![]() ![]() His name is Montgomery, which Armstrong shortened to Monty for the crowd to chant. "You’re 10-years-old and you can play?" he asked a boy who raised both his hands in the air. The light show extended all the way around Golden Gate Park’s tree-lined Polo Field, with strobes and other effects bouncing off of the greenery in time with the music.Īfter inviting a female fan up to sing and get a hug, Armstrong looked out into the crowd and said he needed someone to come up and play guitar with them. Green Day at the Lands End stage on Saturday night. | Photo: Daniel Mendozaĭifferent tunes got individual visual treatments that were quite engaging, with pulsating views of the band bathed in color or black and white. He asked everyone to flash their phone lights ("Just about the only thing those phones are good for," he added) and turned the stage lights off creating a powerful sparkling effect from the thousands-strong crowd. "I’m so happy right now!" Armstrong exclaimed, as "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" fired up. Armstrong also talked about a failed attempt to play at San Francisco’s much-smaller Dolores Park back in the day, which also ended with police. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that the last Green Day show in Golden Gate Park - an illegal set with some hardcore bands in 1991 - resulted in their arrest, so this was a clear upgrade. At times, Armstrong and Dirnt played their guitars back to back and nestled their heads on each other’s shoulders. These three have been together since high school, and you can see and feel their love for each other, their music and where they grew up. The multi-GRAMMY winners understood the hugeness of the moment, taking the opportunity to structure a playful show that paid homage to artists who came before them - as when they teased a quick riff of "Iron Man" by Black Sabbath before playing their own song "Hitchin’ a Ride." One of the great surprises of the set was a high energy cover of KISS’ 1975 anthem "Rock and Roll All Nite," which was accompanied with '70s-style floodlights and the Green Day logo reimagined in KISS' jagged font. A custom-made intro mash-up of Joan Jett and the Blackhearts’ "I Love Rock & Roll," "We Will Rock You" and "Also Sprach Zarathustra," a classical tone poem from 1896, ushered the band - singer and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Tré Cool (with additional guitar support from Jason White, who largely remained side stage and off screen) - on stage, beginning with the still-relevant "American Idiot." ![]() Queen ’s "Bohemian Rhapsody" then prompted a singalong of thousands, and a person in a fluffy bunny rabbit costume with a demented face hyped the crowd while the Ramones’ "Blitzkrieg Bop" roared. Green Day finally got the chance to play Outside Lands on the San Francisco festival’s 15th annual spin around Golden Gate Park, headlining Saturday’s lineup with a bombastic set filled with rock star pyro, explosives and endearing stories about being a real band from the Bay Area - Contra Costa County in the East Bay, to be precise.Ī few minutes before they came out, a text message from the festival app warned of intense lights and loud sound effects to come. ![]()
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