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I went to see Green Day last Saturday night (the 3rd) with an open mind. The evening air in Foxboro Mass was cool and cisp and felt like fall. It brought back many memories of football games and pep rallies the night before the game...sigh... I wasn't real familliar with the band but had of course, heard various of their songs on the radio. I had liked what I heard and so I was looking forward to the show. The song I remembered most recently was American Idiot and that was the song that they started the concert with.
Over the course of the concert I discovered that I like Green Day a lot. They are great performers and their enery level is incredible. They kept going at a frantic pace for almost 2 straight hours and the quality of the music didn't suffer a bit because of it. I guess that is why they won 7 awards this year at the MTV Video Music Awards.
Green Day is known for being a somewhat political punk band. To me though punk was always political in some way, even if only in expressing the condition of the middle class American adolescent male. Green Day's political leanings were evident through the course of the evening and ranged from Billie's introducing himself as George Bush (to boos from the crowd) to him reminding the audience that it was them, as individuals, who really hold the power in this country and the world and asking them to use their power.
Their effects were nothing short of spectacular. From the many fire spouting pipes around the edge of the stage to the bubble machines that filled the stadium with bubbles that flashed in the dark sky, illuminated by spotlights like a billion fireflys and finally the awesome fireworks show that ended the concert. Luckily the stadium was full because I believe the cost of putting on that show must be huge.
The band kept the audience involved by challenging one side of the stadium to cheer louder than the other and to do the "wave" and such. They pulled two kids onto the stage and gave them water cannons to squirt into the mosh pit area to cool down their felow fans. Then, later they recruited three members of the audience to come on stage and take over the band's instruments for a rendition of the song ``Knowledge".
They dedicated the song "When September Ends" to the victims of hurricane Katrina. They will be performing at a benifit for those victims on September 10th. And during one of their 3 or 4 encore's they performed the Queen song "We Are The Champions" and it gave me a good feeling, a positive feeling that just maybe there might still be hope for some of us in this crazy world .
By Mike Johnston
YEA!!!!! That's pretty much how I remember it too :)
I went to see Green Day last Saturday night (the 3rd) with an open mind. The evening air in Foxboro Mass was cool and cisp and felt like fall. It brought back many memories of football games and pep rallies the night before the game...sigh... I wasn't real familliar with the band but had of course, heard various of their songs on the radio. I had liked what I heard and so I was looking forward to the show. The song I remembered most recently was American Idiot and that was the song that they started the concert with.
Over the course of the concert I discovered that I like Green Day a lot. They are great performers and their enery level is incredible. They kept going at a frantic pace for almost 2 straight hours and the quality of the music didn't suffer a bit because of it. I guess that is why they won 7 awards this year at the MTV Video Music Awards.
Green Day is known for being a somewhat political punk band. To me though punk was always political in some way, even if only in expressing the condition of the middle class American adolescent male. Green Day's political leanings were evident through the course of the evening and ranged from Billie's introducing himself as George Bush (to boos from the crowd) to him reminding the audience that it was them, as individuals, who really hold the power in this country and the world and asking them to use their power.
Their effects were nothing short of spectacular. From the many fire spouting pipes around the edge of the stage to the bubble machines that filled the stadium with bubbles that flashed in the dark sky, illuminated by spotlights like a billion fireflys and finally the awesome fireworks show that ended the concert. Luckily the stadium was full because I believe the cost of putting on that show must be huge.
The band kept the audience involved by challenging one side of the stadium to cheer louder than the other and to do the "wave" and such. They pulled two kids onto the stage and gave them water cannons to squirt into the mosh pit area to cool down their felow fans. Then, later they recruited three members of the audience to come on stage and take over the band's instruments for a rendition of the song ``Knowledge".
They dedicated the song "When September Ends" to the victims of hurricane Katrina. They will be performing at a benifit for those victims on September 10th. And during one of their 3 or 4 encore's they performed the Queen song "We Are The Champions" and it gave me a good feeling, a positive feeling that just maybe there might still be hope for some of us in this crazy world .
By Mike Johnston
YEA!!!!! That's pretty much how I remember it too :)