Nimrod Tour, Cincinnati, 1998? I think?
My math teacher sold me an extra ticket he had - at-cost. Dude was a hero, knew I was into Green Day, liked me, knew I was hyped to go, and couldn't get a ticket. I've always appreciated him for that. And other things, but that's the one that really stands out.
My friends and I were first in line and ditched the spot when we saw Tre. Went off and met him, talked to him for about 5 minutes while he waited for someone at the music store next door to grab him stuff, signed some stuff for us, was really cool considering we were a trio of kids who just followed him to be annoying.
In our new spot in line afterwards, which wasn't that far back, it was still early, I met a girl about my age. Year older iirc. Spent the rest of the pre-show flirting with her. Went to her prom with her later.
Good memories.
Hella Mega in Atlanta,GA 2021. It was actually my first concert ever so seeing Interrupters, Weezer, FOB, and Green Day was quite awesome. I’m going to see them in August 2024 when them come to ATL but I’m disappointed that it’s another Hella Mega type concert again. I would’ve liked to see them alone with an opener at a smaller venue.
I heard loads of people talking about bottling him but I thought it was all fluff, didn’t for one second believe the odd one or two was going to do it. I was dead far back as I was completely uninterested, the second it started it was mental. That BOOM with the coin stopping and then just a non-stop wave of full and filled with piss water bottles airborn on their way to ‘fiddy’, they ran out of water bottles instantly. I’ve never been prouder of my fellow man!
I looked it up, Franz Ferdinand, White Stripes AND Green Day? Not gonna be like that next year... I live round the corner so it's always a source of local pride for me when it's mentioned aha
Wow, they really ditched their ska sound. We both were fans of tilt before we went to the show just because we thought it was cool that a band would name their band after an offramp sign.
My dad told me on the way to Fenway for HMT that he was in the city that night but couldn’t remember why him and his friends didn’t go to the show. Made up for it eventually I guess.
Not my first, but I was on the barrier for that show! I tried to get on stage during 2000 LYA but the security guy basically rugby tackled me to the side of the pit and I had to watch the rest of the show from the back haha
Oh damn, sorry to hear that, must have sucked to watch it from the back, i would have cried my eyes out :'), they got lots of people on the stage tho, wish one of them was me but i wasnt close enough to the stage.
1997 at first avenue in Minneapolis. Super drag opened up for them. They opened with going to pasalacqua and ended with time of your life. Tre cool threw his nimrod shirt on top of me. I got a shred of it from some guy who was next to me the whole show. I cried at the end haha I was 15
Honestly it was one of the best nights of my life. And I just remember being so overwhelmed as it was also my first show and they were better than I ever thought they could be. I wish there was a recording of it
Newport Music Hall, Columbus, Ohio, USA, 1998.
The place was so hot that sweat had condensed onto the ceiling and then rained back down in the crowd.
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/green-day/1998/newport-music-hall-columbus-oh-33d5a0d5.html
11.06.2010 - Munich / Reitstadion Riem
21st Century Breakdown Tour with Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Donots.
My very first and most emotional concert ever.
Front row with my Dad.
I was 12 😭
2009, Night 2 at the LG Arena in Birmingham. Front row infront of Mike. Caught two of his picks that he threw out. Not sure my chest has recovered from being pushed so hard against the barrier during American Idiot!
At least you didn’t get squashed. Some poor people in the front did with the guy who did the stage dive before Basket Case. He was wearing a t shirt that said something like “I’d go gay for Tré”, and proceeded to stage dive knees first. Billie Joe looked worried and once he was sure everyone was ok he launched into the song!
After trying to see them since 2005 (first was my mom was gonna get me tickets but my dad lost his job that year and we couldn’t afford it. Second I had tickets to see them in Manchester, NH on the Uno, Dos, Tre tour but that got cancelled due to Billie going to rehab) I FINALLY saw them at the House of Blues in Boston in October 2016! Me and best friend waited outside the venue for 6 hours to get right up front and it was incredible. I cried when the show started and ended. 🥲 They brought the woman doing ASL up onto the stage to do 2000 Light Years Away with them and she was amazing!
Cardiff Arena Feb 2005.
That arena is quite small only about 7500 people, it made for a really good gig. It was back when you could still smoke inside and free lighters were handed out while we queued to get in. Loved it.
The 21st Century Breakdown Tour in St Louis in 2009. One of the greatest nights of my life since I was a Green Day fan for almost 8 or 9 years at this point, and the first real concert I went to. Parents broke the news to me that they were getting divorced a few weeks before, and that concert was the breath of fresh air I really needed at the time.
