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On October 29th, 1995 I went to see Green Day, a band I had little knowledge of at the time and even less interest in.
I vividly remember answering the phone around 6:30 that very evening. Someone I can’t remember and hardly knew was calling to offer me an extra ticket for the show. While my head was busy wondering how this person even had my phone number I faintly heard my mouth replying, “Sure, why not?”
And why not, indeed. Even from my place off of Somerset Street the Civic Centre was an easy walk away, and who am I to refuse a free ticket to anything? Our seats were in the bowl, the room was pretty full, and a trio of young scruffy guys hit the stage and played their butts off for a rockin’ hundred minutes. It was brash, fun, punkish, and rockin’.
Halfway through the show Billie Joe actually unzipped his fly and pulled out his willy, a move that clearly resonated with the young Glebepunk fanbase but was in truth much less punk rock than when someone like Jim Morrison went to jail for just feigning such a move so many years ago.
It was a good show. I won’t say I walked out a fan, but I certainly had my ears that much more open when students would ask to learn Green Day songs throughout the ensuing years, as they consistently would. It turns out I actually quite like the Dookie record and really, their American Idiot concept album is a truly admirable piece of work.
So thanks for the ticket, whoever you were.
Todd Man Out 