Come rain or shine, the members of Green Day will do whatever it takes to make sure their fans have a great time!
As the band – drummer Tré Cool, bassist Mike Dirnt and frontman Billie Joe Armstrong – took the stage for an encore during their The Saviors Tour in St. Louis on Thursday, August 15, it started to rain, forcing them to speed up their final song.
As usual, the rockers closed the show with their hit “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life),” but this time they performed an up-tempo version of the song in an attempt to finish before the storm rolled in at the Hollywood Casino Amphitheater, footage captured by fans shows .
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After telling fans “we’ve got to get you out of here because there’s a big thunderstorm coming” — and thanking them, of course — Armstrong, 52, broke into a blisteringly fast and all-acoustic rendition of the 1997 hit song.
“Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road / Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go,” he sang in a much higher pitch — and faster — than his usual voice.
The Green Day singer continued to sing as the crowd filed out of the amphitheater, occasionally pausing to say something like “keep walking” and motioning for the exits with his hands.
“I hope you had a good time,” Armstrong finished as Cool, 51, and Dirnt, 52, stood on either side of him for one final “thank you” to their fans.
Green Day performs in July 2023.
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Green Day’s Saviors tour, which kicked off in May, is a big celebration of two milestones — the 30th anniversary of the band’s 1994 album. Dookie and the 20th anniversary of their 2004 LP. american idiot — plus, the release of the band’s 14th studio album, Savior.
In North America, the tour included openers The Smashing Pumpkins, Rancid and The Linda Lindas, while Nothing But Thieves, The Hives, Donots, The Interrupters and Maid of Ace opened for the band in the UK and Europe.
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Speaking with PEOPLE ahead of the tour, Armstrong broke down the meaning of several of the band’s classic songs — including the title track “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life).”
“I had my first real girlfriend, and she went to Cal [University of California, Berkeley]. Me, Tré and a bunch of other guys lived in this house on Ashby Avenue and she and her roommates lived above us,” he recalled. “I remember going to a party one night and hearing these college kids play these acoustic songs, and I was like, ‘Oh, wow, that’s really cool.’ ”
“She was moving to Ecuador and I was pretty devastated about that, so I wrote that song [from 1997’s Nimrod] for her,” Armstrong continued. “It’s a simple love song on guitar, and it ended up being played at graduations and bar mitzvahs; it’s at funerals and weddings.”
“It’s a wild thing it’s turned into,” he added of the song.
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