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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!

But overall, your 1972 thread was thoroughly enjoyable to be involved in. Surprising, horrific even, and downright depressing sometimes. Full of intrigue, like the leaked 'One Eyed Bastard' for example. Wouldn't have missed it for the world. And after all, worth the wait for Saviors arriving at last. One of GD's best ever albums imho. So, thank you for starting the thread. When's the next one?😁

Not just you. Wondering if someone in the office posted something they weren't supposed to

Yes!! Please let it be Finland. It has been almost 12 years since the last time they were here. Hella Mega Tour's headliner show in Helsinki got cancelled after 2021 reschedule. 😔

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 am so so sorry to hear that. Your one of many on here that continues to have shipping delay issues. I assume this is when ordering via greenday.com/store. It's been an ongoing problem since the Nimrod box set. Fans look forward to release dates only to be disappointed. Yet nothing seems to be done to improve the situation. I agree with the idea of promoting GD through it's store. But, having read members frustrations in the past, I reluctantly decided to order via Amazon. The last 4 GD releases, plus Unt, have all arrived on specified date, and up to 20% cheaper. Hopefully, UPS can improve on Saturday for you. ♥️

Munich would be great….

Many Green day songs are similar... Letterbomb, rusty james, strange days, Who wrote holden caulfield?, lowlife, have very similar Melody

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

Successfully brainwashed my 18 year old daughter: she’s a Swiftie with no interest in Green Day or punkrock as a whole. But after a weekend of AI stuff on repeat she complained today that Billie is now singing in her head all the time. YES!!!👍😅

It's horrible! At the beginning I just couldn't enter the dedicated thread in here, but now it's bleeding into other threads too and I also cannot see Instagram stories for Green Day or Green Day fan sites And I still haven't received it! got an update this morning that it was ready to go out for delivery, so I got my hopes up for this afternoon. But then in the afternoon I got the update that due "exceptional circumstances outside of their control" they couldn't deliver it today. How hard is it to ship something for Netherlands to Paris? They are just playing games with my heart. 😅

really wanna watch the doc

Heart like a handgrenade documentary deserves to have a director's extended cut . The whole docu is just a music video with less behind the scenes making the songs.

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 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.

I have so many questions about what is happening here, and I am not sure if I actually want answers or I just want to enjoy the beauty of this moment. 🤣 Anyway, thank you for sharing this. I needed it in my life.

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

Well, yeah, since this pretty much seem to sum it up what actually happened, it's appears to be more of a little "nod" to the fans and the "stolen tapes" story to include that "As legend has it, the tapes mysteriously disappeared from the studio" bit that I saw someone else share a photo of. If they sticked to the story in the documentary, perhaps that was shot before it was decided what they'd write in the included book on matter? Robs explanation kind of puts things in a new light I mean, now we know it's more like Billie comes in with songs for the next album and to his dissapointment getting this rather underwhelming response, in opposite to thinking the material is weak himself and trying to get approval to delay it och go in a different direction. Perhaps the "stolen tapes" and "it was a blessing in disguise" thing came about as it felt like they "owned the situation" more that way. Who knows, just speculation. The only other theory I can think of is that it actually DID disappear after the meeting. But rather than stolen or disappearing without the band knowing, it was a delibirate - sort of "punky" - move by Billie because he got so pissed. Since the material got "dissed", he deleted it so the label would't have access to it, and only kept either demos, a CD, or a hard drive of C&V somewhere himself.

I mean you'd have to ask the band that. My guess is that Mike was just playing the melody of his sections on the bass and singing whatever vocal melodies he thought of and that's how he came up with his section of Homecoming (and the other sections that we can hear in the demo). And then Billie and Tré recorded their parts afterward. I think the band members pre-AI were having issues, specifically Mike and Tré were having issues with Billie. I believe they felt like he wasn't letting them have contribute to the music as much as him or something (if I'm remembering correctly). So I think Homecoming was sort of the result of that band conflict with the whole band getting their own sections to shine

So did anyone watch the documentary; what are your thoughts on it; whats song is including from the Warfield show?

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?

