Green Day banned from Vegas radio stations after trashing city on stage

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Green Day banned from Las Vegas radio stations after trashing city on stage

Punk trio Green Day has been banned from two Las Vegas radio stations after frontman Billie Joe Armstrong trashed the city on stage.

While performing at San Francisco’s Oracle Park in late September, Armstrong made remarks in reference to the nearby Oakland A’s baseball team leaving for Las Vegas.

“We don’t take s— from people like f—ing John Fisher,” he said, before going on to say, “I hate Las Vegas. It’s the worst s—hole in America.”

While Armstrong’s remarks about A’s owner John Fisher would likely find sympathetic ears around the Bay Area this week, the remarks about the team’s proposed new home seemingly didn’t go over too well in Vegas.

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Well, I guess I'm biased.

A)  I love these guys.
B) I lived the first 11 month of my life in the town where they got their start (Albany, CA).
C)  It's an absolute shame to see the A's getting moved from Oakland to... well...
D)  Billie Joe is right.  "...Las Vegas. It’s the worst s—hole in America.”






"It's a sad and beautiful world"
-Roberto Benigni

Comments

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,671
    And look, haha!  I typed "B" and then ")"  and it made a smile with shades.  OK, I'm cool with that.  :lol:
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,570
    Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious according to Oscar Wilde
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • pjl44
    pjl44 Posts: 10,581
    No love for the A's ownership but it's laughable to deliver that rant from a stage at Oracle Park. Vegas did nothing wrong but welcome a baseball team. Giants ownership did more to hasten the A's demise than any other external factor - if Billie Joe actually had any balls that's who he would have gone after. Douchebag.
  • pjl44
    pjl44 Posts: 10,581
    It's such a rich old punk move to blast a city from 500 miles away and not say a peep about the bad guys within earshot
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,671
    pjl44 said:
    No love for the A's ownership but it's laughable to deliver that rant from a stage at Oracle Park. Vegas did nothing wrong but welcome a baseball team. Giants ownership did more to hasten the A's demise than any other external factor - if Billie Joe actually had any balls that's who he would have gone after. Douchebag.

    Wanna fight? Be careful, I might run out and kiss you. :lol:    

    Just joking.  That's a memory from a story I read about Paul Westerberg doing a promo gig at Amoeba Records in S.F.  Some dude was harassing Paul, so he ran out into the crowd and grabbed the guy and kissed him.  
    Then, a couple of years later, I went to see Paul Westerberg and His Only Friends at the Great American Music Hall in S.F.  At the beginning of the show, Paul ran out onto the stage and yelled, "Wanna fight?!"  Haha, it's all a punk thing.

    Oh, and fuck Las Vegas.  :smiley:     
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • pjl44
    pjl44 Posts: 10,581
    brianlux said:
    pjl44 said:
    No love for the A's ownership but it's laughable to deliver that rant from a stage at Oracle Park. Vegas did nothing wrong but welcome a baseball team. Giants ownership did more to hasten the A's demise than any other external factor - if Billie Joe actually had any balls that's who he would have gone after. Douchebag.

    Wanna fight? Be careful, I might run out and kiss you. :lol:    

    Just joking.  That's a memory from a story I read about Paul Westerberg doing a promo gig at Amoeba Records in S.F.  Some dude was harassing Paul, so he ran out into the crowd and grabbed the guy and kissed him.  
    Then, a couple of years later, I went to see Paul Westerberg and His Only Friends at the Great American Music Hall in S.F.  At the beginning of the show, Paul ran out onto the stage and yelled, "Wanna fight?!"  Haha, it's all a punk thing.

    Oh, and fuck Las Vegas.  :smiley:     
    Ha! I'm a very passionate baseball fan and the A's thing is super depressing. I get why people don't like Vegas but they're not the bad guy here!
  • lexicondevil
    lexicondevil Posts: 2,253
    I have to visit my dad in Vegas every now and then. I generally hate it there. Going to places like Evel Pie and the Griffin are my highlights.

     Also, FUCK JOHN FISHER.
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,671
    pjl44 said:
    brianlux said:
    pjl44 said:
    No love for the A's ownership but it's laughable to deliver that rant from a stage at Oracle Park. Vegas did nothing wrong but welcome a baseball team. Giants ownership did more to hasten the A's demise than any other external factor - if Billie Joe actually had any balls that's who he would have gone after. Douchebag.

