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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
That green day concert at the dome during the American idiot tour was one of the weirdest experiences ever.
First half, all new American Idiot stuff, the whole arena was shrieking 8-12 year olds. Older people looked bored.
Second half, all old stuff from Dookie and Insomniac etc and the kids went silent and looked bored and all the 20-40 year olds went wild.
I’d never seen such a wide divide between fans before. It was hilarious.
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We had friends all over the Dome at this show and we were pretty unanimous in the feeling of the night. We were completely blown away by thousands of screaming teenagers during American Idiot songs for our "90's band", it was really cool.
But in everyone's view that we were with everyone was in on the American Idiot stuff, definitely no "boredom" of older fans waiting for older songs. Do you remember how massive American Idiot was at the time? When a band you love that peaked earlier suddenly has a major resurgence, your response generally isn't "meh, get to the old stuff".
Every Green Day fan I knew at the time (and it was a lot) was as into American Idiot as any new fan, and it showed at that concert.
It was a really neat experience, probably top 3 concert for me, and My Chemical Romance was great, too.