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

[Anko]

I felt the high for about two weeks and tbh I'm still kinda comming down from it

I didn't really have post show depressing,just sore legs from being a fat person bouncing their weight

I knew I wasn't going to another show this year due to the fact that I couldn't afford it.

But there's next year,if I'm not mistaking they're going round again next year? I'm not sure but if they are I'll have the money this time (hopefully) to get a GA ticket due to I'd be saving whatever Christmas money I'd get from relatives and my birthday money and whatever else I could scrape up.

So I didn't get PSD,I was just really hyper till recently

[g l o r i a]

[quote name='Anko' date='Aug 28 2009, 09:34 PM' post='3209026'

But there's next year,if I'm not mistaking they're going round again next year? I'm not sure but if they are I'll have the money this time (hopefully) to get a GA ticket due to I'd be saving whatever Christmas money I'd get from relatives and my birthday money and whatever else I could scrape up.

ol:

[alexandrez]

i have it every show that i watch that i really love the band.

it feels like a piece of me is dead after.

i keep looking for concert footage. and it creeps me out when i hear/see the same moments i remember on youtube.

it can get pretty surreal.

no matter how long the concerts are, they just seam way to short.

it's horrible. and yea, green day changed my perception of things.

i think i value them more. i dunno.

[TaylorKlinke]

Well, it's been over two months now since I went to my first Green Day concert.

It kind of makes me sad, because I really wish I would have been a little older in 1994 so I could have been a fan since then. I discovered them in 2004, I was in 9th grade. And ever since the day I discovered them - I claim them to be my favorite band on the face of the planet and always will be till the day I die. It also makes me sad knowing none of my friends or family around here like Green Day......so I'm sorta stuck trying to keep it to myself...........but that never happens. I have to tell people how much I love them...so i get called obsessed a lot. No one but people on this forum understand how Green Day can make us soo happy.

Anyway, The last couple days I've watched youtube videos of Green Day's concerts this summer...AND I FUCKING MISS THEM!!!!! I hope they come around Minnesota/Fargo on the 2nd leg of the tour again...at least Minneapolis.

mmm I'm sorta in a Bullet in a Bible type of mood. (They should make another one of those live DVDS..)

[alaniluau]

I really thought I would have a problem with this because I tend to get depressed after big exciting events. My Green Day show in Sacramento definitely qualified as a "big exciting event"! I had been looking forward to that day long before the tour dates were announced. But it has come and gone and I don't feel any PCD whatsoever. I'm just so amazingly thankful that Green Day put on such an indescribable show and that I got to be there and experience it. And I comfort myself with the knowledge that I will see my boys again in 2010!

[Mar]

Every day that goes by I miss the show even more! The Europeans are going to have such a wonderful fall with the guys.

[Eighty.]

July 4th was the first time I have seen Green day,,,unlike many other people..They are very lucky..but I think of myself equally as lucky because its a personal thing.I cannot go to many more concerts because of commitments , work etc. So I might not see them again this year...

that aside...

How does one cope with the emotions and feelings ...how long does it take to for some of you to come down from the high and get back on to daily things? do you find that often things have changed? Your perception on life has changed and all the good in life is way more noticeable and the ugly in life is more visible?

People think that its just some kind of phase and that it was the high that is totally triggering ideas and emotions.

Well its certainly making things clearer except I knew of this stuff before the concert and now its being shown more to the light. Green Day and Billie made me more observant of my life and the interconnectivity of everything..now after the concert ,,,even more so...

what do some of you do?

write? write poems? songs? run ? hike? write essays? go become a monk?

LIke to see how any of you cope...or maybe there is no issue at all...

Suzanne

I can understand you..it's exactly the same that happens to me, I saw Green Day the 18th august, well, after the concert I was crying and crying I had somthing like anxiety I couldn't breathe i was so bad, and now I am kind sad like the one thing that i wanna do is see them again stay with them I feel with impotence because I want to be with them I want to see them to listen them and I can, it such a bad feeling. Sometimes whem I am alone in my bedroom I look at my posters in the walls and I think about what is wrong with me and green day, why I feel like that.

