The lead guitarist for the 90s punk rock band the Offspring has vowed to support Anheuser-Busch products after several prominent musicians blasted Bud Light for partnering with controversial transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney.
Kevin John Wasserman, a 60-year-old rocker better known as “Noodles,” tweeted that he and his Offspring bandmates would add alcoholic beverages produced by Anheuser-Busch — which include Bud Light, Budweiser, Rolling Rock, and Michelob, among others — to their hospitality rider in response to a professed boycott from country music legend Travis Tritt. On Thursday, Noodles quote-tweeted Tritt and suggested that Tritt and others who vowed not to purchase Bud Light were motivated solely by bigotry.
“We are going to be adding Anheiser-Busch [sic] products & Jack Daniels to our hospitality rider just to piss off a bunch of dimwitted bigots who fear what they don’t understand,” Noodles wrote. He also warned that he knows “a s***-ton of artists who feel exactly the same” as he does and that such artists are heavy drinkers.
Though Tritt appears to have limited his animus to Anheuser-Busch, Noodles has expanded his counter-boycott to include Jack Daniel’s as well, likely because the whiskey company has come under fire for a 2022 ad campaign featuring three drag queens.
And while Tritt took aim at Bud Light figuratively with his boycott, fellow musician Kid Rock, a rock and country artist who recently opened his own brewery, expressed a similar sentiment by literally using several cases of Bud Light for target practice in a social media video that has since gone viral.
Noodles and the rest of the Offspring first burst onto the national scene in 1994 with their smash hit song “Come Out and Play (Keep ‘Em Separated).” The band then had several other popular tunes, such as “Self-Esteem,” “Pretty Fly (For a White Guy),” and “Why Don’t You Get a Job?” However, the Offspring’s musical influence seemed to wane in the early 2000s. The band’s last song to reach the Billboard Top 100 came in late 2008 and early 2009 with “You’re Gonna Go Far, Kid,” which peaked at number 63.
Despite the band’s ambivalent success in recent years, Noodles and the other original member, lead vocalist Dexter Holland, continue to produce new albums with help from some new members. They have an ambitious tour spanning much of Europe and the United States scheduled this year from May until late October.
In addition to supporting corporate activism, Noodles and the other members of the Offspring have been known to dabble in other woke issues as well. In 2021, they removed drummer Pete Parada from the band after 14 years because he refused to take the COVID vaccine. Then earlier this month, Noodles called Tennessee Republicans “a fascist bunch of f***wads” for expelling two Democrats who had instigated anti-gun activists who had stormed the state Capitol and disrupted proceedings inside the legislative gallery.
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