Thirty Years Later - My Memories Of Green Day Dookie & Revisiting The Orlando Punk Rock Locations
30 Years Of Dookie
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of this it is Monday
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February 5th 2024 I'm out running some
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errands today I'm in downtown
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Orlando and first stop is right here at
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the Ace Cafe a place that used to before
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it was the Ace Cafe was 8 seconds a
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country fiend bar but before that I
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remember it as the edge inside also the
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edge shed right next to it and where I'm
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staying standing currently was the edge
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concert field where in the mid90s mid to
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late '90s I saw a Cavalcade of bands
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right here now this will probably not be
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the only stop that I that I go to today
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but starting here right off of I4 in
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fact this section is completely
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different than it was in the 9s when I
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used to go to a bunch of concerts in
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fact the parking area used to be right
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over there where the linkx bus stop is
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and this building was not here that
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building was there and this building has
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always been here and I believe it was
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also a newspaper at one point so I'm
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just going to walk around the perimeter
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of the now
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closed property just see what I can find
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and see where the day
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leads and I'm inviting
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you to join me it's good to have you
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here CH I've stopped here before in the
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past it's been a while and I've kind of
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peppered in some facts of me being here
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my younger years I thought since it's
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the 30th Anniversary the other day was
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the 30th anniversary of duky the Green
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Day album that really kind of broke
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mainstream Punk to the masses if you
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will you know some say it did some say
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it didn't but a lot of people got to
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know about the genre because of that and
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then Offspring
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rancid all that was kind of around the
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same time frame a little bit after that
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but Green Day Dookie really put things
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on the map with the general population
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and consensus and right here Trey cool
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Mike
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dirt Billy Joe Armstrong
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performed stage was right there where
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those planners are almost where the
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concrete changes this was all dirt at
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that time saw a lot of other bands here
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panta typo
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negative Stone top of Pilots sound
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garden took place in here on the on the
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Edge at the edge outdoor stage Offspring
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on the smash tour I also saw Offspring a
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few years before that at the edge shed
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which was adjacent to the edge which is
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now the Ace Cafe The Edge shed was over
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where those tennis courts are over there
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which are sitting there empty and
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abandoned as
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well I'll kind of walk over there and
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check that
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out also the 1995 Warp Tour the first
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Warp Tour took place here but also two
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days after it was here in
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Orlando that that Trek of tour dates
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ended up over at the Tampa fairgrounds I
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went to both of those I went to this one
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and to Tampa separated by two days in
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1995 quick sand plade seaweed orange9
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mm
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away and at that time there were only
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two stages
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there were only two stages at the The
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Warp Tour
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then there was the inside stage and
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there was the outside
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stage which was the edge shed which was
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right there I said it was the tennis
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courts but now that I'm over here
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looking at it was technically right
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there in that little grassy area used to
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have the Orlando Scot Punk awards were
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in
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there I saw some bands here performing
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there used to be like a little uh some
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makeshift stage here on this little
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where this porch area is this actually
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been extended since the '90s
