Green Day Band • Page 122

The "In The End" demo is a freaking Beatles song. Oh man, give me a whole album of that.

 

I think the general audience at a Green Day show loves all the gimmicks.

 

I have been a very dedicated and active member of the Green Day fandom since I was like six and since I've never had the opportunity to see them. COVID stole the Canadian Hella Mega dates the one time I tried to, so when they announce this tour I'm going to try my absolute best to make it happen. And I would be really sad if there's no Shout part

 

I’m sure you could find a fan at any show who wants to hear it. But it needs to stop.

I’m also a huge bands shouldn’t waste set time on a cover guy. I’m there to hear that band’s songs. I give NFG a pass since they have gone out of their way to have three cover albums. And Hayley playing a solo song with Paramore. Like those make sense. But beyond stuff like that, please, please let the covers end.

 

This is my exact story, right down to having supposed to have finally seen them on that Toronto date. I desperately need a tour lol

 

Every time I think to myself "I should go see Green Day again" I'm reminded of the hey-oh.

 

Really looking forward to the Dookie versions of the Lookout songs, I've always wanted to hear those

The demos are really cool, insane how Basket Case has ENTIRELY different lyrics. I'm not sure even one line is the same

 

A smaller Green Day club tour is an excellent idea in theory. But the thought of trying to get tickets, inevitably not getting them, and the resultant FOMO is pretty rough.

How about we all just pool our money together and book them to play a private show in somebody's backyard instead? I have two hammocks, a very nice garden that attracts a lot of butterflies, a patio that would make a pretty perfect stage, and a conservative neighbor with a mullet and an inflatable hot tub on his back porch. He would hate it. Y'know, if anybody needs ideas for a location.

 

Read that as "the resultant FOAM is pretty rough"

 

FOAMO

 

Nobody has that

 

Maybe it's "fear of avoiding missing out" on the album - I have that.

 

they played a 5000 cap venue here in chicago years ago and the setlist was epic, fomo for sure!

Green Day Concert Setlist at Aragon Ballroom, Chicago on October 23, 2016 | setlist.fm

 

Irving Plaza in 2012 was even better. I was so glad a bunch of videos surfaced of that show.

Green Day Setlist at Irving Plaza, New York

 

Yeah, that was the night BJA woke up in a bush on the side of the highway and had to go to rehab.

 

I am beyond blessed to have been at quite a few Green Day club shows, the songs I have heard still blow my mind when I remember.

 

Wasn’t the whole show up on Youtube (in 3 parts) in 2012? I remember watching that concert a bunch of times. It was such a good show.

 

One of the best nights of my life!

 

Was at both the Aragon show and Irving plaza show. Unreal. Ended up winning a contest for Irving and flying across the country last minute and would do it again in a heartbeat

 

My only really cool GD story:

I got to go to MTV's First Listen : Warning. So that in and of itself was awesome.

They did a few performances of Warning songs, and took some audience requests for non-filmed performances. I asked BJ to play Rotting, to which he replied "Rotting??? I don't remember how the fuck to play that anymore!" I probably should have gone with Stuart and the Ave or something.

During the show's filming, they had "listening stations" on the set. People would be filmed listening to the album (they actually were, not just fake swaying) basically on Discmans.

When it was all done, leaving had a wild vibe. Security was checking out bags, patting us down, and were clearly annoyed and stressed.

In Penn Station, my friend and I ran into a few people we saw at the filming. Turns out, they swiped one of the CDR-s that had the album on it from a Discman. They ripped it and emailed it to me that night. I forget how much before the album the show's shooting was, but it felt insane back then to have a GD album so early - especially one involved in a heist.

 

I was wondering the other day… do you think Green Day’s career would be different if Warning had been a huge success?

The 4 years between Warning and American Idiot and the huge musical detour do feel like they did some rethinking.

 

For sure. There wasn’t as large of a market to support the “aging/maturing” phase of a pop punk/rock band but, if there had been, I think they may have just released whatever their next record would be instead of a very savvy, topical, in-your-face concept record for a slightly younger fan base than where they were trending toward.

 

They also played the Metro in Chicago last year and played Warning and Church on Sunday both for the first time since 01 and Whatsername for the first time since 05. Also played J.A.R, Scattered, One of My Lies, etc. etc. I'd argue this is the greatest Green Day setlist I've ever seen, it was a nightmare trying to get tickets since the Metro is so small though: Green Day Setlist at Lollapalooza 2022 Aftershows

 

Tried to play Oh Love, had to stop because they forgot how to play it. And just about sums up the Trilogy, right there.

 

lol yeah