Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley just took a jab at Eagles’ Don Henley.
In a new video the band shared on YouTube, the frontman shared his experience of seeing an Eagles show. However, Henley’s no-phone rule didn’t end well for him. Whibley said of the rule and the singer:
“I have a bone to pick with the Eagles. So I went to an Eagles concert, I think they’re great and I drove out to another city took me about 5 hours. A minute before they’re about to take the stage, this voice comes over the PA, and a thing comes up on the screen and it just says, ‘Oh by the way, ladies and gentlemen, we don’t want you to stand up during the show, we don’t want you to use your phones, we don’t want you to take any pictures, we don’t want you to take any video.’ So I thought, this can’t be serious though right? Because like, is anybody going to listen to this? Sure enough, the lights go out crowd cheers everybody’s phone goes up the whole Arena.”
‘The World Is Changing’
Even though everybody else was recording, Whibley was eventually kicked out of the show. And apparently, he was also warned by the security about Henley’s words. The frontman continued:
“[The security] goes, ‘Don Henley has told us all that if anybody videos he’s going to be watching YouTube after the concert and if there’s video that we’re all getting in trouble and security guards are getting fired tonight.’ My first thought is, ‘What the f*ck is Don Henley doing with his life? What the f*ck?’ This guy’s worth ungodly amounts of money. Is he sitting at the Ritz Carlton after the show on YouTube and [goes], ‘Oh got to call my manager.’ getting some poor guy fired from the Phoenix Arena because there’s a YouTube video?”
He then mentioned that the reason everybody takes their phones to take videos of the shows is because ‘the world is changing’:
“I mean, I get it, I’m a performer, I don’t like seeing a sea of phones out there. But you know what? The world is f*cking changing man. That’s just the way it is, and if you don’t like it I understand and I respect that. But pay for the service that people have to put their phones in the thing. You don’t want to pay for that, that’s the thing that bothered me. You don’t want to pay for it, you want to tell people how they’re supposed to enjoy their night.”
Henley hasn’t addressed Whibley’s comments yet.
You can watch the video below.