Show Notes: On October 9th, 2024, a Reddit user claimed that Green Day opened with "Ha Ha You're Dead" and did not play "Maria". Although not impossible, this claim has never been made anywhere else online in the 22 years since this show took place. If anyone who attended this show can either corroborate or deny this claim, please contact us (GreenDayLive.fm)

yitbosaz: "I saw them in 2002 in Salt Lake City (Pop Disaster tour with Blink 182), and they opened the show with Ha Ha You're Dead. It was before Shenanigans came out, so I'd never heard it, and I thought they were saying 'A holiday, a holiday, a holiday' and was singing along by the end of the song. The album came out two months later and I was excited that the song was on it, and it's been my favorite track on the album ever since. That could possibly be the only time it was ever played, as I haven't been able to find any recordings, and they had been opening with 'Maria' for most of that tour... I know Maria was the usual opener on the tour, and the rest is probably correct but on Setlist FM, they just have the same list for every show. I wish I had a recording to prove, but I knew the song Maria, they did not play it at all that night. Being years before YouTube, social media, phone videos, etc, I was all over the internet trying to track down the song I thought was called 'A Holiday' until Shenanigans came out. I thought it was probably a cover at the time, so I was searching other punk bands they had covered"

Scott Iwasaki: " The better the bands, the harder they work. At least that's what happened last night at the Blink 182/Green Day/Jimmy Eat World concert in the E Center. When Jimmy Eat World opened the night - which will go down in history as the Pop Disaster Tour - the energy in the air could have powered a small city. Never has Green Day played a more explosive set. And it had to, just to keep the momentum rolling. Hailing from Berkeley, Calif., Green Day - guitarist/vocalist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Tre Cool - took the audience on a quirky trip that included some heavy punk rock and ska-punk anthems. Basket Case and Welcome to Paradise bounced the audience in the seats and had the general admission crowd surfing and moshing. Then, with a smile and little punk-rock attitude, Armstrong announced he needed three volunteers to take over Green Day instruments during a rousing cover of Operation Ivy's Knowledge. Three amateur Salt Lakers jumped on stage and took over the drum, bass and guitar, while Armstrong sang the final verse. Armstrong was so impressed with the local guitarist that he actually gave him a guitar as a souvenir. The set ended with Cool stage-diving into his drum set and Dirnt smashing his bass. The encore featured a solo Armstrong singing Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)."

Opening Band(s): Blink-182, Jimmy Eat World

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Tour Statistics: Pop Disaster tour
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