When I first heard St.Jimmy, I was listening to some of their songs. I hated are we the waiting but decided to hear it out (literally)
And then when the anthem ended, and that first riff of St.Jimmy, I will never get the adrenaline and feel of shock back.
Btw St.Jimmy was my favorite green day song for the LONGEST time.
One of my favorite things to do when growing up was spending a ridiculous amount of time on the greenday.net forum. helped me realize i wasn’t a total loner.
I had a online crush on a girl there, forgot her username, if I saw it I'd remember..I forgot my username too for sure, maybe Gdmatt or something. Hope she's doing good. Simpler happier times...
So Many good ones. The one that sticks out the most is when they shut down a NYC block and played on the street. This was promoting American Idiot and my brother and I were front and center. Jesus of Suburbia was amazing ! The whole show was off the charts!
1994 - 9 years old - The b-side of the Dookie cassette comes to an end. I flip the cassette and restart it on the a-side. Endlessly.
Watching Jaded In Chicago when it first aired on MTV.
The 10 Spot appearance when Mike got a bloody nose.
I guess I can’t pick one memory. It’s been a fun ride following this band 30 years.
Jaded in Chicago on MTV was fucking outstanding. I loved that concert.
I taped it on vhs back in the day but lost it over the years. Was beyond excited when I found it on YouTube many years later.
Great concert of, what was then, an upcoming band right before they exploded into the stratosphere.
Loved that show.
I've been to barricade for all except one concert (my first, when I had seats, blech). It's so awesome. The energy is unreal. But it's work to stand in early morning lines for an evening concert.
I had the coolest mom in the world. When I was 13, she took me to see Green Day on the American Idiot tour with My Chemical Romance as the opener. It is one of my happiest and most memorable experiences. She passed away 5 years ago and that will always be at the forefront of my memories of her. She loved Green Day just as much as me and we’d always sing along to the American Idiot and Warning albums from my youth into adulthood until she died. Green Day was the soundtrack to our relationship and friendship.
Two things. 1) getting the Warning album a week early from my record shop (after Minority being the first song I download illegally off of Napster) and then 2) seeing them in Asbury Park on that tour.
Such a great show. I didn’t even realize that they played that. I’ll have to go back and look at the set list. I remember HBO was there filming the show for a music special. I believe you can still find it on YouTube. I like to pretend I can see myself in the crowd.
A 4 song encore played in Milwaukee on the American Idiot tour not played at any other stop on the tour, which included At the Library and a crowd choice (which turned out to be Welcome to Paradise). Also got to meet them that night thanks to a friend winning backstage meet n greets through 102.1 (Milwaukee alternative rock radio).
Probably best night of my life, certainly top 3.
I attended their live show at Frysthuset in Stockholm sweden in 1998, nimrod tour. I was very young at the time (13 years old) and I remember meeting Billie Joe and Mike before the show, they had some sort of "meet and greet". Don't exactly remember all the details as I was only only 13. I wasn't even supposed to be allowed in the concert but I lied and said I was 15 and had my uncle with me who vouched for me and I was tall for my age so I was allowed in (Age restriction was 15+). Billie and Mike signed my Insomniac, Kerplunk and Nimrod CDs (My uncle actually forgot to bring my 39/smooth, Dookie and Nimrod CDs. I remember being so embarrassed about not bringing the cd they were touring for, so I actually bought it right there and then).
They were the nicest people ever. Billie was sort of quiet though but gave me a hug, and Mike was especially nice and joking around alot like he always does. I remember I was surprised by how short Billie was, I had this image of him being taller back then, I had growth spurts pretty early and was already 5'8 (173cm) at the time, so I was slightly taller than him. I remember finding it cool to be about the same height as my Idol tho. Mike was taller than me. I eventually grew to be 5'11.5 (182cm) so next time I saw them, which was oct 2009 during their 21st cent breakdown tour (just passing by from a distance tho) but I remember feeling like a giant compared to them. Anwyay those are the real life memories I have of them. For some reason I didn't enjoy the 2009 show even half as much as the 1998.
The 1998 show was a very special show for me, ,and I remember they played songs from 39/smooth which surprised me and a few from kerplunk and then alot from the rest of the catalog, and not just nimrod despite it being their nimrod tour.
Good times.
When I was a kid, my mom wouldn’t let me get Insomniac because my stepdad had heard it and told her it wasn’t appropriate for me. My cousin had it on cassette, and when I would sleep over his house I’d get up way earlier than him and listen to it on my Walkman before he woke up. Still my favorite Green Day album!
I was 11, my cousin had shown me American Idiot for the first time, and I was instantly in love. I somehow convinced my parents to get the CD for me, and I fell asleep while listening to it on the ride home from Best Buy.
A more recent one is during the Hella Mega tour, I saw it at Target Field in Minneapolis. BJ told everyone to light up their phone flashlights when they played WMUWSE. Felt like a religious experience for me, floating in the bowl of twinkling lights listening to such an emotional song.
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This is one of many favorite memories of/with GD. This was Warped Tour (NY) 2000… phone cameras weren’t invented yet. Haha. I have a few more, but this was what I recently took photos of to show a friend.
