Billie Joe Armstrong interrupts one of Green Day ‘s biggest songs to alert a medical situation
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- Wembley Stadium, London.
29th June 2024.
Green Day.
Towards end of show, and a couple of minutes into ‘Boulevard of Broken Dreams’, Billie Joe Armstrong halts Green Day’s performance to alert a medical issue in crowd. He keeps talking to the audience, before beginning again.
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Bless all artists who care about their fans.
It's sad that basic human empathy is so unexpected and profusely praised. Billie is doing his job, it's commendable and responsible but realistically this behaviour should be normalized.
@@WheresSeamus Basic human Empathy? See how we treat each other on a daily basis, read the papers. You need a moral code to do so but since we are "good" by nature I guess your theory falls short. This is why we have police, courts, armies, etc.
The US is the most generous country on earth, I agree but when National Interest are in the middle you could care less about war criminals and how horrendous they are: Take for example Operation Paperclip. th-cam.com/video/wDZc-fO8pHc/w-d-xo.html
@@WheresSeamus Unfortunately we live in a world where most people seem to only care about themselves.
yeah unlike Travis Scott
@@WheresSeamus100%
someone send this to travis scott
I was looking for this comment
You could but that pos doesn’t care
WHO?
@@tomlund4951 the rapper that let all of those people get stampeded and killed at his concert like summer or two ago at that astroworld festival
@@Shade_razor-79 I know but the way it should be?…. Uh WHO?
This is why rehearsal is so important, the way they just start playing back was smooth AF
Who said you can't be both a punk and a class act?
They have played this song 1 million times no joke.
@@93lornamae I wonder how many times they've played Good Riddance 😳
@@drea409 or Basket Case
being kind and caring about each other is as punk rock as you can get
I was there! I think they stopped the show twice due to incidents in the crowd, nice to see a frontman doing this sort of stuff, especially on the scale of Wembley Stadium.
@@guy8029 Facts. Billie Joe is a lot of things, but disrespectful of his fans is NOT one of them.
Twice? I was there too but I don't remember a second time
@@timewarproductions4661 I’m sure it was during another American Idiot song, I want to say possibly Jesus of Suburbia, but I can’t say for certain.
A write up of the gig says;
“Green Day played their biggest ever London show to a sold out Wembley Stadium crowd, but had to stop the gig twice to allow an injured fan to get help.”
Hope you had as good a time as me and my family did 🤟🏻
There was another incident earlier yes, might’ve been in dookie or early in American idiot not sure
They did stop two times because of people fall down standing
People can say what they want about Billie but he's one of the most selfless and caring frontmen out there.
Isn’t that normal for frontmen to do that? I mean who watched people die? Wouldn’t that be an official crime and he could go to prison if he would have seen it and watched someone die?
@@kundalinicobain6897 wise up
@@kundalinicobain6897travis scott....
sad to say that his son is the opposite and a complete mess and jerk.
He cursed God so his ass is numbered .
Roger Daltrey the lead singer from The Who always asks fans if they are ok. He hit my hair once when he lost control swinging his microphone. Three times he came over to ask if i was ok 🎤
At a benefit show with other bands The Who were on last, the fans of the last band on wouldn't move & let us Who fans stand at the front of the stage. The Who came on started singing & in seconds Roger stopped singing, called for all of the house lights to be put on & told the security staff at the front of the venue to go. Because the fans from the other bands had broken bottles & were threatening to slash us, the security staff wouldn't let us get away & literally kept pushing us back into the other fans. I saw a hand come down & heard someone telling me to grab their hand & they would pull me up. I looked & it was Roger, who pulled me onstage to get me away from being attacked by the other bands fans. As he pulled me up i noticed all of The Who were pulling fans to safety & then their roadies helped. Roger told us all to sit on the stage floor next to the band & they would protect us. Roger then got back on his microphone & told all the security staff & fans of the previous band to go to the back. Once it was just Who fans left at the front The Who started to oplay again with about a dozen of us fans sat at their feet. Then Roger stopped the show again after a couple of songs & asked the front row of fans to move back, they did. Then he said to us sat on the stage we could go back to being infront of the stage again. The Who ran over time & played till past 1am
Dude, memory of a lifetime 😁 I've seen GNR, Megadeth, Halestorm, Foo Fighters and Zac Brown Band all here in Seattle but you have me beat hands down ‼️🤘🎸🎵🎶🎼🖖
@@BillKrayer12thMan I'd love to of seen GNR. Seattle always sounds like it has a unique atmosphere. The Who are very protective of their fans. They hate security guards in front of the stage because they want us fans in front of them. If after a couple of songs Roger could see security were forcing us to sit down in our seats he would stop the show & tell security to move away from the front & let us move forward. If security staff wouldn't move Roger would swing his microphone, hit them with it & then personally tell them to move 🎤
@usaturnuranus
Look up "Who concert disaster 1979" and you will understand why they would be concerned about fan safety. Tragic.
