Fiona Simmons September 23, 2024 2 min read

Green Day Slams Las Vegas as the “Worst Shithole in America”

Seems like Billie Joe Armstrong isn’t a fan of Sin City and the Oakland A’s relocation

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Billie Joe Armstrong, the lead singer of Green Day, just lambasted Las Vegas during a performance in San Francisco. The musician expressed strong discontentment at the relocation of the Oakland A’s and invited fans from the Bay Area to remain united.

Green Day Disagrees with the Relocation of the Oakland A’s

Armstrong gave his speech on Friday night during a concert at Oracle Park, a baseball stadium in San Francisco. As a long-time of the Oakland A’s, the singer expressed disagreement with the recent changes, appealing to the sentiments of the Oakland locals.

For context, billionaire John Fisher, the Oakland A’s owner, recently decided to build a new stadium on the Las Vegas Strip, effectively ditching the club’s decades-old traditions in the East Bay. This significant change was controversial on many levels as it required the demolition of the Tropicana, one of the most iconic properties on the Strip.

As for the Oakland A’s the team is set to play in Sacramento, California, for the next few years. Depending on how things unfold, the team might remain there instead of moving to Vegas. Some are increasingly skeptical of Fisher’s ability to actually find funding for his promised $1.5 billion stadium in Sin City.

Armstrong Critiques Fisher

Armstrong seemed less concerned about the fate of the Tropicana and more hellbent on expressing his displeasure with Fisher’s business decision. Before a crowd of tens of thousands of fans, the singer shouted:

We don’t take no shit from people like John fucking Fisher. I fucking hate Las Vegas! It’s the worst shithole in America!
Billie Joe Armstrong

Armstrong added that his band’s concert was about unity and bringing the people of the East Bay Area together. Despite just bashing Fisher and Vegas, he advised his fans to put the negativity behind for a bit, forget doom-scrolling for a while and enjoy Green Day’s music with the people they love.

The concert was a part of the Saviors tour, which coincidentally doesn’t include any stops in Las Vegas. The band has a mixed history with Sin City, which has included some great concerts but some bumpier performances too. In 2012, for example, Armstrong smashed his guitar and left the scene earlier after getting annoyed at a blinking sign that urged his band to wrap up its performance.

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12 Comments

Jay
September 23, 2024 at 8:30 pm

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Boo hoo I’m sure Las Vegas is heart broken over this news.
Monica
September 23, 2024 at 10:38 pm

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Big baby, good…stay out of Vegas because Vegas doesn’t like you either!
- Tony Martin
  September 24, 2024 at 1:11 am
  
  Not surprised. It is a shithole.
Vince
September 24, 2024 at 2:18 am

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Funny thing is they performed in Las Vegas for Superbowl weekend at The House Of Blues
Rick
September 24, 2024 at 3:37 am

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There’s a bigger shit-hole than Oakland CA?
Stanley Martin
September 24, 2024 at 4:01 am

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Who really gives a schict about what he thinks? Their music is no better than a garage band.
arlene
September 24, 2024 at 6:01 am

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Who is this dude? Never heard of him! Does he always talks like shit ass? Don’t know whether to offer him toilet paper or breath mints!
Donald Trump
September 24, 2024 at 2:47 pm

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Billy Jo Jackass can stay in filthy, corrupt Oakland, and SF. Has been, irrelevant now.
- Freida
  September 24, 2024 at 5:12 pm
  
  I think Green day should mind their own business. Do they own stock in the Oakland As?
Mcday
September 24, 2024 at 7:14 pm

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I won’t say fk Oakland but I will say fk green day, because Oakland was good to me when I was there. green day is one of the most irrelevant bands out there and they’d better stay out of Vegas.
Len
September 24, 2024 at 11:22 pm

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TRUE..it is becoming the creme de la creme of shiat holes along with CA, NY, CHICAGO, Washington State, Wash DC, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Hawaii, and many others… and don’t go overseas they are a bigger shiat hole than the USA.
Chris Green
September 24, 2024 at 11:24 pm

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Hey Billy your a high pitched yelling singer who only plays two chords on guitar in a little three piece band. Only thing you ever had were loser, stoner punk kids who wanted to follow something. Get a real job punk