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Mike and Billie’s friendship is everything to me. The way they’ve been there for each other inseparable since they were ten, it’s a big part of the magic behind the band. When Tre came along he immediately clicked and was a third best friend. There’s just a different feel with a band of lifelong best friends versus a band of musicians with members that come and go that don’t particularly like each other. You see it in interviews, performances, their social media. It’s in their body language. Their friendship forms the basis of everything and makes the music more meaningful and deepens the love I feel for this band.

What a dork:

I particularly love these Billie and Mike pictures. It's so obvious how much they love each other and it's just super sweet! ❤️ And Mike's face in this one is so great!

Billie and Mike are so cute onstage

SO SOFT! He grabbed my hand from the stage after the Longshot show in DC and I held on tight for as long as I could. When I close my eyes I can still remember what it felt like. Strong but soft. For someone who’s done construction work, worked on cars and plays guitar you would expect them to feel tougher and more calloused but not at all. Baby soft hands. ✋🥰❤️

So much Hand Porn in here rn. Seriously though, his hands really are incredibly beautiful. They're the perfect shape and size, and I kinda love the way you can sometimes see the veins under his skin, his fingers look so strong, and his hands just look so unbelievably soft. I remember one incredibly lucky fan got to hold his hands at that Hot Topic album signing back in 2016 and she said they were even softer than she expected. Oh, and his fingernails are so pretty! I love it when he paints them too... ... especially when he paints them in different colours.😍 And that time when he only painted one fingernail in blue.

Trump is behaving like a spoiled rotten child that stamps his feet and holds his breath when he doesn't get his way. He is not willing to negotiate. He also cannot relate at all to the hundreds of thousands of fed employees that are not working. He thinks they can just figure something out, well most of them can't afford to be without a paycheck. Economically, it is not a great idea to build a wall. Here is an article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/01/08/three-economists-ran-numbers-trumps-border-wall-they-find-its-bad-investment/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.09845a8d22ac Also, environmentally it would be a disaster. It ranges from destroying animals migration patterns, increased emissions, flooding, etc. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trumps-wall-could-cause-serious-environmental-damage/ Also, THERE IS NO EMERGENCY AT THE BORDER!!! Immigration is declining. http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/11/28/5-facts-about-illegal-immigration-in-the-u-s/ We don't need a wall, we need immigration reform

Seems to me that the "political" marketing of revrad kind of happened naturally. Obviously they named the album like that but it only became really politically charged when Trump was elected and suddenly everything they talked about in interviews was Trump, Billie started with his wiggered posts on IG (I miss them so much and I will fight the warner executive that took away his phone), they did the AMAs thing and so it happened that the attention switched to the political. It made perfect sense at the time and it would be a mistake not to use the heat of the moment when everyone was SHOOK because of the election. Maybe if Clinton won, the promotion would have focused on the personal aspects of the album more, even though it seems their image as a political band is very strong anyway.

Seeing as it's Jason Freese's birthday today, let's have some Billie/Jason appreciation in here.

a perfect visual representation of this thread

His hands are one of Billie's features that once I started really paying attention to, I always look for in a picture , as a main potential fangirling part of him. Here are zooms on his hands so we can see them better: Also, it may be silly but I love the way he often holds his guitar strap with his left hand, and you see his thumb curling out: I wonder if his thumb is like this due to guitar playing, the way he presses it on the guitar neck like in the first pic. Anyways it's cute!

RevRad is my favorite GD album in part because I feel it's the perfect mixture of personal and political. It's Billie healing while the world continues to go on around him and his thoughts on that. And they're not seen as a political band just because of the songs, but also Billie being vocal offstage (and on) as well. And although AI is what made others see them as a political band, they've been making social commentary since day 1. I tend to not bother with "what should the band do next" posts because, it's up to the band, not me. They should do whatever makes them happy, whatever they're feeling at the moment. That's what's going to lead to good music. The moment a band tries to do what they think the fans want/what will sell, it cheapens them. If Billie's feeling political, go for it. If he still needs a respite from what's happening in the world today, and provide that for others, that's fine too.

Kroq radio using Billie's photo to say "@billiejoearmstrong dropping by to remind you it's Friday"!

