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Yeah, he's been posting about the fire in Cali in the past few days, but before that there was radio silence for a long time. It's obviously a good thing that he's posting about the fires and ways to help a lot, but I did miss this personal side of him

Cheeky

Got this from Tumblr so y'know but: today is october 17th 2017 which means that exactly 30 years ago today high-school-aged green day played their first EVER show as a band in a bbq joint to a crowd of around 25 people (mostly friends and family). billie and mike were only 15 at the time. fast forward to 2017 and green day is now finishing up their revolution radio tour. during this tour, the band played at massive venues including hyde park, the rose bowl, central park, and wrigley field, with some shows having over 65,000 attendees. happy 30th anniversary to green day. we love you so much.

Is listening to Kerplunk. I love the full version of Christie Road

Thanks Billie Joe for your support for us up here in the north bay in the fire storm. We still have alot of people in shelters.

But he acknowledged that that was a crazy thought that came early in rehab- "Even into the second week, I was like, "I don't belong here. I'm not convinced." The sick part of it is I wanted to get all of the nar­cotics out of my system so I could start drinking. But that's the insanity of the whole thing. You make excuses. You ra­tionalize. You can take a shit in a mailbox. That doesn't mean it's the right thing to do."

Did anyone really think Billie didn't have problems though? Maybe it's just none of our business. Writing is therapeutic for Billie, and turning some of that angst into songs maybe helped. But I'm not sure what we as fans could have done because, again, it's not really any of our business what's going on in any of the guys' private lives.

I remember hearing the preview of it and thinking it's a pretty cool angsty song. Now it's one of the few always make me sad. I can't distance myself from this song. There's something about it that's simply heartbreaking. Anyway, it's interesting to read about your "adult" thoughts and feelings and comparing them to mine. Makes me realize how different it was to experience stuff as a child. (I was 14 at the time, fyi)

And nobody is saying it isn't, like I said, it's a great thing he's doing. But what I missed is the silly posts, I may have used the wrong word for it. It's been so serious, understandably, so I'm just glad he's still "himself" by posting dumb shit inbetween, you know?

sure but aren't you tired of arguing sometimes

So I've been listening to a lot of the Trilogy and there's a lot of songs I completely forgot about that are great! A lot of the songs on those albums are fun and while there are some duds, there are some ones that I couldn't imagine not being part of the GD catalog, like Brutal Love, Lazy Bones, or Missing You.

I honestly didn't know a lot of people were so unaware of his alcohol/substance/general mental health problems before iHeart/rehab happened. Not only has he always written about it in his lyrics but he's also always openly talked about it in interviews. He talked about drink and drug problems and feeling troubled/miserable in pretty much every interview he did in the 90s. I guess listening to the trilogy or watching shows from that time could be more affecting since everything came to a head right after but I didn't know anyone was under the impression that everything was hunky dory or a secret until then. You can hear dark, real stuff on all their albums not just the trilogy, he just carried on writing as honestly as usual and I don't have any extra trouble listening to it. We really don't know the details about exactly which substances were the main problem or how each affected him though since he's chosen not to go into it, not much point in speculating about that.

I have strong and sad feelings too about this song, I relate to it so much and I love it so much. Somehow I wanted to tackle it, especially knowing Billie himself has had hard times playing it live. So Lazy Bones is one of the two first songs I've learned to play at guitar, and I have to say it's great to play. Energetic and not depressing at all. It's my favorite song to play (among 4 songs, since I'm a beginner ) and I've learned to sing along playing with that song. It's so fun!

I was listening to Lazy Bones the other day - I had the same feelings as the first time I listened to it

I feel that Billie's issues affect fans' perceptions of the Trilogy era more than they should. Which is totally understandable, because it was an awful time to be a Green Day fan, but not necessarily accurate. Before it went wrong, the era was genuinely fun and exciting for both the band and fans. If you look for signs of him going downhill now they're visible, but they weren't alarmingly clear until two or so months before iHeart. In some ways, it was equally clear he wasn't doing well at points during the 21CB era and whilst some Trilogy songs are reflective of his issues, so is a large chunk of Green Day's back catalogue. Armatage Shanks, say, is as much of a literal representation of his issues as Lazy Bones is - it was just that the Trilogy era was when things finally exploded in a way that was fully visible to us.