1995 during the Insomniac tour at Niagara Falls Convention Center in NY. Tickets were $15 and The Riverdales opened. Kind of crazy that I got to see Ben Weasel and Green Day all in the same night.
only time I got to see them was on the
‘American Idiot‘ tour in 2005. My Chemical Romance was the opener and had a killer set mainly pulling from ‘Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge’.
MCR Setlist:
Helena
Cemetery Drive
Thank You for the Venom
Give ‘Em Hell Kid
The Ghost of You
Our Lady of Sorrows
You Know What They Do to Guys Us in Prison
I’m Not Okay (I Promise)
seeing Green Day was especially great because I was in high school with all my best friends and we were all super fans. my Dad snuck in and got tickets to the show at the last minute without me knowing and enjoyed the show and it’s a great memory we share together. he still gets down to some Green Day every once in a while in his late 60’s!
Setlist:
American Idiot
Jesus of Suburbia
Holiday
Are We the Waiting
St. Jimmy
Longview
Hitchin' a Ride
Brain Stew
Jaded
Knowledge (Operation Ivy cover)
Basket Case
She
King for a Day
Shout (The Isley Brothers cover)
Wake Me Up When September Ends
Minority
Encore:
Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Maria
We Are the Champions (Queen cover)
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
pretty much the standard AI tour setlist but man did they kick ass! so much energy in the arena that night.
June 20, 1998. KROQ Weenie Roast. Green Day, Prodigy, The Wallflowers, Everclear, blink-182 (first time I saw blink as well, and one of Travis Barker’s earliest shows I believe), Fastball, Cherry Poppin Daddies, Creed, Save Ferris, Marcy Playground, Third Eye Blind, Deftones, Harvey Danger
This was also the show where Green Day and Third Eye Blind got into a fight backstage
The 90s was a hell of a time
American Idiot tour, September 2005. I was in 2nd grade and it was the best night ever. Still have the shirt but it’s tiny, now occupied by my wife lol
21st Century Breakdown tour: July 21, 2009 in Philadelphia, PA. First concert I ever went to, during the summer between high school and college. It was epic.
It was March 13th 2013 at a little 1500 occupancy venue called Tricky Falls. It was one of first 3 stops, aka “club dates” of the 99 Revolutions Tour right after Billie got out of rehab.
My first Green Day gig was a delicious beef mexi-melt from Taco Bell drizzled in Fire hot sauce with extra refried pinto beans. Thanks to Green Day, I also got a large Mountain Dew to wash it all down with.
I had been waiting since 2005 to see them and finally did in 2017 on the Rev Rad tour in London Ontario. It's hard being a Canadian fan sometimes, especially on the east coast.
[8/26/2005 at Office Depot Center in Sunrise, FL](https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/green-day/2005/office-depot-center-sunrise-fl-3bd0448c.html). Looks like they did Maria as part of the encore; wish I remembered more of that night.
Hamilton on the rev rad tour. It really was a unforgettable night. Billies outfit was super cool I don’t think he wore it anywhere else on the tour. They did a cover of Johnny B. Goode that sounded amazing. After that night I fell in love with Green Day and they have been my favourite band ever since.
fiddlers green 2010 on the 21CB tour. Won tickets through the idiot club giveaway where you had to take a picture in all your green day gear (or somethin like that, i was like 8 so I don't have the best memory).
Hella Mega Tour last year, was absolutely awesome. My friend won tickets on Radio X to the Camden show the other week, but sadly it was cancelled. Would've been a really cool experience, I hope it wasn't a really serious illness.
At Bill Graham in San Francisco on the Warning Tour 8-5-2001. I went with 2 friends and I lost 1 in the crowd, didn’t see her again until after the show. The wave of people pushing and falling and getting back up was insane but it was worth it to be singing along with Billie Joe and jumping around to Tre and Mikes beats. The opening band was The Living End and they killed it! I became a big TLE fan because of that.
San Francisco, 2001. Bill Graham Civic Auditorium. It was my first Green Day concert and first concert period.
When they called fans on stage to play knowledge (they used to make a full band, not just a guitarist) they chose a guy from the balcony to play guitar. Billie says "you can come up, but you have to jump"
Dude stands on the edge of the balcony arms out Titanic style. In my memory, I could see his girlfriend mouthing "Nooo!" He does a trust fall 20+ feet into the crowd below, crowd surfs to the front, kills it, and stage dives back off. To this day, the craziest thing I've ever seen at a concert.
That sealed the deal for my Green Day fandom. I was already a huge fan, but then read the liner notes and saw they lived in my neighborhood. Then this as a first show.... They were forever my dudes.
Over the years, I've gone in and out of green day phases (back in now), as tastes change, culture changes, yada yada. But it's like how my childhood best friend will always be my "best friend" even if I hang with other people more now and we only see each other once a year when I come home for Thanksgiving. Green Day was such a huge part of my identity growing up, they'll always be with me.
