Green Day is currently celebrating the 25th year anniversary of iconic pop-punk album Dookie.
Anniversaries are a time for nostalgia and Tré Cool has subsequently taken a moment to look back at the concert that changed everything.
That show was Woodstock ’94.
Speaking on the Member Guest Podcast, Cool recalled: “’94 Woodstock was a complete s**t show. It was a Pepsi-sponsored thing, it was, like, worldwide televised pay-per-view and all that stuff, and every band of significance was there. It was crazy.
“And of course people start going around the fence and sneaking in, and it kind of became mayhem. And then bad weather came and it was raining like crazy and the whole place became a mud pit. It was pretty chaotic, and set up really well for Green Day to take the stage and make all hell break loose.”
He continued: “It got all chaotic. We kept trying to play, but Billie [Joe Armstrong] was getting mud hitting his guitar and Mike [Dirnt] was getting it on his bass and hitting him. Luckily my drum set was just far enough back where I was less in harm’s way… It was punk as f**k, and nobody expected that to happen.
“It was a crazy set – a set that changed our whole lives, really,” he concluded. “After that day, tons of people were showing up at our shows. That was kind of the pivot moment – that was the green jacket moment for this band.”
