Green Day Delivers Fresh-Faced Performance of Decades-Old Albums at SoFi Stadium: Concert Review
variety.comSteven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer There’s something to be said about aging gracefully in rock music. Coming of age as a punk rock group whose adolescent despondence became the rallying cry for a generation of fans and acolytes alike can quickly wither on the vine.
Just as soon as a star rises, so do the stakes surrounding it: Can a band predicated on an anti-establishment ticket maintain its momentum far beyond its foundational era, when the establishment itself becomes the engine for its continued success?
For Green Day, now 30 years past its breakthrough third album “Dookie,” the answer is clear. The group, which brought its Saviors Tour to Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium last night, mapped the fervor of its youth — pyrotechnics, stage jumps, unwavering energy — to a venue as maximalist as they come, from the five tiers of sold-out seats to the $125 passes just to park in the adjacent lot.
But the California natives harnessed their club-rearing early days with ease. As they ran through the entirety of “Dookie” and “American Idiot,” the former released in 1994 and the latter a decade later, they performed with intensity and a pitch-perfect allegiance to the original records with a 20-something hunger, as if time itself had been frozen, at least for one night.
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