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But 21CB tho... 🥺

It was Mike's 39th birthday party. Billie just stole the spotlight.

Static Age is criminally underrated. I know we bemoan the fact that they don't play Trilogy songs anymore but they put so much work into the 21CB album. It's a freaking masterpiece and the only song to survive in the regular setlist is Know Your Enemy. That too is a crime.

Jason White: pole dancer extraordinaire

Now this is too cute

Get it, Jason!

Well Butch Vig seems to be responsible for Restless Heart Syndrome & Horseshoes and Handgrenades being on the album and those are amongst the best tracks of the album

It’s their peak and I wonder how much Butch Vig had to do with that... I want him to produce at least one other gd album.

Googling the title worked for me. Here it is copied: Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong: The Dark Traditions of Phil Everly By Billie Joe Armstrong Updated Jan. 4, 2014 6:14 pm ET My connection to the Everly Brothers goes way back. My mother was an Everly Brothers fan. I remember her playing them in the house and hearing songs like "Bye Bye Love" and "Wake Up Little Susie." The Everly Brothers' harmonies are so immaculate. You can tell that they're brothers and have been singing together basically since birth. They improved on the whole craft of singing harmony, and their harmonies are pretty much better than everybody's. Their 1958 album "Songs Our Daddy Taught Us"-- I thought it was just so dark. They sounded like angels or spirits singing these really dark murder ballads and old southern hymns and folk songs that go back to the 17th century. It was just so different for them being rock and roll stars at the time to then take this turn looking at their family history and singing these songs. It was impressive. I've been singing harmony with Mike Dirnt since we were about 15 years old. I've always had a more melodic side of me. Even in punk terms, I've always been drawn to melodies. The Everly Brothers, the songs are so good, and they are also very percussive. When the chords on "Bye Bye Love" come out, they come out rocking hard, there's no pretense at all. I feel like I really love the range of their voices, the tone of their voices. The song that always gets me from "Songs Our Daddy Taught Us" is "Put My Little Shoes Away." The kid in the song is talking to his mother and saying it's time for me to go. How could you not be affected by something like that? It's so real. Death is something that happens to all of us. I'm still kind of in shock with Phil Everly dying—it's almost as if I can hear him singing that song. They've influenced people already and the people they influenced don't even know it. If you're influenced by the early Beatles harmonies, then you're influenced by the Everly Brothers. If you're influenced by Simon and Garfunkel, then you're influenced by the Everly Brothers. I think any time you hear harmony, the spirit of the Everly Brothers will live on forever. I never met the Everly Brothers or Phil Everly. I thought that I'd run into him in the future. When I found out yesterday that he had died, I got to say I'm kind of in shock. I feel like I lost a relative. They've been on my mind for the last couple of years, I've been thinking about this record and diving inside those harmonies and seeing the way they do things, and diving inside those lyrics and knowing they sang those songs on a porch somewhere in Kentucky. Anything that you're a huge fan of and paying homage to on top of that—when it's taken from you, it's sad. I think their songs are about family and tradition. I have my own family. There are certain things in society that need to be torn down--these things that come in between the human spirit and people truly identifying with each other in a pure way. Everly Brothers songs connect people and traditions. They're handed down. They're kind of like a family heirloom. They were a part of the foundation of rock and roll. You have Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis and Buddy Holly and Little Richard and Elvis Presley---a lot of those guys are straight rockers. And what the Everly Brothers did is they brought that straight harmony in that is so important to establish how the future was going to go. — Billie Joe Armstrong is the lead singer for the rock band Green Day. Last year, he collaborated with Norah Jones on "Foreverly," an album inspired by the music of The Everly Brothers.

If there's another picture of Billie with cake that I don't have, I need it. Those are always unnecessarily hilarious. These have got to be some of my favorite floof pictures. He's soooooo pretty! What a great era.

Just listened to Warning for the first time in a little while and I'm reminded of why that album is so great

I keep saying I hope Billie does a NFM 2. Just think of what he could cover. Billy Idol, The Cure, Beatles, Ramones. Hell, I would love to hear him to take on something like Billie Eilish! The possibilities are endless!

Wrigley Field seems to think it's still happening. I'm still skeptical that they'll be able to have 10s of thousands together by August.

Just randomly remembered that this exists lmao Thought I'd share for anyone who hasn't had the pleasure of hearing it (make sure you don't turn it off before 1:20)

Because Billie wrote 37 songs that no one care about 😂

I'm not sure I'd trust my money with him 😬 😄

The t shirts have arrived to my gf home. Hope that the vinyl doesn't take too much after this

Edits like this will never stop being entertaining as all hell.

