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One of the big Chicago alt radio stations has been consistently playing both Dilemma and Bobby Sox nowadays.

On this day 2 years ago (29 October 2022), Green Day played a benefit concert in LA and met with some fans. More photos: 14 years ago (29 October 2010), the 21st Century Breakdown Tour ended at the Estadio Ricardo Saprissa in San Jose, Costa Rica. It was Green Day's longest show and the first and only time they've played in Costa Rica so far. So… going to Costa Rica just to see a band is still the craziest thing I’ve ever done, especially because it meant missing a maths exam and having to do a harder one, which my teachers insisted I'd fail. I don't regret it one bit though. It was the best show I've ever been to. Not because of the setlist or how long it went on, but because it was just magical. And I came back and passed the harder maths exam with a good grade anyway. I also wrote about the show in my English GCSE. I can still feel that magical atmosphere now. I can even still see the stage and the lights and hear Paper Lanterns in my memory. I can still feel my voice shaking as I sang along to Whatsername. Anyway, here's what little me wrote: “We met up with others from England, Honduras and the US who we knew from the Green Day Community forum. Sitting on bird shit in Tibás, Costa Rica, probably should have been the moment we knew Green Day had ruined us, but honestly? I was having a great time and I wouldn’t have traded for the world. In the pit, we made two more new friends who we're still in touch with [Note from 2024 me: We're still friends with these lovely people!]. The local opener, Bufonic, were great. Then, Song of the Century echoed into the night for the last time. We were in Costa Rica, about to see Green Day. I will never, ever, forget being diagonal, off my feet, as I looked up at Billie to see him put his mic aside to check he wasn’t seeing things, then give me the most incredible look of ‘what the fuck are you doing here?’ I will ever receive. In East Jesus Nowhere, Billie ‘saved’ a man on crutches. Watching him wave the Costa Rican flag was like a bizarre, but wonderful, dream. After Holiday, Billie headed to the internal mic. I heard piano. They were playing ¡Viva la Gloria! I was hearing my favourite song, the words that gave me hope when I thought there was none, in Costa Rica. I couldn’t believe it. There are no words to describe the unconditional happiness I felt then. ‘Don’t let the bonfires go out, Costa Rica!’ In Give Me Novacaine, Billie sang ‘Costa Rica’s the best country in the world!’ and ‘at home in Costa Rica!’ That was certainly how I felt. As the show went on, we exchanged funny faces and he pointed at me as we screamed lyrics at each other. Even Tré, who I was sure had no idea I existed (and I’m sure he no longer does), nodded and smiled as he threw out drumsticks. I’d never felt so connected to my favourite band. In Are We the Waiting, local fan Isabel who I knew from Green Day Community got onstage. Billie waltzed with her. The dreamlike fuzz only intensified as One for the Razorbacks was followed by Brat, One of My Lies and Only of You. Then Tré switched places with Billie for Dominated Love Slave. They swapped back for Disappearing Boy. I felt like we were all in a bubble, on a separate plane to the rest of the world, with Green Day. Screaming until my voice would no longer come out to I Was There, I knew I would look back, thinking I was there, for the rest of my life. Road to Acceptance was next. I’d lost my mum, but I knew somewhere in that crowd, she was losing her voice to Waiting. After Christie Road, Billie announced ‘this next song was one of the earliest songs we’ve ever written and I gotta fucking tell you, it’s my fucking favourite fucking song to play right now! So right now, I want everybody here to lose your fucking mind and go crazy and dance, are you ready?!’ and pyros exploded to Paper Lanterns. Billie pointed as he yelled ‘to this day I’m asking why I still think about you!‘ In 2000 Light Years Away, after thrilled fans danced onstage, Billie commanded us to wave as we echoed ‘CO-STA RI-CA!’ to the bassline. Some fans posed for a photo with my flag before Hitchin’ a Ride. I waved it when Billie asked for a drummer in Knowledge. He considered it for a moment before shaking his head, smirking, then went to find his son Joey. ‘This is the last show… you wanna keep going?’ The crowd roared approval. Extraordinary Girl provided a poignant prequel to 21 Guns. I had never bellowed anything as loud as I screamed ‘one, 21 guns!‘ or ‘like a liar looking for forgiveness from a stone!’ in my life. I was crying, my whole body wracked with sobs that had waited years to come out. Because I had so much to fight for. In Minority, I wanted so desperately to scream ‘no, thank YOU!’ back at the band who not only blessed us with such a set but treated me with such kindness; yet I felt at the same time I didn’t need to. Rain fell as Whatsername began the encore. It was one of the first Green Day songs I ever heard. Listening to it on radio.blog.club, at home with my Canada 3000 headphones from the charity shop, I never imagined I’d hear it live… let alone 5,375 miles from that home, smiling through tears in Costa Rica. My voice was trembling as I sang with my arms raised high. As Good Riddance closed the tour, I sang ‘I hope you had the time of your life!’ with what little remained of my voice. They played for four hours. I had the time of my life. More than I could ever have imagined. I found my mum and our new friends after the show. They loved it. Everyone was buzzing on a Green Day high. We were all still smiling as we left." I'd also like to share Isabel's story from the We Are Revolution Radio book of fan stories that I made in 2017. What a time. More photos: 15 years ago (29 October 2009), Green Day played East Jesus Nowhere on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross in London, England. They also played the "Monster or Celebrity" game. I remember asking my grandpa to record this because I was going to be in Manchester. I guess he forgot or thought it didn’t really matter because it was just another one of my short-lived phases. He was a saint otherwise so I’ll forgive him. Now I’m going to show my age and say it’s wild that I can just watch it on the internet all these years later. [Insert picture of old man leaning on walking stick] More photos: 20 years ago (29 October 2004), Green Day played the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia, PA on the American Idiot Tour. 29 years ago (29 October 1995), Green Day played the Civic Centre in Ottawa, Canada on the Insomniac Tour. "When the day of the show arrived, five of us arrived early to sit in the parking lot passing around Gatorade bottles filled with jungle juice as we discussed the songs we hoped to hear that evening. Upon entering the building, it soon became clear that we were out of our element, but we threw caution to the wind and stormed the floor through a sea of the city’s rowdiest young hooligans. In his review of the concert, Ottawa Citizen music writer Norman Provencher described the majority of attendees quite accurately as 'tiny little mallrats in tour t-shirts that fit like granny dresses,' ... When Green Day finally hit the stage, we were somewhat shocked to realize that this was not the tame version of the band that we were used to watching on Much Music. The stage banter between Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, and Tre Cool was full of vulgar obscenities ... At one point, the band invited a young audience member on stage, ordering him to chug a beer and then stage dive back into the crowd, ignoring the panicked pleas from the helpless security personnel. Later in the show, Billie Joe became irritated with a heckler in the front row who had been flipping him off. Armstrong proceeded to drop trou and engage in what Provencher’s review would describe as 'weenie-waggling' as he laced into the individual with some 'serious verbal abuse.' ... The band blazed through seventeen of their best tunes in a concert that was as thrilling as it was shocking." — Ty Hall 32 years ago (29 October 1992), Green Day played with Tilt and Rancid at Brave New World in San Francisco, CA.

