[First posted on my Tumblr August 3, 2017.]
I can’t believe it…
I saw them…
I saw Green Day…
After 12 years of waiting…
These are the only words that I’m thinking of right now. I’m so speechless, dazed. It feels like it didn’t even happen at all, that I was only dreaming. But this time it wasn’t a dream…
…It was reality.
In one of my blogs that I wrote about the 12th anniversary of American Idiot last year, I talked about how I started liking them, which was 12 years ago. When I got into them, I wanted to see Green Day live so much and through the years I would have dreams where I would be at a Green Day concert, and it would always be during the American Idiot era, with Billie Joe Armstrong, lead singer and guitarist, wearing the black collar shirt and red tie.
When I was 13 in 2005 I remember going with my mother and aunt to Renton, Washington for a day trip and while on the freeway, we passed by the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma. I remember seeing an electric sign for the venue and it said that Green Day was going to perform there that September. I was so jealous.
I live in Oregon and sadly it tends to be one of the most forgotten states concert-wise. The last time Green Day performed in Oregon, was at Portland during the American Idiot tour 12 years ago. Back then I never knew about it, but years later I found out about it.
In 2013 I discovered that in November 2012 Green Day were supposed to play at the Salem Armory in Salem, Oregon for the 99 Revolutions tour (Originally called the ¡Uno!¡Dos!¡Tré! tour) but it got cancelled because of the incident at the iHeartRadio show two months earlier.
Fast forward to 2016 when Green Day released Revolution Radio, their new and twelfth album, they announced the dates for the North American tour and I was disappointed that Oregon wasn’t included. But I was wrong. In January 2017 someone on Twitter sent me a link to more North American shows that Green Day added and when I looked my eyes went wide. On the list I saw Portland, Oregon. At the Moda Center on August 2, 2017. I was so excited but had a feeling that I wouldn’t have a chance to see them. I told my mother about it and cried, because I wanted to see them live so much but I felt bad telling her about it when Christmas just ended. But my mother said she’ll do something about it. Later that week she bought two tickets which were for the left seats but kind of close to the stage and when my mother showed me how she really bought them, I cried happy tears. It was really official. And she said she will go with me.
After seven months of waiting the Second of August finally arrived. Those months flew by so fast. But on that day (yesterday) there was one problem…
THE WEATHER WAS FREAKING HOT.
I’m not even exaggerating. The weather yesterday was so bad. It was 109 degrees!! Me and my mom were suffering in the heat on the way over there and our clothes were drenched in sweat. It was really horrible.
Anyway, on the way over to the Moda Center in Portland we listened to Green Day and then we finally arrived. The opening band was Catfish And The Bottlemen, and after they played we waited for Green Day to come on stage. I’ll never forget that moment when they came. When I saw them (in person far away!) I got super emotional and was about to cry. It just hit me that that moment was happening, the moment I had been wanting for 12 years.
Green Day were just freaking awesome. So much energy they had, the lights, the explosions, and Billie Joe sang so good. I was so happy to hear the songs from American Idiot, Revolution Radio, (especially “Forever Now.”) and their old-school songs, but there was one song that I looked forward to hearing the most. The song that made me fall in love with Billie Joe, the song that got me into Green Day, and the song that is so special to me growing up. And that song was “Boulevard Of Broken Dreams.”
I had seen the setlist for their show in Seattle two days ago and after when they played “Letterbomb” I knew “Boulevard” was next. When they started playing that song I got really emotional and I began to cry. I’ll never forget how I felt. It was a very powerful moment for me.
I also got emotional when Billie Joe performed “Good Riddance,” the last song, because those minutes would be my last seeing them. After the show my mother bought me a t-shirt and then we left. My mother really enjoyed the show and it was her first concert in years (Also first time seeing Green Day too). What’s awesome was she said that out of all the concerts she had attended (In the 80s to now) the Green Day concert was her favorite. I felt really happy when she told me.
So that concludes my concert adventures. I hope you enjoyed this and my Psychedelic Furs one too. I feel really thankful I saw The Furs for the third time, met their guitarist Rich Good again, how Rich got my letter, and then, finally seeing Green Day. I hope Green Day will come to Portland again. I hope they will. Thank you for reading.