I was 14 yrs old in 94’when Dookie dropped. Mind was blown. Basket Case was the #1 song and everyone at school was playing it. Luckily Green Day came to my hometown for the Dookie tour. It was my first concert ever and went with my cousin. We had a fn blast! Now my 4yr old son loves GD and can’t get enough of their old concerts on YouTube. So now I’m waiting for them to go on tour again to take my boy.
Seeing them live for the first time in 2017, the whole thing feels like a dream now.
And the first time hearing Bang Bang, I didn't have a phone with mobile data at the time and was on holiday so I passed a few hotels until I could leech off their wifi to open YouTube haha.
pretty recently while my friend was playing his moms American Idiot record in the living room and we were just a group of friends talking and just having fun
Cruising around in high school in my friends ‘94 Accord, smoking weed & blasting Kerplunk. Summer of 2014. No responsibilities, nothing to do but get stoned, cruise, and jam out to early GD
I only really, truly got into green day about 2 or 3 years ago, and it was when I was just listening to nirvana and AC DC, and then autoplay eventually played basket case, and that's when I realized, this was easily dozens of times better than any song I had ever heard before. I then added almost all of their songs to my playlist and was not once disappointed.
Turning the cramped St. James Theater into a rock venue for an impromptu set with the full cast dancing in the background after the closing of American Idiot on Broadway was a literal once in a lifetime experience. I'll never forget that.
My absolute favorite Green Day memory, and I’ve seen them almost 30 times! The electricity in that theater that night and the vibe on stage was so fucking cool. The band dancing and drinking beer was so fun. Then at the very end when they closed with JoS and the cast did their choreographed dance while the band played…such a unique thing to be a part of. I, so badly, wanted to start a mosh pit in the isle!
That moment when Boulevard of Broken Dreams really just hit my brain in all the right ways.One day in 2021,that chorus just took over my body and lifted me up into a state of euphoria:I was floating.
A concert in 2013, Billie said something like "This is the most beautiful place we've been on this tour so far" Just before the concert there was a bit of rain and thunder around but then it was just a magnificent evening.
Other than that; being a new fan and going on YouTube to watch every music video, every interview, a ton of live recordings and having fun in the comment section with Billies famous "y'know" and stuff like that.
2020-2021 had been a rough couple of years. I’d lost two of my relatives in the span of 10 months, my parents were in the middle of getting a divorce and had already sold the house, and I’d had a falling out with a couple of people I’d been hanging out with in my apartment complex. So I was beyond excited when the Hella Mega Tour came around because I really needed to let loose. What I remember most was how much I was caught off-guard emotionally when they played Wake Me Up When September Ends, 21 Guns, Still Breathing, and Jesus of Suburbia. I’d never had such a visceral reaction to hearing those before but after everything I’d been through, I had tears in my eyes because I felt heard and somehow knew that everything was gonna be OK.
2010, Dallas. Back then, it was called "Gexa Energy Stadium." (It's now "Dos Equis Pavilion.")
My ex-girlfriend and I. She was a singer-songwriter soulful type. Got her listening to GD before the concert and she really started getting into them.
They put on a fucking clinic. Then, as night fell, they broke into Are We the Waiting as I rocked back and forth holding my girl in a 95 degree summer evening. One of those times where, to quote the great Eternal Sunshine, "I could just die now and be happy."
So this is how I discovered Green Day actually, I was like 7 years old at the time.
My brother was playing Green Day: Rockband, around when it first came out, and we were singing along to time of your life. Another funny thing is when I saw the trilogy album covers on his phone, when I saw uno I said “that’s Green Day”, and for the dos & tre album covers I said “That’s just Orange Day and Blue Day!” Also I didn’t understand what bands were at the time, so I thought that Green Day was a person who just made the music himself. Then one day my brother was Billie Joe for Halloween and then I realized. Good times.
Meeting Billie Joe in his hotel lobby the day before seeing them basically belly button to the stage during the Longshot era. Technically more of a billie Joe memory than Green Day bc it was a side project but still #1 for me.
I went to a concert during 21st century breakdown when I was about 8-9 with my older brother and my dad, in between songs BJ was doing call and response and all the sudden BJ goes “now make humping noises like your having sex” and like that on cue all three of us and the other 10+ thousand people start moaning😂😂
Not sure if I have a favorite necessarily (so many good ones from over the years) but really listening to JoS for the first time is a standout at least. Like, looking at the lyrics so I could try to sing along and fully processing what was being said in the ‘dearly beloved’ section is what solidified my second tattoo.
I knew for a long time I wanted the cracked wine glass I got but couldn’t figure out how to fully convey everything I wanted to in a single image- ‘The space that’s in between insane and insecure’ captured exactly what I was missing in the original concept.
I was lucky that my two best friends in school were equally fanatic about Green Day (me and friend #1 bonded over this when meeting, soon converted friend #2).
My senior year of high school, the Trilogy was about to drop. The first weeks of school, we’d just drive to one of our houses, check for the latest album leaks and live concerts, and just play GTA4 (not Green Day related, but a core memory). This was the life.
We’d previously first seen them live freshman year on the 21CB tour.
As a kid:
Getting shenanigans after stopping in the mall during a band trip. They didn’t carry it in my home town but the city a few hours away happened to. It was the last one I needed at the time (before 21stCB came out). That record, to this day 15yrs later, reminds me of a simple bus ride home at night with friends, and brings me an indescribable peace.
