Inexperienced Day‘s Billie Joe Armstrong has shared that Perry Farrell dismissed the group as a “boy band” and didn’t need them on the invoice at Lollapalooza in 1994.
The row, which has been documented in a brand new ebook Lollapalooza: The Uncensored Story of Different Rock’s Wildest Competition, erupted when the Jane’s Dependancy frontman approached John Rubeli, who was a stage supervisor for Lollapalooza on the time.
“I can’t consider a single time that Perry pushed again or vetoed a band – aside from Inexperienced Day. … He was like, ‘They’re a boy band. I don’t need to ebook a boy band,’” Rubeli stated within the ebook through Consequence.
Armstrong recalled: “Perry was a fucking asshole, straight up. He wasn’t part of that dialog, as a result of he’d checked out, however they requested us to play it and we stated sure.
“And it was going to be the Boredoms on the primary half, and us on the second half because the opening band. After which abruptly, he comes again in and he’s like, ‘I don’t need them on the invoice.’ Apparently, he thought that we had been a band that was put collectively by [record executive] Mo Ostin at Warner Bros.”
Rubeli added: “To Perry’s credit score, I used to be in a position to undergo [Green Day’s] historical past within the Bay Space and the way they’d launched indie data and finally he stated, ‘OK, they will do half the tour, however I would like the Boredoms on the opposite half.’”
Inexperienced Day ended up taking out their frustrations with Farrell onstage, with Armstrong dedicating the track ‘Chump’ to the Jane’s Dependancy singer.
Armstrong recalled: “For us it was actually disappointing, as a result of Perry was somebody that we actually revered. I feel that made us need to play [Lollapalooza] much more, truly, as a result of we needed to show that he had his head very far up his personal ass.
“He had minions that will come up and say, ‘Perry Farrell’s actually offended that you just devoted ‘Chump’ to him. And I’m like, ‘Inform him to cease performing like one.’”
The Inexperienced Day frontman went on to say he by no means interacted with Farrell till the 2 met later that summer season at Woodstock ’94 and briefly shook fingers.
Lollapalooza: The Uncensored Story of Different Rock’s Wildest Competition was written and curated by best-selling authors Richard Bienstock and Tom Beaujour.
The pair lately shared on Rolling Stone podcast Rolling Stone Music Now that considered one of Farrell’s concepts was to incorporate an enormous burrito meant to be shared by all festivalgoers. Farrell was “obsessed” with the thought, Beaujour revealed. “It’s really essentially the most prodigious well being hazard you can consider, however that was what he was actually going for.”
Inexperienced Day in the meantime are set to headline Coachella 2025 this weekend and subsequent alongside Woman Gaga, Put up Malone and Travis Scott.
