madie Posted July 8, 2009 Posted July 8, 2009 The morning after the night before is the shittest thing ever.
Nova-Caine Posted July 8, 2009 Posted July 8, 2009 Post gig blues is horrid and I hate it, its like someone's given you a taste of the best drug in the world then told you you can never have it again. Seriously it makes me Right after the gig is fine, you're high, buzzing, gidding, can't wait to tell everyone about it then the next day bang! Bk down to earth with one giant thud. I am so looking forward to Rocktober and seeing GD 9 times but I just know that come November I am going to be a mess and it will take me ages to recover. They will have been, rocked my world and fucked off somewhere else.It's strange how it affects people this way. I've always had it bad but that probably comes with an addictive personality. I guess I'll just have to start planning the next stint of the tour right away for next year.It's when you know the tour is coming to an end that's the worst and you won't see them for another 4 years that's the hardest part. *Is normal and self controlled*
Miqui_Dee Posted July 8, 2009 Posted July 8, 2009 Well, after my first Green Day show I remember me and my friends did a sort of rain dance type thing outside of the arena... yeah. We were totally amped for like, weeks. At school it was all we could talk about. After my second Green Day show it was the same, but that was mostly because I'd been backstage and met Tre and got that whole experience, not so much from the show itself. I dunno. Usually after shows I go home and sleep and then spend the next few days thinking fondly back upon it, but I wouldn't call it a depression. I just think about how amazing it was and how I can't wait for the next show. I do have a tough time with it though. I have a tough time realizing that I can't live in that incredible moment forever. But there are always more incredible moments to be made.
Lauren Posted July 8, 2009 Posted July 8, 2009 This is exactly why I'm going to three shows this summer. It will be my first time seeing them.I am going to Philadelphia on July 21st - being my first show, if I didn't see them again, I'd be super depressed from how happy I was for seeing them for the first time and getting all emotional and stuffMy next concert is DC on July 28th - it's so close that it doesn't give me enough time to feel depressed, 'cause I'll be sooo excited to see them again!Those two shows should hold me over until August 21st... which is when I see them in Las Vegas. It's my final show on this tour. While I'll be sad, I won't be as depressed because that whole week I'll be staying in Las Vegas. The summer will wind down like it always does and I'll start school again.
Atticus Finch Posted July 8, 2009 Posted July 8, 2009 Yeah. I know exactly what you mean. I remember the first time I saw them four years ago, I was falling asleep to the radio on the car ride home and "Where Are You" by Our Lady Peace played. The lyrics were something like "Hey you, have you felt like this before?... Tonight, did punk rock get it right?.... This could be the best day, of your life." And I could not stop smiling. It was amazing.
Sister of Grace Posted July 8, 2009 Posted July 8, 2009 The very first time I saw Green Day I was flying on clouds for months. The feeling I got after seeing them is a feeling I have never experienced again..not yet anyway. It will pass eventually though...and there is nothing that say that you can't live in reality whilst having these feelings and stuff...
forget_me_nots Posted July 8, 2009 Posted July 8, 2009 You're talking about post-show depression, and it happens to everyone. Usually the night after the show, I'm so jacked up and excited that I can't sleep. I stay up really late and talk about the show with whoever I went with and eat food. It's a tradition. But the next day, and sometimes for a week, I start feeling depressed. It's sad knowing that I won't see another show that awesome for a long time (unless I'm lucky enough to go to multiple shows on a tour). Eventually that feeling goes away.Urg, its the exact same way with me. I'm miserable for weeks after a concert. :/ I dont know why; I guess its just that I wait so long and its my whole life and all I think about and its over so fast....I actually got home from a concert 4 hours ago, and now its 4 A.M. and I'm bummed the fuck out. Hell, thats why I'm awake and here.
shaye Posted July 8, 2009 Posted July 8, 2009 I used to feel that way after shows ALOT.I hardly ever get it now that i've been to quite a few though.Only if i've been really really looking forward to a show & I have the best time ever, then it sucks.I can tell that after seeing Green Day this year i'm going to get it pretty bad. I'm not looking forward to the 16th of December at all. :/
arzosah30 Posted July 8, 2009 Posted July 8, 2009 After flying down to see GD in Sydney in Dec 05, I ended up going into shock & broke down on plane flying home as JOS played on the courtesy radio on the plane... (might have also been the pain of 3rd degree sunburn)...I also couldn't watch BIAB for up to a year after the gig as it reminded me of the SCG..It was the thought of their next album that got me out of doldrums... once the tour is over it gives them a chance for new material...so the end of a tour is also a positive...
Lauren Posted July 8, 2009 Posted July 8, 2009 I imagine I'm going to watch youtube videos of the concerts I was at over and over and over again to try and relive it.
Sister of Grace Posted July 8, 2009 Posted July 8, 2009 Urg, its the exact same way with me. I'm miserable for weeks after a concert. :/ I dont know why; I guess its just that I wait so long and its my whole life and all I think about and its over so fast....I actually got home from a concert 4 hours ago, and now its 4 A.M. and I'm bummed the fuck out. Hell, thats why I'm awake and here. I never get sad..of course I'm a bit sad it is all over and that I will probably have to wait many years to see them again, if i ever will see the band again. But I'm more enjoying the memories...being extra obsessed with the band for a few months and then it's ok.
