The GD Concert in Hartford CT.

Anyone go and get pics? I really wanna see what happened because I didn't get to go I tried to win tickets on kiss 95.7, KC 101.3 and 96.5 TIC... BUT I NEVER WON!!! so blegh...

just post pictures if you think I'm annoying or if you love me

I'll post my stage pic once i scan it for you

yay!! i heart you!!

I think I jus trealized something... you can't take pictures in that concert can you...?

aww fuck... I mean fudgcicles... lol

I got a few pictures from my camera phone. They aren't great quality, but check them out:

http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/aht9/hartford/index.html

rewguy:

I got a few pictures from my camera phone. They aren't great quality, but check them out:

http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/aht9/hartford/index.html

I love you - those pics are great!!

its taking forever to scan my pic from when i was on stage - the person who has the scanner forgot to do it grr

Review in today's paper:

http://www.ctnow.com/music/reviews/hce-greendayrev0911.artsep11,0,3316219.story

Green Day Has Stadium Sound
September 11, 2005
By KENNETH PARTRIDGE, Special to the Courant

Before Green Day took the stage at the Hartford Civic Center Friday night
and began blasting away like a three-barreled musical confetti cannon, the
band's pre-show warmup tape featured two songs that set the tone perfectly
for what was to follow: the Village People's "YMCA" and the Ramones'
"Blitzkrieg Bop."

Therewere elements of both selections in Green Day's performance, which
included plenty of stripped-bare punk songs, a la the Ramones, as well as
audience-participation gimmicks, pyrotechnics bursts, and shimmering lights
- things typically reserved for more frivolous pop acts trying to work up an
audience.

This unlikely marriage of punk rock and stadium rock is one the trio from
Berkley, Calif., manages quite well these days, thanks especially to material
from its latest (and greatest) album, "American Idiot." Opening with the disc's
title track, the band more than matched the mega-wattage it took to power its
giant lighting rigs.

Following with the cleverly arranged, multipart "Jesus of Suburbia" and hard-hitting
"Holiday" - prefaced by lead singer/guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong as being
anti-war, not anti-American - the group kept kids in all corners of the sold-out
coliseum on their feet, fists in the air.

The "Idiot" songs went over so well, in fact, it was almost a letdown when the
band abandoned the album after "Are We Waiting" - a sort of prom theme encouraging
listeners to slow dance with their own insecurities - to run through older tunes
such as "Longview," "Basket Case," and "2000 Light Years Away."

On "Knowledge," the band turned to the most novel part of its spectacle-laced
show: picking kids from the crowd to play guitar, bass, and drums. Perhaps signaling
bad news for Hartford's music scene in years to come, the chosen bass player and
drummer (the latter eventually hauled away by Green Day drummer Tre Cool) struggled
through the song's simple progression, leading Armstrong to dub them "the Disasters."

Back behind its instruments, Green Day saved two of its finest performances for
the encore: "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" and a surprisingly non-silly cover of
Queen's "We are the Champions." Though the songs offer entirely different sentiments,
nearly everyone in the audience sang along to both as if they were written
specifically about their own lives.

Armstrong ended with a solo "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)," lending further
credence to what the previous two hours had already gone a long way to prove:
Green Day, for better, not for worse, has become U2 for the PlayStation generation.

gday71:

Review in today's paper:

http://www.ctnow.com/music/reviews/hce-greendayrev0911.artsep11,0,3316219.story

Green Day Has Stadium Sound
September 11, 2005
By KENNETH PARTRIDGE, Special to the Courant

Before Green Day took the stage at the Hartford Civic Center Friday night
and began blasting away like a three-barreled musical confetti cannon, the
band's pre-show warmup tape featured two songs that set the tone perfectly
for what was to follow: the Village People's "YMCA" and the Ramones'
"Blitzkrieg Bop."

