Green Day, Aug. 13 2005, Allstate Arena In the Chi-cag-oh! (of the USA)

You walk in. First thing you want to do is get your FREE picture at the Xbox 360¼ booth. Then, get a Pepsi and GET TO YOUR SEAT, MAN. You don't wanna get caught in the crowd. then, JEW or whoever will fire up. once their done, the lights will go on, and the first thing to do then is go to the bathroom. trust me. You don't want to get caught in the middle of Basket Case and be like "Oh crap, I gotta take a s#$%! That happend to me and it sucked, lemme tell ya. Then the concert starts.

The Concert

First, you'll hear the classic "DUHHHHHH DUUUHHHHH DUM DUHHHHHHH!!!!" From 2001: A Space Oddessy. It'll go 3 times, and then they'll come on and go right into american idiot. Then they will play this list of songs in this order:

Jesus of Suburbia
Holiday
Are we the waiting
St. Jimmy
She's a rebel
Letterbomb
Wake me up when september ends
whatsername
Minority
King for a day
Waiting
Maria
Basketcase
Boulevard of broken dreams
Shout

then they will leave, and the big jumbotron will start flashing "Green-Day" On and off, and the people start yelling it and Billie Joe comes out on stage and plays Good Riddance (Time of your life).

The coolest thing was when Billie Joe pulled people out of the crowd by saying "hey you! how long have you been playing? 5 years? Get your a$$ up here." He picked a guitarist, drummer and bassist as he, Mike Dirnt and Tre told them what the beats were and stuff. The kids that were up there playing were so cool and the girl who played bass was so freakin' lucky. She got to keep the bass. The drummer even hugged Billie when he got on stage. Billie Joe did a deal with them. they all got to keep the instruments ('cept for the drummer, he got the drumsticks), as long as they did stage dives. the guitarist forgot to get the guitar, he was so freakin' drunk.

At the end, Good Riddance (Time of your life) made me weep, and I ended up crying so hard that I dropped my lighter, and had to bend down and get it.

Getting out of there!

Get out of there! wait! No! Buy a t-shirt first (not before. never wear a concert tshirt to a concert. people will beat you up) before you go!

All in all, a great concert, with green day confetti with the hand grenade on it. So awesome.

Thanx 4 reading,
Nick b.