Show Notes: Setlist is incomplete/out of order

Laura: "On Sunday night, December 17, 2000, around 11 pm, the KROQ dj announced that a band was going to be playing until 2001. The crowd was cheering over and over, "GREEN DAY!!! GREEN DAY!!!" The lights dimmed, and the stage turnd around. There they were. I was so incredibly lucky, after Caca Roach was over I got to the front of the pit. I was no more than seven feet away from Mike the whole time. My friend and I had dyed our hair bright neon green and we even dyed our eyebrows. I had Warning signs on my ears and I was wearing my Warning shirt and I had my whole left arm covered with Green Day songs! There was that old "I did it my way" song, I think Billie might have been singing it. They opened with Nice Guys Finish Last. The crowd was so excited and there were so many people crowd surfing. It was great. Then they played Castaway. The crowd was moshing so hard and Billie was so wonderful. Then Billie put on a gorilla monster mask and started Longview, then he threw it off. It was a really long version and he was talking to us about something during Mike's bass solo. Somewhere during the show, I'm not sure when, but Billie stopped everything, shushed us, and yelled for the mother fucking lights to be turned out...all of them. He asked us "Anybody out there want to play a game?" He got a huge flashlight and shined it on the crowd and we did the wave. Then they played Welcome to Paradise and afterwards Billie asked us if we wanted to hear a story. Most of the crowd wanted to but Billie was like "Oh fuck you, it's my show and this isn't a fucking democracy anymore anyway, thanks to President Bush. Yeah, let's hear it for him" and the crowd was booing and stuff. So he told us a story about when he was in Dublin, Ireland 4 days ago. He continued to say that he woke up naked one morning and he was drunk. He went to his suitcase and noticed that all his clothes were wet. So he tells us, "So I turned to Adrienne, yeah Adrienne my wonderful wife (I screamed here) and I asked her if she knew what happened. She said no. So I figured I must have spilled something in my drink (the crowd laughed) -- aww shit I'm drunk now too. (The crowd laughed again and Mike was making fun of him) I was screaming so loud "I love you Billie!!!" that he yelled at me to shut the fuck up, didn't I have any respect?, it was great. "You guys will just have to bear with me. I was so drunk, that I fucking pissed in my suitcase the night before!...(I think he was just sorta rambling now)...which leads me to this conclusion:" He hummed the violin on Hitchin' A Ride and started playing. During Mike's solo he asked us to sing along the chorus with him, he told us to count 1, 2, 1 2 3 4! SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That was so fucking awesome when he screamed Shite!! Then he played Basket Case and everyone was moshing, people were landing on my head but I didn't care, I was moshing so hard and I was still in the front, and there was no one but me and Michael with green hair, so I KNOW he saw us because I was screaming and moshing so much. Then Tre got off the drums and did All By Myself. Of course he changed "Oh yeah did I mention" to "I had an erection!!!" and it was obvious he was real proud of himself that he could play the guitar, he did really good too. He was grinning so big, and I could see it. I mean, I was in the front row, hehehe. Then Billie sat down at the drums and suprised me. They then played Dominated Love Slave and Tre was really Cool (hahaha) and the solo was great. Billie was really good at the drums too. Afterwards Billie was like "That's what KROQ needs more of, a little country. I'm getting tired of Limp Bizkit. Oh but don't tell Fred Durst that he'll kick my ass" and that was fucking great. The crowd laughed at that. Then they played Brain Stew and it's so obvious that Caca Roach ripped them off in their stupid song Last Resort, they were on right before Green Day too, and so around the end of Brain Stew Billie sung a litle of Last Resort and looked at us all like "hahaha they suck" and it was so fucking awesome, everyone around me hated Caca Roach and this girl near me was throwing cups and my pen and ice and shit at the main singer, I don't know what his name is and I don't care either. I was flipping him off and he flipped me off too but I just said fuck you, you fucking suck, go try to make up your own songs instead of ripping off Green Day and the girl near me was flipping him off the whole time and he was like I'm going to break your fucking finger!!!!! aww it was so great. But anyway thats not Green Day. Of course Billie played Jaded afterwards and I think I almost passed out from singing and jumping so much, or maybe it was the smell of my hair dye. Then they played King For A Day next I think. Wow, that was so great. Billie got a fake crown on his head and one of the trombone players wore a tutu and the other had an orange jumpsuit like Slipknot and they both had gas masks. One other had a Green Day tank top and a huge beer belly or something, I think he was also wearing a tutu. Billie called one of them over and it danced around. One of the guitarists had a neon green affro. At the end Billie was taunting us with the crown and he threw it but at the last second it went backwards onto the stage and he laughed at us! Then Tre started the beginning of Geek Stink Breath and Billie said this is a new song and they played Warning. I held up the logo to Billie on my shirt. Then they played Minority. It was great. People were freaking out. During the real hard part Billie stopped playing altogether, I don't think Mike was playing either. I forget what Billie did, that may have been when he climbed on top of the amp and shot us with a water gun, or one of the many times he shushed us and then told us to fucking yell, or otherwise cussed at us. Or he might have run around the stage going HEEYYYYYYYYYYYY HO!!! I remember once he said HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY HOOOOOOO! I turned around to yell something at Michael a few times and he was doing it the whole time, that was a long ass hey ho. Then they started up the song again and when it came to the part where Tre is supposed to play the accordion, Billie pulled out his harmonica and used that instead, that was "quaint". Then they played it more and Billie threw down his guitar and it broke. It was a copy (I sure hope) of Blue. Again, I was so close I could read what the stickers said on it. He didn't do the little outro. Then Tre jumped up on top of the drums and started ripping them apart and throwing them around. Then one of the guitarists started playing Macy's Day Parade and all I can say about that is that it was beautiful. Billie really got into it. He was closing his eyes and leaning into the microphone. Some guy standing next to me got out his Zippo and was waving it around and I raised my hands up next to it and that was on camera. I looked around behind me and I saw a lot of Zippos. Then suddenly it was over!!!! I don't remember how it ended, Mike just threw out the rest of the guitar picks and I guess while we were fighting over them they left. Michael got yellow Warning one but I didn't get one. One landed near me but I couldn't get it because it was on the other side of the gate. I was screaming at an usher loud enough to get his attention and I was willing to pay all my money, $12, to get it and I was like I'll give you 12 fucking bucks, please give it to me. And the usher was like don't cuss at me and I said I'm sorry and he gave it to me. It was green and it had a head (Mike's?) with a caterpillar body and it wasn't what I wanted so I traded with Michael. It was over though. I was so shocked that the only thing I could think of was that this was without a doubt, singled out, the coolest fucking show ever!"

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