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Green Day
Concert
(The
picture above has been stolen from www.greenday.ws... it's not from the
concert, but oh well.)
YAY!!!!!
Another chance for me to ramble for a bit. This rambling's about
another concert... GREEN DAY! On June 17, 2001, at 9:00 in the morning,
three friends and I (in alphabetical order- Dan, Jessica, Troy) departed
for St. Paul, Minnesota for what would turn out to be the best concert
ever!!!! The plan was to pick up Joe south of the Twin Cities; go
to Dan's aunt's house north of the Twin Cities, where we were very graciously
offered an awesome place to stay; and meet Jeff, Alex, and Chad (I don't
really know Alex and Chad, but they seem cool... and they must be if they
like Green Day!) at the Roy Wilkins Auditorium in the Rivercentre in St.
Paul, Minnesota. Well, at 9:30 a.m., we departed again, with the
same plan in mind, and with Troy's ticket!
Not
to bore anyone with details of the journey, everything went pretty smoothly...
and we got to the concert... purchased t-shirts... and entered the General
Admission area. It wasn't as big as the Weezer concert because there
was a huge balcony, also... but the concert RULED!!!!!!!!! The Living
End opened at 8:00 p.m., and they're basically as famous in Australia as
Green Day is in the United States. They were really good, too...
in addition to being incredibly loud! The bassist did some amazing
thing with his hands... and their CD is definitely worth buying!
Green
Day began playing slightly after 9:00 p.m., and they played a good mix
of music from "Dookie," "Insomniac," "Nimrod," and "Warning." They
also played one song from "Kerplunk" (I bought that CD today, too... and
despite what some people say, it's good! Just don't compare it to
the other Green Day CD's.) and a cover of a song by Operation Ivy.
Green
Day was really good at getting the crowd going. I'm not sure how
many times we shouted out "heeeeeeeyyyyyo" and "One, two, one two three
four," but I don't have enough fingers and toes to count all the times.
But anyway, Green Day motivates the crowd to sing along with the songs,
fill in some of the blanks, and YELL!!!!!! And, dang, I did a lot
of yelling. Yelling! Yelling and jumping! Yelling more!
Most of the masculinity in my voice was lost by the end of the concert,
so I had no choice but to scream like a girl near the end. But it
was definitely worth it. I still don't completely have my voice back,
but I lost it for a good cause, eh? :)
Watching
Green Day perform was fun, and it appeared as if the band members had fun,
too. There were costumes used during "King For a Day," and they invited
some people on the stage to play their instruments after the Operation
Ivy cover song. I bet they also had a good time attempting to fool
the crowd-- during "Longview," just as I was guessing that the concert
was winding down, they dropped the curtain in the back to reveal a new
one, and the show rocked on! It was awesome!!!!
Anyway,
Green Day played for about two hours... and it was the best concert I've
ever been to! (Weezer's second, Smashing Pumpkins is third, and I
after that I don't really care.) It was so much fun! In fact,
the whole trip was... even the downpour after the concert that was so big
that my wipers couldn't even keep up with the rain while we were pulled
over on the side of the interstate! Even forgetting where we parked
the car in downtown St. Paul was fun. So, the moral of the story
is... umm... is there a moral?
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