*Lots* of people asking how they can get refunds for their tickets.
If Green Day actually knew what fascism actually meant, they’d know that in 60 odd days America will lose its most fascist President of all.
GM, BP in the Gulf, and a host of other EPA and feel good agencies mandating actions/penalties without basis of law. Governing by threat.
Green Day is having a very bad day, on their FB account.
Epic.
:)
*Lots* of people asking how they can get refunds for their tickets.
Just some aging millionaires trying to reclaim some street cred that they didn’t have the first time around in the 90s.
It wasn’t an improvised lyric, it was a reference to Millions of Dead Cops/MDC
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/green-days-anti-trump-amas-chant-the-punk-history-w451677
M.D.C. singer Dave Dictor looks back on “Born to Die” lyric that inspired punks and protesters alike
It’s a line that stretches all the way back to the early Eighties, when the hardcore group M.D.C. clashed with Nazis in Austin, Texas, so they wrote the song “Born to Die” about it. The track would make its debut recorded performance on the band’s 1982 LP, Millions of Dead Cops. At the time, however, singer Dave Dictor was chanting, “No war, no KKK, no fascist USA.” Armstrong and his bandmates played with M.D.C. in the past, so the lyric has likely stuck with them over the years.
...What’s the story behind “Born to Die”?
Back in 1980, I was in a band the called the Stains, which morphed into Millions of Dead Cops in 1981, in Austin, Texas. We were aware of the Ku Klux Klan’s harassment and violence against the farmworkers in Texas. Cesar Chavez’s people were organizing. At the same time, and what I believe was unrelated, the Klan started recruiting at punk shows in Texas. We as punks stood up to them at our shows outside of Inner Sanctum Record Store in a parking lot in Austin as well as when they tried to march, at the state capital, in the fall of 1980 in Austin as well.
The “No Trump” variation has resonated with some protesters. Has that line been appropriated by other protesters that you know of?
I’ve been to various protests through the years where the line, “No war, no KKK, no fascist USA” was used. I remember it specifically during the Iraq War in the 1990s and again throughout the last 15 years with Iraq again and Afghanistan.
Oddly there WERE NO PROTESTS against Obama and Hillary’s war in LIBYA!
FUDD FUMDC FUGD