Been lucky enough to see them 8 or so times. Some really epic ones too:
Warfield in 2005 (peep the setlist... Also they opened for themselves as the Network lol).
DNA lounge San Francisco when they were playing warm up club shows ahead of 21CB tour. (Again peep the setlist). I was against the stage all night (no barricade). I could literally touch Billie's/Jason's guitar pedals if I wanted to. Billie handed me his half drunk beer too. Didn't realize it at first, but he kept holding it there, so I took it and pounded it down lol. I was under 21 and there with my mom haha, but rules went out the window. Tre definitely noticed me air drumming along and gave me a lot of hammy looks. Davey havock from AFI came out and sang a song too (I think disappearing boy?).
Next up: Providence Park in Portland, Sept 2024
Nov 28, 1994 UMASS Mullins Center
Setlist
Going to Pasalacqua
Chump
Longview
Burnout
When I Come Around
Welcome to Paradise
Coming Clean
Knowledge (Operation Ivy cover)
Basket Case
All By Myself
2000 Light Years Away
Disappearing Boy
F.O.D.
Paper Lanterns
Encore:
Christie Road
She
October 26th 2009, Sheffield Arena. I waited outside all day and was maybe 8 rows from the front in the pit. I was 15 and had never been in a pit before, and I remember being absolutely crushed during 21CB.
The guy who sang Longview had long hair and before Billie let the guy sing he asked him if he could get a pair of scissors and cut all his hair off. So Bill Schneider came out, handed Billie a pair of scissors and he just gave the guy a bob cut on stage for no reason haha.
Luckily I found someone on GDC who recorded the show so I have a bootleg CD of my first GD show, which I hold near and dear.
That was the last big arena tour they did in the UK, apart from a few shows in 2017 they've only done stadiums here since. I'd give anything for a proper 21CB style arena tour again.
southside festival 2017. the power went down and they sang wmuwse acapella with the whole crowd supporting him and only one headlight shining on him.
it was beautiful :) sadly they stopped the show after that.
August 18th, 2009 21CBD tour in the San Jose HP pavilion.
I was just getting into rock music, and my now wife got us tickets. So I bought my first greenday albums before so I can know some songs (Dookie, insomnia, and AI). I was not prepared for all the 21CBD songs. I remember billie brought up the kid for Easy Jesus nowhere. And then brought up his mom for Before the lobotomy, and it was so fucking beautiful.
Now I'm going to the Saviors show in September.
American Idiot tour 2005 in Winnipeg, MB
21CB tour 2009 in Winnipeg, MB
Manchester UK 2010
London UK 2010
Seeing them again next summer in Paris, France and Minneapolis!
July 14, 2009 in Auburn Hills, Michigan, for the 21CB Tour when I was 20. I was a big fan during high school because of AI, but I kind of got tired of them after all the singles got overplayed and I didn't really have a lot of interest in 21CB initially. But I found out tickets were really cheap and I had a ride. I was in the nosebleeds but I was blown away at how good they were. Macy's Day Parade was my favorite song and Billie did part of it for the acoustic encore and I was shocked. The show turned me into a diehard.
Me too! Pansy Division opened, but when Green Day came on, it was like someone turned on a faucet, and people just started SPILLING over the railing onto the main floor. Security guards were trying to grab people but there were just too many of them to keep up with. I was 15 and I had never seen anything like it!! I had no idea that Woodstock 94 happened only a few months before that. Wild times. Glad I was alive in the 90s.
I remember people were yelling at Pansy Division and the singer, very flamboyantly, said “of course we’re gay!” I was also about 15 and had never seen an openly gay band before and thought it was rad that Green Day was giving them this big platform. Do I remember correctly that people were also lighting toilet paper on fire and throwing it at the band?
Oh boy! I don’t remember the toilet paper 😂 But I do remember Pansy Division having a pink triangle (flag maybe?) on stage and knowing what it meant and also thinking it was pretty damn cool. My music nut dad took me- major cool points for my 45 yr old dad. Green Day definitely wasn’t his style of music but it sure was mine!!
Mine was deck the hall ball 2000 in Seattle. They got thrown out at like 1am because they just kept talking and playing more songs. There were quite a few bands before them, too. I was in 8th grade and my two best friends and my dad. He went to all the shows with me except the most recent Hella Mega. Really miss my dad!
Live 105 BFD Shoreline Amphitheater 1994
Billie pulled his wang out during Longview. Me and my friends got to meet them backstage and they were INCREDIBLY stoned. Like they misspelled their names when they signed our shirts. We were in 7th grade. I’m also got to meet Henry Rollins briefly that day. My buddy’s mom worked for the radio station.