And in 12 days I am going to see them again and I have a huge stomach ache and I feel so nervous when I think in it, I am afraid about what can happen in this show i am going to the row at 6.00 am and the show is at 7.00 pm I wanna be in the front but i don't know if I could be in the front i am really worried

[KCoyote]

I was sooo excited for the show and it was everything I thought it would be and so much more. After the show I did get a little depressed knowing I wouldn't see them again for a long time. I just watched the videos I could find on youtube for weeks trying to relive the show. And then I found this sight and thought "YES! Finally a place where I won't feel alone or "stupid" for loving Green Day so much!" and it helped a lot!

[Laura!]

Every day that goes by I miss the show even more! The Europeans are going to have such a wonderful fall with the guys.

I'm the same way. It's been more than 2 months and I still miss it. SOTC/21CB from the Detroit show came on in the car this morning and I got a mix between excitement and longing. And by the end of the song I was missing the show like crazy.

[crazychic]

i just get really tired and irrated lol but apart from that i'm still hyped from the gig lol

[LibertyBelle.]

Hmm, I haven't been to the Green Day show yet [*flaps arms wildly in true teenie style*] I have to wait a little over a month, but I can imagine feeling ''post-show'' depression a little bit, once i've seen Green Day thats all I wanted to do since I first heard them so once you've accomplished what you wanted to do in anything it's like, okay, so where do I go from here?

With other bands I find I don't listen to them as much after the show, but with Green Day I imagine i'll feel that bit more emotion when I listen to them 'cause i've experienced them live

[dolce]

^ It's a killer when its something you've been dreaming about and waiting for for such a long time, and, seemingly in an instant, it's over. Seeing them were the happiest nights of my life - I just smiled ear to ear the entire time, and couldn't stop if I tried. What an amazing feeling.

Since the past two concerts, I feel so much more, IDK, I guess connected to them? I just miss them constantly. It's so hard especially after hearing news about them every single night during the tour, to go from that to almost no news is so difficult. Maybe this sounds stupid, but I just feel better inside when I know what they're up to, when I get to see and hear about how much fun they're having onstage. I guess I like being reassured they're okay.

[Mar]

^ It's a killer when its something you've been dreaming about and waiting for for such a long time, and, seemingly in an instant, it's over. Seeing them were the happiest nights of my life - I just smiled ear to ear the entire time, and couldn't stop if I tried. What an amazing feeling.

Since the past two concerts, I feel so much more, IDK, I guess connected to them? I just miss them constantly. It's so hard especially after hearing news about them every single night during the tour, to go from that to almost no news is so difficult. Maybe this sounds stupid, but I just feel better inside when I know what they're up to, when I get to see and hear about how much fun they're having onstage. I guess I like being reassured they're okay.

Yeah, in a way, the message boards make it worse, don't they? Because you're reminded of them more often, and you see other people enjoying their shows, and it makes you remember the great time you had!

[hoistthecolors]

July 4th was the first time I have seen Green day,,,unlike many other people..They are very lucky..but I think of myself equally as lucky because its a personal thing.I cannot go to many more concerts because of commitments , work etc. So I might not see them again this year...

that aside...

How does one cope with the emotions and feelings ...how long does it take to for some of you to come down from the high and get back on to daily things? do you find that often things have changed? Your perception on life has changed and all the good in life is way more noticeable and the ugly in life is more visible?

People think that its just some kind of phase and that it was the high that is totally triggering ideas and emotions.

Well its certainly making things clearer except I knew of this stuff before the concert and now its being shown more to the light. Green Day and Billie made me more observant of my life and the interconnectivity of everything..now after the concert ,,,even more so...

what do some of you do?

write? write poems? songs? run ? hike? write essays? go become a monk?

LIke to see how any of you cope...or maybe there is no issue at all...

Suzanne

i'm so far behind replying to this.

but every single word you described up there is so true for me.

think of it this way.. at least you got to see them. i missed them in concert because of no money, and my heart ached the entire day they were in my city, because i knew they were there and i wasn't seeing them.

but that really has nothing to do with what you're talking about lol.

it is really, really rough. i actually haven't been lucky enough to go to a green day show, and that's so hard for me to admit.. but i've been to lots of others, and so i do know. it is so hard, because you've escaped into this world of absolute perfection where you know you could get along with everyone around you because you share that common ground. that place and those people are all that matter in the entire world at that moment, and you don't care or need to care about anything else.

it's worth it though, i think. the high of a show, especially probably their shows, is too great not to accept the consequences for =]

[04rebhop]

Yes i do & that is why i brought my second ticket a few weeks ago. So i can still look forward to seeing them after my first gig.