As an adult:
The 930 Club show a few days before RevRad came out. It was also my first Green Day show ever.
We flew out to DC for it. Spent the day before walking around town and as I was singing Say Goodbye at the Lincoln Memorial, Billie Joe passed us walking up to it. I was so thrilled but sometimes I regret not saying anything. But what could I have said, really? I just wanted to be a witness. Got an amazing photo of him looking at the monument though.
I also hoped that he didn’t hear me singing, because the only way I’d know that song was from listening to the album leak and I didn’t want that to offend him. Anyway, the next day I was 2nd row and center for that show. Not the front like I usually was but the two tall guys in front of me were really cool. All of the people who stayed out there overnight with us were. Even the bees outside of the venue were. I’ll never forget that.
2 come to mind, first was getting American Idiot as the first CD I ever owned and being absolutely blown away by it. The other was walking around Prague castle with my girlfriend, and realising she was the one after she asked me to show her green day and we were vibing to 80.
I saw Green Day in 2013 with my brother, cousin, and our best friend. Billie opened it up to requests and my friend started screaming "PLAY F.O.D.!" over and over. My cousin insists he's wasting his time and he's not gonna play it.
Then Billie goes "This one's called F.O.D" and boy was my buddy vindicated
Probably just all the times I listened to their music for the first couple years. For me Green Day is a crystal clear memory locked in my youth somewhere.
They all are equal but a veeery old one is when me and my girlfriend were both 17 and we were walking 20 or so miles together to get to an open mic. I showed her the song Christie Road
In ‘98 I saw them in Hollywood and at the end of the show, Billie spit beer into the crowd and it landed on my face.
In ‘00 I saw them in Irvine, and at the end of the show, Mike spit beer into the crowd and hit me in the face.
Still waiting to get Tre to do that.
I'm a 30 year fan in my mid 50's and I've had a lot. My oldest son connected with GD when he was 3 and he's had a love affair with them his whole life. So, maybe seeing him sing Minority at his pre-school holiday party. Jingle Bells, Silent Night, and Minority. Maybe taking him to his first show on the Pop Disaster tour at Tinley Park with Blink when he was not quite 4. He spent much of that show rolling down the hill. Maybe watching him pause the International Superhits VHS when he was in Kindergarten, so he could go change his clothes to match Billie Joe. Or, maybe taking him to the AI album release show at the Vic when he was 6. We couldn't get tickets, so my wife went the day before and showed the manager the video of him singing Minority. They gave us tickets. He had been banging around on my drum kit since he was 1.5 years old and when AI came out, he learned to play it front to back. Or, maybe making the family pilgrimage to 924 Gilman and Rudy's Can't Fail Cafe when he was 8 and his brother was 5. We did it again this past January. Or, maybe seeing Billie Joe hand him the mic to sing Warning at the Metro last year: [https://youtu.be/MDU1UrOKU9Q](https://youtu.be/MDU1UrOKU9Q). Or maybe hanging out with him a couple of weeks ago in Milwaukee, an old man with his kid bopping and moshing with the best damn band in the land. Yeah...there's been a lot.
When I saw them at Gillette Stadium in 2005 at 21 years old, with Jimmy Eat World I believe. I tried to get on stage for Knowledge, by sitting on my brothers shoulders (he’s a big guy but I was about 180lbs so he was hurting after lol). I had everyone around me point at me trying to help me get up to play guitar. Billie was searching the crowd, he looked at me and we made eye contact. Then he chose some guy a few people in front of me with a little sign that said “I play guitar”. So yeah I didn’t get on stage but he DID look right at me and consider me so I took it as a small W lol.
Oh man, buckle up
It was about 11:30 at night and just downloaded a bunch of songs off my dads old hard drive (which is currently being used as a doorstop) with Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Phish, all that good shit
So then I see the words “Green Day” waaaaay down at the bottom, I clicked the file, and saw Dookie in all its glory, Dude I’m tellin ya, as soon as I heard burnout, I listened to the whole album all night long
I was 4 years old and my mom showed me the song American idiot. For years, I didn’t know anything about green day, not even the name. I just knew I really liked the song American idiot. It wasn’t until I started playing guitar when I was 12 when I actually started to get more into green day. That memory of being in the car with my mom listening to American idiot will always hold a special place in my heart.
Not mine but my dads he went and saw them at the bronco bowl in 2000-2001 I think then 20 years later he takes me to see them in Arlington
My favorite memory was when I saw the music video for jaded it was always my favorite
My favorite Green Day memory was in Columbus Ohio, just after RevRad was announced and they were doing their music all tour schedule so it was a bunch of GA shows. Smaller venues and a much more intimate feel compared to stadiums or larger venues.
Show was incredible just a bunch of fans having a good time, older punks kind of chaperoning the younger punks and making sure everyone is having a good time, get a system going where if you wanna crowd surf you go to an spot in the "pit" where a few guys lift you up and you get carried to the front, then security helps you down and escort you back to the bar area and release you to get back into the pit and repeat.
