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who is jeff?

I have a crush on badly dyed blond Perry Miller

Seen some posts regarding the fact that she cheated on him, and I gotta say so what? While I dont condone cheating by any means, ive noticed this is one of the main points in conversation. People cheat, it happens. By no means should it condone the behavior from some fans, considering they werent the ones affected and is by no way an excuse to harass someone in the first place. What happens in a relationship should really stay between the couple involved, and seeing fans involved in their dirty laundry is pretty embarrassing. Plus hes fuckin old wtf is with the age gap.

@Nightlife I love them too, you know there’s this one too, also them discussing track by track on the radio audio is fun.

These are definitely from recording Dookie at Fantasy Studios and Billie doesn't have dreads. Interesting photos anyway though it's a shame the quality's so bad. These are recording Nimrod. The hair on the mystery photo is still more like Nimrod but then he's a bit thinner on it, so I don't know. Not that it really matters but hey, now I've found a cool interview about the making of Nimrod!

That was one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen if not reality but I’m still laughing. ***I thought this topic was “off limits”. That article is the one I posted in the thread that went out of control. Jeff looks different but she really is about as nice as they come. I am SURE his apology is real and not to save face and also he had a REALLY bad year. The GD with politicians post had me in stitches too so thanks for making me laugh GD fans. Just realized this was BH so she won’t even see my appreciation.

I really shouldn't have bought this because I couldn't really afford it but it's so pretty ...

Billie with glasses 😍

All the time (no pun intended!) We used to have one in the village where I live that started "BJA"

@Nightlife Certainly an interesting variation, although I also like the studio version a lot (and the way it's replicated live since around mid/late 2000s). I think it was best executed here at the BBC Sessions (although there is a slight lack of base in the mix). The best of both worlds, almost. It's just breathtaking though how good they sound in those sessions, but it does also demonstrate that "When I Come Around" kinda needs two guitars to give it enough "oomph". That's the one thing I didn't like about some of 90s and early 2000s live Green Day: They had a lot of energy, yes, but there were some songs that just screamed for a second guitar ("Basket Case" and "When I Come Around" being two examples). Although that being said, when the Plexis were adjusted correctly on stage, the songs sounded very awesome even with just one guitar.

Don't remember ever seeing this one before. Billie recording Dookie at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, where he also recorded Look For Love. ‘Fantasy Studios definitely had that Seventies coke-y vibe, mahogany and strange dead wood around the place. We would go into the vaults and see all of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s master tapes. But I felt we belonged there. Our first album cost $700 to make. Kerplunk! was like $1200. “Let’s record these as fast as we can – because we don’t have a choice.” This time, I learned how to dial in good sounds, get the best guitar tones. I was able to take a little time doing vocals. I loved that experience.’ (source)

Whoa I just found out how much of a creepy and abusive dude Jeff is, I think there should be a thread for this whole situation (i didn't find one but saw it's being discussed here). I found out by accident and other fans should know about this too. He should face the concequences.

i love green day, they're my favorite band

I’m amazed it’s taken so many people this long to come to this conclusion tbh.

Yeah that's possible that all of them had some input. On another note I'm still getting emails from the Black Cat in Washington where The Longshot played and every time it makes me happy thinking about the show

Article from Rocksound here which includes "Cigarettes & Valentines" as one of the scrapped albums we'd like to hear:

Whoops, sorry, totally forgot!

I know it's cute but the rule is that posts have to be either by Green Day members or have Green Day members or something to do with Green Day in them. Posts by family members of family members don't count as that and shouldn't be posted, fyi.

oh noooo now i can't envision that! Tre would be a precious Zodiac Killer over Ted Cruz.

Could the lyrics to I want Revenge been written by one of the boys (Joey or Jakob)? Just an odd thought.

Same.

Idk, they could have just thrown a random studio photo in there.