I think it would be a hot mess 😂

Here comes the shock /no edit 🔥

I watched ¡Cuatro! today and I feel happy about it. Such a great documentary from one of the most exciting eras they've had. Hopefully one day they will release unreleased songs and other B-sides that didn't make the cut (assuming Billie Joe really had 65 songs). Only thing I heavily dislike about ¡Cuatro! is that they added 2 different Wow! That's Loud perfomances (Tiki Bar and Red 7) but not a single second of its solo. Considering they never perfomed the song after those secret shows ( ), I'd love to see some solo footage. Oh well.

this was my assumption... having those live tracks on streaming will be fuckin sick

When Matt from Muse starts an IG live on how to use a coffee machine and all you can think is, "yeah, but are you using Oakland Coffee?"

On the RevRad Tour Mike said no to Billie a couple of times about playing something different

Never heard of this. Now I wanna kill everybody around me wtf is this shit why did you do that

Well, I don't know... I have different standards on hygiene than him

That last picture in the red pantssssssssssss Mmmm mmmm!

There are a number of songs on the trilogy that have been received well by the general fanbase. Let Yourself Go, Stay the Night, Stray Heart, Lazy Bones, X-Kid, Brutal Love.

Yes, looks like it - we wanted the next few pics but sadly have not surfaced 😂😂 Did your mum not warn you about the quiet ones 🤣🤣

That's the one!

Got the article by just googling it, really good, again same style, you could hear him saying exactly what he wrote. Thanks @Beerjeezus for bringing it up.

That's adorable how he "covers" it will a little "cough".

looks beautiful. got a shipping notification on mine too, super excited to get it.

I was looking at his legs 😍😍😍

I remember when that pic first came out, I liked it, but wished Billie's head was tilted down the slightest bit. Like this, it's just looking straight up his nose.

oh the pouty bitch interview

There really was a "fuck forever now movement"? Why that? 🤔

Got my Lushotology shirt today and it's rad as hell.

Last night I watched Ordinary World for the first time (not sure how it's taken me this long to watch the full movie). Omg I loved it so much!! SO many fangirl-worthy moments. And Billie's acting was actually better than I expected, based on previous cameos he's done.

via 23punk_ 1994: Greg Graffin (Bad Religion) and Billie Joe Armstrong (Green Day) in Hamburg, Germany. 📷 @michaelpahl_hh https://www.instagram.com/p/CMUuz9HBPGL/

Lol what? American Eulogy is a fucking masterpiece. Some may call it cheesy but that's GD at their best. When they do songs like this, jos, forever now.. or when they are "punky" like bang bang, holiday, st jimmy, you know the deal. The problem is not it being repetitive. The problem is the song writing. Hell I remembered people here hating on know your enemy? Wtf? Lol do you really hate that much now huh? That fucking song at least is an anthem of sorts and it achieved mainstream success at least. Oh man 21st really was their peak wasn't it? Billie was at his sharpest and brightest, he could even compare to Lennon /mccartney/townsend/waters/and even Dylan I may argue. Most fans of this song are either negationist or worst, are unaware of what this band is capable of.

That's so funny I just watched this last night. I was missing trilogy stuff and hadn't seen it in a while. I want to see those full shows from Tiki Bar, Red 7 and Webster Hall. Some extra tracks would have made great bonus footage. It really looked like they had a lot of fun making those records, and the fact that they played all these unreleased songs live for the first time since they used to in the early nineties was really cool I would love for them to do that again (or do anything interesting really beyond just a greatest hits show). It seems all their shows are greatest hits shows these days.

I love both of those tracks See the Light is an underrated track and closes off 21CB perfectly! Hot take but I think it's a better closer than Whatsername And Bouncing Off The Walls is a lot of fun!

Well, without the claps (and let's say, the "Butch Walker-signature elements"), Here Comes the Shock would have fit on RevRad or even 21CB 🤔

Yup! The blue one on the left with black BJ was a later Fernandez ( i cut the extra bump off the headstock) it went to guitar heaven... the pink one was a custom shop guitar? if i remember correctly? We may have sold this one? Or it could be in the warehouse, it wasn't a favorite so i don't remember. Fender used to give us lots of stuff, and still work closely with us these days even though BJ is a Gibson endorser. They made us a run of 15 “Revrad-o-Casters“ for us at the end of the last tour.