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"Makeup entrepreneur" http://thehardtimes.net/music/billie-joe-armstrong-punk-phase/

I'm in my university's marching band, and this past week we did a Green Day show. If any of you want to view it, here's the facebook link!! Setlist: Bang Bang, Holiday, Still Breathing

Um, so I don't know about you guys but that drawing appeared to be wayyy inappropriate until I realized a certain part of the image was meant to be his arm, bending at the elbow and going back toward the guitar. It did not appear that way at first look...haha. Oh kids.

I always kinda cringe when fans from a certain artist/band say ''now I just love him/her/them even more''... ...but DAMN, now I DO love him so much more!

Wasn't sure where to put this but it's from the protest in Gainesville yesterday. http://pic.twitter.com/x2jFpKjsIx

The 50 Best Protest Songs of All Time 50. Green Day, “American Idiot” The title track of their 2004 album “American Idiot” ushered Green Day into the 21st century with the pop punk snark of their youth with the anger of the Bush era. The album opens, “Don’t wanna be an American idiot / Don’t want a nation under the new media / And can you hear the sound of hysteria? / The subliminal mind-fuck America.” A direct response to the nation’s deteriorating international perception and its internal hysteria in response to 9/11, “American Idiot” looked inward and outward simultaneously and cemented Green Day’s legacy in the history of punk. —Hilary Saunders https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/10/the-50-best-protest-songs-of-all-time.html Green Day's Jason Freese: "I love iLoud Micro Monitors!" http://www.ikmultimedia.com/news/index.php?item_id=12294

It makes me laugh, thinking about all the butthurt people who felt this family wasn’t “deserving” of the concert because they weren’t “true fans.” This happy memory will obviously impact those kids forever — how sweet!

Sometimes a guitar is just a guitar. Mind out of the gutter guys. 😋

He tried to just drop it in all casual like "I'm only about 5'8 and..." but there was no way he was going to get away with it

Pfft Doesn't he know it's ok to be a funny little man

Agreed, I think we all think Tre is bigger because he’s got a much stockier frame than Billie. Billie isn’t that short to me, my brother is 5’7, my dad was 5’6 and my brother is the tallest in my family lol, on a good day I am 5’1. Billie has a very petite frame though which is why I think he looks so tiny but he is nicely in proportion, very nicely

I can say with confidence that Mike Dirnt is a freaking giant compared to me He was towering over me and intimidated me with his tallness My grandpa wasn't taller than him either

Yes, he's basically a new Hitler What does this mean can you please explain in at least 4 paragraphs?

I love the "one user who reportedly still argues about who is punk or not online"

Glad I'm not the only one who thought that for a second.

He's chosen the traitors instead of becoming a Packers fan @Dirty Rotten Bastard I was almost there with converting my fiance to a Packers fan, then they watched this stupid game and decided to stay with the Raiders forever, too

What we have here is clearly a good fangirl/boy in the making

Oh I love posts like that where fans cross paths in public and the guys are doing ordinary but awesome things.

You're being such a grouch. Don't tease and tell us all your secrets

I was kinda thinking that about where and how the guitar is drawn 😂. Oh dear. Brought a smile to my face. So cute though. Wish I could see the rest of the letter

In the nice tent at Glastonbury? That was with those creepers

Okay this time it is I who have inverted this thread with the fangirls one

"About" is the keyword

I agree with these figures . Mike could just about be 5'10 (and that's what it says if you google his height) but I don't think more.

Better?

Mike is only about 3 inches taller than Billie (like 5'9 or 5'10 max), they're all a bunch of shorties. But he does still look lanky Edit: Proof of this

Tbh I hope it won't be a festival tour because festivals are expensive and none are expecially close to me or conveniently timed

And that's it again. Billie never says the truth. When he says his songs about drugs and cheating aren't about actual drugs and cheating, he most definitely cheats and does drugs and I feel obliged to take this on another level: Billie never tells the truth. The whole time he was speaking up against Bush he was in fact supporting Bush. American Idiot is in fact a very pro-Bush song but he lured us into thinking the opposite because that way he could sell more tickets. He's a strong Trump supporter now. Believe nothing he says. No Trump actually means, No, Trump! as in No, Trump is an awesome guy, vote Trump! That's a fact. Billie is a huge GOP supporter.

