“No more Green Day,” a local Vegas radio station declared after Billie Joe Armstrong’s expletive-charged rant at a concert. Green Day has again infamously climbed the pedestal of making the headlines for controversial reasons.
The American rock band that last made rounds on the Internet for branding former President Donald Trump an “idiot” at a July concert in Washington DC has now been banned by a pair of local radio stations in Las Vegas following a concert.
The band’s front-man Billie Joe Armstrong – often fronting such impassioned stunts – launched a verbal onslaught against Sin City over displeasure about his beloved MLB team Oakland A’s being taken away from the Bay Area. The once-diehard fan of the A’s, an Oakland native himself, directed his furious rants at the team’s owner, John Fisher, for executing the switch.
“We don’t take sh*t from people like f***ing John Fisher… I hate Las Vegas,” Armstrong said at a San Francisco gig in late September. He also called the Gambling Capital of the World “the worst sh*thole in America.”
The punk artist’s verbal hate train at the music show aligned with his previous actions of vandalizing the team’s logo during a Canadian tour stop. In August, he recorded himself doing the deed in the clubhouse at the Roger Center, home of the Toronto Blue Jays. Billie posted the clip on his social media profile, showing himself spray painting a ‘B’ over the ‘A’ of the Athletics logo.
Armstrong’s latest rant in San Francisco ultimately landed Green Day’s music in trouble with a pair of Las Vegas radio stations. In a heated response of extending their solidarity to the US city, two Vegas stations – KOMP 92.3 and X107.5 – condemned the act.
“No more Green Day,” KOMP 92.3 wrote on Instagram, as they announced that “any and all” tracks of the band had been pulled off their playlists. “It’s not us, Billie… it’s you,” the station captioned the post with ‘#vegas4ever.’
Similarly, X107.5 issued a statement against the music act on their website. “In response to Armstrong’s inflammatory comments,” the website read, “the station is banning all Green Day music, effective immediately.” They added, “Sin City heard him loud and clear—and X107.5 is not having it.”
Although the Vegas station called Armstrong out for crossing a line with the city’s locals, numerous other Green Day fans and sports enthusiasts alike backed him up in the comments of ‘komprocks’ IG post.
“Not a huge Green Day fan, but as I sports fan I get it. He’s a bay kid that grew up in the Bay Area where the A’s are from, where the raiders were from. I don’t think he meant it as an actual diss to the city. Just sports talk that’s all. Could he had said it a different way? Yes. But where’s the fun in that? lol,” someone wrote.
