Billie Joe Armstrong recalled an episode in which Perry Farrell called the band “Boyband”
Billie Joe Armstrongsinger of Green Day, he recalled the time Perry Farrell, frontman From The addiction to Jane And the founder of the Lollapalooza Festival did not want his band to perform at the Festival.
In the new book Lollapalooza: the without censorship story of the wildest festival of alternative rockThe singer of Green day and the then stage manager of the event, John Rubelithey shared how Perry Farrell It was against the band’s participation in his alternative travel festival, because he thought he was a Boyband building.
“I don’t remember immediately when Perry rejected or place the veto to a band – except Green Day. … he said: ‘I’m a boy band. I don’t want to take a boyband.”he said John Rubeli.
Already Billie Joe Armstrong Remember: “Perry was an asshole without Rhodes. He did not participate in the conversation because he had given up, but he asked us to play and we accepted it. And they would have been the bored in the first half, and in the second half as an opening band. And then suddenly he returns and says:” I don’t want them in the project. “Apparently, he thought we were a band gathered by the label of the label) Mo Ostin to Warner Bros.”
“For the Perry credit, I was able to review the story [do Green Day] In the Bay Area and how they released independent records and in the end he said: “Okay, they can do half of the tour, but I want the knots in the other half”“, Complements Rubeli.
On the stage of LollapaloozaTHE Green day played Chaos In response to the comments of Farrell.
Green day: “It was really disappointing for us, because Perry was someone who we respected a lot,” said Billie Joe Armstrong
“It was really disappointing for us, because Perry was someone who we respected a lot. I think he made us want to play [no Lollapalooza] Even more, in fact, because we wanted to demonstrate that he had his head very blocked in the anus himself “fired the singer of Green day.
“He had henchmen who arrived and said:” Perry Farrell is very angry because you dedicated “Chump” to him. And I said: “tell him to stop behaving like a” “integrated.
Armstrong AND Farrell would meet Woodstock In 1994, where it is believed to have solved things with a handshake.
Source: Terra
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