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’s Pete Wentz, 40, who at the time was an unruly high school metalhead. “Everybody got so covered in mud you couldn’t tell between the crowd and the band,” continues Armstrong. “A security guard slammed [bassist] Mike [Dirnt] and broke his teeth out. We had to rush him to a dentist before we played Lollapalooza.”Billboardchart, which means they’re far removed these days from worrying about stray projectiles or emergency dental work.
None of the bands have embarked an all-stadiums tour before, let alone in such company. At iconic baseball venues like Chicago’s Wrigley Field and Boston’s Fenway Park, they’ll provide, essentially, a three-hour nightly mega-mix of the music that has dominated KROQ Los Angeles playlists for the past generation -- but with the kind of star wattage that could well nudge rock closer to current pop music’s center.
Masterminding the operation is Crush Music, the New York- and L.A.-based company that manages all three acts: Fall Out Boy since 2002 , Weezer since 2016 and Green Day since 2017 . “I asked Green Day what their goals were because they have already achieved almost every goal a band has,” recalls Crush co-founder Jonathan Daniel. “And Mike said, ‘Well, we want to play stadiums.’ ”
Green Day has played its share before, including on its last tour in 2017. But it had done so with less frequency since 2004’s, zeitgeist-dominating albums that brought the band to commercial heights that its follow-ups didn’t sustain. “It really came together when Fall Out Boy and Weezer were thrown out,” says Jenna Adler, who has booked Green Day for Creative Artists Agency since 1995. As Daniel puts it: “You want to make it exciting and relevant to you, not just a victory lap.
Fall Out Boy, which went from tabloid-friendly stars of the 2000s’ mascara-punk explosion to one of this decade’s most reliable suppliers of jock jams, signed on immediately, eager to play alongside two of its heroes. Also onboard right away was Weezer, ’90s nerdcore fixtures that became unlikely 2010s crowd-pleasers thanks in part to last year’s winking cover of
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