Green Day

Genres:	Music Videos & Concerts • Pop / Rock • Soundtracks • Special Interest • Sports & Recreation
Descriptive "tags":	punk rock • rock • punk • alternative • pop punk • alternative rock
Decades Active:	1990s • 2000s
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Biography

With alternative rock music going overground in the early 90s, few acts were better positioned to exploit the commercial possibilities than Green Day - Billie Joe Armstrong (17 February 1972, California, USA; vocals/guitar), Mike Dirnt (b. 4 May 1972, California, USA; bass/vocals) and Tre Cool (b. Frank Edwin Wright III, 9 December 1972, Germany; drums/vocals). Armstrong and Dirnt had been playing together since the age of 11 in the refinery town of Rodeo, California, performing in various garage bands. Tre Cool had been in a band called the Lookouts who broke up in 1990, but their final EP, IV, featured Billie Joe Armstrong playing guitar and singing backing vocals on three tracks. Armstrong and Dirnt had already formed Sweet Children with ex-Isocracy drummer John Kiffmeyer, releasing an EP in 1987. The new trio’s debut release came on Livermore’s Lookout! Records in 1989, the 1, 000 Hours EP. However, two weeks before release the band informed Livermore...

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