Billie Joe Armstrong used the San Francisco Giants’ stadium to harshly attack the A’s owners, and peripherally Las Vegas, on Friday night.
The leader of the Bay Area punk icons Green day caught the attention of A’s ownership at a sold-out concert at Oracle Park.
“We do not tolerate any (censorship) from people like John (expletive) Fisherman“Who sold Oakland Athletics tickets to Las (redacted) Vegas,” Armstrong reportedly shouted to the crowd of 43,000. by the San Jose Mercury News“I hate Las Vegas. It’s the worst hole in the United States.”
Armstrong was born in Oakland. Historically, he has been a strong advocate and promoter of the East Bay.
An email sent to an A’s representative seeking comment has not been returned.
Green Day has a three-decade history of playing Las Vegas, dating back to two shows at the Huntridge Theater in September 1993 and again in February 1994. The band played a 2-hour pop-up show at Fremont Country Club and its connected Backstage Bar & Grill in October last year.
That wild performance, packed with Green Day fans (mostly from Las Vegas), took place just before that weekend’s When We Were Young Festival at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds.
The band played for two and a half hours on Friday, re-recording “Dookie” on its 30th anniversary and “American Idiot” on its 20th. “Dookie” was also revived at the performance at the Fremont Country Club.
The Oracle Park concert took place as the A’s entered the Oakland Coliseum for a weekend homestand against the Yankees. The A’s conclude their 57-year run in the East Bay this week with a three-game series against the Texas Rangers.
Lars from Rancid Frederiksenwho is also from the East Bay, joined the Fisher group.
“Oh, I’m going to say something tonight: (expletive) John Fisher,” Frederiksen said from the stage. “His whole family makes money off of people in the Bay Area and then he wants to (expletive) go to Vegas. (expletive) him.
“Thank God we still have the Giants.”
For Armstrong, this isn’t the first time the punk star has let off some steam related to Las Vegas.
In September 2012, Armstrong became irate during the iHeartRadio music festival at the MGM Grand Garden. He did not take issue with Las Vegas, in particular, but was deeply infuriated by the lethargy of the crowd after Usher destroyed the place with his 15 backup dancers.
Armstrong was also angry that the length of Green Day’s concert was cut from 45 to 30 minutes.
“We have nine (expletive) minutes left! What the (expletive)!?” he shouted as he stared at a giant monitor in the middle of the stadium, which read: “9 MINUTES.”
“I’ve been doing this for 25 (censored) years! I should have more than a minute per song!” Armstrong then broke his guitar in half, while the bassist Mike Dirnt He smashed his instrument into the amplifiers stacked behind him.
The band then stormed off, emotions running high. Rihanna Next, and I honestly don’t remember anything from his set.
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