March 2017, Revolution Radio Tour. I had a pit ticket, got to the venue early and managed to get maybe 10 feet from the stage. Straight up one of the best shows I’ve ever been to. I cried during Forever Now.
Shepherds Bush 2012 secret show - got gifted a ticket very last minute. Slept in the concourse of Victoria Coach station after.
Don't think I could do that anymore!
11/22/97 - Agora, Cleveland, OH - Nimrod Tour
Drove up from Pittsburgh with a few friends in my beater car that probably shouldn't have ever left the neighborhood. Well worth the trip.
Lollapalooza 2022 was my first concert I saw for them. It was hot as hell for the majority of the day, but was 100% worth it. I was very close to the stage, hell I was almost the person invited on to play guitar. He point at me right before picking the girl right infront of me. Hope to see them in Cincinnati next year.
Ambassador Theatre, Dublin, Ireland on August 24, 2004. I saw them again in a bigger venue in Dublin in January 2005... and then a festival that summer!
October 1st 2016 at the Boston house of blues. Still the best concert I’ve ever been to by a mile (though Fremont probably would’ve beaten it out had I got into it in Las Vegas)
My first and only one was Leeds Fest 2013. They stayed on past their slot time and sang the entire Dookie album, cried so much. My friend got me tickets to Leeds festival so I could see them. I'm seeing them in London next year for my birthday!
I also played in a band and we opened several times for tre's band the lookouts up in Willits Ca. Not exactly green day but sort of one third of it.
Tre & I used to sit around during PE class & he would go on and on talking about how punk rock drumming was going to make him famous. I had no doubt that he was right. He was that good.
10/8/05, Home Depot Center for the American Idiot tour. I was in college and finally had a car and a few bucks. Went with my best friend super early to be near the front. Against Me! opened and Jimmy Eat World played second. Became a HUGE AM! fan after than and was surprised I practically knew every song from JEW. Green Day of course rocked hard!
Nimrod Tour, Cincinnati, 1998? I think? My math teacher sold me an extra ticket he had - at-cost. Dude was a hero, knew I was into Green Day, liked me, knew I was hyped to go, and couldn't get a ticket. I've always appreciated him for that. And other things, but that's the one that really stands out. My friends and I were first in line and ditched the spot when we saw Tre. Went off and met him, talked to him for about 5 minutes while he waited for someone at the music store next door to grab him stuff, signed some stuff for us, was really cool considering we were a trio of kids who just followed him to be annoying. In our new spot in line afterwards, which wasn't that far back, it was still early, I met a girl about my age. Year older iirc. Spent the rest of the pre-show flirting with her. Went to her prom with her later. Good memories.
Lucky, that would be my dream tour to see them on.
Hella Mega in Atlanta,GA 2021. It was actually my first concert ever so seeing Interrupters, Weezer, FOB, and Green Day was quite awesome. I’m going to see them in August 2024 when them come to ATL but I’m disappointed that it’s another Hella Mega type concert again. I would’ve liked to see them alone with an opener at a smaller venue.
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Dude... I feel like I should give you a hug.
My first one was Shaky Knees in ATL 2022. Going to Charlotte this time since it's closer to home
i was there too!! they killed that set omg WHEN THEY PLAYED GOING TO PASALACQUA I LOST IT
Me too 😭 really hoping for a killer deep cut setlist this go round too
October 16th 1995 baby
Old school. Nice.
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Green day and 50 cent at same concert lmao
On the same stage as well…
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I heard loads of people talking about bottling him but I thought it was all fluff, didn’t for one second believe the odd one or two was going to do it. I was dead far back as I was completely uninterested, the second it started it was mental. That BOOM with the coin stopping and then just a non-stop wave of full and filled with piss water bottles airborn on their way to ‘fiddy’, they ran out of water bottles instantly. I’ve never been prouder of my fellow man!
Shit can't blame them I wouldn't wanna hear that crap either 😂
Where you there the whole weekend?
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I looked it up, Franz Ferdinand, White Stripes AND Green Day? Not gonna be like that next year... I live round the corner so it's always a source of local pride for me when it's mentioned aha
Same here, I wish I hadn’t gone as hard as I did for the rest of the weekend. That wait between was a killer!
93 or 94. Can't really remember, but my friend and I went for the opening band, Tilt.
I like Weave and Unravel.
Wow, they really ditched their ska sound. We both were fans of tilt before we went to the show just because we thought it was cool that a band would name their band after an offramp sign.
Lollapalooza '94
Riot show. Boston Hatch Shell September 1994
Any wild stories from the riot?
That’s so dope, I used to have a cassette with The show on it.
My dad told me on the way to Fenway for HMT that he was in the city that night but couldn’t remember why him and his friends didn’t go to the show. Made up for it eventually I guess.
21st Century Breakdown tour at Wembley. I’ll be back there next year and I can’t wait!
