Show Notes: John Kiffmeyer: "Fuck that! That fuckin' hippy poser [Jim Morrison], fuckin' paid off by the CIA, man! 'We'd like to dedicate our whole set to Jim Morrison,' that's this band we played with in Cedar Rapids, Iowa."

"Sara, Denise, and Maggie got hold of Green Day by calling the phone number on an Isocracy song [Funky Brakewire]. Billie Joe showed up with only one shoe, Jason Hartman drove him all over Cedar Falls and Waterloo to buy a pair of Chucks."

gdtourvan1990: "Monday July 2: The sun rose on the prairie and we were still parked on the side of the road. Iowa is a big flat place. Everything seems to extend to the horizon. It’s sort of like being at sea (I’ve done a little time at sea on this tour). As we rolled in to Cedar Falls IA, mid-morning, Billie looked down at his feet and noticed he was missing a shoe, so we spent some time driving around looking for a replacement. I think he settled on a pair of knockoff Chuck Taylor’s from Walmart which he promptly spray painted yellow. He promised to re-pay the band fund when we got home. The venue was the historic Island Park Beach Club on the Cedar River. It had a dock off the back and as soon as John jumped in the water a local kid said, “Dude, you don’t want to swim in there, it’s polluted!” Sadly, the original beach club building was destroyed in the 2008 Midwest Floods. There was a pretty good turnout for a Monday night, but then again, this was the most exciting thing happening for hundreds of miles around. The opening band was fronted by a skinhead frying on acid who announced “We’d like to dedicate this set to Jim Morrison of the Doors” After the show, we said farewell to the Admiral guys as we were headed north and they were headed east, but this wasn’t the last time we’d see them on this tour. This was also the night the guys unceremoniously asked another band to stop following us. I overheard #aaroncometbus telling them, “tonight, we’re going that way and you’re going that way” as he pointed in the opposite direction. Late that night we headed north to Minneapolis. John and Aaron took the night shift and after a late-night breakfast and a pot of coffee we were on the road. But soon, things weren’t going well. Aaron fell asleep first and then John; and just as we were crashing into a #cornfield at the end of a long offramp they looked at each other and cried, “Decaf!"

Billie Joe Armstrong: "Skinhead Jim Morrison band were wearing black arm bands in honor of Jim Morrison’s death"

Opening Band(s): The Stench, Mustard Seed, Gear Head

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