I was there! I think they stopped the show twice due to incidents in the crowd, nice to see a frontman doing this sort of stuff, especially on the scale of Wembley Stadium.
@@timewarproductions4661 I’m sure it was during another American Idiot song, I want to say possibly Jesus of Suburbia, but I can’t say for certain. A write up of the gig says; “Green Day played their biggest ever London show to a sold out Wembley Stadium crowd, but had to stop the gig twice to allow an injured fan to get help.” Hope you had as good a time as me and my family did 🤟🏻
It's sad that basic human empathy is so unexpected and profusely praised. Billie is doing his job, it's commendable and responsible but realistically this behaviour should be normalized.
@@WheresSeamus Basic human Empathy? See how we treat each other on a daily basis, read the papers. You need a moral code to do so but since we are "good" by nature I guess your theory falls short. This is why we have police, courts, armies, etc. The US is the most generous country on earth, I agree but when National Interest are in the middle you could care less about war criminals and how horrendous they are: Take for example Operation Paperclip. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wDZc-fO8pHc.html
Isn’t that normal for frontmen to do that? I mean who watched people die? Wouldn’t that be an official crime and he could go to prison if he would have seen it and watched someone die?
Roger Daltrey the lead singer from The Who always asks fans if they are ok. He hit my hair once when he lost control swinging his microphone. Three times he came over to ask if i was ok 🎤 At a benefit show with other bands The Who were on last, the fans of the last band on wouldn't move & let us Who fans stand at the front of the stage. The Who came on started singing & in seconds Roger stopped singing, called for all of the house lights to be put on & told the security staff at the front of the venue to go. Because the fans from the other bands had broken bottles & were threatening to slash us, the security staff wouldn't let us get away & literally kept pushing us back into the other fans. I saw a hand come down & heard someone telling me to grab their hand & they would pull me up. I looked & it was Roger, who pulled me onstage to get me away from being attacked by the other bands fans. As he pulled me up i noticed all of The Who were pulling fans to safety & then their roadies helped. Roger told us all to sit on the stage floor next to the band & they would protect us. Roger then got back on his microphone & told all the security staff & fans of the previous band to go to the back. Once it was just Who fans left at the front The Who started to oplay again with about a dozen of us fans sat at their feet. Then Roger stopped the show again after a couple of songs & asked the front row of fans to move back, they did. Then he said to us sat on the stage we could go back to being infront of the stage again. The Who ran over time & played till past 1am
Dude, memory of a lifetime 😁 I've seen GNR, Megadeth, Halestorm, Foo Fighters and Zac Brown Band all here in Seattle but you have me beat hands down ‼️🤘🎸🎵🎶🎼🖖
@@BillKrayer12thMan I'd love to of seen GNR. Seattle always sounds like it has a unique atmosphere. The Who are very protective of their fans. They hate security guards in front of the stage because they want us fans in front of them. If after a couple of songs Roger could see security were forcing us to sit down in our seats he would stop the show & tell security to move away from the front & let us move forward. If security staff wouldn't move Roger would swing his microphone, hit them with it & then personally tell them to move 🎤
@usaturnuranus Look up "Who concert disaster 1979" and you will understand why they would be concerned about fan safety. Tragic. @usaturnuranus I was writing about before the Cincinnati disaster concert in 1979 when 11 Who fans tragically died outside the coliseum before the concert had started & 26 were injured. The Who were not told about what had happened outside the venue till after their performance.
@@Wizzz28It was the "Not In This Lifetime" tour and I got the ticket for free 😁 and even though I was up in the "nosebleeds"(directly under the new Seahawks Super Bowl championship banner, I was on the stage end of then CenturyLink Field, now Lumen Field, and the video screens helped. Awesome show; look up "Wish You Were Here/Layla jam Seattle" and you'll see what I mean 😁 Rock on ‼️🤘👏✌️🖖🎸🎵🎶🎼
Just watch the video of Billie Joe and his sons doing,' I Think We're Alone Now'. He looks younger than they do, or a brother of theirs. Fun video to watch.
Billie Joe seems to genuinely have grown to be a caring human, which is so good to see. I remember seeing that video of him doing a dropkick into the crowd, but it seems those times are over, which I love to see. I’m not that big of a Green Day fan but you can’t deny Billie Joe is an awesome frontman for this
For people of his generation cringing at aging, he does make it look less ominous. He still is full of energy and life, just more mature, tempered, sober and compassionate.
