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with the news of the people dying at a Travis Scott concert while he did essentially nothing, i felt it necessary to list as many examples as possible of how easy it is for a band to control its fans when shit is getting out of control
While on tour in Australia, for the 2013 Soundwave festival, Chester Bennington of Linkin Park stops mid-song to help a fan who had been knocked out.
Zach de la Rocha of Rage Against The Machine stops a show in Arizona to condemn sexual harassment happening in the crowd
Corey Taylor while on tour with his band Stone Sour stops a show in Australia because of an injury, telling the crowd to back up
Chevelle tells man in the crowd at a show to stop pepper spraying people who were just enjoying the show
Kurt Cobain and the rest of Nirvana during a 1993 New Years Eve concert in California tell off a fan for sexually assaulting a woman in the crowd, and proceed to make fun of him
Layne Staley of Alice In Chains punches and slaps a nazi at a 1993 show in Sweden after the man caused trouble in the crowd. Layne then says "fucking Nazis die."
There are so many videos of Billie Joe Armstrong saving fans at shows, they can be put into this six-minute compilation
M. Shadows helps a passed out fan during the 2018 Graspop Metal Meeting, instructing the crowd to give them room
Dexter Holland, singer for skate punk band The Offspring, tells the crowd of Woodstock '99 not to sexually harass the women crowd surfing
Five Finger Death Punch reunite a lost little girl with her mother during the 2016 Chicago Open Air Festival
there are literally hundreds of videos of the proper protocol when there's a situation at your show-- ignoring it isn't one of them. fuck you Travis Scott.
When it's the Macy's Day Parade and the night of the living dead are on their way:
American Idiot and Teenagers hit 1 billion on Spotify so I drew a little thing to celebrate
I'm going to be that person: I will choose to listen to the Broadway version of 21 guns than the original Billie Joe Armstrong version ANY day of the week
It is so damn good I feel like my soul is ascending every time I listen to it omfg
Im practicing the song so that I can sing a unique theater song instead of dead mom for the 104th time ☺️
DID YOU TRY TO LIVE ON YOUR OWNN WHEN YOU BURNED DOWN THE HOUSE AND HOOMEE
DID YOU STAND TOO CLOSE TO THE FIRE LIKE A LIIAR LOOKING FOR FORGIVNESS FROM A STONE
GOD IT HITS SO HARD
And some of you are going to say "oh don't compare the two" and I know but like they are kinda the same songs just one has more people singing it and is a Broadway level song so I think I have all the rights to compare the two they basically have the same lyrics, same rhythm, same idea....