As previously reported, Indo-Canadian Punjabi singer/rapper AP Dhillon has dropped out of the second weekend of Coachella following the backlash to him smashing a guitar on stage at the festival's first weekend. (Well, his team called it "scheduling conflicts," and a source told BrooklynVegan that Dhillon dropped out of Weekend 2 prior to his set last Sunday.) People in India were particularly offended, given their cultural reverence for musical instruments.
In an attempt to justify his actions, the artist posted some photos from the performance, captioned, "The media is controlled and I am out of control." The final slide of this collection was a video of Kurt Cobain smashing a guitar on stage.
While Cobain can't exactly weigh in on how he feels about having done that now, Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers is feeling some red-hot embarrassment for his own old onstage antics.
On Sunday night (April 14), the same day as Dhillon's Coachella performance, the bassist tweeted, "feel like such an idiot for smashing my bass to pieces on stage back in the day, pathetic."
Of course, we can't say for sure if Flea's comment was in direct response to the Punjabi artist's stunt or not, but the shape it's takin' seems too well-timed to be purely coincidental.