Now it's two years since this show in Florence One of my favourite RevRad shows! And the most flattering of all Credit: Onstage / Luca Passerotti More photos: Tutto Rock / Rockol / Giada Conti Hadn't seen these! Thanks for sharing

I really hope next album has more vocals from Mike. I really love his voice and would even love like almost a solo song from him where Billie is back up. He's got a raw, yet still smooth sound to his voice and I really like it!!!

sorry

I love everything in his new selfie: hair, eyes, smile, skin, hand. What a beauty! I even love the fact that he's proud to show us the mug with Joey's face on it. @The Bellie What about hand and beautiful eyes in the same picture? I love the Punx tattoo on his left hand.

Everything about this photo is perfect.

Now time for the next show's two year anniversary post Bologna, Italy on January 13th, 2017. And my favourite, Billie spotting me and @Rumpelstiltskin2000 Credit: Ivan Elmi / Roberto Villani / Myrtha Photographers / Enrico Dal Boni

Today I have been fangirling over this photo, we don't get to see his bare back very often. So smooth and hairless ❤️❤️❤️❤️ and I'm sure as soft as his hands, you girls are so lucky you've had chance to hold them 😍😍

and around the mic stand it's funny because often when he holds stuff that are not music related he seems a bit awkward (all the while cute), holding a piece of paper or a glass of wine for instance, but yeah every time he holds the mic, his guitar or anything during a gig he just puts his beautiful hands in the sexiest way possible One of the first beautiful eye / hand pic I can think of is this one (if you zoom on his eye it's almost unreal ) I also had the luck to hold his hand briefly at the end of my first Longshot gig in Brooklyn, I was in second row and brought my hand forward as he was shaking hands in the front right before leaving the stage, and I was so glad that he took mine, but I didn't try to hold it too long since he had leaned over a bit to reach me and I didn't want to bother him. I was just a quick clamping and then I let go. But my friend I went with, who was in second row as well next to me, was hardier than me, like you she didn't let go of his hand immediately, while giving him our flag we had brought, to make him understand that she wanted him to take it, and he did. I was completely awed by how she did it, one of my best visual memories from that night is seeing her holding Billie's hand, Billie staying still for a few seconds, until he moved away while taking the flag with him For my part, I don't fangirl on Mike individually, but I love him, and I fangirl on seeing Billie and Mike together a lot. Mike matters so much to GD and to Billie. Like @R_Z-Log says, he's awesome to watch at a gig, The only time I was first row at a GD gig I was on Mike's side and, even though I didn't see Billie a lot in front of me, seeing Mike all the time was anything but boring. Even my mom who loves Billie "especially for his music" as she says to me, while having never talked to me directly about the other GD members, was disappointed when I showed her Longshot gigs, because "where are Mike and Tre?" even though she is not a fangirl, she had a typical slightly possessive fan reaction about seeing other guys next to Billie during a gig, which proved even she had felt attached to Mike and Tre. Her reaction amused me a bit (I also think Mike is more her type than Billie!) I found this angry face competition and the quality of the pic is not tremendous but look at the way Mike looks at Billie, it's so endearing And since it's Jason Freese's birthday, here are pics of him with Billie when he comes up front for KFAD

I also prefer that if they write about politics it should be go hard or don't bother, songs that have hard hitting lyrics and talk about things in a specific way > vague rallying cry songs. And I also enjoy personal lyrics as well as political (acknowledging that some can be both). I think that's pretty much what we got with RevRad though, very personal lyrics and also some political lyrics, some of which went quite hard. But I do dislike how their albums seemingly HAVE to always be marketed as if they're totally political even when they're really mostly personal, calling an album like that Revolution Radio when something like Somewhere Now would describe the main themes of it better for example. Or calling the tour for Uno Dos Tre, albums about partying and relationships that have one political song between them, "99 Revolutions". It's their brand now I guess but it's a bit boring. I think if they write a mostly personal album it should be presented as such, and if they want to present an album as political it should definitely have lots of political songs that go hard. There's nothing wrong with a personal album that also touches on politics but when that's presented as being more political than it is it makes the political parts look wishy washy.

Nah, I sing that silently in my head for some classes though 😂😂

The one thing that BITUSA did have was, the best Green Day music video in years.