Green Day Was a “Boy Band” And Other Lessons From The Lollapalooza Oral History

Green Day Was a “Boy Band” And Other Lessons From The Lollapalooza Oral History

During each of Lollapalooza’s seven years as a touring festival in the ’90s, someone or something inevitably stole the show—sometimes by sheer force, sometimes by dint of controversy, and often by an admixture of the two. That becomes abundantly clear while reading Richard Bienstock & Tom Beaujour’s zesty new Lollapalooza: The Uncensored Story of Alternative Rock’s Wildest Festival. Speaking with dozens of musicians, agents, promoters, stage wor…

Green Day was one of the most explosive emerging bands of the 1990s, but its rise was not without controversy. Billie Joe Armstrong, leader of the California pop-punk trio, recently revealed that the group was almost out of the 1994 Lollapalooza by decision of Perry Farrell, founder of the emblematic festival. The confession appears in Lollapalooza: The Uncensored Story of Alternative Rock’s Wildest Festival, a new book that reviews the unoffici…

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A book about the early years of Lollapalooza tells more about it. Although Green Day was the opening band at Lollapalooza 1994, the founder of the festival, Perry Farrell, does not seem to have been a fan of the band. In the book "Lollapalooza: The Uncensored Story of Alternative Rock such as Wildest Festival", more will be revealed. "Perry was a fucking asshole" John Rubeli, a former stage manager of Lollapalooza, said in this respect: "I can...

Why Perry Farrell didn’t want Green Day on the Lollapalooza bill: “He was like, ‘They’re a boy band. I don’t want to book a boy band’”

He thought they were a record company creation

Billie Joe Armstrong, leader of Green Day, throws herself at Perry Farrell because he, lead singer of Jane's Addiction and founder of the festival, didn't want the band to perform at the 1994 edition of the Lollapalooza festival. “He told people to tell us that he was furious that we dedicated the song 'Chump' to him [idiot]. And I said, 'then tell him to stop behaving like one. '”