Isabel Posted July 8, 2009 Posted July 8, 2009 I never get depressed after a show...the only thing I felt after the Green Day show last time was pure satisfaction. I was just annoyed at myself for not getting to the very front, but I can make it up to myself in October Plus, I am seeing them 3 times so I think I'll be ok :wink:Although the day I met Billie Joe in Dublin, I felt awful for the next week. It was really weird, because I was so wired after it and then it felt like this huge anti-climax.
Nova-Caine Posted July 8, 2009 Posted July 8, 2009 ^^You should ask that lamp post have a blue plaque erected 'This is where Isabel spazzed out at meeting Billie Joe'
Isabel Posted July 8, 2009 Posted July 8, 2009 You should come to Dublin and I'll bring you on the GD tour.- Rick's Burgers where he walked into- The street his shoes touched- THE lamp post I shook before accosting him
fev5 Posted July 8, 2009 Posted July 8, 2009 I often can't get to sleep that night as i am still on a high. And when i do i often dream about the gig. The days after i do feel a little sad it is all over but i look back at pictures and videos of the night and talk alot about it and get all excited bout it again. It has normally gone by about a week.
Nova-Caine Posted July 8, 2009 Posted July 8, 2009 You should come to Dublin and I'll bring you on the GD tour.- Rick's Burgers where he walked into- The street his shoes touched- THE lamp post I shook before accosting him Hahaha you tard, ok one day you're on :wink:
Jack96 Posted July 8, 2009 Posted July 8, 2009 Not been to a gig yet so ill let you know in 5 months and 3 days
Greenday_Aussie Posted July 8, 2009 Posted July 8, 2009 After flying down to see GD in Sydney in Dec 05, I ended up going into shock & broke down on plane flying home as JOS played on the courtesy radio on the plane... (might have also been the pain of 3rd degree sunburn)...I also couldn't watch BIAB for up to a year after the gig as it reminded me of the SCG..It was the thought of their next album that got me out of doldrums... once the tour is over it gives them a chance for new material...so the end of a tour is also a positive...Wow thats crazy :/ Are you going to any of the Brissy shows this year? It would be nice to meet some GDCers
belinda jane Posted July 8, 2009 Posted July 8, 2009 i usually just listen to them for days non-stop and just relive everything back in my mind.i got so sick the last two times i saw green day from just screaming so much. i lost my voice and couldn't stop coughing. i also got bruises on my arms, but they went away fairly quickly.i get pretty down the week after when it's been exactly a week. so like, i'd say "this time last week i was watching them on stage "that kinda gets me depressed. hah.
jacknovella Posted July 8, 2009 Posted July 8, 2009 I'll let you know after October 28th I have a feeling I'll be depressed afterwards though...purely because it's something I'll have been looking forward to all year, and then it's over....and also it being Green Day! lol
J'net Posted July 8, 2009 Posted July 8, 2009 Funny you should mention that -- I've planned to take two weeks off from work that starts the day of the DC concert. I explained to my boss that he would most definitely NOT want me touching any of our critical "user-facing" systems the day after the concert and I think he understood. The second week, our family's going to the beach. We'll just have to see if my wife will have gotten me to "shut up about Green Day already" by the time we get there....Hahaha - I think that's the main reason I love this forum so much. No one's eyes glaze over if I want to talk about Green Day non-stop for ANY length of time. I also think that's why some of us have developed such strong bonds with each other - we have this one thing in common that most of the people around us in our daily lives just don't understand (and often don't have lots of patience for).
louizex Posted July 8, 2009 Posted July 8, 2009 i have to travel to glasgow (at least 3 1/2 hours away) for any show and i cant drive so we always have to stay in a hotel when i go to a gig. we have so much fun!! we stay up for ages in the hotel eating junk food and talking. its the bus ride on the way home when i am totally knackered that i think 'why do i live so far away?' that i get a little fed up and i fall asleep on the bus. but most of the time im really hyper after a gig and when its finished i think 'right! time to start planing for the next gig!'
Bastard of 1967 Posted July 8, 2009 Posted July 8, 2009 Hahaha - I think that's the main reason I love this forum so much. No one's eyes glaze over if I want to talk about Green Day non-stop for ANY length of time. I also think that's why some of us have developed such strong bonds with each other - we have this one thing in common that most of the people around us in our daily lives just don't understand (and often don't have lots of patience for).I have to say one thing about my wife - she's been very, very patient with me. She's even willing to wear a GDC wristband to the show even though she's 1-not a fan (we'll see if July 29 changes that...) and 2-not a member of GDC. Honestly I think she's afraid of what might happen to me if I went to the show without her. I can see it now: he drifted into the pit, never to emerge again.......!!!
Guest Shangri-La Posted July 8, 2009 Posted July 8, 2009 I have to say one thing about my wife - she's been very, very patient with me. She's even willing to wear a GDC wristband to the show even though she's 1-not a fan (we'll see if July 29 changes that...) and 2-not a member of GDC. Honestly I think she's afraid of what might happen to me if I went to the show without her. I can see it now: he drifted into the pit, never to emerge again.......!!! wife not a fan?? how do you cope?
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