Nov 27, 1994

Green Day

Dookie tour

Setlist

Rarity 65%How rare this setlist is: higher when the band digs into songs they rarely play, lower for a night of staples.

Encore

16 Christie Road
17 She

Also on the bill: Pansy Division

Show tagged: Dookie tour

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Performers

Billie Joe Armstrong - Vocals / Guitar
Mike Dirnt - Bass / Backing Vocals
Tre Cool - Drums

Show notes

Jon Ginoli: "...We had been warned of trouble looming at a show in Fairfax, VA, a conservative suburb outside Washington, DC. The gig was at the Patriot Center at George Mason University. George Mason, a father of the Bill of Rights, refused to sign the Declaration of Independence because it didn't guarantee enough rights and freedoms. (Were he still alive, he'd be cast out of Virginia; although its state slogan is "Virginia Is For Lovers", in 1994, Virginia had an anti-sodomy law.) The promoter told Green Day in advance that they wouldn't allow us [Pansy Divison] to play, that we were inappropriate; Green Day's response to the promoter was that if we didn't play, they wouldn’t play. The promoter backed down, but when we arrived, he pulled me aside for a lecture. In a friendly-yet-stern way, he said our material was too mature for Green Day’s young audiences. He said that there would be eight-to-12-year-olds in the crowd. I asked why he was worried about our lyrics and not Green Day’s, which also have some references that might not be suitable. And who were these kids, anyway? What parents were letting their kids go to concerts so young? I told him, if they’re that young, much of what we sing about is going to go right over their heads; they won’t get it. But they’ll know they saw a gay band, and it will get them talking one way or the other. To us, that would be a victory, meaning we’ve infiltrated Pat Robertson country. This guy kept saying things like he had a lesbian sister, that he was for gay rights, but not in these circumstances. He said he was dreading the day-after phone calls from parents. I told him I had the right to sing about it, kids had the right not to be censored, and what we sang about was part of the world we live in. Virginia was a sodomy-law state; the discrimination was written into state law. To counter years of hetero propaganda these kids had heard — and would continue to hear — a few bad words and risqué songs wouldn’t do them any harm. This discussion went in circles for 15 minutes, until I finally told him it was a waste of my time. When we played, the reception was mixed but more supportive than I’d feared; it was the only show we played with Green Day in the South."

Performance stats

166th of 174 in 1994

1st of 4 in Fairfax

470th of 1157 in USA

129th of 155 of the Dookie tour

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Most played song

Longview 1,138 times

Rarest Songs Played

Coming Clean 108 times

Disappearing Boy 126 times

All By Myself 175 times

Album distribution

39/Smooth 2

- Going To Pasalacqua
- Disappearing Boy

Slappy 2

- Knowledge
- Paper Lanterns

Kerplunk 4

- Welcome To Paradise
- 2000 Light Years Away
- Dominated Love Slave
- Christie Road

Dookie 9

- Chump
- Longview
- Burnout
- When I Come Around
- Coming Clean
- Basket Case
- All By Myself
- F.O.D.
- She

Debut distribution

The year each song played here was first played live.

1989 3

1990 2

1991 3

1992 5

1993 3

1994 1

Green Day @ Patriot Center (Nov 27, 1994)