Do any of you have a tough time after going to a Gig?

[Mar]

Tomorrow, my Green Day concert will be a month ago.

Kinda depressing. :/

It'll be a month on Friday for me and it's bumming me out. But I guess seeing another show on that one month anniversary is an acceptable 'celebration'!

[Prisca]

Usually after a gig I'm super hungry and crave tacos. lol so I usually get something to eat, chat about how amazing the show was with whomever i went with and then probably knock out without meaning to. and my ears ring for some days too.

[JeanJeanie]

Nothing in my life will be able to amount to their concert, except my first kiss, wedding, and the birth of my kids.

It was just such a buzz! I've never felt so alive, to use a cliche!

2nd leg, 2nd leg, 2nd leg! All together now!

Yeeah, the experiences I've had at Green Day concerts totally beat out my first kiss and will probably beat out the birth of my children... well, the second one at least. After the initial ohs and ahs of the first I'm sure every one after is just same old, same old.

This last show has been hard to leave behind I think because before hand I was to irritatingly bored with life and the concert made me see what I was missing.

[Mar]

This last show has been hard to leave behind I think because before hand I was to irritatingly bored with life and the concert made me see what I was missing.

I know what you mean! I don't want to sound cheesy, but seriously, the show made me so happy and excited about life, if only for those 2 1/2 hours. Just so much fun.

[JHyena86]

I don't come down for a long time. First time I saw the guys was for FBHT and I ended up meeting Billie and Mike that night, so I was uber hyped for a few days. I drove everyone around me to the point of ignoring me because they were soooo sick of hearing about how awsome it was and how nice the band was and stuff.

I'm still coming down from the Houston show I was just at. I was up all night replaying parts of it in my mind and keep doing that every so often. I also have this horrible obsession with the pick Mike gave me after the show and find myself touching it randomly without thinking. Unfortunatly my friends are constantly bitching about their lives and trying to bring me down, so it's sending me into weird emotions of annoying and concert-highness. Whateve...

I typically listen to lots of GD afterwards and go online reading reviews and watching vids and write my own review to try and keep the experience alive for a few days longer. I also talk about it waaaaaay too much. I also play bass more than usual and spend lots of time looking at the stuff I got at the concert

[Zalex]

I'm still working on my reviews because more and more keeps just popping into my head.

I tell everybody I meet all about my crazy Green Day adventures too

Oh and Mike's pick around my neck is a damn good conversation starter when people say "hey, you like green day!?"

[Guest]

i didnt even feel like leaving my room for days after the concert, hahaha. and i wore the shirt i got from soundcheck for like four days straight...i can't wait for the next tour.

[Jessica]

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.

what made it anti-climactic?

was it not what you hoped for?

i kind of felt the same way after i met tre, but it wasn't because it wasn't great, it was just depressing to know i'd probably never chance run into him again, haha.

[Whatsername868]

After the first time I saw them in Atlanta, I felt like it had all been a dream and like it hadn't really happened. I waited for four and a half years to see Green Day...they had been/are my reason for living and it was impossible to imagine that i had finally seen them.

Then after the Tampa show, I was on this insane high that night and the following morning but then started feeling insanely depressed that the last time I would see them for who knows how long was the next day.

And after that last time, the Orlando show, I got my high back, and an inspiration like nothing I have felt before. I've been playing the guitar again nonstop since then, listening only to their music because nothing else can compare, and counting down the days til I'll see them again.

Well when i went to my very first concert ever(aug. 3rd,09) I Got extreamly depressed,because i throw up right when green day came out,and got locked outside,after getting some fresh air.

So i only heard/saw one song live.

Oh my god...are you serious? Did you throw up because you were sick to begin with or because you just got so excited? I was at that concert, I'm so sorry to hear that. I hope you can see them when they come back.

[elanorelle72]

and you are perfectly fine if you don't go to 20 concerts in a row either

...I tell myself that....

LOL

[Raychul]

Post Show Depression! I know it's gay but I go on YouTube and watch a shitload of live videos.

[RiotGrrlGD]

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*

Live Green Day is like a drug for me. If you could buy the Green Day experience on the street like heroin, I'd probably be dead. It's that good and that bad. I took a friend to her first Green Day show in Omaha. She cryed and said it was one of the best things that ever happened to her. We are middle-aged so this is no school girl crush on Billie. I almost felt guilty for giving her her first taste!

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*

Live Green Day is like a drug for me. If you could buy the Green Day experience on the street like heroin, I'd probably be dead. It's that good and that bad. I took a friend to her first Green Day show in Omaha. She cryed and said it was one of the best things that ever happened to her. We are middle-aged so this is no school girl crush on Billie. I almost felt guilty for giving her her first taste!

[Green_Day_Fan_Beth]

Thank goodness other people feel the way I do! I went to my first Green Day concert in Nashville TN and almost passed out! I found that I was horribly depressed after the show was done and couldn't figure out why. I suppose it was the thrill of getting to see Green Day after years of being a fan. They were there in front of me and then they were gone. I really hope they tour again soon!

[g l o r i a]

Yeah, while the concert is going on, like most of us are like dying of exhaustion, empty stomachs and just are so fucking happy and excited that we're there with them.

And then you get home and it doesn't quite hit you until the next day, when you wake up and realize you have nothing else to wait for, or be excited for.

After my concert, I didn't wanna go anywhere for like a week, I just wanted to sit and listen to Green Day and tell EVERYONE I see about the concert.

