Green Day, Smashing Pumpkins rock Nashville's Geodis Park on 'Saviors Tour': Top moments

On Friday night, punk rock 'n' roll greats Green Day celebrated two major musical anniversaries at Nashville's Geodis Park.

The band, made up of singer and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Tré Cool, embarked on the "Saviors Tour" in May in celebration of the 30-year anniversary of the band's 1994 album, "Dookie," and the 20th anniversary of their 2004 record, "American Idiot."

The two albums delivered hits like "Basket Case," "When I Come Around," "Holiday / Boulevard of Broken Dreams," "Wake Me Up When September Ends," and many more.

The "Saviors Tour" also follows the January release of Green Day's 14th studio album, the 15-track "Saviors," which debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200.

The "Saviors Tour" stopped at Geodis Park, a 30,000-seat venue that is typically the home for Nashville's Major League Soccer club, but transformed into a concert venue on Friday evening.

With the anniversary of both albums, the release of "Saviors" and Green Day's first concert in Nashville in 15 years, Music City welcomed the band back with open arms for an electric evening.

Green Day returned the love. The band, which formed in '87 in Rodeo, California, showed the Nashville crowd that even 37 years later, they're still in their prime.

Here are some of the top moments from the show.

Openers Smashing Pumpkins perform thrashing, alt-rock set

The Smashing Pumpkins went on as the final opener of the night before Green Day, following The Linda Lindas and Rancid.

Frontman Billy Corgan, donning a long, black velvety dress-like garment, hit the stage with band members James Iha, Katie Cole, Jimmy Chamberlain, Jack Bates and the band's newest member, guitarist Kiki Wong.

Wong joined the band earlier this year after an extensive nationwide search for a new touring guitarist, a process that garnered more than 10,000 applications.

The band rocked on their classics, including "Disarm," "Bullet with Butterfly Wings," "1979," "Cherub Rock" and "Zero." For the entire hour-long set, Corgan filled the amphitheater with his beloved nasal, whiney, punk rock voice.

"We'd like to thank Green Day, those guys are awesome," Iha said before they closed out the set.

Green Day kicks it off with flames and song off new album 'Saviors'

After playing Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" as the stadium lights dimmed and the crowd got a visit from the "Pink Bunny" (a man in a bunny suit known for warming up the crowd at Green Day shows), a video of the band throughout the years played.

And when the suspense had the audience hungry, the band walked out and started with a song off their recent album, "The American Dream Is Killing Me." Flashing pink lights flooded the stage as fireballs burst into the air.

Armstrong sported an all-black look (with the exception of red socks), complete with a sparkling black collar on his shirt.

Dirnt opted for a bright orange jumpsuit, and Cool looked très chic with his electric blue hair and funky green-collared shirt.

From the very start of the show, Armstrong's voice was crisp and clean with its classic throaty, punk rock tone, Cool's drum licks were theatrical and precise, and Dirnt's basslines echoed throughout the stadium.

As graphics ran on the screen behind the band, Armstrong announced that they would now celebrate the 30 years of "Dookie."

Green Day plays album 'Dookie' in full, brings fan onstage

Upon Armstrong's announcement, a set of the "Dookie" album cover, which shows an explosion and a mushroom cloud, appeared onstage suddenly.

A giant cartoon sketch of the explosion and balloons emulating the cloud would be the backdrop for the band as they cycled through the album.

The theatrics of "Dookie" were on full display.

During "Welcome to Paradise," fireworks soared in the sky behind the stage. As the band played "Coming Clean," a giant blow-up plane floated over the audience. In an orchestral rendition of "All By Myself," Cool took the mic and sang the tune in a cheetah print robe.

The most notable song from the "Dookie" portion of the concert was, of course, the cult classic "Basket Case."

The audience screamed: "Do you have the time to listen to me whine / About nothing and everything all at once?"

After finishing out the album, Armstrong segued into "Know Your Enemy" and called to the audience, asking for a fan who knew all the words.

Armstrong called a young fan to the stage and split the mic as they screamed the chorus and jumped along with the guitar licks. The two shared a tender moment, taking a picture together on the stage.

Green Day performs entirety of 'American Idiot' album in order

The band played a couple of tunes that didn't fit into either of the anniversary albums, like "Dilemma," "Minority" and "Brain Stew," and then moved into celebrating the 20-year anniversary of "American Idiot," performing the album in full.

A giant blow-up hand holding a heart-shaped, bleeding grenade shot up onstage, bringing the album cover for "American Idiot" to life.

The band started out with song "American Idiot," where Armstrong notably changed the lyric "I'm not a part of a redneck agenda" to "I'm not a part of the MAGA agenda."

Other lyric changes included various nods to Nashville and Tennessee, like "the representative from Tennessee has the floor" on song "Holiday."

The runaways from this section of the show included a hearty performance of "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" as audience members flashed their phone lights and a reflective rendition of "Wake Me Up When September Ends," where showers of sparks rained down on the stage.

After closing out the album with "Homecoming" and "Whatsername," Armstrong proclaimed: "We don’t do encores. We just play until we f***ing fall down."

And for the band's non-encore encore, they played "Bobby Sox," a song off their new album, and closed with "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)."

Armstrong started the tune out onstage alone, playing his acoustic guitar. The rest of his band members came to stand beside him, wrapping their arms around him and showing their affection for one another.

Armstrong and the band bid the crowd adieu, singing, "It's something unpredictable / But in the end, it's right / I hope you had the time of your life."

Green Day's Nashville Geodis Park Set List

• The American Dream Is Killing Me
• Burnout
• Having A Blast
• Chump
• Longview
• Welcome To Paradise
• Pulling Teeth
• Basket Case
• She
• Sassafras Roots
• When I Come Around
• Coming Clean
• Emenius Sleepus
• In The End
• F.O.D.
• All By Myself (orchestral version)
• Know Your Enemy (with fan onstage)
• Look Ma, No Brains!
• One Eyed Bastard
• Free Fallin' (Tom Petty cover, snippet)
• Dilemma
• Minority
• Brain Stew
• American Idiot
• Jesus Of Suburbia
• Dearly Beloved
• Holiday
• Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
• Are We The Waiting
• St. Jimmy
• Give Me Novacaine
• She's A Rebel
• Extraordinary Girl
• Letterbomb
• Wake Me Up When September Ends
• Homecoming
• Whatsername

The non-encore: Bobby Sox, Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)

Audrey Gibbs is a music reporter for The Tennessean. You can reach her at agibbs@tennessean.com .

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