Show Notes: Aaron Cometbus: "Scary 'X marks the spot where people died' signs."

Troy Zoller: "I was at the first show Scotty. The only other people I remember there were Joleen, and Randy Beebe, who had his nose broken in the pit. He was bleeding from his nose into his beer cup, and drinking it. He asked me to set his nose when we were in the bathroom."

Dan Dittmer: "I even did a show at the 4H building on the fairgrounds. That was Dead Silence and Green Day. It's like we just missed the sheep auction, it's Dead Silence and Green Day, and the next day is the llama exhibit or whatever. Minus the smell, it was a great place."

Craig Jackson: "Yeah, and there was a square dance competition going on in another building, so they wanted the pit to go in a square instead of a circle. Aaron Cometbus was along for the ride and wrote about the tour. SD was mentioned for 'scary X marks the spot where people died' signs'."

Ted Silence: "Just like old athletes who hang it up, a year later in 1990 it was like. 'Let's get together and play a couple of reunion shows.' And we did. We drove to Rapid City and Joel reminded me of this while back, but we shared the bill with Green Day. In fact they opened for us because at that point we were well known in Rapid City and Green Day was some band nobody ever heard of. (Laughter) By the mid-90's I had been living in Texas and I got into the Texas singer-song writer thing and I was thinking, 'Gosh, I wish Green Day had come out 10 years ago, because I would have loved them.' At 18-19, I loved that power pop sound more than I did hardcore."

gdtourvan1990: "Saturday June 30: Billie’s relatives made the guys a nice breakfast and then we headed north to Rapid City SD. There was a lot of two-lane blacktop and not much Interstate on this leg of the trip. We went through the Black Hills and I opted to not stop at #mountrushmore. I think this is where we saw our first X-Marks the Spot sign. Spooky. We rolled in to #rapidcity late in the afternoon. It was warm, but not hot like Denver. Did I mention how hot it was in Denver? The show was in the Creative Arts pavilion of the #centralstatesfairgrounds The stage had a full kitchen. There was a #squaredance happening in the next building over. The kids were great! At one point during the show someone yelled “Wheelbarrow Pit!” And everyone paired up with one kid running on their hands while the other kid held their legs. There was a band in Rapid City at the time called #chickenshitlogjam which made me chuckle, but they weren’t on the bill that night. After the show, we made a stop at the Rapid City Hospital so Billie could get a fierce case of poison ivy looked at. Swimming by the river has its hazards."

Billie Joe Armstrong: "I think that was dead silence “last show”.. and we met the admiral fellas."

Opening Band(s): Dead Silence, Admiral, XClude

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