That was great

I like how the other guitarist smashes his too. You know, cause that's what cool punk rocker guys do.

If I was that bad at my job for that long, I'd be cummin' in my britches to have one minute.....and get paid for it....paid alot for it.

Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen! We sure did love you! We'll see you next time, we had such a good time playing here tonight! Rock 'n' roll!

Cool gimmick bro

This is what happens when you decide to work for Clear Channel for a night.

Considering he probably made more money for this than I'll make all month, I'm in the wrong business.

Oh, the shame of having your set cut for a relevant contemporary artist.

That is a sturdy guitar!

American Idiot: The Musical!

This from the Green Day facebook page:

"Billie Joe is seeking treatment for substance abuse. 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."

I've been around since 1988.

I remember all these people back in middle school who worshiped this man as a musical genius and would in the very same breath of praising Green Day, bitch about how much they hated anything and everything "mainstream" and how "mainstream' music ruined music.

Oh, to be raised in Norwalk, California.

I might just be a giant music nerd, but seeing someone destroy musical instruments always makes my skin crawl.

So, let's examine this:

Green Day cashes in the tiny amount of barely indie/punk cred they ever had back in the 90s to become a huge commercial hit, largely by toning their music down a notch or two (just enough to skirt by radio play) and not really doing much else that remotely qualifies them as "punk."
They grift off of disillusioned teenagers who don't know what real punk music is for years, becoming richer than arguably any other "punk" band from their scene, and doing things like routinely headlining giant, corporate sponsored music festivals and making videos for MTV whose budgets are roughly equal to the gross national product of a small country which is about as far from punk as a band could possibly get.
They then get upset when, while on a bill with other top 40 artists, they are asked to cut short their set to make time for an artist who makes the label more money than they do unaware of the utter sadness that is the fact that their music is so bubblegum that it is literally interchangeable with vapid pop-shit like Usher to the point where the SAME AUDIENCE will be attending the performance.

In other words, shut the fuck up you pathetic sell out. Go soak in your XXL hottub, fucktard.

Well, the good news is that he was actually completely fucked up on drugs, so that ought to earn him some fresh street cred.

Five for the irony of a guy playing a song bordering on "classic rock" age, from their pop crossover album, for an event by the company that aims to kill indie radio, raging against the powers that be.

I forgot Green Day still existed

Stars because I actually agree with Green Day.