Members of Eagles Of Death Metal, the Offspring defend the Dickies in Warped Tour controversy
Following an incident involving the Dickies, who played a select run of dates on the 2017 Warped Tour, calling out a festival-goer on-stage, Eagles Of Death Metal’s Jesse Hughes and the Offspring’s Noodles have spoken out in defense of the Dickies on-stage verbal response to a Warped Tour crew member.
“Long live freedom of speech and long live the notion that rock ‘n’ roll is about saying whatever the fuck you want!!!!!! Especially if it’s offensive to people Who are weak cowardly and can’t stand for anyone else to be free !!!!sticks and stones, my friends,sticks and stones!!!…..,” Hughes shared in his post on Instagram.
Read their statements in full below.
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The two musicians are defending the Dickies after they used derogatory speech to directly call out a member of the crew, which Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman clarified last week.
Hughes says that a “safe zone is a place that exists in your home not at the place you voluntarily drive to and walk into and sit in an audience of that exists in a public place,” furthering his stance by saying “the enemies of free speech must be stopped at all costs.”
Noodles responded similarly, saying, “It takes some real guts (or is it idiocy?) to demand a “safe space” where nobody really wants or expects one to be, even though it really is a pretty goddamn safe place to begin with.” He concludes his statement with: “f*ck you, kiss my ass, blow me, blow me, blow me, you fat f*cking c*nts and assholes.”
Following the social media response calling out the Dickies for their on-stage behavior, the band stuck by their actions. You can read their statement in full, along with the footage circulating on Twitter of their on-stage callout, here.
Late last week, Lyman clarified that it was a member of the touring crew, not a fan, that the band called out on-stage. However, he did clarify that he does not “condone verbal or physical violence, whatsoever.”