Lord jesus 🥵. Wasn't expecting to see a porn shoot in this documentary

After the summer tour in 2010 we were just desperate to see another show. Our countdown to the show So to go to Costa Rica we sold everything we could find: my old business suits, handbags, old jewellery, literally anything we could find that might have sold. Most of it went for nothing but it all added up. There were so many parcels that they almost wouldn’t fit into the car. If there’d been one more it wouldn’t have fit. It took the lady at the Post Office an hour to get them all ready to post. The receipt was so long it was comical. Some of the parcels Then we went and booked the flights and bought anything else we needed for the trip. People on GDC in Costa Rica had told us how to get the tickets and that there were still some left. You had to buy them at the Masxmenos supermarket so on the morning of the show we went and got them there on the way to the stadium as soon as the supermarket opened. We got to the stadium about 9. Us waiting in line We were interviewed on TV while in the queue but sadly we never got to see it. It was all kind of surreal. Me with the flag and a Costa Rica fan Left to right J'net, Green Day Tone, Decca, Morgan, Maria, a GDCer from Honduras and Alejandro from Costa Rica A show wristband bought from a street vendor Show t-shirt When Green Day came on stage, that was the closest I’d ever been (about third row from the catwalk) and I remember Tre running out on the catwalk in his jacket with his sticks in his hands. I could hear all these piercing screams and they weren’t screaming at Green Day - they were screaming in fear! Everyone’s feet were off the floor and we all couldn’t breathe. The next thing I knew, I opened my eyes and saw the guy on crutches on stage in East Jesus Nowhere. I was unconscious but stood up being carried by the crowd. I opened my eyes again and saw the flashing light in Holiday. Then I came to after Holiday and Tre was filming the crowd, and the band went into Viva la Gloria. I had an umbrella that I was going mad waving. Two sets of drumsticks landed by me but I wouldn’t have dared to attempt to get them. Tre forgot to finish playing Only of You. He came out, threw the drumsticks, then forgot to end the song and Billie looked at him confused! I remember Waiting and everyone going “heeeeeeeey-oooooooh.” I remember looking at my watch at the end and seeing it had been 4 hours 15 minutes and thinking “Jesus wept.” Bruise on my side (doesn't seem to look as bad now!)