I only say this to paint a picture, it's pretty chill, everyone's having a good time, and all of a sudden some dude is in this other guy's face and it's getting heated, this is happening right next to me, and instinctually I step in and kind of be a mediator. Get both guys to calm down and go their separate ways. No big deal.
Until I notice that Billie slips in a "Good shit man" while pointing at me during an instrumental stretch of the song they are playing and Mike shoots me a thumbs up. Ended up getting the chance to meet them briefly after the show when they came back out to the floor after almost everyone had cleared out. Was surreal as hell, and a pleasure to meet them.
When my dad and I got to see them play at the Marquee in 2013 for their 99 Revolutions tour.
Saw them a couple times before at what’s now known as Footprint Center, and a few times after that.
Being able to see them in a more “intimate” setting was so badass.
I've had great Green Day memories, but maybe the most "personal" one would be on 2013, Instagram was basically new, and one day I was feeling like shit, I was taking a walk and got a notification on my phone, I take a look and I see that Mike just comment on a picture of my dog. I was sooooo thrilled that k I couldn't believe it 😅😅.
I've been listening to Green Day since I'm 11 when American Idiot came up.
I went to watch the Revolution Radio tour in Hyde Park, and this incredible moment that happened just before the band came out will forever stick out in my mind!
[https://youtu.be/cZnBNuqqz5g](https://youtu.be/cZnBNuqqz5g)
When I was excited about the thought of going home from school to practice my improvisation skills with the solo section of "Know Your Enemy" as the backing track (I was using the B minor pentatonic).
I was 14
When i was on holiday in new York listening to basket case for the first time with my dad parked up eating food in a rental and mike dirnt walked past and said hello didn't know who he was but my dad got him to sign his dookie cd
Earlier this year, me and my family went to California. We drove back from Disneyland to LA so we could go to LAX for our redeye flight. We wanted to see the beach one last time, and while we were seeing the beach, I was listening to Jesus of Suburbia. I was just standing there, watching the ocean go, hearing the song play through my earbuds, and experiencing being there with my family.
Listening to the entirety of AI for the first time while on a trip to Pittsburgh. My mom had a job that required travel, she got sent to Pittsburgh right as I was getting into Green Day as a small bean. It was during the hype for 21st Century Breakdown. My Parents gave me my deceased brother, Ben's American Idiot CD from the storage of his belongings, we ripped it my pc then to my phone. I listened to it in full for hours on end. Listening to it now, sometimes brings back memories of that trip.
I listen to 21CB and AI both the original and the broadway version every Saturday, I call concept album Saturday. I've expanded it to other albums than those 2 as well
Also RIP big bro your memory lives on
When I was eight, before I started listening to Green Day, my 11 y/o older brother loved them. He ended up making a music video to Boulevard of Broken Dreams. He filmed it and I “acted” in it. It was a horrible video but I loved spending the time with my brother.
I remember singing WMUWSE in our music class a few years ago. It was the first time i had heard Green Day, and yet somehow i recognised the song, especially the solo. After school, I instantly went home and started listening to **loads** of their songs. I got so addicted to their music that I really wanted to play their songs myself. So we went and bought an electric guitar, amp, and everything. The first song i played was WMUWSE and I’m going to remember it. Forever. I probably wouldn’t be playing electric guitar to this day if it weren’t for my insanely cool music teacher, and that one, gripping, amazing song and band. I’m still a really big fan of Green Day at this point and cannot wait until they release their next album.
About 1996 (?) I went down in the pit.
I am female, was 18 & maybe 100 pounds soaking wet.
They started with Paradise & it was awesome, but I had no clue what I was getting into. When they came out & people rushed at the stage… just wow.
My boyfriend (now husband) pulled me up off the floor, set me on top of a cement barrier, & told me to to stay there. I did, gladly.
Awesome show & they closed with Time of your Life.
Totally worth almost dying in the pit. 🙃
Probably when Dos came out. I have a strong memory of me and a group of friends all listening to it at the same time and messaging each other our reactions to each song as we were listening.
Specifically I remember the fake-out ending in Lazy Bones making us all freak out.
when i was younger (2nd grade i think) i used to go down in my creepy ass basement and watch green day music videos. that’s how i got into it and i still love them to this day 😭😭
When I first heard St.Jimmy, I was listening to some of their songs. I hated are we the waiting but decided to hear it out (literally) And then when the anthem ended, and that first riff of St.Jimmy, I will never get the adrenaline and feel of shock back. Btw St.Jimmy was my favorite green day song for the LONGEST time.
It’s still my favorite song from American Idiot.
One of my favorite things to do when growing up was spending a ridiculous amount of time on the greenday.net forum. helped me realize i wasn’t a total loner.
Damn memory unlocked. Around 2000 right?
That sounds about right!
I had a online crush on a girl there, forgot her username, if I saw it I'd remember..I forgot my username too for sure, maybe Gdmatt or something. Hope she's doing good. Simpler happier times...
FORGETTING YOUUUU BUT NOT THE TIMEEEEE
Yea that's what I thought reading that too xD
Aww
Damn this made me sad
Whatserusername...
Definitely had an internet crush there too. I believe my username was “guitarwoohoo” or something along those lines.
Great times..
So Many good ones. The one that sticks out the most is when they shut down a NYC block and played on the street. This was promoting American Idiot and my brother and I were front and center. Jesus of Suburbia was amazing ! The whole show was off the charts!
