big green day infodump uuuhh
so basically mike dirnt (bassist) and billie joe armstrong (frontman) met when they were 10, started their band at 14 and called it Sweet Children
their original drummer, Al Sobrante, left the band to go to college (HOLY FUMBLE) and tre cool took his place permanently, tre had been playing in his own band The Lookouts since age 12
one time during a show, billie joe armstrong dropkicked a guy from the stage cuz he saw a guy harassing a 14 year old girl, tre jumped into the audience after him, and mike saw billie land the hit & made fun of the dude
at another show mike dirnt did a jump & broke his nose on his bass neck, continued playing & singing through the song while his nose was bleeding & he looked like he was gonna faint, and billie thought someone threw a bottle at him (he was like 5 milliseconds away from jumping into the crowd until mike came back like "my bass hit me in the nose" lol)
mike dirnt gets injured a lot,,, one time he broke both his elbows during a pillow fight and billie found it so funny he wrote Pulling Teeth, another time he got tackled by security during a mud fight cuz he was covered in mud and security thought he was a fan that jumped on stage, as a result got a tooth knocked out & a broken elbow, and got a fractured skull during a fight with Ryan Salazar of Third Eye Blind
tre cool is the only person who has climbed the Universal globe (image below)
tre has also tried eating a live squid & it fought back, + he accidentally caught a shark and beat it to death with a baseball bat
billie joe armstrong has written like 3 songs about being kicked from 924 gilman after they "sold out", one of them being called Platypus because he's always wanted to name a song Platypus and thought "I Hate You" would be too plain
"Platypus was written for Tim Yohanon. And I pray to god I misspelled his name. Rest in shit you fucking cunt" -BJA
billie joe does Not own a dictionary ⬇️ /j
the only current (main)member of green day that has graduated high school is mike
corey taylor (lead vocalist of slipknot) said he likes green day so much he can't be friends with people who dislike green day, but billie openly fucking despises slipknot, bja has said slipknot sounds like "tre choking on a hairball"
billie has been openly bisexual since the 90s, that's what he wrote Coming Clean about, and even recently he said it was cool that Bobby Sox became a bisexual anthem and that he's called a bi icon
they performed at coachella a bit over a year ago and it was great
any questions are welcome (pleasepleaswpleaseplease /silly /nf)
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