@@isabelmauricio6394 no - just that a video of a Green Day song taken on a mobile phone from far away is not the best way to listen to do it. So, yeah, I appreciate that timestamp. That's the part that made me click.
jeez imagine you passed out at a green day concert and you have fleeting memories of billie joe nervously singing 99 bottles of beer on the wall 😮💨 he handled that well though i could tell he was scared. so was the crowd at the beginning. never heard a band stop that fast. took 5 seconds to stop and call attention to the person who needed help. other artists, especially rappers, need to take a note or five
Put it on your bucket list, they're one of the few bands who are even better live and in person than they are on recordings. You will be an even bigger fan after you see them, I've seen them several times starting with Woodstock 94 and they never disappoint.
@@Releasethebats123 For real dude. Also it just makes performing SO difficult. I'm a working musician myself so now I get off on nailing my parts instead of getting drunk during the gig, because I'm not 22 anymore..
@@djjazzyjeff1232 same. I used to be a musician but am taking a break to get sober. I’ve been an alcoholic for years. I’m 34 and burnt so many bridges. I’d get drunk and forget how to play songs at gigs. Total humiliation. Nobody wants to see that shit. It pushes friends and band mates away too
@@djjazzyjeff1232 it’s funny you said 22 because that was literally when it all started for me. Went from booze to much stronger drugs. I was wasting $1500 a month on my drug of choice and now that I am sober I’ve bought so many guitars. And the whole time I thought I looked cool but literally everyone I know said I looked stupid as hell. Being messed up on stage seemed cool back in the day but most of those bands high and drunk constantly were doing cringe and illegal stuff besides drugs… even Bowie was a “pdf file”. Sorry I’m going on a rant but look up the interview with Bowie and iggy literally bragging about sharing a 13 year old girl and abandoning her at an airport. Fucken crazy what these high weirdos got away with in the 1970/
Ironic that he’s singing about checking vital signs and then someone gets sick or hurt. Hope the person is okay. Kudos to the crowd for not getting pissed while the crew handled the emergency. And here’s your proof that Green Day is totally live (if you needed any) - no backing tracks needed to sound amazing or stop/start on a dime!
All the way back in ‘95 Brixton Academy, he went to front of the stage and had a go at the photographers asking them to move for the the people who paid to see. Remember him saying “ Fuck you? No fuck you , move” and promoted the whole place to shout “Fuck Yoooo”. They weren’t a big as they are now and place was half full . Cost £8.00 a ticket, think that’s $6.50 .
It's nice when rich and successful ppl can be humans too. I read that they stopped writing and touring for a while so Mike could be with his wife through her cancer treatments. They seem like legit ppl. Wish there were more like them out there and that caring and compassion weren't rare anomalies making them newsworthy.
He drop- kicked someone that was harassing a female fan in Green Day's early days. He's unbelievable! Edit: it wasn't their earliest days after all but it was still several years ago
The tremolo guitar part is a backing track, which is only played in verses. Tré (not sure if other members too) also has click on headphones. You can clearly hear the backing track stopping after the band at 2:21. After the restart they played without it, as it would have been very difficult to start it at the right timestamp. After the solo the backing track stops, as there's no tremolo part in the outro.
Sorry, but Green Day uses backing tracks. There are sound guys that cut the tracks, the same way the lighting guys stop the lighting. You can clearly hear the tremolo among other effects are NOT live.
It's insane to me that there are artists who will completely ignore when their fans have a clear medical emergency in the crowd and need help. When you're entertaining a crowd of people that adore you you should not only want to entertain them, but show that you care about them by making sure they get to leave the show alive
Taylor Swift, does this too, and I genuinely believe that that's what separates an entertainer and an artist (a robot/ego vs a sensible human). And it's worth mentioning that not everyone is like Billie either; he has such command over the audience that truly saves a life in an instance like this. The way everyone INSTANTLY stopped playing is also incredible to see cause you have to take into account, they have their ears in; playing their own instruments with a massive crowd. It's easy to get caught in your music and be vibing, but they are all so in tune with each other up there, that split second silence proves their skill and their deep relationship
So impressive, this band. They actually came to Hamilton Ontario to play four songs, ending in fireworks💥, at halftime of the 2023 Grey Cup Game (Canadian Football 🏈 League Championship). Outdoors. In November🥶!! I have no idea why we got so lucky to get such a HUGE international sensation as Green Day, but they put on a phenomenal show. Love them for that, and for this. Truly, 🤩🤩🤩🤩Rock Stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
06:24 it's happened again, the crowd sings the wrong notes making a beautiful melody, harmonizing perfectly to the original one. The magic of live shows.