It was awful when i saw Paramore and Fall Out Boy. I kept counting up how long it had been since i saw them, but eventually i just forgot, but it will be 1000 times worse for Green Day as i actually like them. On Wednesday i went up to the LG, when i had to go to the airport. I had see where i would actually be seeing them despite going there before, but they were doing building work.

I saw Elliot Minor at Kerrang Fest few days ago and i am still depressed about that being over.

Usually i watch the videos i took, and it makes me feel like i am still there, and i listen to the songs and read reviews. I also brag to my friends

[Isabel]

Every day that goes by I miss the show even more! The Europeans are going to have such a wonderful fall with the guys.

Ugh, I know that I'll feel like that

That's why I'm going to the Manchester show instead of London, it's a week after Belfast and Dublin so I won't be too sad after them and I'll still be excited about seeing them a week later

[Sara.]

I haven't seen green day live yet, but I'll see them twice in october. it'll suddenly be over. I think I'll be very depressed after the gigs :/

[Psycho Britney]

Help-the other day I had PRE gig comedown!! :/

[-Billiejoezee-]

I spend a whole time crying after my gigs.

[Daughter.of.Rage.and.Love]

I think I already landed in my down-time, and I've only been back for 2 hours.

It's just that this has been THE thing I've been looking forward to since May, and now I haven't got anything to look forward to anymore.... and it was all very very very awesome but it will never come back and I doubt I will be lucky enough to go to another Green Day gig at all, let alone get those awesome places and all...

urgh I hate to be such a negative person.

[Nova-Caine]

Here we go 2 weeks of GD in the UK, I hope you guys are ready to catch me when I fall back down to earth!!!!

x

[Foxboro Hot Tubs]

I was following this thread before „my concert“ and I never thought that it would happen to me. All those depressions and stuff

I was at the Concert in Cologne and it was really the most awesome thing I experienced in my life. I went to Cologne by airplane and it was on top of that the first time I was flying. Well, before the concert I knew that I won’t be in the front cause my airplane arrives too late. I was really scared and frustrated because of the fact that I wanted to be in the front soo bad. Well ... before the concert the excitement and nervousness was almost killing me. I couldn't sleep, couldn't eat, couldn't think .... well and there it was: the 5th of October - the day I was looking forward to for months - well basically years.

Due to the awesome people from GDC I got in the front of the waiting line and suddenly I was standing in the first row right in front of the catwalk

It was more than I ever could ask for. it was .. just unbelievable

well I don't have to say that the concert was totally awesome^^

Right after the concert I was pretty much the happiest person on this planet. I was waiting at the airport for my airplane to come holding Billie Joe's kazoo in my hands and I was just unbelievable happy.

But during the flight back home the down was coming. I was sitting next to the window in the airplane and looking out in the sky ... everything was just so unrealistic. back at home I knew that I should be happy but I couldn't. I'm not much of an emotional person but I cried for 10 hours or something.

I was feeling like the biggest shit on earth. Then I had to go to school and wow - it was just really awful.

at the concert you just feel "home" and then you come to your real home and it just doesn't fit

The hardest part for me was to realize that it really happened and then to deal with the daily routine. The first week after the concert was really hard. Everyday life was killing me :/

You just can't find anything to look forward to .. nothing that makes you happy .. and you just want to burn everything down ..

[BuriedInAHole]

I think that the thrill of anticipation is way higher, then the concert..As Prima Donna came, I was damn nervous, but as Green Day came I couldn't keep my feelings..and I think you get a high when you visit a concert of which you waited a long time..But when the concert is over you wish, that this is only a nightmare

[82]

I think that the thrill of anticipation is way higher, then the concert..As Prima Donna came, I was damn nervous, but as Green Day came I couldn't keep my feelings..and I think you get a high when you visit a concert of which you waited a long time..But when the concert is over you wish, that this is only a nightmare

I totally understand what you mean.

*sigh*

I hate that feeling.

[musse]

I thought I was the only one who's not happy but depressed after the gig... Seeing GD live was the best thing that has ever happened to me, and it was over in 3 hours ;_______;