May 3, 1998

Green Day

Beale Street Music Festival

Setlist

Rarity 59%How rare this setlist is: higher when the band digs into songs they rarely play, lower for a night of staples.

01 Nice Guys Finish Last
02 Hitchin' A Ride
03 The Grouch
04 2000 Light Years Away
05 Longview “The Beautiful People” jam
06 Welcome To Paradise
07 Blue Moon of Kentucky Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys cover
08 Brain Stew
09 Jaded
10 Paper Lanterns
11 Basket Case
12 She “Iron Man” tease
13 Redundant
14 Scattered

Encore

Also on the bill: Ben Folds Five, Rufus Thomas, Samiam, Ziggy Marley And The Melody Makers

Show tagged: Nimrod tour + Festival Performances

Concert poster

Performers

Billie Joe Armstrong - Vocals / Guitar
Mike Dirnt - Bass / Backing Vocals
Tre Cool - Drums
Gabriel McNair - Trombone / Saxophone
Stephen Bradley - Musician
Timmy Chunks - Guitar

Show notes

"I go to the Beale Street Music Festival once a year for one day. They always happen to have at least one band that I enjoy listening to. Well, I walk in see Samiam playing and I go, 'What the heck?' It just so happens that they are playing on the same stage that Green Day will in an hour. I go and listen to them, and, believe me, they kick. Well, around 9:10 Green Day comes out. They open up with Nice Guys Finish Last, followed by Hitchin' A Ride and The Grouch. Billie Joe likes to interact with the crowd, I noticed. They continued playing. It was a pretty good show. He even brought out an Ernie doll that you can see on the back cover of Dookie. Green Day kicks!"

Tre Cool: "This tour is like a camping trip. When we played at the Beale Street Festival, we stole golf carts as usual. Beale Street is like a big old party in the heart of Memphis, and there were about a million police all over the place. We took golf carts from the river up to Beale Street through public streets, which is a good mile, with open beers in our hands. We were all driving the golf carts in the lanes where the cars should go until some cops saw us and pulled us over. As this was happening, I accidentally crashed the cart I was driving with Jason from Samiam (who are touring with GREEN DAY) in the passenger seat into a really high curb. The cops then tell us, "We pulled you over 'cause we just wanted to get a picture with y'all.' So basically, as the cops were pulling us over, we crashed into a ditch in a stolen golf cart–drinking and holding open containers in our hands. But instead of busting us, the cops helped us pull the golf cart out of the ditch and sent us back onto the public road – on our merry way – with our stolen golf cart and our beers. We're above the law. GREEN DAY ABOVE THE LAW: Headline."

Performance stats

54th of 120 in 1998

3rd of 3 in Memphis

587th of 1175 in USA

95th of 146 of the Nimrod tour

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Most played song

Longview 1,138 times

Rarest Songs Played

Blue Moon of Kentucky 3 times

Redundant 32 times

Prosthetic Head 62 times

Album distribution

Slappy 1

- Paper Lanterns

Kerplunk 2

- 2000 Light Years Away
- Welcome To Paradise

Dookie 4

- Longview
- Basket Case
- She
- When I Come Around

Insomniac 2

- Brain Stew
- Jaded

Nimrod 9

- Nice Guys Finish Last
- Hitchin' A Ride
- The Grouch
- Redundant
- Scattered
- Platypus (I Hate You)
- King For A Day
- Prosthetic Head
- Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)

Covers 1

- Blue Moon of Kentucky

Debut distribution

The year each song played here was first played live.

1990 1

1991 2

1992 3

1993 1

1995 2

1997 6

1998 4

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