Great song writer, I don't think anyone can take that from him. As for the bottle that was thrown. What are the chances that was less of a statement, and more just one of those stupid things that punks thought was cool. It seems to me that when I was checking out the punk thing, 20 odd years ago. That kind of stupid shit happened all the time, in both directions, Audience->Band, Band->Audience. Thats why bars started selling beer in cans instead of bottles around here.