- by Scott Colothan
- Tuesday, February 24, 2009
- filed in: Punk Rock
Last week a video surfaced online of Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx heartlessly reducing a female fan to tears by using threats and calling her a “fucking whore” (alongside other obscenities) after she threw a water bottle towards him. Extremely hypocritical, the bottle in question was the exact same one he tossed into the crowd moments earlier. Despite him issuing a half-baked apology, he still came across like an idiot.
The whole sorry episode got me thinking of other times rock stars have attacked their fans – either verbally or with physical violence - during live shows. And there are some right shockers.
From squeaky-cleam Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong drop-kicking someone in the front row, to Henry Rollins beating seven shades of shit out of a troublemaker, to GG Allin smearing his own blood on a poor fan, this list has it all.
Admittedly, the vast majority are in retaliation to something a fan has done first.
Just flick through the videos below - but note some may be NSFW. If you can think of any more examples, post your links at the bottom of the page.


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