I work for Clear Channel and will give Green Day all the time they need to be heard! While sharply questioning the Sin City mantra: What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.
A crowd of on-air jocks and I sat around a my radio station studio control board watching then re-watching Billie Joe Armstrong shake the night with vibrant reactions to having been digitally told they had only one minute left to perform.
Blessed with brilliantly designed words placed in equal rotation, the melting down of the world's biggest and most successful Green machine concluded with a hell raising guitar smashing wish I could've been there moment.
The radio jocks in the room laughed not a Billie but the fricken guitar that wouldn't break. One! Two! Three! Four then five hard crashes against the I Heart stage and the thing still wouldn't crack. How the hell can Paul Stanley do it every night? How did Pete Townsend of The Who make it look so cool and flawless?
"Give me a ... break," Armstrong shouted. "One minute left. One minute ... left. You're gonna give me ... one minute? Look at that ... sign right there. One minute. Let me ... tell you something. Let me tell you something. I've been around since ... 1980 ... 8 and you're going to give me one ... minute? You gotta be ... kidding me ... I'm not ... Justin Bieber."
The LA Time quickly chimed in with an explanation of Bieber not being on the bill, but Green Day had taken the stage after Bieber's mentor Usher had finished his performance. Green Day, according to an on-site report from the Las Vegas Sun, took the stage about 30 minutes late and performed a truncated set. Rihanna was to close the night, and did so after Armstrong smashed his guitar and stormed offstage.
The statement on the Green Day site sought to make it clear that radio heavyweight Clear Channel had nothing to do with pulling the plug on the Green Day's set.
"Billie Joe is seeking treatment for substance abuse," read the statement. "We would like everyone to know that our set was not cut short by Clear Channel and to apologize to those we offended at the iHeartRadio Festival in Las Vegas. We regretfully must postpone some of our upcoming promotional appearances."
Honestly... This is the biggest day for Rock music since the birth of Hair Bands. Finally the sheltered shell of community driven politically correct material from wanna be Rock sound-a-like acts can drop the Adam Levine Maroon Five pretty "Boy Band" approach to making great music.
Rock has needed a facelift for too long and Billie Joe Armstrong might have opened the door to a new age of Rock Gods.
Rock is an attitude not a weekly appearance on a game show talent contest.
Rock is a way of life that can only be harnessed by angelic common sense bleeding from the British lips of Sharon Osbourne.
Today's attempt at Rock has evolved into welcome sights in every Dad's Man Cave. They've become accepted in neighborhood circles. The first glimpse of raw music blaring from a pair of car speakers should force old people to call 911 not shout out, "Turn it up!"
This is the second time this year that Rock has been bullied off the stage. Springsteen and Paul McCartney on the same microphone were unplugged in July. Little Steven Van Zandt fed the veins of music fans with exclusive coverage of real reactions with Tweets so loud the sound barrier inside the soul of real Rock n Roll exploded like Simmons spurting fire.
How do you put a time limit on the makers of what set you free as a kid?
When you watch the video it clearly shows: One Minute. Obviously the men that make up the NFL referee's union were too busy getting ready for their big weekend game. 9 out of 10 of them would've halted the I Heart Festival for a complete review. Come back after not one but two television timeout's and said, "Upon further review... we rule in favor of Green Day. They'll take that one minute and multiply it by 15 million cd's sold."
RollingStone Magazine announced today the release of Green Day's ¡Uno!, the first installment of their new album trilogy, is just around the corner – tomorrow, to be exact. Today, though, you can check out a video of the band ripping through their bare-bones, euphoric rock track "Stay the Night" in a video recorded at their Orange County rehearsal space in August.
WARNING WARNING THE NEW VIDEO CONTAINS LANGUAGE NOT SUITABLE FOR CLOCK WATCHERS AND PEOPLE NOT FAMILIAR WITH ROCK TALK. WARNING!
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