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saw hag fish in
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here saw the Ramones in
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here gosh how many other B I saw whole
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in here the infamous Courtney Love slap
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she had to come back for and go to the
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Orlando Courthouse it was on the other
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side of this building and went to court
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there was a whole lawsuit over it was I
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was at all those
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shows Bad Religion in here unwritten law
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gutter
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mouth they were on the first Warp Tour
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and ended up joining that band years
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later but right here when it was
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interesting when Green Day played here
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they played here twice in
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'94 in fact I saw them at the station in
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Fern Park which was that direction about
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I don't know 10 miles they played there
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in a you know two or three hundred
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person venue a bar and that was about
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two to three weeks before Long View hit
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MTV in fact Billy
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Joe mentioned that they had just filmed
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a video for MTV and got a lot of booze
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from all the punk rockers in the crowd
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because you know MTV sellout that whole
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thing worked out pretty good for Green
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Day they they they've done really really
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good the career just dropped a new album
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saviors which is pretty good been listen
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to it in the car still like green day
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even though I think after warning the
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game the the band pretty much kind of
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changed their style a lot but they still
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still pretty good big old school Green
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Day fan so I'm glad I got to saw them
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pre the dookie hype even though dookie
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had just been released but they played
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right here and then not long after that
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The Offspring played here I can still
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remember the entire crowd jumping up and
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down when they were playing self-esteem
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the entire crowd like you know a few
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thousand people here just hopping and I
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was one of them right up there in
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the in the old pit
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there anyway just kind of reminiscing a
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little bit I was in the area talked
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about some of this before
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but wanted to stop off and just see now
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that I know the the place has been
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officially
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closed I'd love to get inside here I'd
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love to get inside here but I don't know
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if that's going to happen and as I'm
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standing here I'm starting remember
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other bands that I saw I saw tulle here
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on the undertoe
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tour which was their first full length
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album I believe they had one before that
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was like an EP but that was the first
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one that had sober on
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it they banned failure which great album
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failure I think Fantastic Planet was the
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album that they had out at that time
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amazing band it was failure in tool like
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Maynard was feeling a little ill that
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day so they only played about five or
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six
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songs but it happened right inside this
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little building right inside of inside
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of
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here and this was where the shed was the
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Orlando
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shed where I Saw Penny wise in The
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Offspring Offspring opened up for
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Pennywise that was uh late '93 early '94
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don't quote me on that and then not long
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after that The Offspring play here the
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stage was right here and it was The
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Offspring and then before The Offspring
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Guttermouth was the direct headline
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headliner or was the direct support for
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the headliner of The Offspring and then
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a Bouncing Souls before that and a local
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band Shyer which recently played a
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reunion show was out of town they played
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it at Will's Pub I believe really love
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Shyer they were just a great a great
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band
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so this was where the stage was right
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here people were climbing up the rafters
