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Garbage opinion, both of those songs are nice.

Well, this is cool. https://www.npr.org/2024/04/16/1244804661/abba-green-day-national-recording-registry

I've started scheduling stories on the GDA Instagram that are throwbacks to gigs played on that day however many years ago. If I'm going to all that effort, I might as well post this stuff here as well. However! I'm only focusing on gigs (not album releases or anything) and I'm very likely to forget to post here anyway, so if you remember anything that happened on a certain day years ago (or if you feel like copy/pasting from the GDA Instagram), please contribute! Even stuff like music video releases and chart positions on certain days would be interesting to look back on. So, on this day (16 April) 19 years ago (2005), Green Day played in Orlando, FL. 11 years ago (2013), they played the Greek Theatre in Berkeley. And 9 years ago (2015), they played the House of Blues in Cleveland before their Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame induction. Yes, I did get the year wrong on Instagram. Enjoy looking back at what our favourite band have been up to!

Really hope they keep playing Fancy Sauce and hopefully add it officially to the setlist. Billie gets so into it!

Billboard update Alternative Airplay- 2, up from 3 Mainstream Rock Airplay- stays at 2 Rock and Alternative Airplay- stays at 1 Canada Rock- 1, up from 2

A wonderfully awkward little interview:

I’m missing Suzie Chapsticks that should be a staple

Full show https://youtu.be/EOeySEFwFhA?si=kk_U1WkEeULPnmFT

Yeah this looks like what could possibly be their tour setlist this summer, dookie, some saviors, ai I could imagine they could switch some songs from show to show, and according to setlistfm it was a 2h10min show, so still 10minutes they could play longer for the european festivals Please keep fancy sauce as closing song And i know dookie and ai in full is epic, but i hope the next tour will have some more love for songs they rarely play live (trilogy songs pleeeeease)

Hard to believe I took this 6 years ago. Time's going by so fast!

On this day (17 April) 26 years ago, Green Day played Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco. "Who's from the West Bay? I bet you people don't even know you're in the WEST Bay. Did you even know there WAS a Bay?" – Mike "How many people live in San fucking Francisco? You suck!" – Billie The Longshot played Thee Parkside in San Francisco on this day 6 years ago. A nice quote from that show: “I have so much gratitude and so much love getting to play music in front of people for so many years.” And an amusing one: “We’re gonna do this thing where we pretend to walk off and walk back on.”

Wonder how it’ll stack up against their 2012 Echoplex show, that one was pretty special.

Saviors guitar straps for Billie and Mike More pics and video of the finished straps here https://www.instagram.com/p/C5JSxxFuuQ5/?igsh=eTlnMjJ3bjFwM2Vu https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4ySFDSJ8IY/?igsh=dG5mMXV6MzV0cWZi https://www.instagram.com/p/C458zfXJIN5/?igsh=bDdzNzJydG1zdGc=

I'm still listening to it once or twice a day, but I know I'm a freak of nature!

Another pretty special one today. 14 years ago (22 April 2010), American Idiot opened on Broadway. Fun fact: this photo is of the action that inspired the name "Fuck Time." “One of the actors from the American Idiot musical, Theo Stockman, called himself the ‘King of Fuck.' Before every performance the cast got into a circle and shouted: 'One, two, three, it’s fuck time!’ So I named a song after it. We played it as the Foxboro Hot Tubs at Don Hill’s and the song should have stayed there... but then we realised we shouldn’t give It’s Fuck Time away to our alter-ego, but use it for Green Day!” – Billie Joe More photos from the opening night:

https://www.musicconnection.com/green-day-pop-up-at-the-echoplex/ Got this blurry screenshot from the BTS video

It's weird not seeing Billie in skinny pants 🤯

Fancy Sauce is the best closer song they ever got. Period

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C57rYVXuZIq/?igsh=M2x2bHN5bXo1dWpi They played Fancy Sauce after Minority!

Pretty good indication of what we can expect to see on the tour. Miss the Saviors deep tracks already

From reddit Dookie Five songs from Saviors AI

Special one today. 9 years ago, Green Day were inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame. They also played the LA Sports Arena 11 years ago today. The 99 Revolutions Tour was 11 years ago? WHAT?! HELP. 19 years ago, they played the USF Sun Dome in Tampa on the American Idiot Tour. There was a review up at some point, but the links are dead, so all we've got is "Billie Joe Armstrong asserts his personality while performing with Green Day on Monday night before a sold-out crowd." 30 years ago, Green Day played the Satyricon club in Portland.

