Brian Gag Posted December 19, 2011 Posted December 19, 2011 Allow me to set the stage: It's 1994, and fifteen-year-old Michigan lad named Brian just found out that Green Day is coming to town. This excites him greatly - so much so that he and his brother wait outside of the nearest TicketMaster location for a few hours for tickets. Would you believe they didn't have online purchase back then? We're talking caveman times. The tickets were impossibly cheap - Around ten dollars each, even after the TicketMaster charges. What a steal! Brian goes back to high school, fidgeting and fussing. That Green Day show is just around the corner. It'll be any day now. He tells everyone, whether they care or not. "This is going to be awesome." The day of the show finally arrives. With his parents and his older brother, they arrive at the venue. On the way in, a photocopied flier gets put in Brian's hand. "Join the Green Day Idiot Club." Yes. That sounds lovely. After begging for money from his parents (fifteen-year-olds aren't exactly swimming in dollar bills), he sends in the check. A while later, he gets the Idiot Club package: Temporary tattoo, sticker, patch, shirt, and a few other odds and ends. Flash forward to 2011: Brian and his new wife move in together. At his parents' old house, Brian goes through some old clothes and finds the Idiot Club shirt, worn and yellowed from age, but still a treasured relic of his past. Front: Back:
greendaytone Posted December 19, 2011 Posted December 19, 2011 Very cool Brian, thanks for sharing. I didn't know you saw GD that early. All those items would be pretty valuable now!
Brian Gag Posted December 19, 2011 Author Posted December 19, 2011 Potentially, but I want to hold onto it for sentimental reasons. And jeez, look at those armpit stains. Who would buy that?
Annie, get your gun Posted December 19, 2011 Posted December 19, 2011 Nice t-shirt! Aww a temporary GD tattoo ♥
beejeezee Posted December 19, 2011 Posted December 19, 2011 That's amazing! So they were calling us "Idiots" before American Idiot.
Brian Gag Posted December 19, 2011 Author Posted December 19, 2011 Nice t-shirt! Aww a temporary GD tattoo ♥ Actually it was just the word "Idiot" written in the same font as the back of the shirt. The average passer-by wouldn't realize it was a Green Day thing. The patch was cool. It was one of those oval/ellipse name patches, like truck drivers or gas station attendants wear, with the word "idiot" in a wonderful lowercase-cursive. I still have the patch on a shirt of mine. I'll see if I can dig that out of storage soon.
November's Storms Posted December 19, 2011 Posted December 19, 2011 Yeah I'm surprised at that, i thought the fan term idiots arose purely because of the American Idiot era. Lucky coincidence?
Brian Gag Posted December 19, 2011 Author Posted December 19, 2011 Yeah I'm surprised at that, i thought the fan term idiots arose purely because of the American Idiot era. Lucky coincidence? Nah. Back then, the Idiot Club was a mail-order affair with semi-regular newsletters.
Annie, get your gun Posted December 19, 2011 Posted December 19, 2011 Actually it was just the word "Idiot" written in the same font as the back of the shirt. The average passer-by wouldn't realize it was a Green Day thing. Ow It would have been better just "Green Day" then...
Daughter.of.Rage.and.Love Posted December 19, 2011 Posted December 19, 2011 ^ That's the fun Only fans would get the reference. Cool shirt! And I've liked the name Idiot Club so much more after a while ago I learned that it wasn't named after American Idiot. The name went from cheesy to dorky cool.
greenandweird Posted December 20, 2011 Posted December 20, 2011 Dude you haven't washed it yet, since 1994 !!!---JUST KIDDIN' IT's an awesome t-shirt (it's not old it's vintage) and you should be proud of it
Jade Landon Posted December 27, 2012 Posted December 27, 2012 This is awesome. I would of loved to have owned this and been part of it back then.
The Forgotten Posted December 27, 2012 Posted December 27, 2012 Green Day fans we're called idiots circa 1994? That's interesting...
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