September 26, 2005
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The Daily News
Don't wanna be an American idiot
One nation controlled by the media.
Information age of hysteria
It's calling out to idiot America...
---Greenday, American Idiot
1 I walk alone.
2 Wow.
3 There's a reason these guys are famous.
4 I had the pleasure of working the GreenDay concert Saturday at SBC Park.
5 It was the busiest, most insanely fun show I've worked in years.
"Dookie [a breakthru CD] was like being on a carnival ride that whips
you round and round real fast. It was too much..."
--Bassist Mike Dirnt
6 My friend Bill, who worked with me selling shirts inside the exclusive Club Level at SBC, laughed when I told him I had told students that I worked the concert as a second income. He has this thick New Yawk accent, and he just laughed. "Yaw STOODENTS? Yaw STOODENTS? You let them know that yaw a kahhhhnie?" Haha!!!
7 He once said, "Do you realize that what we do is we sell useless trinkets to people who have WAY too much money to spend on them?"
8 So yeah, I guess you could say that I'm a "kahnie". That's "carny", as in carnival barker to you, yo!!! haha!!! But what a fun job, which I've been doing since I was 17, just around 10 or so years ago...
9 Actually, we just have a retail biz that makes us a ton. GreenDay proved to be superstars on Saturday. At around 4:00 in the afternoon, when all was calm, and a bird would fly from the upper portions of the stadium down to the stage, the band came out and played for around an hour, and really had fun. The stadium was empty, and we had a chance to listen. Pure rock 'n' roll. Pounding, soulful, amazing. I think they have a marginal fan who finally just saw them for the superstars they truly are.
10 I'm guessing that GreenDay purists feel they've sold out. Well, if being on a level with such pantheon bands as The Who, The Rolling Stones, Queen, and U2 is selling out, then let them sell out. They just lashed, rocked, laughed, and kicked ass. Period. Billy Joe Armstrong is now officially one of the greatest rockers in history.
11 I won't even pretend to say I saw the whole concert, because I haven't been THAT busy in years. On the way outta there, I popped American Idiot into my TOONDRA and flew down the freeway like a punk version of Indiana Jones. Just amazing stuff. It made me realize that these guys are icons, and poets, and that they're REAL.
12 Long live GreenDay.
13 When the lights went down in the City, I was there. And yes, they saluted Journey.
14 Love these guys.
15 Peace.
I'm walking down the line
that divides me somewhere in my mind
on the border line of the edge
and where I walk alone
read between the lines...
~h~
Morning videocourtesy of me.
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