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Show Notes: Boston Phoenix: "He let us know that his band's first visit to New England was a Providence gig at a skate park."
Aaron Cometbus: "3 days of wild abandon, drunken stupor and Saran Man. Woken up on the 3rd day by the roar of chaisaw + chickens in the bed. Great clam cakes, fried squid, and canoening, too!!!"
Billie Joe Armstrong: "We played in Rhode Island at this skate ramp. I think one of kids who ran, his father was in the mob, because there were all these kids drinking 40s outside, and the cops drove by without saying a word."
Damon: "And a shout-out to my Rhode Island sister, Josephine. You were probably too young to see Green Day at the Skate Hut in Olneyville ... but they haven't changed a bit (other than the stage is a little bigger and Tre's dad isn't driving their tour van). There's a lot of bands that walk in their footsteps, but none of them would be here without the relentless touring those guys did for years."
The Dan92SLC: "Green Day has been around since 1988. They were touring nationally within a year or two. They first played the legendary Skate Hut here in Providence around '90 or '91."
Benjamin Goulet: "In the early 1990s, Smith co-founded the now-defunct Providence skate park The Skate Hut (formally located at 7 Dike St.), a huge mill complex that housed a massive vertical ramp. It was at 'The Hut' where the Loud Ones, in its second incarnation, honed their chops, sharing stages with then-unknown bands Green Day and Jawbreaker. But even as the underground culture that Smith helped create began to explode into the mainstream, he chose to live on its fringes, opening a tattoo shop in Newport and keeping things simple."
Slapguts: "Saw these guys at a skate park where I grew up in 1990. I was 13, and used to ride my BMX bike down to the punk shows. Saw a ton of great bands, for around $3 each. Green Day was one of them. After the show, everyone was just kinda hanging around, the drummer asked if he could ride my bike. Crashed on the half pipe, and gave it back. They were going to run to the store for more beer, and Billie asked if I wanted anything. I gave him $5 for a 2-liter of Jolt Cola, and a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle pudding pie. They got in their van, and never came back. Fuck Green Day, and fuck Billie Joe. He owes 13 year old punk rock me $5."
John Kiffmeyer: "Well, we drove into Rhode Island, and... raged!! No, it was really funny, because these guys in Rhode Island basically bit off more than they could chew. We played this really cool show and the scene in Providence seems like it's pretty good. We played this place called Under The Hut. It's under this big skateboard warehouse and it's seriously, totally, cool, it looks like a dungeon in there. There should be people strapped to the walls and torches and shit. Literally, you have to go through this big ass door to get into where the shows are. It was GREAT! And after the show, they go, 'Well, here's your money. Oh, we made this much, but we're going to pay you what you asked for anyway,' and next, 'Oh, we took the rest of the money and bought beer.' Right? So we get to their place, where we're staying - some kid's parents' house - and all these guys are like, basically passed out and GREEN DAY was just frickin'... We had played TWO gigs that night. We played Connecticut and then we drove to Rhode Island and then we partied all night. Okay? In the morning, GREEN DAY was still sitting at the dinner table in that house drinking beer and everybody else in Rhode Island - all the punks - were passed out. They didn't know what they were getting themselves into."
gdtourvan1990: "Tuesday July 17: John and Aaron took the night shift out of Harrisburg and at a sunrise gas stop handed things over to Sean with a brief check of the map. “Whatever you do, don’t go through Manhattan”, was the last thing said as they climbed in the bunk. Well sure enough there was a bit of a panic when we arrived at the mouth of the Holland Tunnel in the middle of morning rush hour! Fortunately the toll was on $3. Canal Street was a wild place and it took a bit of concentration to get across town and headed toward The Bridges Cafe in East Windsor, CT for a matinee show with fellow East Bay band Neurosis. But we weren’t able to stick around to see them, because we had another show that night at the Skate Hut, 7 Dike Street in Providence RI. While the Skate Hut is gone, the building is still there just as ominous as it was that night. It was a huge indoor skatepark and the band played in the basement which looked like a dungeon.There were a lot of kids there that night, but it seemed more of them were there to skate than to see Green Day.It was rumored the building was owned by the Mafia and so the police never came by and the kids could do whatever they wanted.There is no remaining evidence of The Bridges Cafe. Not even an address. But it appears the actual bridges were almost washed out in the hurricane of 1938. Five states, Two shows, 400 miles of driving; an exciting day to say the least."
Sean Hughes: "The indoor mafia owner skate park was one of my favorite places!"
Opening Band(s): Loud Ones