There’s a station in Austin that I’m told plays Dilemma in heavy rotation

What do we think about the 4K upgrades of the American Idiot music videos posted to YouTube? I dunno about y'all, but I'm watching Boulevard now and it still looks a little soft, unlike the Dookie music video remasters which had plenty of grain & lots of fine detail. I'll need to watch all of them before reaching a conclusion, but right now I think at least this one I'm watching (Boulevard) might be from a standard definition digital or tape master upsampled to 4K. We'll see! -- Or, actually, 3rd hypothesis, these are new transfers but they've been DNR'd into oblivion. Check this out: Looks just like the 2012 Magical Mystery Tour Blu-Ray, which also was DNR'd into oblivion. -- American Idiot looks great and how it should (if a bit more saturated w/ clipped highlights)! In fact, the higher resolution reveals some masking mistakes in the warped-time segments, only noticeable if you slow it down or pause at the right time. Since these are also high-resolution, I'm wondering if these were 1) shot digitally, edited digitally, upscaled here 2) redone digitally for the remaster or 3) originally done optically? This second shot with a bit of green spill also tells me some of these shots were done later, maybe with a different method of bringing them into the plate. YouTube compression sucks for analysis though, hopefully the technically inclined or connected of us would be able to provide us the master copies on streaming services like Apple Music, barring that a lossless video capture from them. I could do the latter with an Apple TV 4K and a capture card, but my capture device is limited to 1080p. I'll see if I can grab some screenshots from iTunes, though, for comparison! iTunes Screenshot (here's the listing: https://music.apple.com/us/music-video/american-idiot-remaster/1775651067) Back to YouTube, oh my goodness this is gorgeous: I'll continue later, I don't have much time this week to really go into depth with these. Feel free to continue the discussion about this, though, and if the rest look as good as if not better than American Idiot, job well done! Still, it's curious to see that Boulevard doesn't shape up, maybe the final film element is gone? Who knows? I doubt we'll ever get clarity on how these were done, same with the Dookie music videos. My guess is these were probably done by an internal Warner team who also would've been behind the similarly great Rick Astley's Together Forever & a-Ha's Take On Me 4K remasters. I'm personally happy that the industry has NOT taken cues from Park Road Post's destructive digital restoration practices (and the praise that it had garnered from an undiscerning press and audience). We've finally learned our lessons from the late 2000s / early 2010s about DNR, for the good of everyone please don't set us back!

I received my vinyl box from the store. FedEx asked for an order confirmation and a PayPal invoice, but they delivered it finally. Got number 05791 Received my CD/blu-ray box theoretically on Friday, but I was only able to pick it up on Sunday and was only able to watch the doc just now. Wow, so much video material I and we have never seen before and I'm glad they only used a little footage of BIAB. And wow, the Warfield footage sounds and looks amazing, too bad they didn't release any of it earlier. What a show! By the end of the doc I felt a little melancholic that it was already over. What a cool era to be a GD fan (I was there haha) and what a good time for the band, stressful for sure, but they changed a lot with this album and the tours. The BBC footage is pretty great to finally have in good quality like that. They could have included "Basket Case" from the Jools Holland appearance, but I guess they didn't take it since Billie's mic didn't work properly and he had to run over to Mike to sing and they seem to have great quality footage of "American Idiot" at the Brits 2005 but didn't include the full song here. Edit: Could it be that "We are the Champions" from the documentary was recorded at Milton Keynes? He screams "Englaaand" at some point.

UPS finally received and processed my box set and it’s expected Saturday! What a joke.