    Wanna fight? Be careful, I might run out and kiss you. :lol:    

    Just joking.  That's a memory from a story I read about Paul Westerberg doing a promo gig at Amoeba Records in S.F.  Some dude was harassing Paul, so he ran out into the crowd and grabbed the guy and kissed him.  
    Then, a couple of years later, I went to see Paul Westerberg and His Only Friends at the Great American Music Hall in S.F.  At the beginning of the show, Paul ran out onto the stage and yelled, "Wanna fight?!"  Haha, it's all a punk thing.

    Oh, and fuck Las Vegas.  :smiley:     
    Ha! I'm a very passionate baseball fan and the A's thing is super depressing. I get why people don't like Vegas but they're not the bad guy here!

    I'm with you on baseball.  Love the game!  And yeah, the A's being moved sucks so big time.  Being a Bay Area kid, I started going to A's games in Oakland from the get-go.  Oh man, so many great memories.  I just hate it when a favorite team gets moved!

    As for Vegas, meh, it's just another tragedy to me because I love the desert and I think all big desert cities pretty much suck, mainly because they tend to sprawl and eat up for fragile desert ecosystem. 
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,671
    lexicondevil said:
    I have to visit my dad in Vegas every now and then. I generally hate it there. Going to places like Evel Pie and the Griffin are my highlights.

     Also, FUCK JOHN FISHER.

    Yeah, that Fisher dude is not making friends!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • darthvedder
    darthvedder Posts: 2,679
    The group buying the Coliseum is saying all the right things about having concerts there again, so there's at least some good news in this shit show. Whether they have the actual funds to buy the Coliseum is another matter. And the City of Oakland balancing their budget based on the sale of said Coliseum is pure lunacy.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,671
    darthvedder said:
    The group buying the Coliseum is saying all the right things about having concerts there again, so there's at least some good news in this shit show. Whether they have the actual funds to buy the Coliseum is another matter. And the City of Oakland balancing their budget based on the sale of said Coliseum is pure lunacy.

    I guess that's fine for those who live in Vegas or care to go there.  
    My own take is that I wouldn't go to see any band in Las Vegas if you gave me the ticket and paid my way 100%.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,767
    Been to Vegas once and had a fabulous time. 
    By The Time They Figure Out What Went Wrong, We'll Be Sitting On A Beach, Earning Twenty Percent.




  • JeBurkhardt
    JeBurkhardt Posts: 5,341
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    Been to Vegas once and had a fabulous time. 
    I was supposed to go to the PJ show in 22 that was cancelled. I was looking forward to checking it out in the short time I was going to be there. The only time I have been there was a layover at the airport one time. You have to love an airport with slot machines. 😀
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,767
    JeBurkhardt said:
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    Been to Vegas once and had a fabulous time. 
    I was supposed to go to the PJ show in 22 that was cancelled. I was looking forward to checking it out in the short time I was going to be there. The only time I have been there was a layover at the airport one time. You have to love an airport with slot machines. 😀
    no kidding. coming from winnipeg, where the airport has two baggage claims and one Tim Horton's. 
    By The Time They Figure Out What Went Wrong, We'll Be Sitting On A Beach, Earning Twenty Percent.




  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,671
    The last time I got even close to Vegas, things got very strange.  I could see this massive glow off on the horizon and then something odd happened to my mind...
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    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • JeBurkhardt
    JeBurkhardt Posts: 5,341
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    JeBurkhardt said:
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    Been to Vegas once and had a fabulous time. 
    I was supposed to go to the PJ show in 22 that was cancelled. I was looking forward to checking it out in the short time I was going to be there. The only time I have been there was a layover at the airport one time. You have to love an airport with slot machines. 😀
    no kidding. coming from winnipeg, where the airport has two baggage claims and one Tim Horton's. 
    Timmies! When I went to the Hamilton and Toronto shows in 22, there was one walking distance from my AirBnB. It was my breakfast spot for the 3 days I was there. It is the coffee we use at home. They need to open stores in the Southern Indiana/Illinois area. 

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