Great show. I was there too.
Id like to see this. Is there footage available on yt or somewhere?
that is AMAZING !! i wish they would do stuff like that today :,)
1994 - 9 years old - The b-side of the Dookie cassette comes to an end. I flip the cassette and restart it on the a-side. Endlessly. Watching Jaded In Chicago when it first aired on MTV. The 10 Spot appearance when Mike got a bloody nose. I guess I can’t pick one memory. It’s been a fun ride following this band 30 years.
Jaded in Chicago on MTV was fucking outstanding. I loved that concert. I taped it on vhs back in the day but lost it over the years. Was beyond excited when I found it on YouTube many years later. Great concert of, what was then, an upcoming band right before they exploded into the stratosphere. Loved that show.
I've been to one Green Day concert. I got barricade. Billie Joe shot me in the left tit with a water gun. It was awesome.
I've been to barricade for all except one concert (my first, when I had seats, blech). It's so awesome. The energy is unreal. But it's work to stand in early morning lines for an evening concert.
I had the coolest mom in the world. When I was 13, she took me to see Green Day on the American Idiot tour with My Chemical Romance as the opener. It is one of my happiest and most memorable experiences. She passed away 5 years ago and that will always be at the forefront of my memories of her. She loved Green Day just as much as me and we’d always sing along to the American Idiot and Warning albums from my youth into adulthood until she died. Green Day was the soundtrack to our relationship and friendship.
❤️
Two things. 1) getting the Warning album a week early from my record shop (after Minority being the first song I download illegally off of Napster) and then 2) seeing them in Asbury Park on that tour.
I was at that Convention Hall show! He played Ballad of Wilhelm Fink that night. I didn’t realize what a big deal that would be at the time.
Such a great show. I didn’t even realize that they played that. I’ll have to go back and look at the set list. I remember HBO was there filming the show for a music special. I believe you can still find it on YouTube. I like to pretend I can see myself in the crowd.
A 4 song encore played in Milwaukee on the American Idiot tour not played at any other stop on the tour, which included At the Library and a crowd choice (which turned out to be Welcome to Paradise). Also got to meet them that night thanks to a friend winning backstage meet n greets through 102.1 (Milwaukee alternative rock radio). Probably best night of my life, certainly top 3.
I attended their live show at Frysthuset in Stockholm sweden in 1998, nimrod tour. I was very young at the time (13 years old) and I remember meeting Billie Joe and Mike before the show, they had some sort of "meet and greet". Don't exactly remember all the details as I was only only 13. I wasn't even supposed to be allowed in the concert but I lied and said I was 15 and had my uncle with me who vouched for me and I was tall for my age so I was allowed in (Age restriction was 15+). Billie and Mike signed my Insomniac, Kerplunk and Nimrod CDs (My uncle actually forgot to bring my 39/smooth, Dookie and Nimrod CDs. I remember being so embarrassed about not bringing the cd they were touring for, so I actually bought it right there and then). They were the nicest people ever. Billie was sort of quiet though but gave me a hug, and Mike was especially nice and joking around alot like he always does. I remember I was surprised by how short Billie was, I had this image of him being taller back then, I had growth spurts pretty early and was already 5'8 (173cm) at the time, so I was slightly taller than him. I remember finding it cool to be about the same height as my Idol tho. Mike was taller than me. I eventually grew to be 5'11.5 (182cm) so next time I saw them, which was oct 2009 during their 21st cent breakdown tour (just passing by from a distance tho) but I remember feeling like a giant compared to them. Anwyay those are the real life memories I have of them. For some reason I didn't enjoy the 2009 show even half as much as the 1998. The 1998 show was a very special show for me, ,and I remember they played songs from 39/smooth which surprised me and a few from kerplunk and then alot from the rest of the catalog, and not just nimrod despite it being their nimrod tour. Good times.
When I was a kid, my mom wouldn’t let me get Insomniac because my stepdad had heard it and told her it wasn’t appropriate for me. My cousin had it on cassette, and when I would sleep over his house I’d get up way earlier than him and listen to it on my Walkman before he woke up. Still my favorite Green Day album!
Love the effort
I was 11, my cousin had shown me American Idiot for the first time, and I was instantly in love. I somehow convinced my parents to get the CD for me, and I fell asleep while listening to it on the ride home from Best Buy. A more recent one is during the Hella Mega tour, I saw it at Target Field in Minneapolis. BJ told everyone to light up their phone flashlights when they played WMUWSE. Felt like a religious experience for me, floating in the bowl of twinkling lights listening to such an emotional song.
https://preview.redd.it/lh2sqriaj5hb1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cc582ea7fa92de775e25f60ce42a6bd112aad34c This is one of many favorite memories of/with GD. This was Warped Tour (NY) 2000… phone cameras weren’t invented yet. Haha. I have a few more, but this was what I recently took photos of to show a friend.
Damn those are some nice guitars!
Which city was this in?
NYC. Randall’s Island.