There's a reason they still sell out he's always cared about his fans they used to play bars during tours under fake names to give people a chance to see them play for cheap or free without the real crowd that Green day would bring. If you never seen them live you're definitely missing out the energy at a green day concert is one in a few good luck sleeping that night.
Saw Anne-Marie do this in Paris when supporting Ed Sheeran a few years back. There was a crush at the front and stopped a song to say she wasn't going to start again until the people stopped been crushed
was part of the rigging production in marlay park dublin, got tre's used drumsticks after he fucked em over his shoulder and they landed beside me in a flight case, then i got 3 of billys plectrums off the mic stand... what a band, if you havent seen them live its a absolute must they do not dissapoint
I got one of tré’s drumsticks at that gig too, when he threw that bucket of them into the crowd at the end! Pretty sure he didn’t use the one I got, but still pretty sweet!
@@haysfordays I really don't know that much about them. I know they were really big in the 90s I guess it was? I'm not really a fan so I've never gone to see them. I was just really surprised that they could fill stadiums to capacity like this. I mean they're good but there's nothing mind blowing about them.
Can we just talk about how they picked up right where they left off. Like wow. I’ve loved Green Day since Dookie came out every time he stops the show it’s for a fan, with the exception of the iHeart Radio show, and stops the show and makes sure that fan is absolutely ok before he finishes the song. But they went right back to the chorus and at the same time.
It’s cool to see quite a few bands paying attention to what is going on on the crowd. Chris Martin (Coldplay) John Mayer, Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden) Dave Grohl.. they’ve all stood on stage and stopped the show to get medical attention for a person. Bruce Dickinson spotted an asshole punch a girl at the front of the crowd, stopped the show and spent the next few minutes calling the guy a “Cowardly C**t” daring him to come up and fight him, and made the crowd wait until they got the guy thrown out - then they added two extra tracks to fill in the time lost with the incident because quoting Steve Harris “We’re not gonna let some fu**ing wanker, spoil your night”
What would you do if you passed out and then woke up at a green day concert and they were singing 100 bottles of beer on the wall? Would you think you needed to go straight to the hospital?
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@@djjazzyjeff1232 not at the very front. But in the front standing section. Done the same at other venues but wembley was off. Maybe because it's open air. Still a great night though!
@@Ackbar_its_a_trap in the middle? Thats tough, they have center fill speakers but the sound guys can’t really mix them very well they’re more concerned about the main PA system. I too have been disappointed before with a big concert like that because of a similar thing
@@djjazzyjeff1232 yep it must be a thing. There were 60k fans there which is circa 3 nights at the o2. So I get why mega bands do stadiums otherwise they'd be touring the UK for weeks.
@@Ackbar_its_a_trap You got it. Yeah it's definitely a thing, I know a little about productions but not on this scale, but there's almost a critical mass that you reach when a concert becomes TOO big, that it almost CAN'T sound good because there's not getting around the laws of physics. This show looked like it was along those lines. I saw Metallica in 2018 and was thoroughly disappointed in the sound as well.
This happens so much and the comment section over praise the artist for stopping the show. of course they do. It isn't heroic or selfless. Its a duty of care that comes as standard to every professional who perform on that stage in front of every crowd.
This is so awesome to see especially getting someone help in the middle of a crowd like that! BRAVO Billy is A++ for that! I can't help thinking though; Billy's hardly playing guitar if barely at all and there's another electric guitar player, a bass, and somehow there is an acoustic guitar playing that's not Billy or the other player, so are they using backing tracks or something or I know Green Day was originally a 3 piece band.
I didn't see Rancid on the Warped tour because someone in the crowd was injured during the first song. So Tim did a Q and A while medical personnel took care of the injured person. On Warped they had a strict 30 minute time limit, everything happens when it's supposed to, so they couldn't play long. 😢
Saw Trivium, somebody went down hard in the pit. Matt immediately stopped the show asked for house lights. Made the crowd form a path and waited until medical got the guy out before resuming. Awesome.
As all musicians/ bands who have made it big and play large venues, their "goodness" comes from their interaction and caring for their fans. Without the fans, the noise is just that. The fans take the noise, the sounds, the music and make it their own. Remembering the times they first heard the song- by themselves, with friends, at home, in a car, at their first concert, at their 20th concert... The fans make the music artist/ band special.
This is why bands will always be the best true performers. They care about their fans. Maybe not all but the majority do. They enjoy interacting with their audience. Not like many of these solo artists you get, a lot of rappers who don’t even acknowledge emergencies in their crowds and instead make it worse.