Therewere elements of both selections in Green Day's performance, which
included plenty of stripped-bare punk songs, a la the Ramones, as well as
audience-participation gimmicks, pyrotechnics bursts, and shimmering lights
- things typically reserved for more frivolous pop acts trying to work up an
audience.

This unlikely marriage of punk rock and stadium rock is one the trio from
Berkley, Calif., manages quite well these days, thanks especially to material
from its latest (and greatest) album, "American Idiot." Opening with the disc's
title track, the band more than matched the mega-wattage it took to power its
giant lighting rigs.

Following with the cleverly arranged, multipart "Jesus of Suburbia" and hard-hitting
"Holiday" - prefaced by lead singer/guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong as being
anti-war, not anti-American - the group kept kids in all corners of the sold-out
coliseum on their feet, fists in the air.

The "Idiot" songs went over so well, in fact, it was almost a letdown when the
band abandoned the album after "Are We Waiting" - a sort of prom theme encouraging
listeners to slow dance with their own insecurities - to run through older tunes
such as "Longview," "Basket Case," and "2000 Light Years Away."

On "Knowledge," the band turned to the most novel part of its spectacle-laced
show: picking kids from the crowd to play guitar, bass, and drums. Perhaps signaling
bad news for Hartford's music scene in years to come, the chosen bass player and
drummer (the latter eventually hauled away by Green Day drummer Tre Cool) struggled
through the song's simple progression, leading Armstrong to dub them "the Disasters."

Back behind its instruments, Green Day saved two of its finest performances for
the encore: "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" and a surprisingly non-silly cover of
Queen's "We are the Champions." Though the songs offer entirely different sentiments,
nearly everyone in the audience sang along to both as if they were written
specifically about their own lives.

Armstrong ended with a solo "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)," lending further
credence to what the previous two hours had already gone a long way to prove:
Green Day, for better, not for worse, has become U2 for the PlayStation generation.

true that... we were a distaster..

But the concert was fucking amazing

Yay!!! Pictures!!

Oh I can wait MySoulIsASecretInMyThroat... just don't forget because then I will cry

lol heh...

Did anyone else get any pictures?

I would also like to see that polaroid from the girl who played bass.

rewguy:

Did anyone else get any pictures?

I would also like to see that polaroid from the girl who played bass.

Im getting it scanned by my friend, since my scanner doesn't work. I should have it soon.

Finally, here it is!

and ont eh right is my pick!

YAY!! PICTURE TIME!!!

OMG!!! I KNOW YOU!!! I SERIOUSLY!! DO!!













lol i'm kidding. But I like that outfit! That's awesome dood!!

EternallyYours-yah right-:

YAY!! PICTURE TIME!!!

OMG!!! I KNOW YOU!!! I SERIOUSLY!! DO!!













lol i'm kidding. But I like that outfit! That's awesome dood!!

lol thanks, everyone noticed me after the show becasue of those socks and my tie and my skirt. lol
and you can't see it, but Im wearing Green converses.

omg, i went to that concert! omg MySoulIsASecretInMyThroat you were so lucky!! but i officially think that you are the coolest person ever
i think that it's so funny cuz when you went on stage and ran over to billie and kissed him, my friend was saying the whole ride home how awesome you were for doing that.

September has passed....:

omg, i went to that concert! omg MySoulIsASecretInMyThroat you were so lucky!! but i officially think that you are the coolest person ever
i think that it's so funny cuz when you went on stage and ran over to billie and kissed him, my friend was saying the whole ride home how awesome you were for doing that.

hahaha - thats exactly what my friends said, lol
btw, my name is Christine

awesome, my name is nikki... as it says in my sig. lol.

September has passed....:

awesome, my name is nikki... as it says in my sig. lol.

lol

so, let me ask... how did it feel to kiss billie?

September has passed....:

so, let me ask... how did it feel to kiss billie?

like kissing... um.... GOD!
lol

Hey! I was there! So of course I saw you

I couldn't tell if you kissed him on the mouth or the cheek. So...which was it?