Another Scandinavian date would be good. 😇🤞

Just listened to the Tokyo tracks through my good headphones and man was Billie Joe’s guitar playing sloppy, but his vocals were fantastic! Jason White was truly a vital part of their live shows at this point. Props to him, he has the best job in the world! Some of my favorite live tracks for sure, ever since I watched them on YouTube. I like how the bonus tracks have a cleaner, lighter guitar tone. Different vibe that doesn’t completely fit in with the album, still killer tracks of course. Even though I’ve heard them all before, it’s nice to revisit them in this package. This is definitely the best anniversary pack of the bunch for me. Being my favorite album of all time, I’m considering getting the vinyl pack too. And it comes with 2 dvds! I’ve held off on watching the documentary because I’m going to watch it with my dad who got me into Green Day in the first place by playing this very album. I was 7 years old and I still remember how I thought the song American Idiot was the greatest thing I’ve ever heard.

Billie is pretending to be a plumber and is detecting a leak in the pipe...thus the butt crack! 🤣

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Well I continue to be in my Green Day isolation ward trying to avoid AI Anniversary spoilers while I am (still! 😤) waiting for my boxset. On the flip side of things, last Friday I finally got around to listening to the demos from the Nimrod 25th Anniversary while waiting, and I am completely obsessed with Black Eyeliner. Every time I listen to it I replay it a few times, and then move on for a bit, but like half an hour later I'm like "god, I want to listen to it again!" so I go back. What an absolutely beautiful song! It's just perfect, all of it, it's amazing! How did it not make it into the album?! I feel it would have been my favorite song in Nimrod, and there are a lot of good songs in Nimrod. At the same time though, I'm happy it didn't make it into the album because then we wouldn't have Church on Sunday, which I also adore. So things happening the way they did was perfect. But really, I just wonder why they decided not to put it in the album. All those times I've said I went on a sabbatical from Green Day for ten years until last November, I wish someone had sat me down and made me listen to this immediately So if there's anyone out there who hasn't heard this song yet, this is that message for you. Stop whatever you are doing and listen to Black Eyeliner. You are welcome. Ode to Black Eyeliner over (for now).

THEM CHEEKS!!!!!!!! This just makes my favorite photoshoot even better.

The documentary is awesome, you'll love it. Don't wait to long to watch it. I've watched it twice already.

On the second night in Birmingham Green Day mixed up the setlist. They would play Jesus of Suburbia one night and American Eulogy the next night. American Eulogy was incredible and I really wasn’t expecting that. It’s just amazing live. Then when Billie came out with his acoustic guitar he sang Macy’s Day Parade and I wasn’t expecting that either! The guy next to me was complaining that they didn’t play his favourite song (Jesus of Suburbia) and I was like “but THEY PLAYED AMERICAN EULOGY!” We were staying quite close to the venue and could see all the buses and trucks outside. When we got up the next morning it was sad to see they'd all gone somehow. They did individual t-shirts for each night which I just thought was so cool and they’re treasured possessions now.

Here are the lyrics to Tre's part in the Homecoming demo (because Genius is mostly wrong): I went to the warehouse I'm in love with Jimmy Boom (from the Phenomenauts) He showed me the manta ring I showed him my practice room Jason White was worrying About the rain in Danville He has a concert there That's when I heard my phone ring

Hello ladies.

The Birmingham show was my first Green Day show too. At the time I’d been made redundant and was doing temporary work. Every time I took on a new job I had to say “I need this week off in October, it’s very important, I have to take this week off.” One guy said to me “why do you need to see them four times?!” But I’m so glad I did. It was the first time I’d ever tried to buy tickets online (you used to queue up to get them at the box office!) and I’d got three other people at work trying too. One of them had worked for Gigs and Tours so she was the “ticket buying expert.” She said a Nottingham show was pencilled in but they went for Sheffield instead because there are no 5 star hotels in Nottingham. Anyway reading this almost brought me to tears! That was a special time. It was like we were in this magical bubble and the stage was in a magical mist. We were actually there watching Green Day. And Give Me Novacaine… oh my God. I was drenched in sweat and I rubbed my feet raw dancing! I actually ripped my toenails off, my toes were bleeding and I had a huge blister on the back of my foot. Billie did that thing he used to do when he went “one thousand! Two thousand! Three thousand! Four thousand! Five thousand! Six thousand!” up to 16,000 (the capacity of the venue). I remember Tre standing up at the drums in Minority while Billie did the introductions. Every show on that tour just made you want to go back. You’d see them and you were just thirsty for some more. You just wanted to see it again and again and again because it was just so good. The band were just perfectly tight and in sync like they were tied together by string. It was wild.

