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Green Day Banned by Las Vegas Radio

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  1. Melody Bot Sep 30, 2024
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    LOL. Green Day got banned by two Las Vegas radio stations:

    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.

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  2. DooDooBird Sep 30, 2024
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    I get that it sucks they’re leaving, but let’s be real… Oakland is by far a bigger shithole than Vegas.
     
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  3. Phil507 Sep 30, 2024
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    In 1998 this would be a huge deal for the band and their management/label would be trying to smooth things over with the station. In 2024....probably makes no difference.
     
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  4. cricketandclover Sep 30, 2024
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    Things have changed.

    Good publicity stunt for both parties
     
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  6. AlwaysEvolving21 Sep 30, 2024
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    That's fucking hilarious.
     
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  7. WadeCastle Sep 30, 2024
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    boo hoo what are they gonna do without all that radio exposure now?!
     
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  8. jeff.dart Sep 30, 2024
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    This is the kind of petty back and forth that I can get behind.
     
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  9. grimis16 Sep 30, 2024
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    Good, fuck John Fisher and his ability to tank the team in order to get them to abandon Oakland. It's the movie Major League, but in reality and actually succeeded.
     
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  10. grimis16 Sep 30, 2024
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    Most likely said by someone that's never been...
     
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  11. 333 GANG Oct 1, 2024
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    I love Vegas and go every year, but as things stand today the A’s will never be playing there.
     
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  12. stephenvstrex Oct 1, 2024
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    grace upon grace

    Die hard Oakland Athletics fan. Went to my very last game last Saturday with my two cousins that taught me to love the game and to be an A's fan. 34 years of heartbreak. FJF. Our owner is an absolute catastrophy and MLB is complicit in letting this scoundrel run amuck without a plan. Good for Green Day being an absolute gem for all us who feel the same as Billie does.
     
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  13. Allthegiganticthings Oct 1, 2024
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    Weren’t there like 1000 people showing up to home games? Pretty sad for the players.
     
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  15. grimis16 Oct 1, 2024
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    Hiked up the prices for everything, lowered the payroll for players and abandoned the city. In 2004 they signed the biggest contract in their franchise history to Eric Chavez...next year John Fisher becomes the owner. This tanking of a team has been well under way for 20 years. You'd show up for that?