Show Notes: Cometbus: "In Arcata in time to participate in first day of Redwood summer."

Sam Atakra: "Their first show was at a friend's garage space in Arcata with The Jolly Ho-Ho's. All I know is that our heckling made Billie Joe Armstrong cry... Cry Day..."

Team Rock: "It wasn’t the most professional of tours. Their first stop was Arcata, a small college town on the North Coast, and when Green Day arrived, they discovered that nobody had bothered to organise anywhere for them to play. The show went ahead anyway, in the living room of someone’s apartment."

Larry Livermore: "Around that same time, Green Day began their first national tour with a stop in Arcata. As often happened in that very laid back town, the original show fell through - it’s possible, even likely, that someone had completely forgotten to book it - and they wound up playing in the living room of someone’s apartment across from the Greyhound station on 10th Street. ...My verdict on Arcata, based on maybe an hour and a half tour: slightly more bourgie than I remember it, but as lovely as ever. With a wave to the upstairs apartment on 10th Street where Green Day played the first show of their first national tour in 1990, I swung out onto Highway 101 and made tracks for Laytonville."

gdtourvan1990: "Tuesday, June 19, 1990: First day of the tour! The band didn’t have a show that night and we had a long summer ahead of us, so we didn’t rush getting out of town.
I picked up Aaron in Benicia first. He loaded me up with about two tons of #cometbus magazine. Geez! There was barely room for the amps and drums! Then I drove to Hercules to pick up Billie, Mike and Sean. Billie’s whole family came out to see us off. It was festive. Then we went El Sobrante to pick up John and his drum set.
Around 2pm we headed north on the 101. Our first destination was Arcata, California for a show the next day. We stopped briefly in Willits to say hi to Tré Cool.
Then we drove up beyond the Redwood Curtain and past the road sign the boys graffitied the time they played Garberville with #screechingweasel We even made a brief stop at @confusionhill101
We were having so much fun we decided to stop along the Avenue of the Giants and take a swim in the Eel River. John almost drowned trying to swim across. That would have sucked.
By the time we arrived in Arcata the sun had gone down. Larry was really mad at the boys for showing up so late. Not sure why, the first show is tomorrow. Wednesday June 20: We stayed just off of O street in Arcata. In the morning I took the boys to the first protest of Redwood Summer. Hmm, no mention of Green Day in the #nytimes article. That evening they played a house party in an apartment on 10th street across from the Greyhound station. After the show, late in the night, we left for Portland, OR."

Opening Band(s): The Jolly Ho-Ho's

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