Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has again proved that he is a huge Green Day fan. The band’s drummer Tre Cool dropped a comment on an Instagram post and Zuckerberg responded.
Mark Zuckerberg excited for Saviors Tour
He cheered for the band and wrote that he couldn’t wait for the Saviors Tour.
Green Day are commemorating the 30th anniversary of their breakout album Dookie and the 20th anniversary of their critically acclaimed American Idiot. Not ones to rest on their laurels, the trio released Saviors, their 14th studio album, in January.
To celebrate the new album, the band hit the road with an eight-and-a-half-week tour across North America. The second leg of Green Day’s international Saviors Tour kicks off January 2025 in South Africa with openers The Offspring and Fokofpolisiekar. (The band’s European tour ran from May 30 to June 29.)
Previously, Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong revealed that he played at the billionaire’s special day for free. Back in 2016, he explained on during a TV appearance that he didn’t take a dime from Mark Zuckerberg, who he found to be an ‘endearing’ and ‘nerdy’ Green Day fan.
Appearing on Watch What Happens Live, Armstrong fielded a question from host Andy Cohen, who asked: ‘Billie Joe, when you sang at Mark Zuckerberg’s wedding, what was the craziest thing that made you go “oh man, this guy’s rich?”
‘And, is it true that you performed for free?’
‘Yeah uh, so I did perform for free,’ Armstrong responded, ‘he was kind of like a Green Day fan, almost in a nerdy kind of way.
‘Which was really endearing and uh, there was nothing about it where I thought that it looked like he had a ton [of money] the way that he lives, it fits his age, I would say. He seemed pretty mellow about that.’
Armstrong also revealed he played Last Night On Earth at the wedding: ‘Mark wanted me to play this song… this song is one that I wrote for my wife of 18 years. It better be for her, or I’d be in deep trouble.’
Meanwhile, during Green Day’s performance in New York, the band’s drummer Tre Cool and bassist Mike Dirnt surprised the audience by joining Billie Joe on stage dressed as Marvel characters, Deadpool and Wolverine, respectively.
A video shared on the band’s social media shows Armstrong struggling to maintain his composure as his costumed bandmates playfully disrupted the performance. The highlight of the performance was when Cool embraced his Deadpool character at the song’s end, shouting ‘Baby knife,’ the character’s signature line.