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now they imploded the Orlando arena the
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old Orlando arena used to be adjacent
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over that way so if you went under I4
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was the old Orlando arena of course
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Shaquille O'Neal in the early '90s
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played for the magic he's getting his
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number retired I believe in like a week
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or two over finally after decades
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they're going to they're going to put
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his number on display and going they're
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going to retire his number but the first
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concert I ever went to was not a punk
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rock show it was not a rock show it was
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not a country show it was Naughty by
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Nature right here I won tickets on XL
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106.7 went to the concert maybe 200
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people crammed in here inside the Ed
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shed not not even that far was the end
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of the building like maybe where those
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little first set of palm trees are stage
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was right where I'm standing right here
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Naughty by Nature was doing their thing
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Hip Hop hoay that whole song and
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Shaquille O'Neal as a rookie or first or
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second year maybe as first or second
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year he might not have been his rookie
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year but within the first couple years
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of him being with the magic shows up
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Slam Dancing around throwing people
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around in the pit and I remember
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everyone thinking oh that's that new guy
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for the magic of course that was before
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everyone had cell phones could take
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pictures and videos this probably would
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have gone viral at that point anyway
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just kind of remembering all the all
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those times really got to wonder what
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they're going to do with this building
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building I did get to get inside when it
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was the biker bar that was here last and
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it still kind of looked the same oh yeah
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also saw no effects in here like I
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jumped off the balcony or jumped off the
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railing inside it was a second floor
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basically the way it was is the stage
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you load in here the stage was right
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here then there was like a little like a
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little drop down that was like ground
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level where this is it was almost like a
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horseshoe like a little like downward
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pit area and then the upstairs was up
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there and there was some railings
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remember I jumped off there leaped off
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into the crowd during No
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Effects ah yes my rambunctious
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days Ace Cafe has permanently closed
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their doors but a pleasure serving
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Orlando for the past 6
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years yeah I kind of wish the doors were
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open I would love
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to get a look inside there but
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doesn't look like the doors are a
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jar they're just doors dang this brings
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back some memories you'd be able to walk
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in through here right over here was
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where the person would check your
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tickets ticket please you'd walk in then
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you take a right and go towards the
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stage area I mean this is bringing back
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memories from 30 years ago no wait yeah
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30 years it be 94 yeah 30 years
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I should have known that cuz I stated it
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was the 30th anniversary of of dookie
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that was around that same area same time
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wow you can see Ace Cafe put the little
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markings down here got the cones all set
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up this area over here I don't really
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remember what it was this was like
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separate off to the left of where you
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go in and like stamp your
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ticket maybe like another separate bar
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area this building's been here a long
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time even before it was the
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edge and the way the line would always
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go so the parking was over
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here there was different trees in fact I
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can remember one time there was a long
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there was a long que line for for people
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that were waiting to go in the edge for
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one of the multitude of shows I went to
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there was different trees out here and