“Some moments that I had
Some moments of pleasure…”
I can’t believe it…
I saw them…
I saw Green Day…
After 12 years of waiting…
These are the only words that I’m thinking of right now. I’m so speechless, dazed. It feels like it didn’t even happen at all, that I was only dreaming. But this time it wasn’t a dream…
…It was reality.
In one of my blogs that I wrote about the 12th anniversary of American Idiot last year, I talked about how I started liking them, which was 12 years ago. When I got into them, I wanted to see Green Day live so much and through the years I would have dreams where I would be at a Green Day concert, and it would always be during the American Idiot era, with Billie Joe Armstrong, lead singer and guitarist, wearing the black collar shirt and red tie.
When I was 13 in 2005 I remember going with my mother and aunt to Renton, Washington for a day trip and while on the freeway, we passed by the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma. I remember seeing an electric sign for the venue and it said that Green Day was going to perform there that September. I was so jealous.
I live in Oregon and sadly it tends to be one of the most forgotten states concert-wise. The last time Green Day performed in Oregon, was at Portland during the American Idiot tour 12 years ago. Back then I never knew about it, but years later I found out about it.
In 2013 I discovered that in November 2012 Green Day were supposed to play at the Salem Armory in Salem, Oregon for the 99 Revolutions tour (Originally called the ¡Uno!¡Dos!¡Tré! tour) but it got cancelled because of the incident at the iHeartRadio show two months earlier.
Fast forward to 2016 when Green Day released Revolution Radio, their new and twelfth album, they announced the dates for the North American tour and I was disappointed that Oregon wasn’t included. But I was wrong. In January 2017 someone on Twitter sent me a link to more North American shows that Green Day added and when I looked my eyes went wide. On the list I saw Portland, Oregon. At the Moda Center on August 2, 2017. I was so excited but had a feeling that I wouldn’t have a chance to see them. I told my mother about it and cried, because I wanted to see them live so much but I felt bad telling her about it when Christmas just ended. But my mother said she’ll do something about it. Later that week she bought two tickets which were for the left seats but kind of close to the stage and when my mother showed me how she really bought them, I cried happy tears. It was really official. And she said she will go with me.
After seven months of waiting the Second of August finally arrived. Those months flew by so fast. But on that day (yesterday) there was one problem…
THE WEATHER WAS FREAKING HOT.
I’m not even exaggerating. The weather yesterday was so bad. It was 109 degrees!! Me and my mom were suffering in the heat on the way over there and our clothes were drenched in sweat. It was really horrible.
Anyway, on the way over to the Moda Center in Portland we listened to Green Day and then we finally arrived. The opening band was Catfish And The Bottlemen, and after they played we waited for Green Day to come on stage. I’ll never forget that moment when they came. When I saw them (in person far away!) I got super emotional and was about to cry. It just hit me that that moment was happening, the moment I had been wanting for 12 years.
Green Day were just freaking awesome. So much energy they had, the lights, the explosions, and Billie Joe sang so good. I was so happy to hear the songs from American Idiot, Revolution Radio, (especially “Forever Now.”) and their old-school songs, but there was one song that I looked forward to hearing the most. The song that made me fall in love with Billie Joe, the song that got me into Green Day, and the song that is so special to me growing up. And that song was “Boulevard Of Broken Dreams.”
I had seen the setlist for their show in Seattle two days ago and after when they played “Letterbomb” I knew “Boulevard” was next. When they started playing that song I got really emotional and I began to cry. I’ll never forget how I felt. It was a very powerful moment for me.
I also got emotional when Billie Joe performed “Good Riddance,” the last song, because those minutes would be my last seeing them. After the show my mother bought me a t-shirt and then we left. My mother really enjoyed the show and it was her first concert in years (Also first time seeing Green Day too). What’s awesome was she said that out of all the concerts she had attended (In the 80s to now) the Green Day concert was her favorite. I felt really happy when she told me.
So that concludes my concert adventures. I hope you enjoyed this and my Psychedelic Furs one too. I feel really thankful I saw The Furs for the third time, met their guitarist Rich Good again, how Rich got my letter, and then, finally seeing Green Day. I hope Green Day will come to Portland again. I hope they will. Thank you for reading.
“Some moments that I had
Some moments of pleasure…”