And my first was 15 years ago today! Those are great pics It was so awesome because a big group of fans from GDC and FB from the UK, US, Europe and even Australia were travelling to all the UK shows in a minibus and calling it "Rocktober" and we met up with them, met over 30 people from here that day and still see some at shows now! After just following the band online mostly through here it was surreal to actually see them live and hang out with so many cool people from here. I'll never forget lovely J'net who was with us during the show getting handed a pick by Mike and just giving it to me(!), singing along with *the* Tony from BIAB, staying at the awesome Sharon and Graham's house afterwards where they had an open door policy for GD fans , and everyone we met. And getting to do this with my sister who loves the band as much as me, every show I've been to since has been with her. And the show, that tour was probably their live peak and got to see all the songs and traditions I'd waited for plus loads of 21st CB songs, just amazing to see hot blond Billie and the rest of the band right there . Then unexpectedly got to see FBHT just over a week later...one reason I still obsess over that is it came right after my GD dreams already came true. Unbelievable magical time.

@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!

I saw Massive Attack this year at Rock En Seine at their show is quite... trippy? Very interesting (and very political too). Definitely a very good line up for that day! I'm very excited for anyone who can go to this!

The Friday bill... You're telling me I get Green Day, kpop (Seventeen), a Japanese rock band (One OK Rock), Juanes... as the main folks. There's other names I recognize, but those are the main ones that stood out to me.

Look what just got announced! Green Day and Fall Out Boy BOTH headlining this is making my life LOL. God I wish I could go to Mexico LOL.

I really hope they will finally play somewhere in East/Central Europe 🤞

Munich would be great….

i "think" they took credit for Stop, Drop and Roll because they "gave" that song to the Hot tubs alongside Pedestrian and Broadway (and they got Fuck Time, Stray Heart, Stay The Night and Lazy Bones in return) while the network directly "stole" from them (but in revenge green day "stole" Govenator from them)

Found the whole video and it is one of the hottest things I have ever seen. Also, where can I watch this whole documentary, becuase I need to see this? https://www.instagram.com/p/DBo8UhUNSuS/

It’s ok, we get it. Thank god for like minded people!

i have the same conclusion , Unt sounds more as gd bside album, but its a very good record and im verry happy that they are back with new music. For me Jump Salty still remains No.1 the impact Sarah Kirch had on this record is unbeatable!

really wanna watch the doc

Ok I read why John rocker included the dancers in JOS, so it makes it slightly better in my head but still came across as pretty silly in the movie. But man that Letterbomb performance is the best I’ve ever seen!

I believe that’s only noticeable on the hd remasters. I remember listening to homecoming on hd tracks years ago and hearing that part with the radio interference thinking it was really cool. I’m glad it’s on Spotify now.

I listened to the entire Irving plaza cd and realized the minority solo is different from the one included on the holiday single. They must’ve punched in a solo recorded after the show because they thought the live one was shit haha. Cool they left it in now though. Going to watch Heart Like A Handgrenade now because I don’t remember it at all. update: wtf is with the random dancers during JOS lmao. Also why the recorded track when he filmed them playing it live damn. And he spent 9 months with them in the studio, why use 10 minutes on one song? And it looks like they ran out of dancing footage by the end of the song hahaha. Still cool to have this movie overall though so I’ll try not to hate much more.

My local alternative station is playing the crap out of this song. They even made their own radio edit where "Fuck it up on my rock and roll" in the first half the chorus is replaced by "Drop a bomb on my rock and roll" from the second half of the chorus.