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there was a tree here was not a palm
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tree these are newer palm trees but
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there was like a regular tree with
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branches someone climbed up in there and
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was just kind of like sitting there it's
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amazing what you remember after three
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decades there an unwritten law Scott
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Russo who's a singer of underwritten law
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like showed up a little bit late they
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opened up for Bad Religion and I missed
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their set it was during the Blue Room
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album which was their second album no no
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the second album first first album was
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Blue Room was during the Oz Factor tour
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their second their second album that was
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when they played that show here and I
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missed their set and I was very very
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disappointed I remember Scott was out
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front and I was like dang I missed your
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guys set it's pretty pretty unhappy but
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I got to see Bad Religion who were
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awesome recipe for hate tour perhaps
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around that time doesn't look like
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anything in the building is being
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utilized at the moment in
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fact
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look down here still
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has
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oh Harry Harry P that's probably the
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same guy that Lou Gardens is named
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after oh my
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gosh all the flyers for back in the day
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I always remember this address 100 West
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Livingston a wow just seeing that kind
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of jars like some memories it's
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interesting how that works there's a
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reflection of the jarring that Ramone
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show was Frank Black from the pixies
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that opened up his like solo project
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also saw mighty mighty Boston here with
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butth hole Surfers but Boston were
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incredible I don't remember what tour it
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was maybe they don't know how a Party
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tour somewhere around that time frame
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but man I just remember thinking this is
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one of the greatest live bands I've ever
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seen they Dicky just going nuts the guy
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they used to dance around also stage
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diving jumping off the
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rafters there a few stickers here the
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these are not from back in the '90s days
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but these are probably from when it was
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the biker bar
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this is kind of where the stage was all
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right this is wild okay the far ride
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over there was where the stage was so
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first work tour there all the concerts
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that I mentioned the bands were all
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right there really amazing just on how
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small the place really is in my memory I
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thought was a little bigger I always
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knew it wasn't gargantuan but definitely
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not a huge venue so above there was the
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little balk the little
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railings you have the second floor up
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there so bad brains here I think that
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was the show hagfish opened
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amazing hack fish great man that's about
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the closest view of where the stage was
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they put up some railings but the stage
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is still
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there so that's where all the all the
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performers stood facing over there to
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the other side looking out on the
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crowd trying to figure out where the
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bands would have loaded in
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at probably around this
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way yeah they probably pull their stuff
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up here and load in through these
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doors all right this is the best angle I
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could ever asked for without even
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getting
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inside you can see right in this
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window holy cow look at
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this I got to soak this
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WoW
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that's the floor that was the entire
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size of the
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place up there is that top balcony area
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that I jumped off of the second floor
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Fat Mike was standing right there
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mocking me as I was leaping down into
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the crowd as as he often
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did
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unbelievable it's all the raon