@usaturnuranus
I was writing about before the Cincinnati disaster concert in 1979 when 11 Who fans tragically died outside the coliseum before the concert had started & 26 were injured. The Who were not told about what had happened outside the venue till after their performance.
@@Wizzz28It was the "Not In This Lifetime" tour and I got the ticket for free 😁 and even though I was up in the "nosebleeds"(directly under the new Seahawks Super Bowl championship banner, I was on the stage end of then CenturyLink Field, now Lumen Field, and the video screens helped. Awesome show; look up "Wish You Were Here/Layla jam Seattle" and you'll see what I mean 😁 Rock on ‼️🤘👏✌️🖖🎸🎵🎶🎼
@@Wizzz28 It wouldn't let me edit my reply. I forgot to mention it was 5 days before my 43rd birthday ‼️😁
Me and my mate fell over in FOD and it was really nice of him to stop to see if we were okay, we were buzzing 🤣🤣
“I check my vital signs…” wait, stop 😂
Pure poetry
I noticed this too, haha
U think that is funny? Am sorry 4 U.
@@SilvialuLucchini well aren't you fun...
@@SilvialuLucchini yes Bot, it’s funny!
It's so great to have a band sound as good in concert as they do on their album. I've never seen Green Day but this makes me want to.
That’s because they have talent and don’t depend on autotune and meaningless songs for fame. i love Green Day
You should find a way to see them, they do not disappoint
They were outstanding last night at Hershey Stadium!! Even better live, you must go see them in concert at least once in your life 🤍🖤🩷🤘
Put it on your bucket list, they're one of the few bands who are even better live and in person than they are on recordings. You will be an even bigger fan after you see them, I've seen them several times starting with Woodstock 94 and they never disappoint.
Apparently they've been able to do it for a long time now. Live shows have the same 'ring' as albums do
Billie Joe seems to genuinely have grown to be a caring human, which is so good to see. I remember seeing that video of him doing a dropkick into the crowd, but it seems those times are over, which I love to see. I’m not that big of a Green Day fan but you can’t deny Billie Joe is an awesome frontman for this
I mean he did the dropkick into a dude harassing a girl, he’s always been kind and caring, he’s just sober and more responsible now
Yeah I was gonna say the same thing, it wasn’t just some random dropkick. Extreme maybe but the intentions are the same.
He did drop kick into a crowd but that was cause a guy was harassing a girl.
@@lazysod3nah as a woman this makes me love him more than ever. not extreme, deserved 100%
For people of his generation cringing at aging, he does make it look less ominous. He still is full of energy and life, just more mature, tempered, sober and compassionate.
This is the way. How any human with a heart could notice a fan struggling and NOT do something is beyond me. That's an artist i would never support.
I swear this man ages in reverse😂😂
The power of make up my friend.