On this day 13 years ago (27 October 2011), Green Day played Webster Hall in NYC. More photos: 15 years ago (27 October 2009), Green Day played the LG Arena in Birmingham, England on the 21st Century Breakdown Tour. The official live video of Murder City is from this show. This was my first Green Day show. There are parts I still remember well, like going crazy when they started At the Library, but my clearest memory is the pure happiness and excitement I felt before, throughout and after the show. My recap is long, but 14 year-old me would be angry if I didn't share the whole thing, so here it is: "As the drunk bunny stumbled around to YMCA, it was sinking in that all the live videos I’d watched of a show that seemed so far out of my reach… I was about to experience that for myself. The bunny was gone. The Ramones’ 'Do You Remember Rock ‘n' Roll Radio?' played. Then the crackling static that introduced Song of the Century echoed through the arena. The crowd of 16,000 sang along in unison. My heart was pounding with the first chords of 21st Century Breakdown. Tré Cool ran onstage. The Big Three. Mike Dirnt. Then, finally, Billie Joe Armstrong. With flicks of his wrists he drew roars from the crowd. My voice was another scream in the tumultous applause. The crowd clapped along with Tré’s hits of the bass drum. With exploding pyros the show began. I was screaming my favourite lyrics, the words that gave me hope, back at my favourite band. Billie Joe commanded us all to stand up. We already were, clapping as if our lives depended on it. Green Day’s ferocious energy reached from the front row to the highest tiers. In my seat that looked down on them as specks, I felt as much like a part of the show, the mass of bodies obeying Billie’s every command, as I ever have on the floor since. It was a sense of belonging. A sense of acceptance. I felt understood. I knew that I, like the other 15,999 people in that room, mattered. The first fan was pulled onstage in Know Your Enemy. He staged dived to the pyros. Their sound was all enveloping, like a pounding warmth that attacked every cell. Everyone, on the floor, in the seats, was dancing. We repeated Billie’s ‘whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh!’ to East Jesus Nowhere religiously. In the bridge he announced he was going to ‘save’ someone from the crowd. He stubbornly made his way up into the seats, heading for a young girl called Catherine. There was a long exchange before he returned. Unsuccessful in recruiting Catherine, he called up his own 11 year-old son, Jakob, who obediently waved his arms before allowing himself to be ‘saved.’ The crowd chanted his name while Billie sang ‘the sirens of decay will infiltrate Jakob!’ and he fell to the floor. Once the song ended, he tried to make a quick escape. Billie announced ‘hey, where are you going, Jakob, you little shit? Come here for a second!’ and promptly planted a kiss on his forehead. ‘Alright, see you later. That’s Jakob – Danger – Armstrong! Danger is his middle name.’ Then Billie yelled ‘do you wanna start a fucking war?’ and the show resumed with Holiday. Watching Bullet in a Bible, it was hard to imagine how chanting ‘hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!’ back at Billie in the bridge really felt. It was like a reeling high. As we screamed along to ‘the static aaaaa-aaaaaa-age!’ I just couldn’t believe I was there. The sweltering heat and my hoarse voice were reminders it was real. Back then, we weren’t looking at setlists. My mum had no idea they were about to play one of her all-time favourite songs – Give Me Novacaine. I can still see the disbelief on her face. After all those years, working so hard she could barely wake up, she was free. Billie even announced that he was now one of us: 'We’re still alive, Birmingham! It’s been a long fucking time, goddamn I’m so fucking happy to be back in England, you have no idea. Goddammit I’m fucking moving here, fuck this shit, I’m fucking moving. Packing my bags, I’m gonna get on a big old fucking aeroplane, I’m gonna take all my shit across the pond, and I am officially fucking English as of now! I’m bringing it back home!’ Another fan came up for Are We The Waiting. With a disco ball reflecting skulls around the room, it was like being in the starry nights, city lights coming down over me. It was anthemic. That dirty town might as well have been burning down in my dreams, because nothing mattered but singing at the top of our lungs. The world outside was irrelevant. Billie darted around the stage to St. Jimmy. It was more ferocious, more passionate than I could have imagined watching videos. The crowd was deafening through Boulevard of Broken Dreams. Then they burst into Murder City, a performance that was recorded for GreenDay.com. I didn’t expect that and I was thrilled. I was even more thrilled when, two songs later, they played At the Library. People were confused, wondering if this was a new song. We were the only ones in our block screaming every word. Now I wasn’t just seeing Green Day. They even went and played At the Library and Murder City. When I Come Around’s old-school charm wasn’t lost in the dazzling show. Dancing to Brain Stew and Jaded, I didn’t feel I’d missed a thing by hearing them live 14 years after their release. Green Day were every bit the band they were in the 90s, except even more energetic. Everyone around us, young or old, was jumping. As Knowledge came to a close, Billie announced that a band of fans would finish the song. Basket Case and She followed. The hits were every bit as invigorating as the rarities. The extended King for a Day, with all its goofiness, floor-humping and cover snippets, was a fun and amusing break in the intense set. Could anything top At the Library? Probably not. Or so I thought, until King for a Day’s silliness faded to 21 Guns. I already loved this song. The music video was my all-time favourite. But I could never have imagined its rawness live. I was moved beyond words as I watched the fire rain down to ‘as a liar looking for forgiveness from a stone!’ and Billie’s added ‘whoa-ohs’ that seemed to come from the depths of his heart. Following that was emotional piano absent on the studio version. The band were silhouetted against the music video playing on the screen behind them. I might have been crying. I don’t remember. Billie described 21 Guns as not being written for two people, but 20,000. He was absolutely right. Then the show was uplifted again with Minority. Billie thanks every crowd countless times after the solo, but each word remained sincere. Blue and white confetti burst from the stage, sprinkling the crowd as the song closed. Finally, with American Idiot and Jesus of Suburbia, the show was coming to an end. The crowd, drenched in sweat from the pit to the seats as if at the end of a journey with the band, watched the inimate Last Night on Earth, still and in awe. Billie began with an acoustic guitar. We didn’t yet know that with lights flooding the darkened stage, the full band would return. An emotional Wake Me Up When September Ends followed. Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) ended the set. The band bowed and waved. It was over. We charged down the steps to scoop up confetti from the floor, filling two tissue packets before security chased us off. Green Day played hundreds of shows every tour. Yet this, my first show that to anyone else was just another city on a list of tour dates, was still so special. That – how every show is a precious memory to be treasured forever – is why I keep going to see Green Day." I didn't take many photos and they're all awful because I was so high up, but you can vaguely tell what's going on in this one. More (decent) photos: By the way, there was none of this manufactured drama about Billie saying he was going to move to England back then. People just understood that he was saying it to rile up the crowd. Edit: How could I forget Tre's tweet? 18 years ago, the music video for The Saints Are Coming was released. It includes some footage of both bands recording the song and performing it live. 29 years ago (27 October 1995), Green Day played the Forum in Montreal, Canada on the Insomniac Tour. "I was a moderately early support of Green Day and remember when I first heard Dookie (which I only discovered afterwards, wasn't their first album). I was the Music Director at CFLI, the Loyola Campus college radio station at Concordia University so I got a copy of an early release of the album. As a music director I had to listen to and evaluate all the music that came into the station and decide if it was something that we should shelve or put on heavy, medium or light rotation. About 10 seconds into Burnout I decided this was a heavy rotation album. Green Day clearly had found that alt-radio pop-punk balance that made Dookie exciting and energetic but also tuneful. When Green Day rolled into Montreal to support their next release, Insomniac, I thought it would be a lot of fun to see them live, even if it was at a major venue. I don’t remember who I went to the show with or much about it except that I enjoyed it and thought they were a pretty solid live band. Thanks to setlist.fm I was able to dig up the songs played at the show. Funny enough, years later, I still quite like Green Day. While they are inconsistent album to album, American Idiot is a classic that deserves all the praise that it received. My only criticism of Green Day is something that isn't their fault really, but I hate most of the pop-punk acts that they spawned. Thanks for a great show!" — Warren Wilansky 33 years ago (27 October 1991), Green Day played Störtebeker in Hamburg, Germany. They opened for So Much Hate.

