Video: Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong Smashes Guitar, Cuts Set Short at iHeart Music Festival
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Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong abruptly cut short Green Day's set at this past weekend's iHeart Music Festival in Las Vegas after the band's set was allegedly cut short my the show's producers.
In the video below, Armstrong can be seen cutting short the classic track "Basket Case" in order to play a new song, before seeing a prompter with "1 Minutes" on it facing the stage. The singer then launched into a verbal tirade.
"Let me tell you something, I've been around since 19-fucking-88," he yelled. "And you're gonna give me one fucking minute? You've gotta be fucking kidding me! You’re fucking kidding me. What the fuck! I'm not fucking Justin Bieber, you motherfuckers."
Armstrong then smashed his guitar, flipped off the camera and told the crowd, "God love you all, you'll see us again," before exiting the stage.
It has since come out that Armstrong has checked himself into rehab for undisclosed reasons, and the band have issued an official statement clarifying the events at the festival.
"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," the band said in a statement. "We regretfully must postpone some of our upcoming promotional appearances."
Uno!, the first of three upcoming albums from Green Day, is out tomorrow.
For the full story on Green Day's upcoming trilogy of albums, check out and exclusive cover story with Billie Joe Armstrong in the November issue of Guitar World.
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Goairvenus
October 09, 2012 at 4:16pm
I liked it- !! greenday is a great band- u cant cut them short-the more they play the better for the audience-
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Davuzi
October 01, 2012 at 12:30am
I liked the durability of the set neck on the Gibson took a few knocks to break it apart!
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ttotsto
September 24, 2012 at 6:32pm
He may not be "fucking Justin Bieber" but he sure acts like "fucking Justin Bieber". Overrated and a legend in his own mind. Give me someone who can really play and doesn't rely on punky histrionics to get his musical point across.
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zappa73
October 02, 2012 at 6:17am
ding ding...we have a winner.
Still, I love their music and am looking forward to buying their albums. Cool band.
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mak101
September 24, 2012 at 2:08pm
Classic Billie Joe. I don't care how over produced their studio shit is. Put Green Day on a stage and it's about as punk rock as you can get. Can't wait till they kick off this tour here in Seattle.














