Green Day @ Texas Sky Park (May 1, 1998)

May 1, 1998

Green Day

Nimrod tour

Texas Sky Park · Corpus Christi, TX, USA

Setlist

Rarity 55%How rare this setlist is: higher when the band digs into songs they rarely play, lower for a night of staples.
  1. 01 Nice Guys Finish Last
  2. 02 Hitchin' A Ride
  3. 03 J.A.R. (Jason Andrew Relva)
  4. 04 Geek Stink Breath
  5. 05 2000 Light Years Away
  6. 06 Longview
  7. 07 Brain Stew
  8. 08 Jaded
  9. 09 Knowledge Operation Ivy cover
  10. 10 Basket Case
  11. 11 She
  12. 12 Redundant
  13. 13 Scattered

Encore

  1. 14 Platypus (I Hate You)
  2. 15 King For A Day
  3. 16 When I Come Around
  4. 17 Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)
Also on the bill: Samiam
Show tagged: Nimrod tour
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Performers

Show notes

Josh Rodriguez: "I got free tickets to this concert. Told my baseball coach that I was going to my cousin's graduation from some small college."

Simon Cross: "That was my first concert too! I was there... Highly intoxicated on a couple things with my sister and best friends. It was a great show... And got to see Billy Joe in some girl's thong..."

John Lyles: "I remember being wracked with tension during Brain Stew, in anticipation of it leading into Jaded. And when it happened I made a shitload of people slam dance whether they wanted to or not."

Louis Edwin: "I remember Billie Joe Armstrong asking the crowd if someone knew how to play guitar and he picks this kid from the crowd and asks him, 'Where you from kid?' The kid says, 'Skidmore.' And Billie Joe asks, 'Where the fuck is Skidmore?' Good times."

John Bruce: "Singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong made an announcement early in Green Day's show Friday night at Texas Sky: 'I'm running for mayor of Corpus Christi.' Green Day won over its audience with a tight, 80-minute set of three-chord punk-pop. Choosing largely from their last three CDs, they proved an exciting live band, improving on their studio material. The night clearly belonged to Armstrong, whose energy was endless as he jumped around on stage and climbed on top of stacks of amps. He commanded the stage more like an emperor than a mayor, his arms outstretched like a punk Caesar. He and his band mates, bass player Mike Dirnt and drummer Tre Cool, seemed to be enjoying themselves onstage and the excitement was infectious as the mostly teenage audience sang along enthusiastically. Dirnt is a versatile bass player, switching seamlessly from hardcore throb to jazz to shuffling country punk. And Cool hammered away with all the subtlety of, say, Keith Moon. Audience participation included chanting lyrics and body surfing. At one point Armstrong recruited a youth - introduced only as Andrew from Skidmore - from the audience to play guitar. Andrew crunched out the chords like a pro and for a finale dived off the stage into a sea of tattooed arms and earrings. The addition of a horn section was perplexing. A production element in the studio is one thing but, live, a muted trumpet and trombone sounded like kazoos and conjured the ghost of Benny Hill. Toward the end of five encores, Dirnt and Cool began to destroy the stage, knocking over drums and shooting guitars like torpedoes. Facing a stack of amplifiers, Armstrong, like a crazed emperor Nero, fiddled with the volume control on his guitar, engulfing the stage in a feedback-drenched wall of noise. Armstrong emerged from the rubble and, alone, sang Good Riddance: 'It's something unpredictable, but in the end is right. I hope you had the time of your life.'"

Performance stats

52nd of 120 in 1998
2nd of 2 in Corpus Christi
567th of 1157 in USA
90th of 119 of the Nimrod tour

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Most played song

Longview 1,138 times

Rarest Songs Played

Redundant 32 times
J.A.R. (Jason Andrew Relva) 54 times
Platypus (I Hate You) 99 times

Album distribution

Slappy 1
  • - Knowledge
Kerplunk 1
  • - 2000 Light Years Away
Dookie 4
  • - Longview
  • - Basket Case
  • - She
  • - When I Come Around
Insomniac 3
  • - Geek Stink Breath
  • - Brain Stew
  • - Jaded
Nimrod 7
  • - Nice Guys Finish Last
  • - Hitchin' A Ride
  • - Redundant
  • - Scattered
  • - Platypus (I Hate You)
  • - King For A Day
  • - Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)
International Superhits! 1
  • - J.A.R. (Jason Andrew Relva)

Debut distribution

The year each song played here was first played live.

1989 1
1991 1
1992 4
1993 1
1994 1
1995 2
1997 4
1998 3

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