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here right there on that very little
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platform that's now that's that was a
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stage looking down down the everybody
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was down about four three four feet down
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standing
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there I probably saw
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50 50 concerts
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here or
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more sometimes up on that top balcony
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sometimes I'd walk down the stairs go to
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the lower
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unbelievable the
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edge
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really glad this this window wasn't
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covered up with anything you just like
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peek
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in yeah right there on that right there
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was that where Courtney Love slap that
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kid right there on the right
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there again Bost Stones Dicky was
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climbing the railings jumping off the
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guy that dances I can't I'm drawing a
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blank on his name they were he was
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jumping off stage diving
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also for some reason I ever got to go
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inside here and give a get you know get
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a
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tour cuz
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someone was here on property and was to
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let me in it would be very eerie to be
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in there with nothing happening again I
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did get to go inside there when it was
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the Ace Cafe I was here with my friend
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worlda Micah we both got in there and
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walked around I was telling him about
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the old days of course he didn't have
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any recollection of it cuz he wasn't
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living here at that time but he was
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fascinated by all the different bands
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that I
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saw the formidable
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years my concert days punk rock
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days Warp Tour days man that is freaking
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cool that is freaking cool
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dang yeah I had to try you know I just
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got to thinking about something even
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countless concerts that I went to here
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but also when I was working in Publix
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from ' 91 to
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'93 they used to do like dance nights
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they were like alternative nights where
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they play like top alternative music
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and myself and some of the guys on the
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stock crew on Wednesdays if we were off
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work on those Wednesdays we would show
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up here to club nights and they would
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play like alternative
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music even just saying that that is just
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not something I would ever be into going
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like a club night but the fact that I
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did that when I was like 18 and 19
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9192 on the non- concert days it was
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like was trying to be cool going to the
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going to the club but it wasn't like
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traditional dance music it was just like
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alternative kind of music like
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alternative nights on Wednesday nights
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at the
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edge gosh I can't believe I even
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remember
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that 90 early '90s and obviously since
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it was the edge they built that little
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staircase there they remodeled it a
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little bit but the stage was right there
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and then again with the little dance
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area down below kind of get the get the
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idea serious memories popping back in
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just looking in that window opened up
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the
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floodgates now I've gone by here before
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always stood in the parking lot never
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been this close up and never looked in
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the windows wow that stage
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view something else that was awesome
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also when they did that first Warp Tour
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out here this is where the the ramp the
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bike and skate ramps were like the half
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hikee and all
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Day right here now I got to thinking
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about it I wasn't originally going to go
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by the other place but I saw Green Day
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twice that year again this was the
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bigger of the two shows there's probably
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three maybe 4,000 people in this little
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what is now a parking lot next to what
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was the