Of course they do, we have established that Tre is the Zodiac Killer

I had an amazing and weird dream last night! My first GD dream in quite awhile! It's long, but interesting: It started out with me playing some kind of Zelda-like game, except I was in it as the character and was trying to find some secret for a quest. I found a small, blocked off entrance up high that I had to climb to and work really hard to open, but I managed to get in. It was like a weird air duct tunnel thing that I crawled through and when I came out, the dream changed a bit. Suddenly, I was in a huge room that seemed to be high up in a building and there were floor to ceiling windows with a beautiful view of the ocean outside. This room was some kind of special place where the Green Day boys of previous eras where sequentially spaced throughout. It was like a series of memories and the modern day Billie was standing next to me and watching his past selves. Nobody could see or hear me. Current Billie didn’t seem to be noticed by any of the other versions either, and he didn’t seem to see me. It was like I was with him as he was remembering his past. For whatever reason, the beginning of this room started with Nimrod era GD and Billie was playing his acoustic guitar and singing ‘Good Riddance’ on a bed. It was like we were watching the shoot of that music video. Current Billie moved on and I followed him and we came to some sort of interview in a restaurant booth right by the window. Only Billie was present for this one, and some woman I didn’t recognize was sitting across from him. They both had food, but weren’t eating it. Billie had some kind of tostada thing that also looked like a pizza. I don’t remember anything that was being said. After this, I looked around the room and got all fangirly because of all the different versions of Billie I saw and could go to. ❤️ I left current Billie at that “memory” and moved to several 21CB era spots, one of which seemed to be a concert. There was no audience or anything. It was just Green Day standing there in the room and playing. Billie had his fluffy black hair and was wearing black jeans and a silvery vest with no tie. Further on, there were several other interviews happening. The one I went to was from the AI era. Billie was wearing that white jacket and black shirt with the red tie with white polka dots from the VMAs. At the moment, I was particularly attracted to this version. He was sitting down in this interview and I went up to him and hugged him. He didn’t feel me at all, but I could feel him. I turned around so that I could see the interviewer, but then my back was up against Billie. He had just been asked a question that I can’t remember and he was answering it. I could feel his voice resonating in his chest. The only thing I remember him saying was “Hmmmmm” while trying to think about his response. There was some kind of reflective surface like a window behind the interviewer and I could see Billie’s face as he was thinking. The dream changed again and I was in a store reading a book full of GD history, pictures, and other stuff. It was about two inches thick and looked pretty old and beat up. I guess this was a store I was supposed to be closing, but people kept coming in and I was getting super frustrated. Some middle school aged kids came up to me and asked me what I was reading and I hid the pages with a book about mushrooms and said “Nothing! Go away, you’re not supposed to be in here. We’re closed!” More people were coming in and I got up and started trying to push them out and was yelling “Get out of here!” A group of trick or treating kids came in and I said “Oh my god! Go away! It’s not even Halloween!” as I was trying to push them out the doors. Billie was with me again, standing near the back of the store, watching. He looked a little bit more like 21CB Billie at this point, but also looked like current Billie at the same time. I was still furiously trying to get people out of the store and suddenly, Billie turned into a dragon. He was long and slender almost like a serpent dragon, but not quite a serpent dragon. The scales were jet black and he had long, thin spines running down from the top of his head to the tip of his tail and green eyes with no pupils. He was on all fours and had no wings. This dragon Billie was huge, but the store was big too so he fit. I think Billie saw how much trouble I was having so he lunged forward and ate a bunch of the people in one go. The rest of them ran out of the store and I was able to secure the doors. I turned around and he was right there, staring at me. I was scared so I went and hid under a table and he pursued me. As Billie approached, he opened his mouth. His jaws were long and slender like the rest of him and he had thin, needle like teeth and long fangs. The inside of his mouth and throat were a glowing, acid green. I was thinking “Fuck! He’s gonna eat me!” as I was trying to back away further under the table, but he seemed to return to reason and closed his mouth and withdrew. I cautiously came out and he no longer seemed like a threat. I willed myself to go back to that other room and it worked. I was back in the place where all the different past GD boys were because I wanted to explore it more and revisit some of the places. I was in the process of doing that when I woke up.

Jeff had a non-famous girlfriend half his age, they broke up, he went on a tweet rage about how she was messaging other guys, told GD fans to 'keep hate coming' on instagram, and then his girlfriend made posts on her private instagram about how he is harassing her and provided screenshots of 20 missed calls and a bunch of unanswered texts, as well as saying GD fans were making death threats to her. Jeff had initially apologised but deleted it, and then deleted his twitter and instagram. I think that's the gist?

Kinda has represented the band and himself in an icky way a few times that made me feel weird about him. Glad it’s boiled to the surface. I could be wrong because it was a while ago and it’s not like i really want to bother watching the Jeff Matika Show again (was that show for attention?) anyway: did he interview Dog Party (two teenage girls) and ask them if who they’d rather marry, kill or fuck out of Green Day? Teenage girls need to be asked which 40-something year old men they look up to which they’d rather marry, kill or fuck? Gross. Anyway it was awkward and they sort of answered the question. I think they said: Marry Billie, kill Tre and they didn’t answer the fuck question so Matika answered if for them “LUCKY MIKE!” Why would they want this guy in the band acting like that with teenage girls? I could be totally wrong and misremember this interview. Either way, I won’t miss Jeff one bit. Good riddance.