If I had his money...I'd look like Cher too😂😂@@kanaldongenganak
facts
Just watch the video of Billie Joe and his sons doing,' I Think We're Alone Now'. He looks younger than they do, or a brother of theirs. Fun video to watch.
quirks to being a good and happy person
jeez imagine you passed out at a green day concert and you have fleeting memories of billie joe nervously singing 99 bottles of beer on the wall 😮💨 he handled that well though i could tell he was scared. so was the crowd at the beginning. never heard a band stop that fast. took 5 seconds to stop and call attention to the person who needed help. other artists, especially rappers, need to take a note or five
I was there at Wembley and I was one of the best nights of me life
I went to see them in Glasgow and it was amazing.
are you irish?
What was the second best night of your life the night you discovered lucky charms
Ayyyyy-ohhhh
ME TOO
IT WAS FUCKING PHENOMINAL
The fact he not only stopped the show for an emergency but kept the audience entertained and made it something memorable
Wild seeing how young he looks. He was two grades older than me at Berkeley High and he looks ten years younger than I do.
2:21 your welcome! Time is precious!
Did you mean to say that listening to a great Green Day song is a waste of time?
@@isabelmauricio6394 no - just that a video of a Green Day song taken on a mobile phone from far away is not the best way to listen to do it. So, yeah, I appreciate that timestamp. That's the part that made me click.
Oh shut it, weeb name
Also you're*
I was there. Billie is such a good human being which is why he’s my idol
Hes actually an unhnged libturd crybaby...
Imagine being the past out person and seeing this later 😅
This guy is here, in the comments
@henryatherton1654
Ironic that he’s singing about checking vital signs and then someone gets sick or hurt. Hope the person is okay. Kudos to the crowd for not getting pissed while the crew handled the emergency.
And here’s your proof that Green Day is totally live (if you needed any) - no backing tracks needed to sound amazing or stop/start on a dime!
Are you kidding? Did you not hear the tremolo guitar keep playing after they stopped?
why would they get pissed? thats fucked up.
@@djjazzyjeff1232that isn’t a backing track that’s a sample 💀💀💀
@@abox8362isn't that the other gutiarist
@@abox8362 Oh really? How do you think a sample gets played over the speakers? THROUGH A BACKING TRACK you dunce 😂😂
Seen Green Day live and they sound exactly the same as you here on their records - musical geniuses
The opposite of the Offspring where Dexter sounds good in the studio, but is horrible live
How do you know it isn’t pre-recorded…you don’t.
@jimmy5634 You can hear him Still Breathing while singing. Plus you can hear how much different his voice is.
"Check my vital signs🎶🎶"
"Actually no, check theirs pls"
its written in our punk/metal blood... When some one is down you help them up and look out for each other!
06:24
it's happened again, the crowd sings the wrong notes making a beautiful melody, harmonizing perfectly to the original one. The magic of live shows.
There seems to be one loud tone deaf person in the crowd
@@Gxaps yes, wrong notes, but actually in key, that's why It sounds like harmonization
What a moment - during a song about ‘walking alone’ Billie Joe demonstrates how being just one person standing for something can pull loads of people together. I have had - and have my dark days of the soul, but I also know who I am and what I stand for. All it took was one person [in this case, one person with a LOT of influence] to pull loads of people together to cooperate and show the best of humanity. And it made EVERYONE there feel good to be a part of. Let’s let that inspire us about to do this Human-ing thing.
The way everyone handled that was absolute class.
It's nice when rich and successful ppl can be humans too. I read that they stopped writing and touring for a while so Mike could be with his wife through her cancer treatments. They seem like legit ppl. Wish there were more like them out there and that caring and compassion weren't rare anomalies making them newsworthy.
There's a reason they still sell out he's always cared about his fans they used to play bars during tours under fake names to give people a chance to see them play for cheap or free without the real crowd that Green day would bring. If you never seen them live you're definitely missing out the energy at a green day concert is one in a few good luck sleeping that night.
Great how he keeps the crowd going with such a simple song,and what a fantastic crowd for singing along
I like that Billy is so protective for his fans!!!!
He drop- kicked someone that was harassing a female fan in Green Day's early days. He's unbelievable!
Edit: it wasn't their earliest days after all but it was still several years ago
That man has been through hell and back to get the life he's living today. I have nothing but huge respect for Billie.