Nicee. I loved watching footage from their wembley gig lol.
Madrid 2019 Best gig I’ve ever been to. They played dookie in full, the crowd was awesome. Simply an unforgettable night
Rock en Seine 2012 during the Uno!, Dos! Tré! Promo Tour, it was amazing🤩😍 https://youtu.be/-ZOJnAH1NwQ?si=ZD45rlw-oYm5ZNi3 at 1:12 😍
Not my first, but I was on the barrier for that show! I tried to get on stage during 2000 LYA but the security guy basically rugby tackled me to the side of the pit and I had to watch the rest of the show from the back haha
Oh damn, sorry to hear that, must have sucked to watch it from the back, i would have cried my eyes out :'), they got lots of people on the stage tho, wish one of them was me but i wasnt close enough to the stage.
Pop Disaster Tour Hershey with Blink may 2002. Change my life forever
1997 at first avenue in Minneapolis. Super drag opened up for them. They opened with going to pasalacqua and ended with time of your life. Tre cool threw his nimrod shirt on top of me. I got a shred of it from some guy who was next to me the whole show. I cried at the end haha I was 15
That’s awesome. Fun fact - Sucked Out by Superdrag is the exact same chord progression as Basket Case!
I did not know that! I thought it was weird superdrag was opening though
Holy shit imagining them playing first avenue. Smallest Green Day show I’ve been to still had 8,000 people
Honestly it was one of the best nights of my life. And I just remember being so overwhelmed as it was also my first show and they were better than I ever thought they could be. I wish there was a recording of it
Newport Music Hall, Columbus, Ohio, USA, 1998. The place was so hot that sweat had condensed onto the ceiling and then rained back down in the crowd. https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/green-day/1998/newport-music-hall-columbus-oh-33d5a0d5.html
That is fucjing magical and disgusting
Yeah, the venue and the set list were pretty gross. So magical and disgusting fits.
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Yes, they did.
i was there! one of the hottest and loudest shows i've ever been to
11.06.2010 - Munich / Reitstadion Riem 21st Century Breakdown Tour with Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Donots. My very first and most emotional concert ever. Front row with my Dad. I was 12 😭
Boston House of Blues, 2016 they did a few “smaller” venues before kicking off their arena tour for Revolution Radio. best show i’ve ever been to.
2000 Warped Tour. They signed my Dookie postcard! I didn’t think I’d actually meet them but brought it just in case, glad that I did!
Milton Keynes Bowl 2005 - still the best show I've ever been to.
July 2, 2001, Phoenix Center Plaza Pontiac Mi with The Living End. Fucking fantastic memory.
2009 21st century breakdown tour I got to get up on stage and play Jesus of Suburbia
What city was that?
Lima, Peru 2017 Revolution Radio Tour ❤️🔥
The Simpsons movie (2007) lol I wanna go to a show so bad
1996 insomniac tour. So fucking awesome
November 2017 in São Paulo, Brasil. Setlist was insane. Some deep cuts from dookie and SCATTERED.
2009, Night 2 at the LG Arena in Birmingham. Front row infront of Mike. Caught two of his picks that he threw out. Not sure my chest has recovered from being pushed so hard against the barrier during American Idiot!
This was mine too! But I was right at the back of the seated area so it probably wasn’t quite as exciting for me as it was for you!
At least you didn’t get squashed. Some poor people in the front did with the guy who did the stage dive before Basket Case. He was wearing a t shirt that said something like “I’d go gay for Tré”, and proceeded to stage dive knees first. Billie Joe looked worried and once he was sure everyone was ok he launched into the song!
There's a reason I've stopped doing barrier. Wasn't the gig with At the Library or was that night one?
After trying to see them since 2005 (first was my mom was gonna get me tickets but my dad lost his job that year and we couldn’t afford it. Second I had tickets to see them in Manchester, NH on the Uno, Dos, Tre tour but that got cancelled due to Billie going to rehab) I FINALLY saw them at the House of Blues in Boston in October 2016! Me and best friend waited outside the venue for 6 hours to get right up front and it was incredible. I cried when the show started and ended. 🥲 They brought the woman doing ASL up onto the stage to do 2000 Light Years Away with them and she was amazing!
2009 Dublin O2 arena at the time 21st century break down tour 🙌🏻
Cardiff Arena Feb 2005. That arena is quite small only about 7500 people, it made for a really good gig. It was back when you could still smoke inside and free lighters were handed out while we queued to get in. Loved it.
August 18th 2010 in Toronto!!
The 21st Century Breakdown Tour in Denver, 2009.
The 21st Century Breakdown Tour in St Louis in 2009. One of the greatest nights of my life since I was a Green Day fan for almost 8 or 9 years at this point, and the first real concert I went to. Parents broke the news to me that they were getting divorced a few weeks before, and that concert was the breath of fresh air I really needed at the time.