I love the live version of extraordinary girl or the demo version than the studio version so much.

I see. So all the short music was already done and then they just randomly chose which parts to sing to while the others were gone from the studio? and what were the intentions of having recorded such short music? Just for funsies?

Afaik Mike and Tré wrote and recorded vocals for their respective sections, nothing more. They didn't play any other instruments over them other than what they normally play. Rob Cavallo is credited for piano on the album

That sounds like the dreaded "label created" message where it's still sitting in the warehouse waiting for someone to give it to UPS 😩

I'm not really into this huge desire to talk about/get C&V but I will add what Rob Cavallo writes in the AI 20 booklet. "So, I got together with the band and they tole me they had written an entire album's worth of material. Wow! Awesome! But there was a problem. The guys were sounding, for whatever reason, just a little bit rusty. The music was good but was it really their best? I took it to my boss (the prescient Tom Whaley . He agreed with me. He said "let's meet with the band". A few days later in the Warner Bros executive conference room, Tom says to me and the guys " we appreciate what you guys have gone through and appreciate this new album. And while we are prepared to release it, we are not prepared to give it the big push (meaning marketing $) because we don't believe this is the best work you are capable of". BOOM! He was so brutally direct! I think I was sweating profusely. Billie looked directly at me and asked "is that what you think too?" "Yes I said, nodding my affirmation. Billie said "ok, let me think about this and process it, and we'll get back to you." Two days later, we were all back in the same conference room. Billie starts "So I';ve been thinking about what you guys said last time....and I think you're right. We want to make out best record and we want you guys to like it and to give it the big push. And we are willing to do what it takes to make that happen. The question is: Tom, are you willing to do it also?" Tom said "sure, what do you need?" The rest is about Rob going to work with them Monday to Friday in Berkeley.