@@drea409 2012
So impressive, this band. They actually came to Hamilton Ontario to play four songs, ending in fireworks💥, at halftime of the 2023 Grey Cup Game (Canadian Football 🏈 League Championship). Outdoors. In November🥶!! I have no idea why we got so lucky to get such a HUGE international sensation as Green Day, but they put on a phenomenal show. Love them for that, and for this. Truly, 🤩🤩🤩🤩Rock Stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Damn! Saw them back in the day open for other bands. Certainly genuine and grateful. I seriously had no idea they were this huge though. Wow!
Awesome, thousands of people being patient for the wellbeing of one. Thank you to everyone for your selflessness. Beautiful Humanity.
LONDON CALLING 😂😂 what a legend
Billie Joe is such a cool guy. I can't wait to see them in August.
All the way back in ‘95 Brixton Academy, he went to front of the stage and had a go at the photographers asking them to move for the the people who paid to see.
Remember him saying “ Fuck you? No fuck you , move” and promoted the whole place to shout “Fuck Yoooo”.
They weren’t a big as they are now and place was half full . Cost £8.00 a ticket, think that’s $6.50 .
He did this at the manchester gig too. Love it when artists actually care about their fans
Same thing happened at the All Time Low concert I went to last year. I love artists that genuinely care about their fans ❤❤❤
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It’s cool to see quite a few bands paying attention to what is going on on the crowd.
Chris Martin (Coldplay) John Mayer, Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden) Dave Grohl.. they’ve all stood on stage and stopped the show to get medical attention for a person.
Bruce Dickinson spotted an asshole punch a girl at the front of the crowd, stopped the show and spent the next few minutes calling the guy a “Cowardly C**t” daring him to come up and fight him, and made the crowd wait until they got the guy thrown out - then they added two extra tracks to fill in the time lost with the incident because quoting Steve Harris “We’re not gonna let some fu**ing wanker, spoil your night”
Yes I saw that as well, brilliant in seeing that happen and stopping it like that.
Saw Trivium, somebody went down hard in the pit. Matt immediately stopped the show asked for house lights. Made the crowd form a path and waited until medical got the guy out before resuming. Awesome.
It happened at Manchester aswell, 3 or 4 songs into it
Sept. 25 in Portland OR- we are the show before the finally in their hometown
Who knew it was easier to administer medical aid when there isn't loud music blasting in the stadium. Today I learned.
That's why Green Day will forever remain as one of the greatest bands to ever exist. LONG LIVE GREEN DAY!
Same here saw them last month at SoFi great show and they’re still going strong they probably won’t be retiring anytime soon
@diegofavaratozfilms962 that's awesome! I'm gonna be seeing them for the first time since 2017! In March! So excited! 😆
yo lo vi el 1 de junio en Madrid y aún estoy en una nube con Green Day
It's insane to me that there are artists who will completely ignore when their fans have a clear medical emergency in the crowd and need help. When you're entertaining a crowd of people that adore you you should not only want to entertain them, but show that you care about them by making sure they get to leave the show alive
Saw Anne-Marie do this in Paris when supporting Ed Sheeran a few years back. There was a crush at the front and stopped a song to say she wasn't going to start again until the people stopped been crushed
Leading by example & caring for others' well-being; this is what it means to be a good human.
He cares about his fans. That's so good compared to other artists who are shit faced on stage. Like smash mouth
That stuff is so lame. It's fine depending on the gig and your age, but when you're in your 50s wtf are you doing?
@@djjazzyjeff1232seriously super cringe seeing drunk dudes on stage. It literally ruined the replacements reputation
@@Releasethebats123 For real dude. Also it just makes performing SO difficult. I'm a working musician myself so now I get off on nailing my parts instead of getting drunk during the gig, because I'm not 22 anymore..