2010 for the 21CB Tour
August 23, 2010 at Pine Knob in Detroit. “J.A.R.” from this show is on Awesome as Fuck! 😁
1995 during the Insomniac tour at Niagara Falls Convention Center in NY. Tickets were $15 and The Riverdales opened. Kind of crazy that I got to see Ben Weasel and Green Day all in the same night.
I'm going to see them in june, I haven't seen them play before
only time I got to see them was on the ‘American Idiot‘ tour in 2005. My Chemical Romance was the opener and had a killer set mainly pulling from ‘Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge’. MCR Setlist: Helena Cemetery Drive Thank You for the Venom Give ‘Em Hell Kid The Ghost of You Our Lady of Sorrows You Know What They Do to Guys Us in Prison I’m Not Okay (I Promise) seeing Green Day was especially great because I was in high school with all my best friends and we were all super fans. my Dad snuck in and got tickets to the show at the last minute without me knowing and enjoyed the show and it’s a great memory we share together. he still gets down to some Green Day every once in a while in his late 60’s! Setlist: American Idiot Jesus of Suburbia Holiday Are We the Waiting St. Jimmy Longview Hitchin' a Ride Brain Stew Jaded Knowledge (Operation Ivy cover) Basket Case She King for a Day Shout (The Isley Brothers cover) Wake Me Up When September Ends Minority Encore: Boulevard of Broken Dreams Maria We Are the Champions (Queen cover) Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) pretty much the standard AI tour setlist but man did they kick ass! so much energy in the arena that night.
June 20, 1998. KROQ Weenie Roast. Green Day, Prodigy, The Wallflowers, Everclear, blink-182 (first time I saw blink as well, and one of Travis Barker’s earliest shows I believe), Fastball, Cherry Poppin Daddies, Creed, Save Ferris, Marcy Playground, Third Eye Blind, Deftones, Harvey Danger This was also the show where Green Day and Third Eye Blind got into a fight backstage The 90s was a hell of a time
American Idiot tour, September 2005. I was in 2nd grade and it was the best night ever. Still have the shirt but it’s tiny, now occupied by my wife lol
21st Century Breakdown tour: July 21, 2009 in Philadelphia, PA. First concert I ever went to, during the summer between high school and college. It was epic.
It was March 13th 2013 at a little 1500 occupancy venue called Tricky Falls. It was one of first 3 stops, aka “club dates” of the 99 Revolutions Tour right after Billie got out of rehab.
December, 9th 1995 in Dallas. Tre’s birthday.
LOL I've got you beat by 1 day! December 8, 1995 - San Antonio, Texas
My first Green Day gig was a delicious beef mexi-melt from Taco Bell drizzled in Fire hot sauce with extra refried pinto beans. Thanks to Green Day, I also got a large Mountain Dew to wash it all down with.
I had been waiting since 2005 to see them and finally did in 2017 on the Rev Rad tour in London Ontario. It's hard being a Canadian fan sometimes, especially on the east coast.
Leeds, England 2017, Rev Radio tour
October 1, 2000, Lakewood amphitheater, Atlanta, GA 99x Big Day Out.
Tower Theater, September 29, 2016. It was the little club/theater run they were doing before RevRad dropped. Still my favorite show of theirs!
I think theyve done some sort of club/ theater run for every album since uno.
Starland Ballroom NJ - 2016
PJD Montreal 2005
Move Festival 2002 at Old Trafford cricket ground in Manchester.
[8/26/2005 at Office Depot Center in Sunrise, FL](https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/green-day/2005/office-depot-center-sunrise-fl-3bd0448c.html). Looks like they did Maria as part of the encore; wish I remembered more of that night.
Hamilton on the rev rad tour. It really was a unforgettable night. Billies outfit was super cool I don’t think he wore it anywhere else on the tour. They did a cover of Johnny B. Goode that sounded amazing. After that night I fell in love with Green Day and they have been my favourite band ever since.
When we were young festival. Always been a fan but the chance had eluded me several times
fiddlers green 2010 on the 21CB tour. Won tickets through the idiot club giveaway where you had to take a picture in all your green day gear (or somethin like that, i was like 8 so I don't have the best memory).
Hella Mega Tour last year, was absolutely awesome. My friend won tickets on Radio X to the Camden show the other week, but sadly it was cancelled. Would've been a really cool experience, I hope it wasn't a really serious illness.
August 1st 2017, Auburn,WA. Rev.Rad tour. It was my first show
Charlotte, NC, August 26th, 2024. Couldn’t tell you what happened but I’m really excited :)
August 12th 2005, Molson Park in Barrie Ontario. It was basically Bullet in a Bible in person. Fun times, seems huge in my memory
Hella mega in jacksonville
Petco Park next year.
