Green Day were pulled from the stage for security reasons two verses into their fifth song, “Longview,” last night at Comerica Park in Detroit.
It turns out the concerns had to do with a drone someone flew into the stadium. The website for Detroit TV station Fox 2 reports that the Detroit Police Department (DPD) issued a statement that said the band “was taken off stage and shortly…went back on stage to perform.” DPD noted that they had located the drone operator outside the park and “detained him…pending further investigation.”
An onscreen message after the band left the stage informed the crowd that the show had been “paused.” The band returned five to 10 minutes later and resumed the concert, with frontman Billie Joe Armstrong first asking if every was okay and later saying, “There ain’t no mother[effer] that’s gonna stop us, I’ll tell you that.”
The band went on to play their full 37-song set.
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