8 Musicians Who Were Busted For Exposing Themselves On Stage

8. Billie Joe Armstrong

Anyone unfortunate enough to sit through a mediocre Green Day concert will have no difficulty understanding whether or not the show lived up to frontman Billie Joe Armstrong’s standards, as he’s been prone to dropping his trousers and mooning the crowd during so-so performances.

That method of communicating with the fans came back to bite him in 1995, when Armstrong flashed his Dookie-maker at a show in Milwaukee. Rather than storm the stage to shut down the concert mid-pantsing, police officers waited until the band had finished their encore to get involved, allegedly to prevent a riot.

But after wrapping up their (evidently lukewarm) set, Milwaukee’s Finest were on hand to escort Armstrong to the police station, where he was cited for indecent exposure.

According to Lt. Thomas Christopher, the main reason they took action was because he’d exposed himself to so many people - attendance was roughly 6,000 strong - “including people as young as ten.”

Fortunately for Billie Joe, he’d written a check that his butt could, in fact, cash, and was released on bail for the meager sum of $141.85.