Tim also adds on Twitter: I’ve been friends with Jesse since the early 1980s when we were teenagers. We formed Operation Ivy in 1987 and 2 years later we broke up.

It’s not quite the full Operation Ivy reunion for which fans have been clamoring since 1989, but that group’s Tim Armstrong and Jesse Michaels have re-teamed in the new group Bad Optix, which ...

Jesse Michaels and his former Op Ivy bandmate Tim Armstrong (also of Rancid) reunited in 2022 to perform “Sound System” at a backyard charity event, and again in 2023 to perform “Take ...

Jesse Michaels to give tours of Punk Rock Museum Fall Out Boy, Slayer, The Offspring, Sublime, Sum 41, LJG and Catbite, more to play Riot Fest 2024 Laura Jane Grace and the Mississippi Medicals to ...

Jesse Michaels and Tim Armstrong of Operation Ivy have formed a new band. It's called Bad Optix and also includes Joey Castillo (Danzig, Circle Jerks, The Bronx) and bassist Spencer Pollard (Trash ...

Tim Armstrong of Rancid and Jesse Michaels reunited as Operation Saturday (Oct. 14) to perform “Take Warning” during Musacks’s all-star celebration in Los Angeles.

It’s not quite the full Operation Ivy reunion for which fans have been clamoring since 1989, but that group’s Tim Armstrong and Jesse Michaels have re-teamed in the new group Bad Optix, which ...

Tim Armstrong (Operation Ivy, Rancid, Transplants), Jesse Michaels (Operation Ivy), Joey Castillo (Circle Jerks, The Bronx) and bassist Spencer Pollard (Trash Talk) unveil their new project BAD ...

Bad Optix is Tim Armstrong and Jesse Michaels with Trash Talk bassist Spencer Pollard and Joey Castillo, a drummer whose resume includes Wasted Youth, Sugartooth, Danzig, Queens Of The Stone Age.