Day absolutely destroyed their set. BJ was playing weird shit on the guitar, Tre was trashing his drum set big time (there were sparks flying when he was hitting the cymbals against each other!) and Mike was spraying water and beer on the crowd. Well, there it was, a trashed set, absolute chaos onstage. Then, the roadie took one of the mics and just placed it towards the middle of the stage. Then, BJ came out and played Good Riddance (Time of Your Life). The crowed loved it. Billie didn't play it acoustic though, he just played it on his regular old guitar. It ended what was possibly the best live act that I have ever seen. If you get a chance to catch Green Day live, you won't regret it!" — fan experience

29 years ago (10 November 1995), Green Day played the State University of New York in Albany, NY on the Insomniac Tour.

33 years ago (10 November 1991), Green Day played the Gryfinski Dom Kultury in Gryfino, Poland. This was their first European show outside of Germany.

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[solongfromthestars]

On this day 15 years ago (11 November 2009), Last Night On Earth: Live In Tokyo was released.

Green Day also played in Bologna, Italy 15 years ago today.

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19 years ago (11 November 2005), Green Day played Wake Me Up When September Ends on Late Night With Conan O'Brien.

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27 years ago (11 November 1997), Green Day played in an alley behind an HMV shop in NYC.

Later that day, Billie Joe played Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) on Late Night With Conan O'Brien.

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29 years ago (11 November 1995), Green Day played the Stabler Arena in Bethlehem, PA on the Insomniac Tour.

"Regarding Geoff Gehman's review of the Green Day concert at Stabler Arena, he obviously wasn't at the same show I was. Green Day was very original, inventive and quite entertaining. Every song the band played sounded clear, quite different from the band's other material, and was eagerly welcomed by the sold-out crowd. I worked this show as part of the stage crew, and lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong took the time to talk to us 'roadies' and even signed autographs, while 99 percent of other performers are whisked away to their limos or tour buses and don't even acknowledge the people who make the shows happen." — John Anders

The bad review mentioned is on the GDA page. He REALLY didn't like that show.

33 years ago (11 November 1991), Green Day played Klub Modus in Bydgoszcz, Poland.

They were also interviewed backstage.

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34 years ago (11 November 1990), Green Day played in Eggplant's back yard in Pinole, CA.

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Well, I can actually say that missing yesterday wasn't my fault.

Anyway, 7 years ago yesterday (12 November 2017), Green Day played in Santiago, Chile on the Revolution Radio Tour.

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15 years ago (12 November 2009), Green Day played in Turin, Italy on the 21st Century Breakdown Tour.

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19 years ago (12 November 2005), Green Day played 16 songs at the Fuse TV Studio in NYC.

That photo was everywhere back then. I've got a "blend" from Piczo somewhere on my external hard drive.

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20 years ago (12 November 2004), Green Day played the Pepsi Center in Denver, CO on the American Idiot Tour.

27 years ago (12 November 1997), Green Day played the Roseland Ballroom in NYC on the Nimrod Tour.

29 years ago (12 November 1995), Green Day played the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, NY on the Insomniac Tour.

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33 years ago (12 November 1991), Green Day played Klub ACK in Białystok, Poland.

"I was on tour with the Mr. T Experience in Poland, not long after the communist government had fallen, and as we pulled into Bialystok, the last town before the Russian border, I thought, 'This has got to be the first time an American punk rock band has played in this part of the world.' Then I saw the huge 'Green Day' spray-painted across the town's water tower. They'd been there, done that, months before us." — Larry Livermore

35 years ago (12 November 1989), Green Day played at Eggplant's house in Pinole, CA.

"Green Day played my 16th birthday party. About four songs into it, Billie's mom called. He didn’t do his chores. So he had to get a ride back to his house so he could feed the dogs. 'Cause his mom would whup his ass. She was a redheaded firecracker. Billie's dad passed away when he was ten, so mom, as a waitress - she had to deal with all these kids. Billie's the last of six, so she had her ass-whuppin' tactics down. He had to get a ride home, feed the dogs, come back, and then they finished their set." — James Washburn

 

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On this day 12 years ago (13 November 2012), ¡Dos! was released. AKA one of Green Day's best albums!  

20 years ago (13 November 2004), Green Day played the E Center in West Valley City, UT on the American Idiot Tour.

23 years ago (13 November 2001), International Superhits and International Supervideos were released.

27 years ago (13 November 1997), Green Day played the Memorial Auditorium in Worcester, MA on the Nimrod Tour.