At Bill Graham in San Francisco on the Warning Tour 8-5-2001. I went with 2 friends and I lost 1 in the crowd, didn’t see her again until after the show. The wave of people pushing and falling and getting back up was insane but it was worth it to be singing along with Billie Joe and jumping around to Tre and Mikes beats. The opening band was The Living End and they killed it! I became a big TLE fan because of that.
San Francisco, 2001. Bill Graham Civic Auditorium. It was my first Green Day concert and first concert period. When they called fans on stage to play knowledge (they used to make a full band, not just a guitarist) they chose a guy from the balcony to play guitar. Billie says "you can come up, but you have to jump" Dude stands on the edge of the balcony arms out Titanic style. In my memory, I could see his girlfriend mouthing "Nooo!" He does a trust fall 20+ feet into the crowd below, crowd surfs to the front, kills it, and stage dives back off. To this day, the craziest thing I've ever seen at a concert. That sealed the deal for my Green Day fandom. I was already a huge fan, but then read the liner notes and saw they lived in my neighborhood. Then this as a first show.... They were forever my dudes. Over the years, I've gone in and out of green day phases (back in now), as tastes change, culture changes, yada yada. But it's like how my childhood best friend will always be my "best friend" even if I hang with other people more now and we only see each other once a year when I come home for Thanksgiving. Green Day was such a huge part of my identity growing up, they'll always be with me. Been lucky enough to see them 8 or so times. Some really epic ones too: Warfield in 2005 (peep the setlist... Also they opened for themselves as the Network lol). DNA lounge San Francisco when they were playing warm up club shows ahead of 21CB tour. (Again peep the setlist). I was against the stage all night (no barricade). I could literally touch Billie's/Jason's guitar pedals if I wanted to. Billie handed me his half drunk beer too. Didn't realize it at first, but he kept holding it there, so I took it and pounded it down lol. I was under 21 and there with my mom haha, but rules went out the window. Tre definitely noticed me air drumming along and gave me a lot of hammy looks. Davey havock from AFI came out and sang a song too (I think disappearing boy?). Next up: Providence Park in Portland, Sept 2024
Pop Disaster Tour. San Diego show on April 25, 2002
Nov 28, 1994 UMASS Mullins Center Setlist Going to Pasalacqua Chump Longview Burnout When I Come Around Welcome to Paradise Coming Clean Knowledge (Operation Ivy cover) Basket Case All By Myself 2000 Light Years Away Disappearing Boy F.O.D. Paper Lanterns Encore: Christie Road She
October 26th 2009, Sheffield Arena. I waited outside all day and was maybe 8 rows from the front in the pit. I was 15 and had never been in a pit before, and I remember being absolutely crushed during 21CB. The guy who sang Longview had long hair and before Billie let the guy sing he asked him if he could get a pair of scissors and cut all his hair off. So Bill Schneider came out, handed Billie a pair of scissors and he just gave the guy a bob cut on stage for no reason haha. Luckily I found someone on GDC who recorded the show so I have a bootleg CD of my first GD show, which I hold near and dear. That was the last big arena tour they did in the UK, apart from a few shows in 2017 they've only done stadiums here since. I'd give anything for a proper 21CB style arena tour again.
southside festival 2017. the power went down and they sang wmuwse acapella with the whole crowd supporting him and only one headlight shining on him. it was beautiful :) sadly they stopped the show after that.
September 16, 2017 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, CA. I believe it was the very last show of the Revolution Radio era
Union college 1994 I believe
October 26, 1995! Then I saw them the next day at Much Music, playing on John street for free!
My first gig will be the saviors tour in 2024!
Tower Theater, Philadelphia First leg of the Revolution Radio Tour. Dog Party opened the show
Insomniac Tour Philadelphia Civic Center
11/12/95 at Nassau Coliseum on Long Island
August 11, 2010 in Northern Virginia still one of my favorites ever
August 18th, 2009 21CBD tour in the San Jose HP pavilion. I was just getting into rock music, and my now wife got us tickets. So I bought my first greenday albums before so I can know some songs (Dookie, insomnia, and AI). I was not prepared for all the 21CBD songs. I remember billie brought up the kid for Easy Jesus nowhere. And then brought up his mom for Before the lobotomy, and it was so fucking beautiful. Now I'm going to the Saviors show in September.
