Billie Joe Armstrong is from Oakland, California, the former home of the Oakland A’s.The MLB team is now moving to Las Vegas, and Armstrong does not like that.
During a Green Day concert in San Francisco on Sept.20, the frontman took a few shots at the team’s owner John Fisher, as well as Sin City as a whole: “We don’t take shit from people like fucking John Fisher…I hate Las Vegas.
It’s the worst shithole in America.” Though a good chunk of the Bay Area audience probably agreed with those sentiments, a couple of Las Vegas radio stations took it personally.Vegas rock station KOMP 92.3 announced in a recent Instagram post that they’d be banning Green Day’s music: “KOMP 92.3 has pulled any and all Green Day from our playlist.
It’s not us, Billie…it’s you.#vegas4ever” Meanwhile, another Vegas station X107.5 shared a similar statement on their website: Green Day have been excommunicated from certain spaces before.
924 Gilman, the Berkeley DIY punk venue where Green Day got their start, banned them for signing to a major label in the ’90s.The venue retracted that ban in 2015, though, so maybe Green Day will play their cards in Vegas again soon.
But I doubt Armstrong is counting the days....