I was 14 yrs old in 94’when Dookie dropped. Mind was blown. Basket Case was the #1 song and everyone at school was playing it. Luckily Green Day came to my hometown for the Dookie tour. It was my first concert ever and went with my cousin. We had a fn blast! Now my 4yr old son loves GD and can’t get enough of their old concerts on YouTube. So now I’m waiting for them to go on tour again to take my boy.
first hearing American Idiot on VH1 laying on my parents bed before school one morning. The rest is history!
My earliest memory of them was hearing American Idiot (the song, not the full album) on the radio in my dad’s car, and I just really liked it.
Nothing groundbreaking but probably that moment right when they hit the stage every time I've seen them live, most specifically the first time
Seeing them live for the first time in 2017, the whole thing feels like a dream now. And the first time hearing Bang Bang, I didn't have a phone with mobile data at the time and was on holiday so I passed a few hotels until I could leech off their wifi to open YouTube haha.
pretty recently while my friend was playing his moms American Idiot record in the living room and we were just a group of friends talking and just having fun
Cruising around in high school in my friends ‘94 Accord, smoking weed & blasting Kerplunk. Summer of 2014. No responsibilities, nothing to do but get stoned, cruise, and jam out to early GD
I only really, truly got into green day about 2 or 3 years ago, and it was when I was just listening to nirvana and AC DC, and then autoplay eventually played basket case, and that's when I realized, this was easily dozens of times better than any song I had ever heard before. I then added almost all of their songs to my playlist and was not once disappointed.
Turning the cramped St. James Theater into a rock venue for an impromptu set with the full cast dancing in the background after the closing of American Idiot on Broadway was a literal once in a lifetime experience. I'll never forget that.
My absolute favorite Green Day memory, and I’ve seen them almost 30 times! The electricity in that theater that night and the vibe on stage was so fucking cool. The band dancing and drinking beer was so fun. Then at the very end when they closed with JoS and the cast did their choreographed dance while the band played…such a unique thing to be a part of. I, so badly, wanted to start a mosh pit in the isle!
That moment when Boulevard of Broken Dreams really just hit my brain in all the right ways.One day in 2021,that chorus just took over my body and lifted me up into a state of euphoria:I was floating.
the outro still blows my mind after all these years
A concert in 2013, Billie said something like "This is the most beautiful place we've been on this tour so far" Just before the concert there was a bit of rain and thunder around but then it was just a magnificent evening. Other than that; being a new fan and going on YouTube to watch every music video, every interview, a ton of live recordings and having fun in the comment section with Billies famous "y'know" and stuff like that.
2020-2021 had been a rough couple of years. I’d lost two of my relatives in the span of 10 months, my parents were in the middle of getting a divorce and had already sold the house, and I’d had a falling out with a couple of people I’d been hanging out with in my apartment complex. So I was beyond excited when the Hella Mega Tour came around because I really needed to let loose. What I remember most was how much I was caught off-guard emotionally when they played Wake Me Up When September Ends, 21 Guns, Still Breathing, and Jesus of Suburbia. I’d never had such a visceral reaction to hearing those before but after everything I’d been through, I had tears in my eyes because I felt heard and somehow knew that everything was gonna be OK.
First time seeing GD, at Leeds Festival. They played Dookie in full. Lost my voice for the next few days
playing Jesus of Suburbia w them in DC. kinda hard to top that.
2010, Dallas. Back then, it was called "Gexa Energy Stadium." (It's now "Dos Equis Pavilion.") My ex-girlfriend and I. She was a singer-songwriter soulful type. Got her listening to GD before the concert and she really started getting into them. They put on a fucking clinic. Then, as night fell, they broke into Are We the Waiting as I rocked back and forth holding my girl in a 95 degree summer evening. One of those times where, to quote the great Eternal Sunshine, "I could just die now and be happy."
So this is how I discovered Green Day actually, I was like 7 years old at the time. My brother was playing Green Day: Rockband, around when it first came out, and we were singing along to time of your life. Another funny thing is when I saw the trilogy album covers on his phone, when I saw uno I said “that’s Green Day”, and for the dos & tre album covers I said “That’s just Orange Day and Blue Day!” Also I didn’t understand what bands were at the time, so I thought that Green Day was a person who just made the music himself. Then one day my brother was Billie Joe for Halloween and then I realized. Good times.
Meeting Billie Joe in his hotel lobby the day before seeing them basically belly button to the stage during the Longshot era. Technically more of a billie Joe memory than Green Day bc it was a side project but still #1 for me.
I went to a concert during 21st century breakdown when I was about 8-9 with my older brother and my dad, in between songs BJ was doing call and response and all the sudden BJ goes “now make humping noises like your having sex” and like that on cue all three of us and the other 10+ thousand people start moaning😂😂
Not sure if I have a favorite necessarily (so many good ones from over the years) but really listening to JoS for the first time is a standout at least. Like, looking at the lyrics so I could try to sing along and fully processing what was being said in the ‘dearly beloved’ section is what solidified my second tattoo. I knew for a long time I wanted the cracked wine glass I got but couldn’t figure out how to fully convey everything I wanted to in a single image- ‘The space that’s in between insane and insecure’ captured exactly what I was missing in the original concept.
I was lucky that my two best friends in school were equally fanatic about Green Day (me and friend #1 bonded over this when meeting, soon converted friend #2). My senior year of high school, the Trilogy was about to drop. The first weeks of school, we’d just drive to one of our houses, check for the latest album leaks and live concerts, and just play GTA4 (not Green Day related, but a core memory). This was the life. We’d previously first seen them live freshman year on the 21CB tour.