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edge but I think I'm going to go by
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where the station in Fern Park was I've
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been by there before but I want to see
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if they built anything on the property
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and
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show where that first concert
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was about 2 to 3 weeks before Long View
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it was relas East on
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MTV it's not too far from here all right
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made the commute about about 10 minutes
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10 15 minutes over to Fern Park off of
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Fernwood where the station in Fern Park
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used to sit now I had to look it up the
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date at the
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edge where green light green day played
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that
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show was September 25th of '94 and I
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don't believe that there was a national
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Act opening up for them if memory serves
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correct now I couldn't find anything
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online about it but I believe it was a
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band called wooden horse which I think
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might have been like a local band now
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the station in Fern Park was the concert
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was on March 12th of 94 so you got March
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12th of 94 and then you got September so
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let's see January February
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March September was that 5 month
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difference between the two shows one of
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which I've got guessing that was
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probably like a power a power box for
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the station that went up this
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pole and now it is just a
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grassy piece of
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nothing bands would have loaded in
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around the back here most likely was
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when the ER they had the
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bookmobile which was a very small
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vehicle that they toured
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in load in around the
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back here's a slab of
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concrete left over here
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or maybe some new concrete
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nonetheless but this is all this is the
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entire size of what this where the
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station was right
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here the band tilt opened up they were
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on the play cell tour which is a great
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album tillet Hills album which came out
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on fat records afterwards was good too
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but nowhere near as good in my opinion
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as play cell that was released on
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Lookout records which rip to Lookout
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record no longer exists
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anymore there's a big
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truck now in the way but the
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entrance to the station was right here
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where this truck
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is well kind of more around the side
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over here that would have been the front
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entrance
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there that would have been an early
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March March 12
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wealth from 94 so I saw Green
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Day right when dookie was released twice
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that that year the year the punk broke
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some say stage was right here right
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here the three of them that was back
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when they were a power Trio they've
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added a fourth fourth and fifth member
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since then but they still do interviews
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as a three-piece I kind of prefer them
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the early days when they were a power
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Trio before adding any of the you know
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rhythm guitar and all that that's just
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me here was the stage right here exactly
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in this spot where I'm standing give or
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take a couple
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feet it's where the band was right
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here abity was probably here Mike was
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probably there or vice
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versa then I was over in there it was
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right about
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here I do remember there was no there
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was not like a security wall there's no
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barricade at this show because there was
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only like 200 people the bar was back
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there the resturant was back there it
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was like a little open area here this
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the stage was elevated to you know I
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don't know 2 or 3 ft off the ground 3 ft
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off the ground band was here crowd was
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down here we were stage diving me and my
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friend Jason were
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here stage diving off into the crowd no
