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how is this not the topic of the week?

LOL , if nothing else, it's rock & roll at it's heart!

Kramerguy wrote:http://www.mjsbigblog.com/billie-joe-armstrong-iheart-radio-rant-im-not-fcking-justin-bieber-you-motherfckers-video.htm

how is this not the topic of the week?

LOL , if nothing else, it's rock & roll at it's heart!

That is absolutely the deepest, quintessential display of Spoiled, American Prima Donna I have ever seen . Seriously I just lost every ounce of respect I ever might have had for them (Or at least Armstrong)

On A lighter note, Pete Townsend would have kicked his ass , hands down on the guitar-busting contest...

I don't know, I kind of like what Billie Joe said. Rock & Roll has been under attack for a while now by the machine that pushes crap like Justin Beiber, and I'm glad someone has enough balls to stand up and say so. Of course it's possible it was staged for attention but the point needed to be made.

Green Day is just promoting thier new offering, three albums.


I like Green Day a lot, but they arent ones to be talking about selling out now are they? They are part of the machine at this point.

jw123 wrote:Green Day is just promoting thier new offering, three albums.


I like Green Day a lot, but they arent ones to be talking about selling out now are they? They are part of the machine at this point.

That's exactly my point... But you said it better.

As an Artist, if one is playing at all for money, then the rules dictate a new protocol...

The first rule (i would think) is to never phuk the paying audience in the ass for sh*t they didn't do, or didn't have control over.

The second rule...Between choice of priorities, entertainment trumps personal/political message. And any Good artist will tell you that the better way to express a message is obviously through the music, anyway...Not by breaking character and acting like some temperate prima-donna, school-girl about it in front of an audience...

If he did this to push his new cds, He sure lost my interest.

I dunno, Maybe I'm the weird one here...

jimmydanger wrote:I don't know, I kind of like what Billie Joe said. Rock & Roll has been under attack for a while now by the machine that pushes crap like Justin Beiber, and I'm glad someone has enough balls to stand up and say so. Of course it's possible it was staged for attention but the point needed to be made.

I'm guessing it all started with MTV and got worse from there.

seems like rather dickish behavior to me.

on a positive note....kudos to GIBSON for the excellent build quality of that LP Jr.

then again maybe BJA just needs to spend a little less time dropping "F" bombs and a little more time in the gym.

i mean how funny would it have been and how much of a tool would he have looked like if he kept flailing away trying to bust up the gtr but couldn't do it??? talk about looking like a spoiled brat having a hissy.

Planetguy wrote:i mean how funny would it have been and how much of a tool would he have looked like if he kept flailing away trying to bust up the gtr but couldn't do it??? talk about looking like a spoiled brat having a hissy.

HaHa thats what I thought was going to happen when I saw the video! I thought he can't break it what a Wussy! They would have had to take away his man card if he hadn't of broken it! It broke the Mulletmans heart to see a good LP treated that way!

Kramerguy wrote:http://www.mjsbigblog.com/billie-joe-armstrong-iheart-radio-rant-im-not-fcking-justin-bieber-you-motherfckers-video.htm

how is this not the topic of the week?

LOL , if nothing else, it's rock & roll at it's heart!

well for this to be, epic you would have to give a flying f**k what green day thinks.

well my thoughts were :

* yes he acted like a spoiled brat
* but what he said wasn't entirely untrue or wrong, from a rock and roll perspective
* he should know that to break a guitar, you gotta hit it flat on a surface, not on it's side
* the network did lie about the whole thing, claiming that they never told him to cut the set, yet it clearly shown on the display that he had only 1 minute left
* to green day's credit, at least when they stopped playing, a backing track didn't keep playing/singing the song
* Judging from the crowd's reaction, they seemed to agree with his sentiment, if anything.
* and last, and maybe best of all- the way he chucked the mic at the end of his tirade was pretty freekin epic.

Kramerguy wrote:well my thoughts were :

* yes he acted like a spoiled brat
* but what he said wasn't entirely untrue or wrong, from a rock and roll perspective
* he should know that to break a guitar, you gotta hit it flat on a surface, not on it's side
* the network did lie about the whole thing, claiming that they never told him to cut the set, yet it clearly shown on the display that he had only 1 minute left
* to green day's credit, at least when they stopped playing, a backing track didn't keep playing/singing the song
* Judging from the crowd's reaction, they seemed to agree with his sentiment, if anything.
* and last, and maybe best of all- the way he chucked the mic at the end of his tirade was pretty freekin epic.

I dont disagree with then RR message...But its still amateur to behave like that... Do you realize what a greater story it would have been for him... in Rolling Stone, if he'd kept his cool and spilled the beans in an interview?

But noooo. Now he looks like a buffoon even if he was right about the situation...

And I was also thinking, I know some young kids who are working so hard to collect and save money for their guitars... and Green Day spits all over that effort... by destroying that beautiful instrument..

Like I said I lost all respect for them..

Can we also assume you have no respect for The Who or Jimi Hendrix?

If he had been sober, it would have been Epic rock n roll.

You don't know BJA's background. He's a punk rocker that made the choice to accept bigger things for the sake of what family he had left - and he paid for it dearly from his peers.
Still, he's punk rock at heart, so that was actually a mild fit.

jimmydanger wrote:Can we also assume you have no respect for The Who or Jimi Hendrix?

Those were very different times. Just saying ...