At press time, a concert committee comprising venue representatives, the community and California State University, Dominguez Hills (where the Home Depot Center is located), were expected to make a final decision on whether Green Day would be allowed to play the 27,000-capacity stadium.

Apparently, the “list” was compiled about three years ago by center operator AEG and university officials who were trying to appease worried neighbors still traumatized from a 1990 Grateful Dead concert at the now-demolished Olympic Velodrome. The list names acts including Marilyn Manson and rapper Ice Cube.

“In the early negotiations with [California State University, Dominguez Hills], it was a way to reassure them that we were going to be responsible with the concerts we booked,” Home Depot Center GM Bill Peterson told Pollstar. “So we created this opportunity with this list as a guideline to assist in the process of us booking concerts.”

Peterson added that the list is not absolute; it only recommends acts that should be questioned. He also pointed out that no artist has ever been banned from playing the venue.

How Green Day got on the list in the first place remains a mystery. AEG spokesman Michael Roth has a theory that the band was singled out while touring with Lollapalooza in the ’90s. Putting Green Day on the list would therefore prohibit the traveling festival from visiting the city.

“If you look at the list, Eminem is on it but so is Slim Shady,” Roth told Pollstar. “I think they were just throwing out names they’d heard of that they wouldn’t want playing in their neighborhood.”

Meanwhile, neither Roth nor Peterson are worried the concert committee will deny Green Day from playing the October 8-9 gigs.

The band is riding a major resurgence of success right now and their concert tickets are selling like mad. Green Day is currently on an arena tour of the U.S. and Canada. In June, the band head to Europe and the U.K. for some huge festival and stadium shows, then it’s back home for a fall tour leg.