@@djjazzyjeff1232 same. I used to be a musician but am taking a break to get sober. I’ve been an alcoholic for years. I’m 34 and burnt so many bridges. I’d get drunk and forget how to play songs at gigs. Total humiliation. Nobody wants to see that shit. It pushes friends and band mates away too
@@djjazzyjeff1232 it’s funny you said 22 because that was literally when it all started for me. Went from booze to much stronger drugs. I was wasting $1500 a month on my drug of choice and now that I am sober I’ve bought so many guitars. And the whole time I thought I looked cool but literally everyone I know said I looked stupid as hell. Being messed up on stage seemed cool back in the day but most of those bands high and drunk constantly were doing cringe and illegal stuff besides drugs… even Bowie was a “pdf file”. Sorry I’m going on a rant but look up the interview with Bowie and iggy literally bragging about sharing a 13 year old girl and abandoning her at an airport. Fucken crazy what these high weirdos got away with in the 1970/
You were close to us!
This is GenX! This is how we roll! 😎🤩
Can we just talk about how they picked up right where they left off. Like wow. I’ve loved Green Day since Dookie came out every time he stops the show it’s for a fan, with the exception of the iHeart Radio show, and stops the show and makes sure that fan is absolutely ok before he finishes the song. But they went right back to the chorus and at the same time.
they had they stop during Manchester too.
Amazing Song Amazing band
Amazing leading member
with great vocals,so talented..
Bro I was at this concert/tour and it was my first one, love how he actually cares about the fans.
Nice job! Professional.
2:19 that’s exactly what ALL celebrities should be doing! These acts of compassion and wanting to help are truly incredible and saving someone’s life is priceless!
This made me tear up… I appreciate his caring heart and at the same time keeping his fans engaged…
Can we please have more of this in the world!!! 🌎 ❤
We love you Green Day 💚 🖤 💚🖤
Wonderful 💥🖤💥
This man is a true artist! Wow. Would love to see them someday!
I have epilepsy and have been a Green Day fan for twenty years. It makes me so happy to see this.
Billy's a dam good human being.
It's so amazing to see someone stop a show to help someone in need. Not very many artists would do this.
🙋♀terrific video 👍
I didn't know Green Day was so huge. Especially all these years later.
Same here. Insane! They don't do these numbers in the US do they? I saw them for free on the UC Berkeley campus in 92!
@@haysfordays I really don't know that much about them. I know they were really big in the 90s I guess it was? I'm not really a fan so I've never gone to see them. I was just really surprised that they could fill stadiums to capacity like this. I mean they're good but there's nothing mind blowing about them.
@@EM-mw2qr yeah, agreed!
Oh they been selling out stadiums for years. Some of the festivals they’ve played at are massive.
@@squarebarrel Wow! I can't honestly figure out why.
I was there in Manchester and the same thing happened ❤
Class act. Definitely bless them who care and take action.
someone teach him a knock-knock joke!
Init. I was expecting a "London you" when everyone shouted "London who" not a funny joke but at least it would have been something!
This is a wonderful expression of community helping one person in need.
was part of the rigging production in marlay park dublin, got tre's used drumsticks after he fucked em over his shoulder and they landed beside me in a flight case, then i got 3 of billys plectrums off the mic stand... what a band, if you havent seen them live its a absolute must they do not dissapoint
He did what to his drum sticks?
I got one of tré’s drumsticks at that gig too, when he threw that bucket of them into the crowd at the end! Pretty sure he didn’t use the one I got, but still pretty sweet!
greenday being greenday... love my heroes...
love the guy❤
It's around the 2:19 mark in the video.
I didn't see Rancid on the Warped tour because someone in the crowd was injured during the first song. So Tim did a Q and A while medical personnel took care of the injured person. On Warped they had a strict 30 minute time limit, everything happens when it's supposed to, so they couldn't play long. 😢
Un super groupe, des supers musiciens et un chanteur adorable ! 💙🤍❤
Awesome show at Wembley billie is the best ❤
this reminds me of when i went to a tenacious d show. before the show they were having a light show, and three people had seizures. the crowd formed big circles to let the festival emt's through. it was my first concert.
