A Green Day Fan Site

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This is one of my favorite photos from Tuesday night. You can see all of Dina Marie’s photos from that night here. Some of these, and many more photos, as I’m sure you know, are up on GDA.

There’s a really good, lengthy review of Green Day’s show at The Independent on Jam Base. Here’s an excerpt:

“Green Day is a band that has only grown in skill, showmanship and raw power over their career. Watching one of the biggest acts in music play a show that would rival Springsteen in intensity, breadth and duration to a few hundred very lucky hometown fans was a true treat. Green Day has not gotten too big for a guerilla-style show with their core fans, and has found the best way to stay grounded is to still play anytime, anywhere, and give it everything you’ve got.”

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All the recent excitement is pretty great, but it’s also a bit of an emotional rollercoaster for us poor, huddled fans. It’s wonderful that Green Day want to connect to the fans in a close and personal way, and I have to commend them for having invented ways to accomplish that over and over, with the Foxboro Hot Tubs tour, with the tiny Pinhead Gunpowder shows (even though that was not all the members of Green Day, of course), in the past with shows like CBGB, and now with these last two concerts. I thought it was cool that the performance at The Independent wasn’t for the press — there were no press passes, reportedly — just for the people. And making tickets for last night’s show available to Idiot Club members seems to be an attempt to reach out to the fan base and make some room for hardcore fans to have a little more access, even though, there too, it’s the luck of the draw.

In the end, Green Day is just so big and adored by so many that they can’t possibly perform on a small stage for everyone. It’s easier to be frustrated or to feel disappointed than it is to be grateful I suppose, but I can’t help being giddily grateful that they’re out there doing what they do, whether I’m personally able to be there or not. After all, virtually all of us can hear their music as often as we want for the low price of a CD (uh, once it comes out…). Is that some sort of consolation for those who missed these recent cool shows? I don’t know. Everyone feels things in their own way, I guess. For me, I’ll hold off being upset until they play a show in my own city and I miss it… which has happened before and will happen again, I’m sure.