Fair enough that you see it this way, I just see it differently. For example I listen to lots of artists and know absolutely nothing about their personal lives (if they are married, their sexuality, partying lifestyles, politics etc) so I hear their songs and take them at face value if they are written/sung in the first person context. It doesn't mean I'm speculating about a singers personal life, it means I'm taking what he or she is portraying at face value. If anyone turned on the radio who had no idea Billie was married or had substance abuse problems or any other shit, had barely heard of GD for example and listened to some track of the Trilogy they'd form an idea or opinion as to what the song was about but wouldn't be speculating about the singer who they can't even visualise personal life, they'd just be making sense of the song as it's playing without giving it too much thought (which I believe is part of the point...we aren't supposed to be so invested in Billie or care about his personal wellbeing to the point that it matters if the lyrics are true. If he'd been worried about oversharing he probably wouldn't have been so open about all his issues for years). Again it's fine we have different views on this but I just want to note when you say, "there’s a difference between analysing lyrics as they’re presented and relating them to Billie’s life outside the song." This is exactly what many fans and interviewers did to Billies face for years in relation to St Jimmy in particular but also in relation to the characters of Christian and Gloria.

I was quoting Maria Gloria who said "shrugging off". My point is that some fans pick what parts of lyrics to take literally and what parts to assume are fantasy and they tend to draw the line with what makes them feel uncomfortable. Obviously you are entitled to your opinion however I do not believe analysing lyrics and wondering if the song I'm listening to is about the writer (in other words the thought that crosses my mind when listening to a song like the way I think about Wake Me Up When September Ends etc) or just a song with lyrics for the sake of lyrics (as in a story that isn't real). As you said Billie was aware he was putting the songs out there for people to interpret so if one is to "interpret" any song lyrics by Billie which are deeply personal heart on his sleeve then a cynical person could see that as speculation about his private life I suppose. Also this argument that actually assuming Billie's lyrics are about Billie is speculation about his private life is what I was complaining about earlier. Billie himself said during an interview when Nimrod was out that he always wrote from his point of view and about himself. He told Rolling Stone in 2013 that he'd been writing for years about his struggles with addiction. Over the years he's even mentioned that characters of St Jimmy, Christian and Gloria were aspects of his personality. Yet when he writes a simplistic song on the trilogy we are guilty of speculation about his personal life if we take it at face value? He put it out there. He, as you said, wrote multiple drafts etc. If he was worried people may speculate about his personal life he would very likely have been smart enough to write through characters and NOT claim that he was them after a short period.

As someone who's been through addiction and made it out alive I don't think he knew he had the "will power" and was just having a good time I think he genuinely lost himself there for a while and that it was a long time in the making. When I hear the trilogy I hear a more insane version of Billie than in the past cause he didn't really even seem to know that he was losing it. I'm very interested in his addictions and wish I knew more about them just cause I can relate to it. That's one of the many reasons I love Green Day theyve been through it and they write music for people like me who know what it's like to fuck up.

The way Billie sings even though (I suggest listening with headphones): I've noticed it on the Demolicious version, and for good reason, on the Uno version you don't hear that little voice crack : I don't like everything more on Demolicious compared to the same songs in trilogy version, but what I do like better is this sharp, stirring little something in Billie's voice that is way less present on Uno, Dos, Tre. Other random thought: I was listening to Dos today, and I loved the three last songs back to back, Nightlife, Wow! That's Loud and Amy. I thought Wow! That's Loud was mesmerizing and Billie's voice on it is simply gorgeous.

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.

Cheeky

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 feel it was largely the pills as well, but he had a history with those too (mentioned previously in Restless Heart Syndrome, See the Light, 27th Ave Shuffle). I feel it was an increase in both, as well as/caused by outside pressures (making/promoting/touring the albums, in one interview he mentioned an aunt dying, etc). Plus, once you hit a certain age, your body just can't process those things like it once did.

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.

Famous punk rock artifact for sale This specific jack transported thousands of copies of the first Green day record on Lookout https://www.punknews.org/article/64893/famous-punk-rock-artifact-for-sale