Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong Shocks Fans with Unforgettable Onstage Showdown—What Did He Say?
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Armstrong’s comments proved divisive among their fanbase, with one side wishing for the band to stay out of politics and the other believing that they’ve always been political.
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“I miss when Green Day wasn’t political. Back when they made songs like American Idiot and Holiday,” a fan wrote.
“Green Day literally endorsed Biden in 2020. American Idiot is a song protesting Bush and the Iraq war,” another replied.
Green Day has a long history of confronting rowdy fans for their behavior
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Green Day has not only remained faithful to their political roots but also their onstage antics—being no strangers to confronting rowdy audience members.
Back in 1994, during the band’s set at Woodstock, a mud fight between fans quickly spiraled out of control, culminating in concertgoers storming the stage. The chaos resulted in bassist Mike Dirnt being mistakenly tackled by security and having several of his teeth knocked out.
“Flashback to Billy Joe leaving the stage at the 1994 Boston Hatch Shell riot,” another fan recalled.
Three years later, in 1997, Armstrong took matters even further during a show at San Francisco’s Fillmore. After spotting a disruptive fan in the crowd, he challenged him directly.
“Hey, why don’t you come here, you little mohawk motherf****r?” he shouted, before hurling his guitar down and diving feet-first into the audience to fight him himself.
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