{"id":487136,"date":"2019-06-18T07:20:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T13:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=849392"},"modified":"2019-06-18T07:20:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T13:20:45","slug":"perry-farrell-performs-hard-rocking-pirate-punk-politician-on-fallon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/perry-farrell-performs-hard-rocking-pirate-punk-politician-on-fallon\/","title":{"rendered":"Perry Farrell Performs Hard Rocking \u2018Pirate Punk Politician\u2019 on \u2018Fallon\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-18-at-9.08.31-AM.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/perry-farrell\/\">Perry Farrell,<\/a> &nbsp;the frontman of LA alt-rock band Jane\u2019s Addiction and one of the co-founders of the Lollapalooza festival, performed \u201cPirate Punk Politician,\u201d on <em>The Tonight Show<\/em> Monday night. The track is from his latest solo album <em>Kind Heaven<\/em>. The song is a slinky hard rock anthem with unsurprisingly political undertones (\u201cSplit your country down the middle\/Break her open, kill the kiddos\u201d), and Farrell performed it with the appropriate amount of gravitas.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g8azs-iCf88?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Fallon also sat Farrell down for an interview, and the two talked about Farrell\u2019s antiquing hobby and his experiences with organizing Lollapalooza. Pointing out Fallon\u2019s in-house band The Roots, Farrell recalled one year in which Budweiser opted for a sponsorship deal at the festival, and Farrell had to scramble to come up with a better way of advertising beyond putting up giant signs for the beer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought, what about when The Roots are playing, we get a giant keg of beer, and then we just grab some people, a small handful of people and say, \u2018You guys can go and watch The Roots right onstage with a keg of beer, but you gotta finish it before their set is done,&#8217;\u201d recalls Farrell. \u201cAnd we did it! I don\u2019t know if I ever told you guys that, but we had some people&nbsp;<em>partying<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/perry-farrell-pirate-punk-politician-jimmy-fallon-849392\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perry Farrell, &nbsp;the frontman of LA alt-rock band Jane\u2019s Addiction and one of the co-founders of the Lollapalooza festival, performed \u201cPirate Punk Politician,\u201d on The Tonight Show Monday night. The track is from his latest solo album Kind Heaven. The song is a slinky hard rock anthem with unsurprisingly political undertones (\u201cSplit your country down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-487136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 09:07:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}