"After a poor set by Superdrag, Green Day took the stage by running and doing a few cartwheels. Billie Joe sported The Queers bumper sticker on the back of his black T-shirt. The band wasted no time in launching into their opener, Going To Pasalacqua. The sound was, to say the least, awesome. The 3,800-seat hall was only about half full, but the band seemed to pounce on its intimacy. Billie Joe spoke freely with the crowd, recalling the melee that took place when they played the Hatch Shell in Boston in 1994. Prior to The Grouch, Billie dedicated the song to all his 18 year old fans who grew up on Dookie - accepting the blame for their presumably fucked-up lives. The set went on to include such hits as: Chump/Longview, Welcome To Paradise, Hitchin' A Ride, She, F.O.D., Basket Case, Geek Stink Breath, and Brain Stew/Jaded. They didn't play J.A.R. or Walking Contradiction, but their playing of so many radio hits clearly showed their love for the music, regardless of its commercial status. The show was as if the band and the crowd were having a big party. Billie Joe donned a necktie thrown on stage prior to Welcome to Paradise, and during Ivy's Knowledge, Armstrong allowed a kid from the audience play his guitar. The mostly hardcore Green Day audience appreciated spirted renditions of 2,000 Light Years Away, and One of My Lies. Newer tracks such as Nice Guys Finish Last, Scattered, and Uptight seamlessly fit into the bands professional set. Billie Joe announced the traditional set closer Paper Lanterns before ripping into a frenzy. As usual, he slowed the tempo down to include an extended interlude with maximum foolishness. He put his guitar down to climb the amps and spray water on the crowd; he got the crowd to clap in unison with an Elmo doll, and he sang the Mickey Mouse theme song. Throughout the night, Tre would toss his drum sticks up in the air behind his back at every chance he got. At one point, he picked up a large handful, hit his snare once, and threw them everywhere. The band returned to loud applause as they launched into their encore, Prosthetic Head. This new track sounded dynamite, with its soft-loud-soft-loud dynamics and ascending vocal harmonies memorizing the crowd. Next came When I Come Around, complete with vocal support from the audience. As the song ended, Billie Joe thrashed on his G5 chord while Mike and Tre demolished the stage. Everything, save for BJ's mic stand, had to go. The carnage was so serious that Tre Cool ended up limping off stage. Billie Joe finally rested his guitar against the amp, and exited the stage to resonating feedback and tremendous cheers. He returned a minute later to perform Good Riddance - the touching solo number which brought out all the lighters. He placed his mike stand on top of his front monitor amp, and, standing as close to the crowd as possible (about four feet away), opened up his heart. When it was over, he said nothing, but his face had this sincere look of, 'Well, wasn't that perfect?' In the end, the whole night was perfect. Green Day might have lost its Top 40 status, but neither the band nor its fans seem to care. In fact, if Green Day continues to put on such complete shows as last Thursday's, their best days may very well still be ahead of them." — (a fan called) Mike

29 years ago (13 November 1995), Green Day played the Civic Center in Springfield, MA.

"Inside the Springfield Civic Center Monday night, oblivious to the season's first snow outside, Green Day hit the stage running, tearing through its speedy songs at an even speedier-than-usual pace. Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong, when he wasn't riffing relentlessly on his powder blue guitar and shouting into the microphone, shaking his head like a film off its sprockets, was leaping into the air. Bassist Mike Dirnt, keeping the same breakneck pace, kicked backward at the same time, occasionally doubling over or exploding into flying kicks. Drummer Tre Cool was a bit more anchored to his drum set, yet his arms flailed the underpinning beat. The difference between this fall's Green Day appearance and last fall's is that they have another hit album and twice as many familiar tunes for the young crowd, which twitched and rippled in delight en masse when they came up. Armitage Shanks and Brat opened the set, just as they open the new album, Insomniac. Four songs in was the current single, Geek Stink Breath, whose lurid tooth-extraction video is currently grossing out viewers ('At least we hope so,' said Dirnt). And sprinkled throughout were the hits from their 8-million selling breakthrough, Dookie. Welcome to Paradise was the first of them, by way of introduction. Later came Longview in the same segue from Chump that occurs on the album; Basket Case followed by She; and in an encore that began with drummer Cool on guitar doing a messed-up country song, the finale, When I Come Around, whose loping beat is just about the slowest thing the band does. It was a set that lasted less than an hour, but it was a model of concentration. They still played nearly 20 songs. Things got craziest during one of their oldest songs, 2,000 Light Years Away, during which Armstrong donned a mask and quoted The Crazy World of Arthur Brown before imploring the crowd to 'lead a nice, clean, straight life and start listening to Hootie & The Blowfish.' Not a chance. Local malls have nothing on Green Day; Armstrong's crimson-dyed hair and Cool's bright green seemed to anticipate the Christmas season. The band's intensity and focus seems sharpened by nightly performances and a new inspiration - families back home. And it comes in sharp relief on the comparatively simple stage set - so small it was tough to see all three members from around the huge banks of speakers flanking it. Unless you were right up front, of course. And those up there, in the first all- general admission arena show in the region in years, were too busy moshing (or protecting themselves from moshing) to take much note. Green Day's punk ethos includes not only spartan staging, but bringing along favorite bands from their old record label, Lookout, to open. This year, it's the Riverdales, a trio who have taken up the Ramones' traditions, down to the countdowns, before that classic punk band even retires." — Courant

30 years ago (13 November 1994), Green Day played in Madison, WI on the Dookie Tour.

33 years ago (13 November 1991), Green Day played in Prague, Czechia which was still Czechoslovakia at the time.

There are no photos I can find from any of these shows, by the way – I haven't just forgotten to include them

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On this day 7 years ago (14 November 2017), Green Day played in Lima, Peru on the Revolution Radio Tour.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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33 years ago (15 November 1991), Green Day played Flex in Vienna, Austria.

 

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On this day 7 years ago (16 November 2017), the Back in the USA music video was released.

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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.

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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