Black Crowes Spar With Florida Crowd Over ‘U.S.A.’ Chant: ‘We Are Not F-cking Ignorant’ - Rolling Stone

The Black Crowes got into it with a segment of fans who started booing after frontman Chris Robinson rebuffed their “U.S.A.” chants at Sunday’s show in Tampa, Florida.  According to various reports, the flare-up occurred near the end of the Black Crowes‘ set, after they flashed their Black Crowes mascot on the big screen, dressed as Uncle Sam. This being Florida, a chunk of the crowd apparently took that as a cue to launch into a patriotic chant. To be fair, the Black Crowes have never been an overtly political band, so this isn’t like a “U.S.A.” chant breaking out at a Rage Against the Machine concert. But Robinson was nevertheless compelled to make his feelings known. According to TMZ, he responded to the chants by quipping, “Thanks for the geography lesson,” followed by, “I don’t know what you have to be so proud of right now.” While neither of those remarks appeared in any of the videos of the incident shared online, a few fan-shot clips captured the mix of boos and cheers that followed. They also showed the end of the exchange, during which Robinson stated, “For those of you fucking booing us, some of us are not afraid. And we most assuredly are not fucking ignorant!”  blogherads.adq.push(function () { blogherads .defineSlot( 'medrec', 'gpt-dsk-tab-article-inbody-uid0' ) .setTargeting( 'pos', ) .setTargeting( 'viewable', 'yes' ) .setSubAdUnitPath("music\/article\/inbody1") .addSize(,,,,,,,,]) .setClsOptimization("minsize") ; });