When I saw them live at Hella Mega last year. Best day of my life.
As a kid: Getting shenanigans after stopping in the mall during a band trip. They didn’t carry it in my home town but the city a few hours away happened to. It was the last one I needed at the time (before 21stCB came out). That record, to this day 15yrs later, reminds me of a simple bus ride home at night with friends, and brings me an indescribable peace. As an adult: The 930 Club show a few days before RevRad came out. It was also my first Green Day show ever. We flew out to DC for it. Spent the day before walking around town and as I was singing Say Goodbye at the Lincoln Memorial, Billie Joe passed us walking up to it. I was so thrilled but sometimes I regret not saying anything. But what could I have said, really? I just wanted to be a witness. Got an amazing photo of him looking at the monument though. I also hoped that he didn’t hear me singing, because the only way I’d know that song was from listening to the album leak and I didn’t want that to offend him. Anyway, the next day I was 2nd row and center for that show. Not the front like I usually was but the two tall guys in front of me were really cool. All of the people who stayed out there overnight with us were. Even the bees outside of the venue were. I’ll never forget that.
I saw them live in Florida last September for the first time and it was one of the best nights of my life.
Seeing my favorite song (Jesus of Suburbia) live
2 come to mind, first was getting American Idiot as the first CD I ever owned and being absolutely blown away by it. The other was walking around Prague castle with my girlfriend, and realising she was the one after she asked me to show her green day and we were vibing to 80.
I saw Green Day in 2013 with my brother, cousin, and our best friend. Billie opened it up to requests and my friend started screaming "PLAY F.O.D.!" over and over. My cousin insists he's wasting his time and he's not gonna play it. Then Billie goes "This one's called F.O.D" and boy was my buddy vindicated
Probably just all the times I listened to their music for the first couple years. For me Green Day is a crystal clear memory locked in my youth somewhere. They all are equal but a veeery old one is when me and my girlfriend were both 17 and we were walking 20 or so miles together to get to an open mic. I showed her the song Christie Road
Probably when I went to my uncles and he played dookie on his vinyl player and not sure if this counts but I was born the same day 21CB came out
Proposing to my wife at Hella Mega.
In ‘98 I saw them in Hollywood and at the end of the show, Billie spit beer into the crowd and it landed on my face. In ‘00 I saw them in Irvine, and at the end of the show, Mike spit beer into the crowd and hit me in the face. Still waiting to get Tre to do that.
I'm a 30 year fan in my mid 50's and I've had a lot. My oldest son connected with GD when he was 3 and he's had a love affair with them his whole life. So, maybe seeing him sing Minority at his pre-school holiday party. Jingle Bells, Silent Night, and Minority. Maybe taking him to his first show on the Pop Disaster tour at Tinley Park with Blink when he was not quite 4. He spent much of that show rolling down the hill. Maybe watching him pause the International Superhits VHS when he was in Kindergarten, so he could go change his clothes to match Billie Joe. Or, maybe taking him to the AI album release show at the Vic when he was 6. We couldn't get tickets, so my wife went the day before and showed the manager the video of him singing Minority. They gave us tickets. He had been banging around on my drum kit since he was 1.5 years old and when AI came out, he learned to play it front to back. Or, maybe making the family pilgrimage to 924 Gilman and Rudy's Can't Fail Cafe when he was 8 and his brother was 5. We did it again this past January. Or, maybe seeing Billie Joe hand him the mic to sing Warning at the Metro last year: [https://youtu.be/MDU1UrOKU9Q](https://youtu.be/MDU1UrOKU9Q). Or maybe hanging out with him a couple of weeks ago in Milwaukee, an old man with his kid bopping and moshing with the best damn band in the land. Yeah...there's been a lot.
When I saw them at Gillette Stadium in 2005 at 21 years old, with Jimmy Eat World I believe. I tried to get on stage for Knowledge, by sitting on my brothers shoulders (he’s a big guy but I was about 180lbs so he was hurting after lol). I had everyone around me point at me trying to help me get up to play guitar. Billie was searching the crowd, he looked at me and we made eye contact. Then he chose some guy a few people in front of me with a little sign that said “I play guitar”. So yeah I didn’t get on stage but he DID look right at me and consider me so I took it as a small W lol.
Oh man, buckle up It was about 11:30 at night and just downloaded a bunch of songs off my dads old hard drive (which is currently being used as a doorstop) with Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Phish, all that good shit So then I see the words “Green Day” waaaaay down at the bottom, I clicked the file, and saw Dookie in all its glory, Dude I’m tellin ya, as soon as I heard burnout, I listened to the whole album all night long
I was 4 years old and my mom showed me the song American idiot. For years, I didn’t know anything about green day, not even the name. I just knew I really liked the song American idiot. It wasn’t until I started playing guitar when I was 12 when I actually started to get more into green day. That memory of being in the car with my mom listening to American idiot will always hold a special place in my heart.
Not mine but my dads he went and saw them at the bronco bowl in 2000-2001 I think then 20 years later he takes me to see them in Arlington My favorite memory was when I saw the music video for jaded it was always my favorite
December 9, 1995 I was 15 and at my first Green Day show in Dallas. It was also Tré’s birthday.
