Tre' Cool: Roll, roll, roll a joint. Twist it at the end. Light it up and take a puff and pass it to your friends.
Green Day had a drummer before Tre' Cool that did drums on 39/Smooth and Kerplunk! His name was Al Sobrante.
Mike Dirnt's real name is Mike Pricthard.
billy joe's favorite song of Green Day is Jesus of Suburbia.
Green Day's album American Idiot won the best album award at the Nick Kids' Choice Awards '05.
Green Day's breakthrough album Dookie has been certified diamond in the United States since its 1994 release, and won the Grammy Award for Alternative Album. Their second best-selling album American Idiot (2004), has been certified quadruple platinum in the U.S., and won the 2005 Grammy Award for "Best Rock Album". Green Day has won three Grammy Awards, and several MTV Video Music Awards and other industry and fan-based awards. They are also second to the Red Hot Chili Peppers for most number-ones on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart with eight.
The Longview music video cost $300 to create.
Mike's engaged to his girlfriend, Brittney.
Green Day is #9 for Google's Top Gainers of 2005 along with MySpace, iTunes, and Wikipedia.
Green Day picked up best band, best single, best dressed star, hero of the year, best video, and best live show in the Kerrang reader's poll.
Billie named his cat after Basil Expedition from Austin Powers.
American Idiot and Bullet in a Bible are the only parental advisory albums.
Jason White and Jason Freeze play with Green Day when they are live.
On February 24th, 1989, Sweet Children (Green Day) played along with a local band called Sweet Baby Jesus.
Billie Joe wrote Boulevard of Broken Dreams in his son, Jakob's, room.
Billie's son Joey has a fish named Speedy.
Billie Joe actually was a vegeterian in the early 90's but lost a lot of weight and felt weird so he gave it up.
In every town Green Day plays at, Mike looks for a good coffee shop.
Insomniac, Nimrod, and Warning all came out in October. Insomniac on October 10th 1995, Nimrod on October 14th 1997, and Warning on October 3rd 2000.
Before Rivers Cuomo, from Weezer, actually knew how to write a song he studied the songwriting techniques of Kurt Cobain and Green Day. Weezer would probably be nowhere without Green Day.
Mike took the picture of himself in the Nimrod booklet.
Billie has two sons: Joseph and Jakob.
Billie Joe sometimes suffers from panic attacks and anxiety.
Dookie's original title was Liquid Dookie, but they changed it because they thought it was too gross.
The lyrics that are scratched out inside the Nimrod cover are actual lyrics that were taken out.
Billie and Mike recorded the vocals for 1,039 / Smoothed Out Slappy Hours simultaneously, to save money, and Lawrence Livermore gave them the $1000 needed for the album.
In the Minority video, Billie Joe is running around with the cape on and Mike throws a hand to trip him. The hand is given the peace sign. When it hits him it knocks off the index finer and gives the middle finger.
The video for Redundant has the same scene playing over and over again behind the band, hence the name Redundant.
The Insomniac cover art (created by Winston Smith) is called "God Told Me to Skin You Alive."
Haushinka was originally written for Kerplunk, but at the time they didn't like the sound of it. So they excluded it from the album then when Nimrod came they decided to include it.
Insomniac is called "Insomniac" because Billie Joe didn't sleep at night. His son (Joey) cried all night, so Billie would write a lot of songs. Another way it is said that they got the name for Insomniac is that when Billie Joe came to Winston Smith, the guy who made the cover for it, to see what it was like Billie Joe thought that it was really cool and he asked Winston Smith how long it took him to do it and he said about 36 hours and Billie Joe said "Man, you must have been tired" and Winston Smith said "Really, I'm kind of an Insomniac".
In 1995, the video for Longview was critiqued on the popular MTV show, Beavis and Butthead. Basketcase was also critiqued on the "Spanish Fly" episode of Beavis and Butthead.
Tr? Cool's birth name is Frank Edwin Wright III.
All of the members of Green Day have been on other previous bands.
4 Singles from Dookie are Longview, Basket Case, When I come Around, and Welcome to Paradise.
The song Good Riddance was featured on the last episode of Seinfield.
Green Day's album American Idiot won the Kid's Choice Award for best album in 2005.
Green Day were one of the latter-day punk bands to emerge from the Gilman Street Scene in Berkley,California.
The term "Green Day" is reffering to a day just smoking pot, hanging around, and doing absolutely nothing all day.
Jason White did the guitar and background vocals.
Jason Freese did the piano for Green Day.
Mike once kicked his teacher when he was in kindergarten because she told him to do something he didn't want to do.
Green Day toured in a bookmobile from Tre’s dad in 1991.
In My Chemical Romance's music video I'm Not Okay (I Promise), they say thank you's at the end and Green Day is thanked first.
They toured to Tokyo, Japan on August, 7 and 8, 2004.
Kerplunk was #1 for 2 weeks in 1995.
The songs on Bullet in a Bible are American Idiot, Jesus of Subarbia, Holiday, We are the Waiting, St. Jimmy, Longview, Hitchin' a Ride, Brain Stew, Basket Case, King for a Day/Shout, Wake me Up When September Ends, Minority, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Good Riddance(Time of Your Life).
The back up musicians in Green Day include Jason White, Jason Freese, and Ronnie Blake.
The main members of Green Day are all 33.
They won 2 MTV European Music Awards in 2005.
Green Day had 7 wins out of 8 nominations at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards in Miami.
Billie, Mike and Tre all have tattoos.
All the Green Day boys were born in the same year: 1972
Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt began playing music together when they were 14.
Green Day has had 2 retired videoes on TRL, Boulevard Of Broken Dreams and Wake Me Up When September Ends.
Green Day was nominated for 8 moonmen at the 2005 VMA's.
Green Day has had 14 albums since they first came out, with 5 being main albums.
The name "Lorie L." on the Kurplunk! inlay story is a tribute to Lawrance Livermore of Lookout Records. Without him, Tre Cool would have niether his name nor Green Day.
Boulevard of Broken Dreams voted Australian Channel V #22 song of 2004.
Green Day's song American Idiot stayed at #1 on VH1's top twenty countdown for 8 weeks.
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