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ood Riddance: Radio Stations Ban Green Day After Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong Calls Las Vegas ‘Worst S**tHole in America’
Breitbart ^ | 9-26-24 | Alana Mastrangelo

Posted on 09/27/2024 8:08:04 AM PDT by dynachrome

Las Vegas radio stations have banned Green Day after frontman Billie Joe Armstrong called the city “the worst shit hole in America” during a recent performance.

While Armstrong’s comments were connected to his opinion on the A’s leaving Oakland and planning to move to Las Vegas, the Green Day frontman nevertheless chose to trash the entire city in an expletive-laden rant.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Humor
KEYWORDS: alanamastrangelo; banned; billiejoearmstrong; breitbart; california; gambling; greenday; lasvegas; mlb; nevada; oakland
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To: dynachrome
This is all a bunch of silliness. I remember when radio stations banned Elvis the Pelvis because of his lewd dancing style, or The Beatles because of something John said about Jesus. Radio stations are just not that important.

Who even listens to radio stations anymore? I stream almost 100% of the music I listen to these days. I don't think I could even name one local station on my FM dial.

Not that aging rock bands are important either. If I go to a concert, rare these days, I want to see an artist in their prime. I don't want to watch an 80-year-old Mick Jagger shuffle-step to "Satisfaction" to some rent-a-drummer because the original drummer died of old age.

Green Day was a thing in the 1990s. Now they are just another bunch of old grouches lackadaisically playing their decades-old string of hits to a bunch of old affluent people with the disposable income to drop several hundred dollars a ticket for a night out to try and relive their glory days.

It's a sad sight all around.

21 posted on 09/27/2024 8:48:51 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (7,525,799 Truth | 87,979,589 Twitter)
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To: dynachrome

Funny thing is, LV used to play their songs on Fremont Street sync’d with the overhead TV screen.


22 posted on 09/27/2024 8:51:21 AM PDT by HonkyTonkMan ( )
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To: dynachrome

East St. Louis


23 posted on 09/27/2024 8:52:24 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Kimber .45 Be Kind.)
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To: No name given

I preferred the best: Led Zeppelin or Stevie Ray Vaughan.


24 posted on 09/27/2024 8:55:29 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: SamAdams76
I don't want to watch an 80-year-old Mick Jagger shuffle-step to "Satisfaction"

Oh, you mean another One-Foot-In-The-Grave tour?

25 posted on 09/27/2024 8:57:24 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: dynachrome

Las Vegas May not be worst, but it’s up there.


26 posted on 09/27/2024 9:05:21 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Joe Boucher

Check out Cairo, illannoy while you are at it. Fitting that both these gems are in the same sphincter state.


27 posted on 09/27/2024 9:17:19 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Red Badger
Hate to say it but big cities were safer too when the Mafia was running things more. My dad was only semi-connected but when I was having bullying problems as a child, all my father had to do was say the word and suddenly the punks that were harrassing me would cross the street just to avoid me.

One can talk about how the Mafia was corrupt and made everything more expensive but the only difference now is that it is the politicians cashing in on all the graft and now the streets are much less safe.

28 posted on 09/27/2024 9:24:53 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (7,525,799 Truth | 87,979,589 Twitter)
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To: dynachrome
It's still better than the worst s**thole in China.


29 posted on 09/27/2024 9:26:10 AM PDT by Flatus I. Maximus (TIM WALZ'S COVID MANDATES KILLED MY WIFE.)
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To: dynachrome

I would ban Green Day just on the basis they suck and always have.


30 posted on 09/27/2024 9:27:53 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: dynachrome

Maybe he should visit Washington, DC, the nasty, malodorous, fetid, rank, ghastly swamp, as Gorka like to call it.


31 posted on 09/27/2024 9:28:06 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: dynachrome

Green Day? You misspelled gay didn’t you?


32 posted on 09/27/2024 9:31:18 AM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: SamAdams76

It’s a sad indictment of our government when certain well-known families provide better security than the government itself.


33 posted on 09/27/2024 9:34:02 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: Jeff Chandler

The irony of having that song. How old are these guys now? Still trying to be edgy...showing they’re just immature morons that have never grown up or learned anything.


34 posted on 09/27/2024 9:34:23 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: dfwgator

Hes an Canadian Idiot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDdnVBCYPuU


35 posted on 09/27/2024 9:34:25 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: SamAdams76

I just saw Yes and Deep Purple in concert. I wasn’t expecting much as they are all ageing. It was all original members with 1 exception. I was blown away. All these guys were surprisingly on top of their game. The concert was scorchingly good and both bands were extremely tight.


36 posted on 09/27/2024 9:34:33 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: dynachrome

There are much worse places in America.


37 posted on 09/27/2024 9:37:48 AM PDT by nonliberal (Russia is not my enemy.)
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To: ifinnegan

I was aggressively pursued by a weirdo and had to go in a store to try to get away from him. Still followed me in I yelled loud as I could “get the F away from me “ whole store turned around to see what was happening. Finally left me alone. Wife thought I was going to fight him. Later we were at an outdoor bar, I left to use the bathroom. When I came back my wife was sitting behind the bar and the bouncer was tossing some jerks out into the street. The were harassing her and offering her money for sex. She is very pretty. She was so freaked out we took a cab 3 blocks to the hotel and never went out again. F Vegas. Never going back.


38 posted on 09/27/2024 9:49:50 AM PDT by enraged
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To: Jeff Chandler

You got that right!


39 posted on 09/27/2024 11:41:02 AM PDT by vpintheak (Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. )
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To: dynachrome

Green Day should have banned from radio for their music.


40 posted on 09/27/2024 11:45:14 AM PDT by GSWarrior (Don’t ever tell me “it can’t happen here.”)
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