Green Day

Billie Joe Armstrong - Guitar, Vocals

Date of Birth

17 February 1972, Oakland, California, USA

Nickname

BJ

Height
5' 7" (1.70 m)

Trivia
Guitar and vocals for punk band Green Day, as well as 'Pinhead Gunpowder'.

2 children: Joseph Marciano, born February 28, 1995, and Jakob Danger, born September 12, 1998.

Has a recording studio built in his basement

His guitar is nicknamed "Blue" and he's had it since he was eleven years old.

Youngest of six children.

Father died of cancer when he was 11 years old.

Wrote his first song, "Why Do You Want Him", when he was only 14 (the song appears on 1,039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours, Green Day's debut album).

Dropped out of high school.

He wrote the song "Brain Stew" while trying to get Joseph (his child) to go to sleep.

He enjoys getting people up on stage to play instruments for the band when Green Day play live.

Has also played in bands such as: Blatz, Rancid, the Lookouts, Goodbye Harry, Corrupted Morals, and still plays with 'Pinhead Gunpowder'.

He also plays harmonica, mandolin, drums and piano and most recently the saxophone.

He wrote the song 'Church on Sunday' about his wife Adrienne, convincing her to stay and not separate. the song appears on Green Day's album Warning, released in 2000

Wrote the song 'Wake Me Up When September Ends' about his father's death when he was a young child and how he dealt with it then and deals with it now. The song appears on the album 'American Idiot' released in 2004

His natural hair color is reddish-brown.

Lives in Oakland, California and also has a home near his wife's family in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Shares a birthday with Paris Hilton.

He and the rest of Green Day allowed indie label "Lookout Records" to keep the titles of their releases prior to "Dookie". They did this to foster a following for the record label, if kids got into them and wanted to hear earlier stuff by the band, the money would help keep Lookout Records going.

Five older siblings: David, Allen, Marcy, Holly and Anna.

His mother is from Oklahoma.

Close friends with Matthew Fox, Adam Levine and Gerard Way.

His mother gave birth to him when she was 40.

His oldest sibling is 22 years older than him.

His father was half English and half Italian. From his mother's side, he is of Irish, Dutch, Scottish and Cherokee (Native American) descent.

Close friends with Jason Mewes.

Dropped out of high school one day before his 18th birthday.

He is listed as a "ginger traitor" in the book "The Ginger Survival Guide" for dying his naturally ginger hair.

Contrary to popular belief, his birth name is actually "Billie Joe" and not "William Joseph".

Father, Andrew (deceased) and mother, Ollie.

Personal Quotes
Punk is always something that's going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.

Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.

There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.

One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.

A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can't wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you're a moron. They have nothing to say, you know?

Adrienne is the only woman I will ever love.

I never thought that being obnoxious would get me where I am now.

I'm not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac's working!

Mike Dirnt - Bassist, Backup vocalist

Date of Birth

4 May 1972, Berkeley, California, USA

Birth Name

Michael Ryan Pritchard

Height

5' 10" (1.78 m)

Trivia

Bassist and backup vocalist for the punk band Green Day.

Plays in a side band called The Frustrators, which is on the record label that band mate Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day co-owns.

Married his girlfriend Anastasia in 1996

Has a daughter, Estelle-Desiree. (b. April, 1997)

The pressures of Mike being in Green Day were too much for him and Anastasia to deal with, so they separated.

Earned his trademark last name from the sound that he had made in high school. He would play 'Air Bass Guitar', making a 'dirnt, dirnt, dirnt' noise. From there, it stuck.

His nickname for his daughter is Hero.

He and his girlfriend, Brittney, have welcomed their first child together, a boy named Brixton Michael Dirnt, on October 11, 2008. He weighed 8 lbs.

Personal Quotes
"We write music for ourselves and if other people like it, that's great."

On Good Riddance: (Time of Your Life): "Putting that song on our record was probably the most punk thing we could do."

"I have a daughter and she's the greatest thing that ever happened to me. She gives me a good excuse to watch cartoons."

"Don't blame me for the explosion of punk rock. I didn't know our music was going to get that big."

Tre Cool - Drummer

Date of Birth

9 December 1972, Frankfurt, Germany

Birth Name

Frank Edwin Wright III

Height

5' 6" (1.68 m)

Trivia
Drummer for the punk band Green Day.

Has one son named Frankito born in 2001 to then wife Claudia.

Daughter Ramona Isabel Wright (born January 12, 1995), with his ex-wife Lisea Lyons, was named after his idol, Joey Ramone.

Can also play the guitar, both bass and lead.

Has also played with bands The Lookouts, and Samiam.

He is the godfather of lead singer/guitarist of Green Day, Billie Joe Armstrong's kids.

Dressed up as Benji Madden of Good Charlotte for Halloween, 2004.

Made his first records with The Lookouts when he was 12.

He is the only person to ever climb the Universal Studios ball (their trademark) in Orlando, Florida. He climbed the ball at the 1998 MTV Music Awards.

His dad was a Vietnam helicopter pilot

Personal Quotes
"Music has never been at a better time then it is right now, we're really lucky to be a part of this wonderful thing called music."

"I always said that the world is a better place because of Joey Ramone".

"I wanna survive an avalanche, I wanna be one of those people a dog finds buried under a ton of snow, almost dying of starvation."