25:24
one stopping us no security saying no
25:26
you can't do that band was totally fine
25:28
with
25:33
it and then Long View here you still see
25:33
some of the foundation of where the
25:35
station
25:42
was this tree here is no
25:42
longer looking that
25:49
decent and you got that truck parked
25:49
where the front entrance was and where
25:50
the stage
25:53
was the old highl building over there
25:55
which is now a church now I couldn't
25:57
find it an exact day when the music
25:59
video of Long View broke but they said
26:02
they're searching the web that it was in
26:03
March but I do recall the video had not
26:07
dropped yet what was it the 12th March
26:10
12th I think I said it was that Green
26:11
Day played here with tilt the opening
26:13
act just the two bands I don't remember
26:15
a third also for years cinder block who
26:19
was a singer of
26:21
tilt that opened up for that show used
26:24
to do all the merchandise for Green Day
26:26
I don't I don't know if she still has a
26:27
hand in that or not when you used to get
26:30
any green day merch back in the day they
26:32
would have like cinder block like
26:33
Productions or cinder block something on
26:35
the tag so she kept in contact with the
26:38
band in fact Trey cool in the Long View
26:41
video is wearing a tilt shirt fun fact
26:44
and they did that first dookie tour and
26:47
I obviously Green Day toured a lot
26:50
before that tour but that that's that's
26:52
the tour I'm focusing
26:54
on I never got to see Green Day on the
26:57
thousand 39 smooth out Slappy hours tour
26:59
or
27:00
klunk which are some of my favorites as
27:03
well in fact I have the album cover for
27:06
klunk right here love
27:08
it I love I love early Green Day and
27:12
Lookout records got move back home the
27:14
queer there too as well I love early
27:16
Green Day Lookout stuff again the
27:18
couldn't find an exact day in March of
27:21
'94 that Long View broke but it had not
27:23
happened yet in fact I was stating how
27:25
Billy was on stage said oh we just
27:26
recorded a music video they just got
27:29
done filming it it's going to be on MTV
27:30
soon the entire crowd a lot of middle
27:33
fingers a lot of profanity you know yeah
27:36
you sellouts that whole thing which is
27:38
all you know I don't think I don't think
27:39
a lot of bands have to deal with the
27:40
whole sellout terminology as much as it
27:43
was but in the '90s mid late 90s that
27:46
was a big term that you would tell tell
27:48
a band who was signing to a major label
27:51
and becoming successful who was like
27:54
going away from their beliefs and away
27:56
from their Roots they called him a
27:57
sellout and that was what the whole
27:59
crowd was doing but then music video the
28:02
music video probably within a week or
28:04
two after that hit
28:07
MTV and everyone all of my friends
28:10
immediately knew who green day was it
28:13
became just a a whirlwind it took the
28:16
World by storm because MTV was you know
28:19
in the prime of MTV and ended up on
28:22
there and the fact that that song was
28:25
just so huge it just kind of it took
28:26
everything over there wasn't really
28:28
anyone out there that was like you know
28:30
watching TV and into pop culture at that
28:32
time who didn't know who the band was
28:34
and then the Woodstock when Woodstock
28:36
happened was the the second Woodstock it
28:38
wasn't the original Woodstock obviously
28:40
in the 9s and Green Day had the whole
28:42
mud slinging Fest there was no one who
28:46
did not hear about that and then the the
28:48
band's popularity went to a whole other
28:50
level speaking of Lookout records Mike
28:52
on that Woodstock Mudfest is wearing a
28:56
screeching weasel shirt used to be on
28:58
Lookout records and Mike played on a
29:00
screeching weasel album played bass
29:02
guitar on a screeching weasel album so
29:04
little tie you can kind of see where the
29:06
front of the station was right
29:08
here the front entrances over here there
29:10
was a little parking area here there was
29:13
an awning that stretched out so we all
29:15
walked in everyone that was at the show
29:16
was maybe two or 3 hund people I don't
29:18
know what the capacity was but it wasn't
29:19
very wasn't very massive I remember
29:22
pulling up parking walking up and seeing
29:24
the crowd out here couple hundred people
29:27
and thinking oh man this is going to be
29:29
a rambunctious group and it
29:32
was man see and tilt a play out tour in
29:35
Green Day just a couple hundred people
29:38
stage diving singing along in the
29:41
microphone Mike and Billy just
29:44
awesome now the album dookie was
29:47
released on February 1st so a few days
29:50
ago was the 30th the music video didn't
29:53
come out till March so this show if it
29:56
was on the 12th if I was reading that
29:58
correctly was about five let's say five
30:00
five and a half say 6 weeks so the album
30:03
had only been out 6 weeks I stumbled on
30:05
it by
30:07
accident I was buying a lot of stuff on
30:09
reprise records I also heard the the
30:11
muffs have were on reprise love the love
30:13
the band The muffs Kim shuk or Kim
30:16
shadok I never knew how to pronounce her
30:17
last name really big fan I always kind
30:20
of equated them till a Green Day in a
30:22
lot of ways with the way their sound was
30:24
on
30:25
the on their their music obviously a
30:29
female
30:30
lead she recently passed a few years ago
30:33
thankfully I was able to see the
30:35
muffs in La one time thankfully they
30:39
never really toured Florida that often
30:40
but when I went to California to visit
30:42
one of the first times I went and saw
30:43
them play but I just stumbled on that
30:45
cassette tape uh that was before CD I
30:47
guess C no CDs were out no it was around
30:50
no I actually had it on cassette tape
30:52
and on in that album there is it's
30:54
either bird or Ernie I think it's Ernie
30:57
there is an Ernie doll that someone in
30:59
the pit is like holding up like a muppet
31:01
in the you know in the OR Sesame Street
31:05
not Muppet but Sesame Street character
31:07
and I think that they have omitted that
31:09
probably because some kind some kind of
31:10
legal issues that is no longer in the
31:13
album liner notes anymore but I used to
31:16
have that cassette tape that was around
31:18
Offspring Smash came out came a little
31:20
bit after that a few months after that
31:22
and then CD started to gain popularity
31:25
but in the early '90s all I had was
31:27
cassette tape I think CDs might have
31:29
been coming out and getting popular but
31:30
I still had the cassette tape player and
31:32
I got this album Green Day dooky put it
31:36
in and was like oh my goodness what is
31:39
this then I realize saw a flyer that
31:41
they were playing with tilt and I was
31:43
you know big into tilt so came up saw
31:46
the show and man just absolutely
31:50
incredible taking
31:51
place right here just picture a younger
31:54
me circling around singing along stage
31:57
diving a much uh thinner uh less uh less
32:02
older self version of myself if I if I
32:05
try to jump in uh slam dance around now
32:07
I'd probably be incapacitated for a
32:10
month that was
32:12
the the good old days right saw them a
32:15
couple times after that in fact there's
32:16
one other venue I can go by I saw them
32:18
at the Tampa fairgrounds talking about
32:20
warp T Tampa fairgrounds Green Day play
32:22
there I do not remember who they opened
32:23
up for but it was at post dookie tour
32:27
might might have been either Nimrod or
32:31
Insomniac but then I saw them the last
32:34
time I saw them I don't go by the place
32:35
I I last saw them which
32:38
was on the warning tour it was on the
32:42
warning tour kind of when they were like
32:44
losing momentum in the popular in the in
32:46
the populace it was like a it wasn't
32:49
even that big of a crowd it was a little
32:51
more than what the station was but
32:52
considerably less than their dookie area
32:55
this is before
33:00
what happened came after warning
33:00
American Idiot because warning came out