I dealt with this when I ordered a video game directly from Square Enix this spring. An entire warehouse worth of games had some issue and didn’t ship and it was a week late. Never again. Just gonna stick with Amazon from now on.

I got the email today, saying the shipment is on his way. I've tracked my package and clicked on ''When can I expect delivery?''. Here the answer: For packages destined for the U.S., your package will be delivered by a U.S. postal carrier at the time they typically deliver the rest of your mail. For international packages, your package will be delivered by the local delivery vendor for that destination. Yo that's not even an answer.

Did anybody else order directly from Green Day’s site and not get their box set yet? They sent me an email on Tuesday that said my shipment is “on its way,” but when I check the tracking info. it says “UPS doesn’t have possession of the package yet. Estimated delivery date will be available as soon as we get the package.”

In Homecoming (Nobody Cares), Tre is singing about the guys wondering where he went....and then Billie bursts in with "NOBODY CARES!!!" Haha, that is the funniest, coolest part of this entire collection. Mike was fine once Billie got there, they don't need no stinkin drummer. Also, Kenny and I were in there in the studio which is rad.

omg I love Lowlife

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 8 years ago (23 October 2016), Green Day played the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago, IL on the Revolution Radio club tour. More photos: 13 years ago (23 October 2011), Billie Joe performed Good Riddance when Will Ferrell was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. He was also interviewed. More photos: 15 years ago (23 October 2009), Green Day played the O2 Arena in London, England on the 21st Century Breakdown Tour. More photos: 20 years ago (23 October 2004), Green Day played the US Bank Arena in Cincinnati, OH on the American Idiot Tour. 29 years ago (23 October 1995), Green Day played the Arena in Winnipeg, Canada on the Insomniac Tour.

On this day last year (22 October 2023), Green Day played a second night at the When We Were Young Festival in Las Vegas, NV. More photos: 14 years ago (22 October 2012), Green Day played in Buenos Aires, Argentina on the 21st Century Breakdown Tour. Billie Joe said it was his favourite show ever at the time. More photos: 20 years ago (22 October 2004), Green Day played the Gwinnett Center in Duluth, GA on the American Idiot Tour. 24 years ago (22 October 2000), Green Day played the Rock It Festival in Perth, Australia on the Warning Tour. 29 years ago (22 October 1995), Green Day played the Agridome in Regina, Canada on the Insomniac Tour. "Decided the day before the show to check out Green Day who were still riding a big wave of success from their major label debut Dookie. They had just released the follow up Insomniac and the first single Geek Stink Breath was a staple on Much Music. I had seats way up in the second level near the roof but was right above the stage, not too bad for so close to show day. Didn't know much about the opening act The Riverdales and I still don't; they came out, played their entire album song by song with no banter then left. The best part of their set was watching Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool riding skateboards behind the stage. Green Day came out firing, gleefully admitting to the crowd that the only reason they came to Regina was David Letterman sensation, Dick Assman. The band gave it their all even when the kids on the floor chucked their shoes at them. Dirnt even barked at the rowdy pricks, 'Hey, your mom paid good money for those shoes!' but that didn't stop them. Apparently, it wasn't anything new to them as they played on, dodging shoes the whole time. During When I Come Around, Billie Joe came out naked with just his beloved blue Fender covering his business. During the guitar solo he spun around and treated the crowd to a little rhythmic butt clenching. I could have lived without that, but overall a good show." I don't suppose anyone reading this has the photos mentioned by Shawn Scallen on the GDA page for this show? 30 years ago (22 October 1994), Green Day played Welcome to Paradise on Top of the Pops. Billie wore a shirt saying "Who am I fooling anyway?" because they were forced to play to a backing track. More photos: Also 30 years ago (22 October 1994), Green Day played the Astoria in London, England on the Dookie Tour. "First gig. Green Day at London Astoria 1994. Technically I'd been to a small festival before this but this was my first proper gig. Joeyfat opened and Billie Joe Armstrong stood on my foot as we were watching at the back. Then came China Drum who I still listen to after all this time. Green Day were so amazing and opened the door for me to a lot more bands." — Andy 31 years ago (22 October 1993), Green Day played their first Latin American show at the Iguanas club in Tijuana, Mexico.