Green Day @ Universal Amphitheater (Dec 6, 1997)

Dec 6, 1997 ✓ Verified

Green Day

106.7 KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas

Universal Amphitheater · Los Angeles, CA, USA

Setlist

Rarity 43%How rare this setlist is: higher when the band digs into songs they rarely play, lower for a night of staples.
  1. 01 Welcome To Paradise
  2. 02 Geek Stink Breath
  3. 03 Hitchin' A Ride
  4. 04 Chump
  5. 05 Longview “The Beautiful People” jam
  6. 06 Brain Stew
  7. 07 Jaded
  8. 08 Knowledge Operation Ivy cover
  9. 09 Basket Case

Encore

  1. 10 Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)
Also on the bill: David Bowie, 311, Everclear, Live, Portishead, Save Ferris, Sugar Ray, The Aquabats!, Third Eye Blind
Show tagged: Nimrod tour + Festival Performances
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Concert poster

Green Day concert poster

Performers

Show notes

"The band threw the stage Christmas tree into the crowd. Once again Billie wrote obscenities on the stage and apparently there was a fight backstage with KROQ workers. KROQ called the police but no charges where laid."

Mike Dirnt: "I never said a word to [David Bowie], but we played a show together, we were hanging out in the hallway, and we were both dressed to the nines... I looked across the way, he looked at me, I looked at him, and he goes: [nods] like 'this is cool, isn't it?' and I'm like 'absolutely.'" (Vinyl Obsession podcast, 2023)

Scott Evanskey: "Seeing Green Day in '97 with Karen at KROQ's Acoustic Xmas was awesome. Knowing she was into punk from a long time ago and seeing Green Day's performance that night was just a wonderful throwback to old school punk. They tore down a 20 feet Christmas tree that was shipped here from Holland then spraypainted the WHOLE set green, destroyed their instruments and then lit the drum set and the stage on fire and left Billie Joe naked singing Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) alone on stage with a beat up acoustic guitar was just brilliant! And to see all this happening with this super cool girl I just started dating and she was digging it too was bliss!"

Performance stats

52nd of 60 in 1997
11th of 53 in Los Angeles
573rd of 1175 in USA
39th of 146 of the Nimrod tour

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Most played song

Longview 1,138 times

Rarest Songs Played

Chump 264 times
Geek Stink Breath 292 times
Jaded 609 times

Album distribution

Slappy 1
  • - Knowledge
Kerplunk 1
  • - Welcome To Paradise
Dookie 3
  • - Chump
  • - Longview
  • - Basket Case
Insomniac 3
  • - Geek Stink Breath
  • - Brain Stew
  • - Jaded
Nimrod 2
  • - Hitchin' A Ride
  • - Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)

Debut distribution

The year each song played here was first played live.

1989 1
1991 1
1992 2
1993 1
1994 1
1995 2
1997 2

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