Show Notes: Billie Joe Armstrong: "One of my favorite shows on the first tour was Victoria, BC in 1990. Played with a band called Onion House. Victoria had a great music scene."

Aaron Cometbus: "Worried about customs, but got through without any problems. Played frisbee and an incredible show. Experienced different cultural muances like different cereal and gum."

tom ass: "Green Day in Victoria about 1990, playing a community hall. Green Day was silk screening shirts in the parking lot, and letting them dry for an hour, before selling them inside the show... At the end of the night absolutely everyone was covered in green ink and the Green Day shirts no longer said Green Day."

Jay Brown: "Working stage security the first time Green Day ever came through town, at the Big Fernwood. I was on stage and all these people were jumping up and stagediving. I didn't want them to jump off the monitors, but I wasn't going to be a dick and try to keep them from having fun. So I started putting my hands together and giving them all lifts off the stage as they were jumping. Well, it'd been going on for a while and I started not really paying too much attention. I was having a good time as well and watching the band. This guy comes up so I just put my hands out and he went up. I looked up and buddy weighed a good 250. I was on my knees on the edge of the stage at the time. He came down right on top of me. My whole body went over backwards but he was still on my legs, so I bent at a right angle, backwards. The back of my head connected with the side of the stage and KO'd me. I woke up on the floor, and I couldn't feel anything in my whole body. Couldn't even move a toe or a finger. The band stopped playing and somebody phoned an ambulance. I was freaking out because I was sure I'd broken my back and that was it, I was in a wheelchair forever. They took me to the ER, and did a shitload of tests on me. It turned out I'd pinched a nerve in my lower back and got feeling back about ten hours later. But that was it for the show, I managed to get Green Day's first show in Victoria shut down halfway through their set."

gdtourvan1990: "Saturday June 23: We started the day early to catch the 7am ferry from Seattle to Victoria, BC. Yes, the tour is going international today, but on the way to the ferry I was rear ended in a three Ford pileup. OUCH! The boys were OK, but we missed the ferry. They literally dropped the gate in front of me. Not to be deterred, we ran up to Anacortes, WA to catch the next ferry and we were the first ones aboard the boat, so I got to ride up front, but no pictures of that. While on the boat to Canada, the boys all put on clean white dress shirts and knit caps. Mike’s girlfriend had given him a bible to take on tour, so that came in handy too, they displayed it prominently on my dashboard. The trick here was to convince Canadian Customs that #greenday was a #christianrock band coming to Canada to spread the good word, not an #eastbaypunk band coming to #fuckshitup in Canada. It worked! All #cbsa wanted to know was whether we were transporting any fresh fruit. The Victoria show was at the Fernwood Community Centre and it was the largest show yet. There was a huge pit and lots of stage diving, but, right in the middle of the set, a local punk named Jay Brown landed on the floor in a heap and couldn’t move. The show ended and an ambulance was called (Also an Econoline!)

Opening Band(s): Onion House, Soul Charge

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