33:03
they were kind of on the desent down in
33:05
fact I think even the band there was
33:06
interviews of Billy and Mike saying that
33:08
should we just call this quit just let's
33:10
just not do this anymore then they
33:12
revamped themselves Billy lost a lot of
33:14
weight they rechanged their their music
33:15
style kind of brought it back a little
33:17
bit but also changed it up more modern
33:19
day cleaned up their image a little bit
33:22
you know got a little more fashionable
33:24
with their wardrobe and whatever that
33:26
was whoever
33:27
sat down with them if it wasn't the band
33:29
themselves and made that decision for
33:31
them it worked because
33:33
now bigger than
33:35
ever I'm going to go by where I saw the
33:38
warning tour it's over on Lee Road I
33:41
believe also before pulling out of here
33:42
I want to show what the front of the
33:43
station look like so that truck the
33:46
18-wheeler is exactly in the spot where
33:49
that wall is now like 2 a t that that
33:53
18wheeler is almost imitating that wall
33:55
there and then there's the yawning and
33:57
that little same little indentation of
33:59
the grass area still there all right
34:01
sometimes you got to look stuff up
34:02
because decades pass and you really
34:04
start to get a little forgetful on dates
34:07
so I was thinking the warning tour of
34:09
Green Day took place at a place called
34:11
the embassy in Orlando right here off
34:15
addinon but in fact it was the Nimrod
34:17
tour it was
34:19
97 November of 97 but it did go to two
34:22
so this is now a Walmart but around here
34:26
used to be the entrance to a place
34:28
called the embassy where these have a
34:30
lot of shows and the whole facade has
34:32
been changed now Walmart but over here
34:35
if memory serves correct this facade has
34:38
changed but you would go in here which
34:39
is now the basically the back room of a
34:41
super Walmart or a Walmart grocery store
34:44
it's now the pharmacy drive-thru there
34:46
used to be an entrance right there which
34:47
of the good time tour which was 7 second
34:49
Sprung Monkey Blink 182 back in '95
34:54
played right in here but also greed day
34:56
in '9 7 did their Nimrod tour also saw
34:59
Penny wise in here I saw Offspring at
35:01
AFI but I do remember Trey Co riding a
35:04
bike around here right out here he had
35:07
like a BMX bike that they brought in the
35:08
tour bus and he was just driving around
35:10
talking to everybody even though Nimrod
35:12
was a very popular album they were
35:14
really at their peak of the amount of
35:16
people there really wasn't a whole heck
35:18
of a lot of people in the show wasn't
35:20
even sold out if I remember correctly
35:22
but the entrance memory serves was like
35:24
right about here speaking of P wise I
35:27
have a picture somewhere in a box with
35:31
me my friend Jason Jim Lindberg from
35:33
Pennywise and Jason Matthew thirst who
35:37
passed away he was the original bass
35:38
player of Pennywise and we were standing
35:41
right here and it's been repurpose but
35:43
we were standing right in this exact
35:45
spot back in the back in the '90s but
35:48
yeah just thinking about greeny think
35:50
about try riding the bike around here
35:52
talking to
35:54
everybody but I did end up going to to
35:57
to two tour to the warning tour now that
36:00
I'm thinking about it did not come to
36:01
Orlando the specific warning tour in the
36:04
early 2000s so my friend Carlos and
36:08
another one of his buddies and myself we
36:11
ended up doing a road trip we went to
36:13
Athens Georgia to see Green Day with the
36:15
getup kids on the warning tour and then
36:17
we also went to House of Blues in Myrtle
36:20
Beach South Carolina and I saw Green Day
36:22
in a small venue again in Myrtle Beach
36:25
South Carolina at the House of Blues
36:27
there amazing show wasn't as small as a
36:30
station on the dookie tour but pretty
36:32
awesome that might have been one of the
36:34
last times either that or Athens Georgia
36:37
that I saw Green Day in concert I
36:39
haven't seen him haven't seen him
36:41
since man I used to love old green D all
36:44
right commuted over here to Bennett
36:46
Road proba 10 15 minutes from where I
36:49
just was now I would love to say that I
36:51
was at this particular show but I was
36:54
not January of 20 or 1993 I'm going say
36:58
2000 23 January of
37:03
1993 a little over a year before they
37:06
played the station the first time I saw
37:08
Green Day the band played right
37:12
here Club nowhere it's now called the
37:15
bipolar Cafe this little teeny tiny
37:19
place now I did frequent this this
37:22
establishment many many times in fact I
37:24
saw clutch here on the tour of their
37:27
first alos saw face to face on the Don't
37:29
Turn Away
37:30
tour and quite a variety of
37:34
others inside these walls the entire
37:38
venue is from
37:41
here to there fact the second portion
37:45
isn't even part of the club club
37:48
nowhere was not very big right off
37:52
Colonial Drive corner of Park Lake Park
37:55
Lake and Bennett That's Colonial Highway
37:57
50 right up there for a while in the
38:00
early 2 late' 90s early 2000s this was a
38:03
record store right
38:10
here very very shortlived record store
38:10
but that was way after Club nowhere
38:19
days yes many many times was I
38:20
inside watching bands play but I did not
38:23
know about the Green Day show in January
38:26
of 1993 which would have probably been
38:28
the kerplunk tour cuz dookie was not out
38:32
yet kind of kicking myself that I didn't
38:34
know about that happening at that
38:46
time yeah so I was just kind of in this
38:46
neighborhood and wanted to stop off here
38:48
to show this too because this pretty
38:50
incredible so this is even part of where
38:53
Club nowhere was this again this was a
38:54
separate section so you just figure what
38:58
would be the size of a small efficiency
39:01
one-bedroom
39:03
apartment one of the biggest rock
39:07
bands current rock bands performed here
39:11
the station was a little bit bigger than
39:13
this but not much bigger it was a little
39:14
bigger than Club
39:16
nowhere a club nowhere would have been
39:19
the that would have been the one so
39:21
anyone one of the probably 50 to 75
39:24
people that were here for that one
39:27
probably got one heck of a
39:33
show and this is still the same front
39:33
door I remember I saw face to face here
39:36
I parked right over there on the street
39:39
and paid my couple dollar admission
39:41
fee I think the the Green Day show I
39:44
looked up a flyer for it I looked up
39:45
some information online it was a $5 five
39:47
bucks probably wasn't even a load IND
39:50
door band's probably loaded in the same
39:52
door okay I'm wrong here's the load in
39:55
door right here
39:57
here's the load in
39:59
door right here this is the end of the
40:02
the venue where is right here so this is
40:05
all separate so that would be the load
40:07
in door into the former Club
40:16
nowhere stage just beyond there the rest
40:16
of the venue right there small all right
40:20
so that's basically it some memories of
40:22
myself in Green Day from three decades
40:25
ago du is officially
40:27
30 years and a couple days old where
40:31
does the time go I'm getting
40:33
old three decades of past
40:37
and band's changed a lot I've changed a
40:40
lot I mean I'm not who I was 30 years
40:42
ago so I guess I can't critique anyone
40:44
for modifying a little
40:53
bit I love I love old green dy I think
40:53
pretty
40:55
much
40:57
I really like warning warning was
40:59
definitely a departure after Insomniac
41:02
and Nimrod so pre- warning really love
41:06
everything warning really enjoy but
41:08
after that American idian and post
41:10
American Idiot I enjoy but don't I don't
41:13
say I love those albums I like them
41:16
they're good driving driving Tunes but
41:19
anyway nonetheless thanks for watching
41:20
I'll see you in the next video good
41:23
memories reminisce a little bit thanks
41:26
watch and I'll see you the next video
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