Since this is probably the best chance that will ever arise to tell this story, I was directly behind Mike Vernon and his son when Green Day came to Calgary on the American Idiot tour. My friend and I were in Grade 9 or 10 and we sang along so hard to all the older songs and Vernon's son kept turning and looking at us like "how do you know these songs?" because he was young and only knew the songs from American Idiot.
My Chemical Romance opened and because it was the last stop of their first big tour their roadies just doused them with super soakers and silly string and kept setting off fireworks and bangs at the wrong times. Got to chat with Mike Vernon about this in what will likely be the only time I ever discuss an emo band with a Flames goaltender.
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