The venue posted about the 2012 show (and this one) https://www.instagram.com/p/C536D2LP1kb/?igsh=MWhuM2YyY2RjcnNmdg== In 2012 I remember staying up all night waiting for tweets that a GDCer was posting for us from the venue!

Last time they played in Tiki Bar, they were hilariously drunk and performed probably sloppiest and slowest Jesus of Suburbia ever. Whole Foxboro + Green Day set was the most beautiful trainwreck I have ever seen. This time around it's probably gonna be more chill, but I find it awesome how they have a such history with Tiki Bar. Performing 16-17 new Trilogy tracks as Green Day out of nowhere in 2011 and then 2019 set as The Coverups, which changed to Foxboro + Green Day. Oh, it was also Tre's birthday. Wonder will he be there this time around? Anyways, that beautiful trainwreck of a set.

From Billie's Instagram story

Better pull off Makeout Party and 8th Avenue Serenade from the bin and perform those damn songs again. Both of them were fucking AWESOME last time around. Yes, even Billie's weird ass fap session during Makeout Party.

They were dying until Billie saved it with the AI comment 😂

That is great. I looked up the setlists of the very Fuck Time heavy New York FBHT shows recently and they're the funniest setlists I've ever seen

It’d be a disservice to humanity to not play Coma City on the summer tour.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C6C57-kRqaQ/?igsh=MTBhZHZveWZ4dXg3aA==

I put this in random thoughts earlier today forgetting this thread existed but on this day in 2018 The Longshot released their album Love is for Losers This one is from the week ending 14 April 2001 but Green Day were on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks at #26 with "Waiting"

I was drawn to this picture too. I always love black and white shots of him.

Happy to see Fancy Sauce was played. Really hope they keep this song for the big tour. I read comments pointing out that Billie was motioning for Tre to repeat the last part of the song, he seems to love playing it too. Or maybe he just was just not ready to stop playing in general just yet…either way I love his passion 💕 my wishlist for Saviors songs for the tour (limiting myself to 5 but would be happy for more): Dilemma, Fancy Sauce, 1981, Suzie Chapsticks and Goodnight Adeline

Even more photos, this time from Greg Schneider

Drinks menu and a couple of other pics from the Echoplex setting up for last night

T'was a joke. Trust me I remember that cursed collab they did in 2012:

I love Letterbomb live. Billie sounds so good tonight!

Part of me doubts Bobby Sox will stay in the main tour lineup, at least not every night, because it seems like an awfully good way for Billie to mess up his voice.

Yeah those are the ones we're gonna see get permanent spots on the setlists, for sure. They rounded it down to those. Plus Fancy Sauce maybe as the closer. Not that I hate those tracks..... but yeah I'm definitely also gonna miss Suzie Chapstick and Coma City. Hopefully they rotate them often. 🙂🤔 But that's already 34 songs, plus 2 or 3 more surprise tracks. I don't expect them chug out the entire Saviors album with Dookie and AI haha. The days of the 43 song sets are in the past I'm afraid. Especially not during a co-headliner tour.

From Tre's Instagram story and Alice Baxley posted this of all their gear covered in Green Day stickers

To show Green Day that The Network is going to take over if they're not careful! I'm so thirsty for a new Green Day live release that I was forced to purchase The Network DVD instead!! The best way they can fix the situation is do some club shows to tell The Network step off of their territory!! They could do a few shows in the midwest like...oh I dunno Chicago...just throwing it out there. Are you listening Billie?

Hoping that “the hella tiny tour continues” means there’ll be more shows and specifically outside of the west coast for us east coasters

This is really amazing. For a band that always wanted to have a legacy and leave something important behind yet were told you couldn't get big making their kind of music, it's a tremendous achievement. Congrats to our boys

I wonder how God feels about that. They are his favorite band after all.

On this day 34 years ago Green Day recorded the Slappy EP at the Art of Ears Studio https://www.instagram.com/p/BnRwboFgQ8G/?igsh=YjZ6YWJ6dGU5aDhz

No Suzie Chapstick is disappointing. I love that song.

I think the real sign that Saviors is a great album is it has been out for 3 months and everyone still has different favorites and least favorites. Really has something for everyone on it. The last time I remember something like this was 21CB. Every album from that seems to have a majority consensus on favorites.

This sale hurt my feelings :(