This happened in Philly too
This happened August 20th in Kansas city to
he's the most caring frontmen of the band here
This is so awesome to see especially getting someone help in the middle of a crowd like that! BRAVO Billy is A++ for that!
I can't help thinking though; Billy's hardly playing guitar if barely at all and there's another electric guitar player, a bass, and somehow there is an acoustic guitar playing that's not Billy or the other player, so are they using backing tracks or something or I know Green Day was originally a 3 piece band.
I always wanted to go to a Green Day concert
Billie is such a sweetheart 🎉
Real human emotion has empathy..
This filled my heart ❤️
Humanity is still nice to see every once in a while.
Last time in that venue I was in the same location !
To Billy and the rest of the band every fan counts. Jrc
saw a huge concert a few months back, was literally in the first row. bj stopped the concert because he wasn’t sure if someone got hurt. they were fine BUT when he counted them back in (don’t remember what song it was, i think longview maybe?), he did it like in hitchin’ a ride where he goes "one, two, one, two, three, four" and mike got confused and started playing that bass line again. 10/10 would recommend.
I WAS THERE!!!
Another reason I got a Green Day tattoo lol
One more time for those that don't know. If someone is hurt or passes out, take them to the nearest security who can then get them medical help. If someone falls down, you pick them back up.
Honestly this would have been a better experience. You get to see the artist show they care and just see who they are as a person. It would make the overall experience just more personal and memorable.
Not a fan of their music but that was cool of him. great crowd for helping out too.
Good job on them!
That "Knock knock" joke kills me. 😂
what was Mike doing in the corner when Billie said to start from the chorus 😂😂 Then he ran 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
As all musicians/ bands who have made it big and play large venues, their "goodness" comes from their interaction and caring for their fans. Without the fans, the noise is just that. The fans take the noise, the sounds, the music and make it their own. Remembering the times they first heard the song- by themselves, with friends, at home, in a car, at their first concert, at their 20th concert... The fans make the music artist/ band special.
Taylor Swift, does this too, and I genuinely believe that that's what separates an entertainer and an artist (a robot/ego vs a sensible human). And it's worth mentioning that not everyone is like Billie either; he has such command over the audience that truly saves a life in an instance like this. The way everyone INSTANTLY stopped playing is also incredible to see cause you have to take into account, they have their ears in; playing their own instruments with a massive crowd. It's easy to get caught in your music and be vibing, but they are all so in tune with each other up there, that split second silence proves their skill and their deep relationship
Wow. He didn't do that back in 2002. It was my second time seeing Green Day, and a bunch of my friends passed out from heat exhaustion, in the front row. Had to be carried out and given water by the venue crew. It was at a really small venue with poor ventilation. But there's no way he didn't see what was happening 😅
Well you sort of explained it yourself. They were in a small venue, in the front row, and were apparently ABLE to be carried out and given water by the crew. In a venue THIS size, if he doesn't stop the show and have people open a path from the front to the injured person, it's going to be nearly impossible for them to, A. Even know there's a medical emergency that deep in the crowd, and B. Push through the crowd to get to them. It's a much more dangerous situation.
If someone had dropped right in the front row and was immediately accessible by a crew member, it wouldn't have been the same level of emergency.
Well the restart proves there is absolutely no backing or click tracks or anything.
The tremolo guitar part is a backing track, which is only played in verses. Tré (not sure if other members too) also has click on headphones. You can clearly hear the backing track stopping after the band at 2:21. After the restart they played without it, as it would have been very difficult to start it at the right timestamp. After the solo the backing track stops, as there's no tremolo part in the outro.
They have no monitors on stage, so they are using both click, backing and amp modelers now!
@@lakselv3768they do have monitors on stage. 2 in the front center and 1 on the cat walk.
Sorry, but Green Day uses backing tracks. There are sound guys that cut the tracks, the same way the lighting guys stop the lighting. You can clearly hear the tremolo among other effects are NOT live.
Jesus, don’t be stupid and I hope people stop liking your comments. It’s obvious there’s a click and backing tracks. You can hear the backing vocals