I mean, I'm incredibley thankful for my expirience, I just miss em.

Even now, Fridays aren't the same, cause it's just so many weeks ago that I saw them.

But, I just think that I can still count down until next year when I can see them again.

It just takes time, for me atleast.

It helps hearing about peoples expiriences, cause I just put myself in their place and I get really happy.

Plus, having the complete audio from my show doesn't hurt either.

[amy_runs]

I just found an error in the subtitle

[dolce]

It's been a month since the Philly show, in a few days it'll be a month since the NYC show, and in September, it will be FOUR YEARS since the Philly show during the AI era. Time flies...

I watch Youtube videos and have a Google Alert for Green Day set on my gmail, so I can stay up to date and read all the concert reviews. That keeps me happy (of course that's in addition to the gazillion times a day I'm on the computer while listening to them, thinking about them, looking them up online, etc). I miss them like hell, but I also am more in love with them than I've ever been. Which both feels amazing and hurts at the same time.

For concertgoers feeling the pain of Post-Concert Depression - it gets better. I've come to realize that not a day goes by where I don't wish I could get in a teleporter and and teleport to their latest concert (lol), but other than that, life is good.

BTW - After a GD concert, the feeling of wanting to tell everyone you know NEVER goes away.

[82]

Wow, I so get this.

After the show I went to I was like completley wired yet completley low. It was so depressing. It kind of feels like weird withdrawl symptoms.

I'm just so greatful I got to do what I did.

[Mar]

After my concert, I didn't wanna go anywhere for like a week, I just wanted to sit and listen to Green Day and tell EVERYONE I see about the concert.

I mean, I'm incredibly thankful for my experience, I just miss em.

Even now, Fridays aren't the same, cause it's just so many weeks ago that I saw them.

Plus, having the complete audio from my show doesn't hurt either.

It's been over a month for me, and I'm still the same way...I just want to tell everyone about the show! And I'm the same way with Tuesdays (and now the 14ths of months).

I am so jealous of you having complete audio of your show!

[g l o r i a]

It's been over a month for me, and I'm still the same way...I just want to tell everyone about the show! And I'm the same way with Tuesdays (and now the 14ths of months).

I am so jealous of you having complete audio of your show!

I'm super lucky to have that, and when it came out I was like, you're shitting me.

I still go through days where the only thing I listen to is Green Day, without even playing little songs here and there.

Especially the live stuff.

And it'll be a month for be in 2 days, I'll eventually start thinking like that about the 24th of months.

I can't wait until we all see them again.

[Mar]

I'm super lucky to have that, and when it came out I was like, you're shitting me.

I still go through days where the only thing I listen to is Green Day, without even playing little songs here and there.

Especially the live stuff.

And it'll be a month for me in 2 days, I'll eventually start thinking like that about the 24th of months.

I can't wait until we all see them again.

My Last.fm playlist is SO warped because I'm like you are right now as well!

[alaniluau]

My first Green Day show is tomorrow and I'm worried I'll have severe Post Concert Depression.

[Rezurgam]

I felt nothing after the SJ show.

[Sharmellow]

i didnt even feel like leaving my room for days after the concert, hahaha. and i wore the shirt i got from soundcheck for like four days straight...i can't wait for the next tour.

Ditto.

[GarinRichards]

Before I went to my show on 8/16

And everyone was here was talking about "after concert" depression. I thought it was ridiculous. How could you become depressed after a concert?

I was wrong.

When I first walked into the Arena to watch Soundcheck.

That was when it hit me.

I was in the same fucking room as the people that are basically my idols... It hit me like a brick wall. Afterwards, my friend had told me that during it, he didn't even see me blink at all, and I think he was right.

For those 15 minutes when I got to listen to them play just 3 songs for soundcheck, I was like.

Holy. Fucking. Shit

And later on, during the real show, I was up against the rail.

So when Billie/Mike/Jason White came up to the left side of the stage, I was just thinking.

"Holy. Fucking. Shit. They're right there. Four fucking feet away"

Throughout the entire night I was amazed and shocked at just how FUCKING AWESOME my life was at the moment. I had gotten soundcheck passes, dozens of free stuff, and I [Well, to me at least] was the closest I could ever be to the ones that I idolized for the last 5 years.

-Sorry for the swearing and lameness lol -

But continuing,

After Billie strummed that last chord for Good Riddance and walked off the stage. I just stood there, everyone else was walking away and I could hear my friends yelling my name to turn around, but I just stood there.

"I can't believe that, that just fucking happened..."

Yes, I was pumped, excited, thrilled etc... after the show. But on the way home I just sat there, thinking of just how amazing the entire day was.

And I barely talked for the rest of the night..I still don't know if this was because I only had 2 hours of sleep the night before and I was EXCRUCIATINGLY tired.

The day after I slept almost the whole day trying to recharge...

But 2 days after, the 18th, I was looking at my soundcheck pass..poster...ticket. [Which I hung up on my wall ]

And I still can't get over what happened. It was amazing, and I don't think I could ever get a better experience from any other thing in my life...

Well, that was my "post concert" experience.

But after I think I'm actually more obsessed with the band and their music.

And obviously I couldn't tell this to any of my friends since they are not as much as a fan as I was >_<

(Sorry for the language and use of the ENTER key, LOL, I love the ENTER key.)

[JohnnyNapalm]

i did one time i went to a bleeders gig. i worked for them and they said i had to sell their merch and that mean i could stay for the r18. then at the end of this all ages this security guard tried to kick me out....