On this day last year (26 October 2023), Green Day played 14 songs on Amazon Music Live. More photos: 8 years ago (26 October 2016), Green Day played The Pageant in St. Louis, MO on the Revolution Radio club tour. More photos: 14 years ago (26 October 2010), Green Day played in Lima, Peru on the 21st Century Breakdown Tour. It was their first show in Peru. More photos: 15 years ago (26 October 2009), Green Day played in Sheffield, England on the 21st Century Breakdown Tour. 20 years ago (26 October 2004), Green Day played the Giant Center in Hershey, PA on the American Idiot Tour. 29 years ago (26 October 1995), Green Day played the Community Arena in Sudbury, Canada on the Insomniac Tour. "Glorious days, oh glorious days! Who else camped out overnight for that 45-minute Green Day concert?" — Adam David Boyle "I recall camping out for Green Day tickets. What a gongshow that was. It was basically just an excuse to party. There was that Indian who was stealing stuff or breaking stuff, and someone smashed him on the head with a beer bottle, he got messed up! Erin Van Horn being attacked by a hooker. Ban Gammon and I hanging with Herb at that freaky grotto. Someone smashed an acoustic guitar when the sun was coming up, it could have been Nick Kohut. Funny thing was that there were so many tickets that there was really no need to camp out for them. It's odd that I remeber all that stuff better than I remember last week..." — Scott Ballard 33 years ago (26 October 1991), Green Day played in Bielefeld, Germany. 34 years ago (26 October 1990), Green Day played at 924 Gilman Street.

I think the same... Not realistic composing and recording two albums of different projects in 2002-2003 Surrender/bastards of young in included?

omg I love Lowlife

zero percent chance, maybe a song or two made it’s way there but Green Day was not writing an album about robots.

Watched the doc! It’s very good though there is footage from BIAB and HLAHG in it, there is also great footage from the Warfield show, some recent chat with the boys in Otis (way too little imo) and some wild and hilarious stuff from the tour, very enjoyable, need to see it again.

I find it hilarious the transition between "where did the drummer go" to "nobody cares" 😂

On this day last year (24 October 2023), The American Dream is Killing Me was released and accompanied by a music video. 8 years ago (24 October 2016), Green Day played the Fillmore in Detroit, MI on the Revolution Radio club tour. More photos: 14 years ago (24 October 2010), Green Day played in Santiago, Chile on the 21st Century Breakdown Tour. More photos: 15 years ago (24 October 2009), Green Day played a second night at the O2 Arena in London, England on the 21st Century Breakdown Tour. More photos: 20 years ago (24 October 2004), Green Day played Louisville Gardens in Louisville, KY on the American Idiot Tour. 32 years ago (24 October 1992), Green Day played the Phoenix Theatre in Petaluma, CA on the Kerplunk Tour.

That means that 8 years ago today was my very first Green Day show! Few pics I took there-

On this day last year (21 October 2023), Green Day played the When We Were Young festival in Las Vegas, NV. More photos: 2 years ago (21 October 2022), Green Day played the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix in Austin, TX. More photos: 15 years ago (21 October 2009), Green Day played The O2 in Dublin, Ireland on the 21st Century Breakdown Tour. More photos: 24 years ago (21 October 2000), Green Day played the Livid Festival in Brisbane, Australia. They were also interviewed. And tried and failed to tip over a car, despite getting their security guard to join in. 29 years ago (21 October 1995), Green Day played the Canadian Airlines Saddledome in Calgary, Canada on the Insomniac Tour. 30 years ago (21 October 1994), Green Day played Wulfrun Hall in Wolverhampton, England on the Dookie Tour. They really did make some random stops in the UK back then. I mean, Wolverhampton? Wigan? Cambridge? Kent? It's wild to think of them playing all those places. 35 years ago (21 October 1989), Green Day played Marsugi's in San Jose, CA. 36 years ago (21 October 1988), Green Day played the Veterans Memorial Center in Davis, CA. This was John Kiffmeyer's first show. "So I just walked over to them and said, 'Can I be in your band because I don't have a band anymore?' And then Martin and Jason (from Isocracy) took off on a moped and I was in this new band. That was on a Sunday. We practiced on Tuesday and Wednesday and played our show on Friday." — John