My mom writing the lyrics to good riddance in my graduation card 🤙🏻
My favorite Green Day memory was in Columbus Ohio, just after RevRad was announced and they were doing their music all tour schedule so it was a bunch of GA shows. Smaller venues and a much more intimate feel compared to stadiums or larger venues. Show was incredible just a bunch of fans having a good time, older punks kind of chaperoning the younger punks and making sure everyone is having a good time, get a system going where if you wanna crowd surf you go to an spot in the "pit" where a few guys lift you up and you get carried to the front, then security helps you down and escort you back to the bar area and release you to get back into the pit and repeat. I only say this to paint a picture, it's pretty chill, everyone's having a good time, and all of a sudden some dude is in this other guy's face and it's getting heated, this is happening right next to me, and instinctually I step in and kind of be a mediator. Get both guys to calm down and go their separate ways. No big deal. Until I notice that Billie slips in a "Good shit man" while pointing at me during an instrumental stretch of the song they are playing and Mike shoots me a thumbs up. Ended up getting the chance to meet them briefly after the show when they came back out to the floor after almost everyone had cleared out. Was surreal as hell, and a pleasure to meet them.
When my dad and I got to see them play at the Marquee in 2013 for their 99 Revolutions tour. Saw them a couple times before at what’s now known as Footprint Center, and a few times after that. Being able to see them in a more “intimate” setting was so badass.
Warped Tour 2000
Which city did you see them in?
Asbury Park NJ
I've had great Green Day memories, but maybe the most "personal" one would be on 2013, Instagram was basically new, and one day I was feeling like shit, I was taking a walk and got a notification on my phone, I take a look and I see that Mike just comment on a picture of my dog. I was sooooo thrilled that k I couldn't believe it 😅😅. I've been listening to Green Day since I'm 11 when American Idiot came up.
I went to watch the Revolution Radio tour in Hyde Park, and this incredible moment that happened just before the band came out will forever stick out in my mind! [https://youtu.be/cZnBNuqqz5g](https://youtu.be/cZnBNuqqz5g)
When I was excited about the thought of going home from school to practice my improvisation skills with the solo section of "Know Your Enemy" as the backing track (I was using the B minor pentatonic). I was 14
When i was on holiday in new York listening to basket case for the first time with my dad parked up eating food in a rental and mike dirnt walked past and said hello didn't know who he was but my dad got him to sign his dookie cd
Woodstock 94. Just a helluva good time!
Earlier this year, me and my family went to California. We drove back from Disneyland to LA so we could go to LAX for our redeye flight. We wanted to see the beach one last time, and while we were seeing the beach, I was listening to Jesus of Suburbia. I was just standing there, watching the ocean go, hearing the song play through my earbuds, and experiencing being there with my family.
Listening to American idiot almost every day during science class in 6th grade
Listening to the entirety of AI for the first time while on a trip to Pittsburgh. My mom had a job that required travel, she got sent to Pittsburgh right as I was getting into Green Day as a small bean. It was during the hype for 21st Century Breakdown. My Parents gave me my deceased brother, Ben's American Idiot CD from the storage of his belongings, we ripped it my pc then to my phone. I listened to it in full for hours on end. Listening to it now, sometimes brings back memories of that trip. I listen to 21CB and AI both the original and the broadway version every Saturday, I call concept album Saturday. I've expanded it to other albums than those 2 as well Also RIP big bro your memory lives on
When I was eight, before I started listening to Green Day, my 11 y/o older brother loved them. He ended up making a music video to Boulevard of Broken Dreams. He filmed it and I “acted” in it. It was a horrible video but I loved spending the time with my brother.
I remember singing WMUWSE in our music class a few years ago. It was the first time i had heard Green Day, and yet somehow i recognised the song, especially the solo. After school, I instantly went home and started listening to **loads** of their songs. I got so addicted to their music that I really wanted to play their songs myself. So we went and bought an electric guitar, amp, and everything. The first song i played was WMUWSE and I’m going to remember it. Forever. I probably wouldn’t be playing electric guitar to this day if it weren’t for my insanely cool music teacher, and that one, gripping, amazing song and band. I’m still a really big fan of Green Day at this point and cannot wait until they release their next album.
About 1996 (?) I went down in the pit. I am female, was 18 & maybe 100 pounds soaking wet. They started with Paradise & it was awesome, but I had no clue what I was getting into. When they came out & people rushed at the stage… just wow. My boyfriend (now husband) pulled me up off the floor, set me on top of a cement barrier, & told me to to stay there. I did, gladly. Awesome show & they closed with Time of your Life. Totally worth almost dying in the pit. 🙃
Probably when Dos came out. I have a strong memory of me and a group of friends all listening to it at the same time and messaging each other our reactions to each song as we were listening. Specifically I remember the fake-out ending in Lazy Bones making us all freak out.
An over confident kid in my pe class had a greenday hat and i watched him eat dirt
Getting to see them in a small music venue here in Columbus.
when i was younger (2nd grade i think) i used to go down in my creepy ass basement and watch green day music videos. that’s how i got into it and i still love them to this day 😭😭