Location:
Pop Disaster Tour, Ice Palace in Tampa, FL
Other Acts:
Blink-182 (co-headliner), Jimmy Eat World
Notes:
Adrienne Hundley: "After Jimmy Eat World came the excitement and craziness of Billie Joe Armstrong, Tre Cool and Mike Dirnt, a.k.a. Green Day. Their set started with alarms, spotlights and a whole lot of crowd energy. The music was awesome and pretty much everyone in the arena was jumping around at the order of Billie Joe, who acted (and was treated) like king during the whole Green Day performance. The band played old and semi-new hits, including Basket Case, She, Longview, Warning and Minority. During an especially crowd-oriented part of the show, three audience members were dragged up from the mosh pit to play a song together, one on drums, one on bass and one on guitar. Their performance drove the crowd even wilder. At the end of the set, Tre ran through his drum set, Mike smashed his bass and Billie Joe played the popular Good Riddance on an acoustic guitar."
imonlysleepingx: "I wanted to share my little Billie Joe meeting story. I went to the Pop Disaster tour show in Tampa, Florida on May 14th, 2002. It was an incredible show. Jimmy Eat World opened, Green Day was in the middle, and Blink-182 were the closers. Green Day slaughtered Blink-182, by the way. They were so tight and put on such a better show. I actually still have the show ticket and some pieces of confetti with Green Day's logo printed on them. They shot out the confetti throughout the show out of big cannons. Anyway, after the show ended I really wanted to try and meet anyone I could. A fairly small group of fans found a fenced in area where the tour buses were located. We watched Tre and Mike leave the arena and head straight into their buses. We called out for them, they waved to us, but they didn't come over. Billie Joe ended up coming out last and to our utter shock, he started walking towards us as we called out to him. He started at one end of the line and started signing items for people through the fence. I had purchased this foam hand during the show, and it was the first thing I thought to hand him to sign. He was incredibly nice and seemed very appreciative of the kind words from the group. My respect for him grew immensely that night because of this - the girl next to me raised her shirt and asked him to sign her chest. He very politely told her that he couldn't because he was a married man and asked if she had anything else to sign. I thought it was very respectful and cool that he handled it like that. Anyway, that's my story..."
Fan: "I loved it, although I was let down by Blink. I figured Green Day was the headliner but they weren't, it was Blink and they weren't worthy of it. I'm not being biased, but Green Day had the best non-pop concert I've ever seen in person. They worked the crowd, played perfect and sounded great. They played for about an hour and 45 minutes; a set including basically the entire Dookie album, some from Insomniac and a few of their new songs. Blink on the other hand tried to be really funny and all, but their jokes weren't too great. They only played for about an hour but the ending was good. They also sounded like poo."
1. Maria
2. Longview
3. Welcome to Paradise
4. Hitchin' a Ride
5. Brain Stew
6. Jaded
7. 2000 Light Years Away
8. Knowledge (Operation Ivy cover)
9. Basket Case
10. She
11. King for a Day
12. Shout (The Isley Brothers cover)
13. Waiting
14. Minority
15. When I Come Around
16. Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
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