But, he’s now done so on US soil, in his home state of California, with himself and bassist/backing vocalist Mike Dirnt hailing from Rodeo, an unincorporated community just under a half hour drive northeast of San Francisco.
While singing the group’s most famed song, which boasts of more than a billion streams on Spotify, Armstrong switched a line.
Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt of Green Day perform at the Coachella Stage yesterday (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Coachella)
“Well, maybe I’m the f***ot, America / I’m not a part of a redneck agenda,” is how we all remember it.
But those in the audience at Coachella heard: “Well, maybe I’m the f***ot, America / I’m not a part of the MAGA agenda.”
Viewers over on Twitter were divided by Armstrong’s comments, with one person typing: “Sad. I used to like them. Just tools of the libs now.”
While a second added: “Tiresome. Why is he even still in the country? I thought they were leaving?”
Although others appreciated the politics, with one labeling their performance: “The best Coachella performances in years.”
Another typed: “This is a true punk who wants peace.”
Saturday night’s crowd also heard Green Day weigh into the war raging in the Middle East, while performing ‘Jesus of Suburbia’.
Again, Armstrong switched a line out.
The original goes: “I don’t feel any shame, I won’t apologize / When there ain’t nowhere you can go / Runnin’ away from pain when you’ve been victimized / Tales from another broken home.”
Armstrong touched on both US politics and world politics during Green Day’s Coachella set (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Coachella)
However, yesterday fans heard: “I don’t feel any shame, I won’t apologize / When there ain’t nowhere you can go / Runnin’ away from pain, like the kids from Palestine / Tales from another broken home.”
In the same song last month, Armstrong switched out a line to take aim at JD Vance after he had just berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in front of cameras at the Oval Office.
The original went: “Am I r*****ed, or am I just overjoyed?”
He tweaked it to go: “Am I r*****ed, or am I just JD Vance?”
It was met with both criticism and applaud, with one person tweeting: “Kudos for the anti-fascism, but not so much for the ableism.”
