Yesterday was Jason White’s birthday. In his honor, this is a nice little story about Green Day playing a show in Little Rock, AR, Jason’s hometown, back in 1991, told from four different viewpoints, including Jason’s. He says: “They were great. They had just gotten robbed in New Orleans and had no money and were wearing borrowed clothes. Billie Joe had on a shirt with a pig on the front and back. He announced a new song called ‘One For The Razorbacks… and I’m not kidding.’” Ah, “One For The Razorbacks” as a new song… sigh!

I don’t know if this was the first time Jason ever joined Green Day on stage, but it could be. Burt Taggart writes: “In a strange twist of fate, Chino Horde’s Jason White ends up on stage to help sing on the Operation Ivy cover “Knowledge”. Some 12 years later, Jason will join them onstage again, this time hired by Green Day as a second guitarist on their Warning tour.”

There are some other cute bits, including a reminder of how sweet the members of Green Day have always been: “Green Day wrote, I don’t know in what, maybe chalk?, a big thank you and love you to Catherine and everyone for being so hospitable before they left that night.” And I had to smile at the reference to a, uh, charming stage antic that carried over into Green Day’s superstardom with the release of Dookie: “I’m pretty sure this was the first time any of us had seen a performer spits lugis in the air and catch them in his mouth.”

Read all the bits and see a flyer for that night’s show here.

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