Billie is going to soon come out of social media hiding, and he needs something good to draw people back in. I think it's time to hit us with another nude.

oh, right because he's usally satanic, i get it

Give the people what they want, eh? Nice to see his sense of humor creeping back into his posts.

^^^Man, he must've really hated cameras back then.

Thanks for the info. I think it's incredibly cool that Billie supports local businesses like that.

I don't necessarily agree that there was a massive amount of celebrating drugs/alcohol within the lyrics on the trilogy. What stands out to me are songs like Amy, a stark warning of a life cut tragically short by addiction. Ashley contains lyrics like "I taste the cigarettes and liquor on your breath We used to call it speed but now it's crystal meth Back when I loved you but you're scaring me to death" And "You say that you're fine but I know that you ain't You're looking like hell and you're no fucking saint" Again definitely not a celebration of drug use. Even songs like Loss of Control weren't celebratory they was a miserable undercurrent with lyrics like "Life's a cruel crushing son of a bitch" And then we have obvious songs like Lazy Bones.

We don't know because he hasn't said and it's not our business to speculate about it. He's been pictured with alcoholic drinks a couple of times, but we don't know the circumstances of it (eg if it was even his drink), and he's never sworn to stay teetotal or shared what his specific plans are in regard to drinking/not drinking anyway, so nothing to discuss really. Can we get back to discussing the trilogy please. Things are getting a little too far into speculating about Billie's personal life.

Had a dream that I was watching tv when a commercial for a new Tarantino movie came on (but looked more in the style of a Wes Anderson movie). Green Day was in it (including the big 3), but as claymation versions of themselves. Weird thing is that I recognized Jeff first. So I guess it was supposed to be like Live Freaky, Die Freaky, but good?

Any word on how that Fell for You remix performed as far as downloads or other success? At least Oh Love got onto the new Hits album.

For me I know it was a tough time. I was really worried about Billie, which a lot of people found weird because I don't know him. But I remember sitting on the bus the day after the news came out and trying not to cry just because I wanted him to be okay. And on the other side, I had just bought tickets to my first GD show and it was postponed. Though I was more concerned with Billie getting better, there was just so much uncertainty as you mentioned. I thought it might take a whole other year to get the band back on track. I'm glad it didn't and the show turned out to be wonderful. It was the first of the tour and Billie was so full of love and I think he almost cried at seeing the fans who waited for him and gave him so much love. It was amazing.

I agree. Personally I try not to let my knowledge of the backstory affect my enjoyment of the music. Music is meant to be enjoyed on its own. I've always liked stuff like Nimrod and Shenanigans and even though it's always been obvious what some of these songs are about, it never stopped me from liking them. It's true that I didn't want to jump to any conclusions and saw them as art in the first place - that was what I wanted to believe (tbh I decided that I won't read into the lyrics after I'd read a bunch of interviews from Nimrod era that freaked me out.) And I still do this - it's just lyrics. Good lyrics for the most part. Many of their songs definitely aren't about light topic but they sure are fun.

I was working more so I didn't post on here much, or maybe even still just lurking, I didn't have the time, but what I remember most about the whole Trilogy release was seeing the video for the Forgotten and thinking it looked so like a farewell, I remember sitting sobbing over my keyboard watching it on YouTube as I really thought Billie might not recover and that could have been the end of Green Day. I think it felt weird at the time that everyone was so quiet, Rob Cavallo had said earlier that Billie would not be seen again until at least Christmas and there was just total silence from Mike and Tre. Thanks goodness Adrienne posted a picture of her birthday and then the one with Billie sitting on the couch! At least we could hope that things were improving.

Literally the last thing I bought was Revrad last year... I feel bad lol

Found a used copy of On The Radio last night ... after seeing the Bookmobile in person

I bought a Billie Joe hoodie and a Revrad hoodie with the Bang Bang art on the back