This offends me

Wow, assumptions are still being made and stated without definitive evidence. I would highly recommend reading @Second favourite son very intelligent and rational post. If you still want to throw around unfounded accusations after that, I don’t know what to tell you. And @G-L-O-R-I-A you are absolutely right.

Honestly, we shouldn't even be talking about it. Kaylie's Instagram is private therefore her posts should never have been posted here. Jeff was a dick to try and make it public in the first place, but other than that we really shouldn't be commenting on it. It's not our place to speculate or judge or make assumptions, especially when we don't know/can't be certain exactly what is happening anyway. It should be between them and the legal authorities, and I hope they get it sorted.

THIS! And she shouldn’t have had to say anything. It was shown when he first started posting over Christmas. He has a lot of power and she has none. She just wanted to be left alone. He wouldn’t accept that and used his status in a popular that should be the last band in the world that would stand for this type of behavior. She filed a report? Good. It’s difficult and can be humiliating to file a report for victims. This shows she’s very credible. But the law will do very little. Haven’t you seen these types of stories before? I am so glad that times are changing and that a lot of people won’t stand for this. I hope people won’t stand for this.

Did anyone care this much about the age gap when the relationship seemed “happy?” I know on the forum in the past it’s been a touchy subject to question age gaps, but the whole thing has seemed odd to me from the start, especially all the sexual, “my girlfriend is so hot” posts on Twitter that seemed like the shit you’d do in high school coming from a 40-year-old man. Obviously we’ll never know, but if you have to keep posting online about how great your relationship is, I just wonder how great it actually is? It’s always seemed cringey and forced to me.

I know we’re going in circles here, but apparently my point isn’t getting through. Kalie’s accusations are the point right now. There is no argument about Jeff’s public recent actions on social media, which we have evidence of, being wrong. The problem some of us have is in assuming that all of the serious allegations she is making are true. We don’t know that. She could have gotten carried away in anger just as he did. Or everything she said she might have full evidence of and he might be guilty of them. Do we know which is correct at this point? No we do not. But many on here are assuming the latter without evidence.

But we don’t know that for sure because she didn’t present that evidence to us. Sorry guys, I have to keep bringing up that making assumptions without clear evidence is not right.

People are saying a lot more than “his behavior is bad”, if you’ve noticed

Frankly none of this should be for the public... we don’t know the story we have Jeff’s side Kalie’s side and then there’s the truth Jeff shouldn’t have posted any of this on his social media page and neither should she if she doesn’t want contact change the number and then file a report... saying don’t feel safe at GD shows and trying to imply that Jeff is going to be a murderer cause of calling someone repeatedly well as someone who has multiple friends actually been MURDERED is highly off putting to me... Bottom line Jeff’s an douche who should move on Kalie should file a report and both need to lay off social media about all of this

Hit right on the money. We may not agree with either one of their actions, we may not agree with Jeff's neurotic behavior and obsessive tendencies, but that in no way means he is a danger to Green Day fans. However, his position should be considered if these things did happen because in that case justice does need to happen.

I think this is reaching a bit. I highly doubt anyone at a Green Day show or in the general public is at risk because Jeff is acting unstable because his girlfriend (supposedly) cheated on him. It’s a very personal issue and I wish it could have just been left as that. I don’t get why grown adults have to air their issues on social media like this. Do either of them actually think this will make things better?

Bravo. And very rational.

Really? She likes attention? (Seriously?) "We don't know what Went down?"? C'mon. We know. Something happened between them, and he decided to be an ass and use his power to get her. That is exactly what happened. This is all on him. Go Kylie. And yes, calling your ex this many times and also her friends and family is very, very, disturbing behaviour.

Anyone going after an ex like this should be criticized. Heavily. Maybe social media isn't Always right, but he's hardly a private person with no Power. He's an atleast semi-famous figure displaying very harmful behaviour - to someone who is not. And to the green day fans going after her. Turn it to him. Besides being an ass he's doing some really bad image hurting here when it comes to the band.

She does not need to post these things on social media for them to be admissible in court. What is posted on line, or private messages is admissible. There are two sides to every story, and we don't know either side. She needs to let the authorities handle this, not random people on the internet.

My tomato plant could replace Jeff.

But isn't you asking Jeff to be called out on this legit harassment as well? It is a situation you are not involved with. Jeff was wrong to make this public and so is she. She needs to call the police, not post her personal messages on social media asking people to call him out. It is the same thing he did to her.

If that's not abusive idk what is.

I haven't listened anything from Green Day besides the trilogy since ¡Uno! came out, and now Foreverly and i feel like i don't need the other albums right now, i'm so in love with the trilogy