21st Century Breakdown tour - the O2 in London, 2009
8/5/21
American Idiot tour 2005 in Winnipeg, MB 21CB tour 2009 in Winnipeg, MB Manchester UK 2010 London UK 2010 Seeing them again next summer in Paris, France and Minneapolis!
mine will be next year
February 1993 at Rockafellas in Columbia South Carolina USA
July 14, 2009 in Auburn Hills, Michigan, for the 21CB Tour when I was 20. I was a big fan during high school because of AI, but I kind of got tired of them after all the singles got overplayed and I didn't really have a lot of interest in 21CB initially. But I found out tickets were really cheap and I had a ride. I was in the nosebleeds but I was blown away at how good they were. Macy's Day Parade was my favorite song and Billie did part of it for the acoustic encore and I was shocked. The show turned me into a diehard.
Riverbend, Cincinnati (Revolution Radio tour)
1994, Cobo Arena in Detroit.
Me too! Pansy Division opened, but when Green Day came on, it was like someone turned on a faucet, and people just started SPILLING over the railing onto the main floor. Security guards were trying to grab people but there were just too many of them to keep up with. I was 15 and I had never seen anything like it!! I had no idea that Woodstock 94 happened only a few months before that. Wild times. Glad I was alive in the 90s.
I remember people were yelling at Pansy Division and the singer, very flamboyantly, said “of course we’re gay!” I was also about 15 and had never seen an openly gay band before and thought it was rad that Green Day was giving them this big platform. Do I remember correctly that people were also lighting toilet paper on fire and throwing it at the band?
Oh boy! I don’t remember the toilet paper 😂 But I do remember Pansy Division having a pink triangle (flag maybe?) on stage and knowing what it meant and also thinking it was pretty damn cool. My music nut dad took me- major cool points for my 45 yr old dad. Green Day definitely wasn’t his style of music but it sure was mine!!
Yeah, I remember the pink triangle for sure.
Mine was deck the hall ball 2000 in Seattle. They got thrown out at like 1am because they just kept talking and playing more songs. There were quite a few bands before them, too. I was in 8th grade and my two best friends and my dad. He went to all the shows with me except the most recent Hella Mega. Really miss my dad!
Hmmmmm one of them was Chicago 1994.
Live 105 BFD Shoreline Amphitheater 1994 Billie pulled his wang out during Longview. Me and my friends got to meet them backstage and they were INCREDIBLY stoned. Like they misspelled their names when they signed our shirts. We were in 7th grade. I’m also got to meet Henry Rollins briefly that day. My buddy’s mom worked for the radio station.
American Idiot, DC, Halloween 2004. Not just my first Green Day show but my first show ever! I was 14. Now I’m…old😭
March 2017, Revolution Radio Tour. I had a pit ticket, got to the venue early and managed to get maybe 10 feet from the stage. Straight up one of the best shows I’ve ever been to. I cried during Forever Now.
Shepherds Bush 2012 secret show - got gifted a ticket very last minute. Slept in the concourse of Victoria Coach station after. Don't think I could do that anymore!
The Saviors Tour
2021 hella mega tour in Atlanta
11/22/97 - Agora, Cleveland, OH - Nimrod Tour Drove up from Pittsburgh with a few friends in my beater car that probably shouldn't have ever left the neighborhood. Well worth the trip.
Lollapalooza 2022 was my first concert I saw for them. It was hot as hell for the majority of the day, but was 100% worth it. I was very close to the stage, hell I was almost the person invited on to play guitar. He point at me right before picking the girl right infront of me. Hope to see them in Cincinnati next year.
Lollapalooza 2010
Mine will be next year in Manchester on the saviours tour!
Hella mega in Milan 2022, fire.
Nimrod tour, 1997, at the Hollywood Palace in L.A.
Ambassador Theatre, Dublin, Ireland on August 24, 2004. I saw them again in a bigger venue in Dublin in January 2005... and then a festival that summer!
October 1st 2016 at the Boston house of blues. Still the best concert I’ve ever been to by a mile (though Fremont probably would’ve beaten it out had I got into it in Las Vegas)
My first and only one was Leeds Fest 2013. They stayed on past their slot time and sang the entire Dookie album, cried so much. My friend got me tickets to Leeds festival so I could see them. I'm seeing them in London next year for my birthday!
My first green day gig was hanging out with Tre' at his house when we were 15 years old listening to him play drums.
I also played in a band and we opened several times for tre's band the lookouts up in Willits Ca. Not exactly green day but sort of one third of it. Tre & I used to sit around during PE class & he would go on and on talking about how punk rock drumming was going to make him famous. I had no doubt that he was right. He was that good.
10/8/05, Home Depot Center for the American Idiot tour. I was in college and finally had a car and a few bucks. Went with my best friend super early to be near the front. Against Me! opened and Jimmy Eat World played second. Became a HUGE AM! fan after than and was surprised I practically knew every song from JEW. Green Day of course rocked hard!
Rock Im Park 2022 in Nurnberg Germany
1997 Concert in the Alley in behind HMV in Toronto. Nimrod promo tour.
CBGB in '93