The Oakland Athletics have played their last game for MLB with "Oakland" in their name, with the team's move to Las Vegas now fully in the works. One Oakland native in particular, Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong, isn't happy about it, and his group's tunes are now banned from two Sin City radio stations due to his recent remarks on the matter.
?Armstrong's comments: KRONreports that the singer spoke up about his feelings during a Sept. 20 concert at San Francisco's Oracle Park, where he ripped on A's owner John Fisher and then added, "I hate Las Vegas. It's the worst s---hole in America."
?Station No. 1: KOMP 92.3 FM, a local Vegas rock station, said on its Instagram feed on Wednesday that it "has pulled any and all Green Day from our playlist" as a result. The station added: "It's not us, Billie ... it's you," along with the hashtag #vegas4ever.
?Station No. 2: Next, X107.5 issued a similar statement. "Sin City heard him loud and clear—and X107.5 is not having it," the station said. "In response to Armstrong's inflammatory comments, the station is banning all Green Day music, effective immediately." The statement added that Green Day had played a pop-up show in 2023 at a Vegas concert venue, so the station was "surprised" by Armstrong's remarks. "Armstrong has crossed a line with Las Vegas locals," the statement sniffed.
?Previous bans: Green Day has been "excommunicated" in the past, including at a punk venue in Berkeley, California, after the band signed to a major label in the '90s. That ban was retracted nearly a decade ago, "so maybe Green Day will play their cards in Vegas again soon," Abby Jones writes for the outlet. "But I doubt Armstrong is counting the days."
Remember when Ozzy got banned from San Antonio? Not just his music! They banned Ozzy himself from coming back. Why, you ask?
Well...
Ozzy Osbourne didn’t wake up Feb. 19, 1982, and decide he was going to cause trouble that afternoon that would get him banned from a whole city. He was simply going about his business, partying like a rock star, and after a few drinks too many he stumbled out in the street dressed in a dress owned by his future wife Sharon Osbourne (she had hidden his clothes to keep him from going out) and emptied his full bladder on the nearest statue he could find - as one does when one is Ozzy. He had no idea he was standing at the city’s sacred 60-foot-high Cenotaph, located directly across from the Alamo building. Hell, he was barely in any condition to remember what city he was in, let alone where he was relieving himself. Contrary to popular belief, Ozzy didn’t technically pee on the Alamo building itself, he peed within the Alamo Plaza, and he chose a pretty bad place. The Cenotaph was built in 1939 by the Texas Centennial Commission to honor the dead whose remains lay somewhere else and local officials didn’t take kindly to the public desecration by urination. Police arrested Ozzy, who spent part of the afternoon in a local jail on charges of public intoxication. He was freed later that evening on $40 bond and performed at the city’s Hemisfair Arena Convention Center. Though the fine didn’t even amount to a slap on the wrist, Osbourne was banned from playing San Antonio again until 1992, when he made a public apology to the city and donated $10,000 to the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, the organization that maintains the Alamo grounds. The city forgave him and Osbourne played two nights at the Freeman Coliseum, Oct. 1 and 2. “We all have done things in our lives that we regret,” Ozzy said at the time. “I am deeply honored that the people of San Antonio have found it in their hearts to have me back. I hope that this donation will show that I have grown up.”
Good boy, Ozzy, good boy...
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