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Watch Green Day's KISS-approved cover of Rock And Roll All Nite on Hella Mega Tour

"Another reason to love Green Day!" Watch Billie Joe Armstrong and co. cover KISS classic Rock And Roll All Nite on the opening night of The Hella Mega Tour.

From Operation Ivy's Knowledge to The Isley Brothers' Shout, Green Day are certainly partial to a cover or two during their mammoth live shows – and their current Hella Mega Tour is no exception, as they've unveiled a live rendition of KISS' Rock And Roll All Nite.

The Oakland punk rock titans busted out the cover last week at their intimate Hella Mega warm-up show in Tulsa, Oklahoma, before then dropping it in the middle of their set at the packed-out Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas over the weekend. The cover arrived ninth in their setlist following an opening run that included the likes of American Idiot, Holiday, Know Your Enemy and newbie Pollyanna.

Elsewhere the band played Dookie favourites such as Welcome To Paradise, When I Come Around, Basket Case and She, American Idiot classics like St. Jimmy, Wake Me Up When September Ends and Jesus Of Suburbia, and of course, they closed on the always-emotional Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life).

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Of the surprise KISS cover, Gene Simmons shared a video of the performance and wrote, "Thank you, gentlemen," while Paul Stanley enthused: "Another reason to love Green Day!"

Check it out below:

In case you missed it, here's Green Day's full Hella Mega setlist:

1. American Idiot
2. Holiday
3. Know Your Enemy
4. Pollyanna
5. Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
6. Longview
7. Welcome To Paradise
8. Hitchin’ A Ride
9. Rock And Roll All Nite (KISS cover)
10. Brain Stew
11. St. Jimmy
12. When I Come Around
13. 21 Guns
14. Minority
15. Knowledge (Operation Ivy cover)
16. Basket Case
17. She
18. Wake Me Up When September Ends
19. Still Breathing
20. Jesus Of Suburbia
21. Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)

Here's what Weezer played on the first night of The Hella Mega Tour, and this is Fall Out Boy's setlist.

Catch Green Day, Fall Out Boy and Weezer on the Hella Mega Tour at the following dates:

July 2021

27 Atlanta, GA – Truist Park *
29 Houston, TX – Minute Maid Park *
31 Jacksonville, FL – TIAA Bank Field *

August 2021

1 Miami Beach, FL – Hard Rock Stadium *
4 Queens, NY – Citi Field *
5 Boston, MA – Fenway Park *
8 Washington, D.C. – Nationals Park *
10 Detroit, MI – Comerica Park *
13 Hershey, PA – Hersheypark Stadium *
15 Chicago, IL – Wrigley Field *
17 Columbus, OH – Historic Crew Stadium *
19 Pittsburgh, PA – PNC Park *
20 Philadelphia, PA – Citizens Bank Park *
23 Minneapolis, MN – Target Field *
25 Commerce City, CO – Dick’s Sporting Goods Park *
27 San Francisco, CA – Oracle Park *
29 San Diego, CA – Petco Park *

September 2021

1 Milwaukee, WI – Summerfest
3 Los Angeles, CA – Dodger Stadium *
6 Seattle, WA – T‑Mobile Park *

(* = w/ The Interrupters)

June 2022

19 Ernst-Happel Stadion – Vienna, Austria
21 Antwerps Sportpaleis – Antwerp, Belgium
22 Stadspark – Groningen, Netherlands
24 London Stadium – London, UK
25 John Smith’s Stadium – Huddersfield, UK
27 Venue TBA – Dublin, Ireland
29 Bellahouston Park – Glasgow, UK

July 2022

2 Paris La Defense Arena – Paris, France