Within the new guide “Lollapalooza: The Uncensored Story of Various Rock’s Wildest Pageant” by authors Richard Bienstock and Tom Beaujour, Inexperienced Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong revealed that they virtually didn’t participate in Lollapalooza 1994 because of Jane’s Dependancy frontman and Lollapalooza founder Perry Farrell.
Whereas Inexperienced Day did find yourself becoming a member of the second half of that competition tour, if it had been as much as Farrell they might have by no means even been booked.
As Lollapalooza’s former stage supervisor John Rubeli remembers within the guide: “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 guide a boy band.’”
Relating to the entire ordeal, Armstrong mentioned: “Perry was a f*cking a*gap, 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 mentioned 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 that they had launched indie information and ultimately he mentioned, ‘OK, they will do half the tour, however I need the Boredoms on the opposite half.’”
Throughout one among Inexperienced Day’s performances at Lollapalooza, the band known as Farrell out by dedicating their music “Chump” to the Jane’s Dependancy frontman.
“For us it was actually disappointing, as a result of Perry was somebody that we actually revered,” Armstrong mentioned. “I feel that made us need to play [Lollapalooza] much more, really, as a result of we needed to show that he had his head very far up his personal a**.
“He had minions that might come up and say, ‘Perry Farrell’s actually indignant that you just devoted ‘Chump’ to him. And I’m like, ‘Inform him to cease performing like one.’”
Armstrong went on to say that he by no means interacted with Farrell personally till the 2 of them met at Woodstock ‘94 later that summer time the place they solely briefly shook palms.
