Green Day Hometown Tour - 924 Gilman / The Tracks At Christie Road / Where Dookie Was Recorded
A visit to the East Bay Area of California where Green Day got their start . Covered a lot of ground ...everything from first performance , where they recorded Dookie , the historic 924 Gilman , finding Christie Road and more .
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Transcript
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today's adventure brings us to Northern
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California to the stomping grounds and
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the birthplace of one of my favorite
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bands heading to the East Bay
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welcome everyone Adam the wound here in
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1994 I first saw Green Bay twice once at
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the beginning of that year in a very
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small venue with a hundred people but
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then six months later in a concert field
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five thousand-plus
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cheering them on after the immediate
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success of Dookie and have been
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interested to say the least in their
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music ever says inspired me to pick up
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the bass guitar start playing and
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eventually turned into me being in bands
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that toured as well now while I do like
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their entire catalog I have to say I
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hold a special place in my heart for the
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early years I'm very excited about
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seeing these locations I'm inviting you
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to join me shall you
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for a while they were living in this
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abandoned warehouse which is now an art
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studio this was the inspiration to write
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the song welcome to paradise and if you
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read the lyrics to the chorus it kind of
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describes the neighborhood the area of
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West Oakland
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pay attention to the crack streets and
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the broken homes
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some call it slums some call it nice
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welcome to paradise first impression
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doesn't look too bad but I heard in an
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interview that after nightfall it's a
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little worse you can see downtown off on
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the horizon but I'm heading north just a
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bit I have to admit it's kind of weird
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seeing Gilman Street on a sign in real
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life on the freeway there it is a very
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historic place corner of Gilman and 8th
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pop punk history located here is this
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the back door that he met Tim from
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Operation Ivy in rancid and this is Alex
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by the way he was in a band with me for
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years and years and now he lives up in
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the Bay Area and he also his band played
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here at Gilman there's a story and greed
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that used to cover an operation IV song
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knowledge and the story that Billy Joe
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tells is that right here when he was
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very young he met some of the members
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from Operation Ivy and they were very
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cool to him and they said hey just sneak
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in the back door and he never forgot
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that and he always played their song for
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years and years and years in concert on
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the opposite side of the building is a
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canning shop but on the front side is
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924 they call it 924 Gilman because
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that's the address here on Gilman Street
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it's more or less the CBGB's of Northern
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California except there's no CBGB's
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anymore but this place still remains in
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typical punk rock fashion the windows
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have not been cleaned off they're just
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spray-painted up and down years of
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graffiti have been left here people
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leaving their mark outside the front
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door
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like college radio station
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Rene dental benefits for that like
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like says they're like sweet children
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the dream days originally called sweet
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children till they change their name
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this is the coming attractions coming
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band board right now the door's locked
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so it can't go inside but through there
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is the stage and here's like a little
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bulletin board here on the left as well
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here where there's someone just like
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gonna taking like you know taking of
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cash give me like the membership card
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you get a membership card when you're in
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there they can't you can't go in without
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a membership card I mean like it's 2
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bucks so much once you get one you're
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gonna be here like pretty much right
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here is like the snack bar area the
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second isolated like that or there's
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like a wall the other side of that then
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there's the big show
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so where would the stage be in
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correlation to where we're at you go
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inside the door and on the stage of them
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right here in the corner pretty much
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there's like a diagonal right here
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is it the same stage it's always been
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here so right over in that next to the
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open door where the canning supplies are
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the cross streets of Parker and 10th
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Street is a studio at least for now only
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for a very short time because it's about
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to close which is a shame because it has
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a rich history including the 1994 album
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Dookie was recorded right behind those
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walls at least the back of the stop sign
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is adorned with other band stickers
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prominently that'll probably everybody
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stick around for some time they're not
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gonna rent this up for something else if
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I was turning to condos eventually or
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something so one day you could rent an
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apartment or a condo of this famous
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recording studio literally view
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something you think people show up and
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like grab parts of the little mementos
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those souvenirs guess that makes us what
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other what other bands recorded their
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stuff here a job recorded do you hear at
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the same time rancid did up in the
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Wolves so that jawbreaker album was a
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bit 90s too so that was kind of the
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heyday of a lot of their stuff and they
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walked down in Missouri Leonard's right
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over there after they were done
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recording to go get a nice cold
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since I'm here never hurts to check and
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see if yeah that's locked
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I see if someone was there with they're
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not documenting the moment correctly
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with that sunburst bursting through the
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trees
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nice what happened to here at the back
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of your shirt there it's like you were
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like if I completely shredded
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you're like mauled by something the bar
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you work out there's like werewolves
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coming in looks like a looks like a
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werewolf yeah he got me there and got me
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here you know yeah I'd be careful around
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the East but Operation Ivy one pinhead
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gunpowder should Billy's other band know
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Green Day in there so many records it's
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hard too hard to keep track this is the
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new stuff he's doing yeah it's kind of
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like a more mellow mellow type rock
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style right
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reminds me more like warning a warning
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style yeah that's a no I'm speaking of
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there's a pic from that particular tour
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and this one is two-sided you flip it
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over you got the heart hang grenade
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right there left that area and making my
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way up the road a bit just a few miles
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traffic is not going much quicker than a
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crawl best I can tell the old facade has
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been torn down from the high school a
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lot of construction happening down there
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but in 1990 both high school students
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Mike and Billy were rocking out in the
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courtyard area which would have been if
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I peek up over the fence line located
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right down there all the other students
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just milling around a few people were
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watching them but the majority were just
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kind of roaming around the property not
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realizing that in four short years that
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band would be on stage at Woodstock as
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you can see there is a major over
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all happening it's totally different
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darkness is starting to rear its head
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the Sun is setting a pond this
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relatively unused Road very beat-up and
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broken-down seen better days
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and just as the lyrics States you see
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the hills from afar that can only mean
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one thing I am standing on Christie Road
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a hangout spot worthy enough to have a
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song written about it on the album
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kerplunk which I have the cover tattooed
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on my arm this is cool not gonna lie
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this is pretty dang cool I just got a
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bug in my mouth I never thought I would
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be standing at this spot after listening
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to that song thousands of times through
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my life I'm here take me to the tracks
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at Christie Road I made it
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not bad at all
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then looking for a street sign
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designating the precise location seems
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as if all the signs have either been
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stolen or removed pretty happy this
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place exists in real life not a made-up
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story not something off the top of his
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head a real-life experience that he put
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on paper and wrote a song about and all
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these years later
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anyone can come out here drive or walk
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along the pavement look at the train
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tracks it doesn't go very far and it's
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connected to a very busy thoroughfare
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relatively unknown to pasture buyers but
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to those who do know is a special place
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after a bit of wandering a confirmation
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has just happened
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I know it's getting dark and I should
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wrap this up but not before seeing
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what's left of Rods Hickory pit
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which used to sit right here where this
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gas station now is
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1987 October 17th the very first
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performance by sweet children which they
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changed their name later to Green Day
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happened at this very spot where Billy
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Joe Armstrong's mother worked as a
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waitress
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how freaking cool is that that's going
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