Billy Joe Armstrong
Born on February 17, 1972 the youngest of
six children. His Dad was a jazz drummer / truck driver who died of cancer when
Billie was 10 years old. His mother was a waitress at Rod's Hickory Pit. When he
was five, Billie would sing at hospitals to cheer patients up. He also recorded
the song "Looking For Love". The first album BJ bought was Elvis Presley's "The
Sun Sessions". Soon after a couple friends got him hooked on punk bands like
DOA, TSOL, the Dead Kennedys, ect. The first song Billie ever wrote was "Why Do
You Want Him" when he was 12 years old. Has played / produced / wrote with
several other bands but most notably, Pinhead Gunpowder, with whom he has
recorded a couple E.P.'s and records. In July 1994 he married his girlfriend
Adrienne Nesser. The ceremony only lasted 5 minutes and both he and Adrienne
drank beer before hand to calm their nerves. The day after the wedding Adrienne
discovered she was pregnant with Billie's baby. Nine months later, in March of
1995, Joseph Marcicano Armstrong was born. The couple has since had another
child, Jakob Danger Armstrong. Billie is co-owner of the record label Adeline
Records. Adeline is home to the Criminals, One Man Army, AFI, and most notebly,
BJ's other band, Pinhead Gunpowder.
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Mike Dirnt
Mike Dirnt, formerly Micheal Pritchard, lived in poverty, born to a heroin-addicted mother
and a white father. When Dirnt was seven, his adoptive parents divorced, and Dirnt
bounced between the two until finally settling in with his adoptive mom and older sister.
That, too, was short lived, and soon Dirnt struck out on his own, working, among a handful
of jobs, at Rod's Hickery Pit where Billie Joe's mom was a waitress. Dirnt rented a room on
the side of Billie Joe's house at one point. Mike married his girlfriend Anastasia in August of
1996, they now have a daughter named Estelle-Desiree born in April 1997. Mike was born
on May 4, 1972. The pressures of being in Green Day have become to much for Mike and
Anasasia's marriage to withstand and they are now seperated. Mike says he is still very
good friends with her and calls his daughter his "hero". Currentely, Mike has been staying
single, possibly due to a lack of time.
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Tre Cool
Tre Cool, born Frank Edwin Wright III, grew up in the Mendocino mountains, where his
father, a Vietnam vet, raised Tre and his two siblings. Tre's dad built many of the houses in
that area, including that of Lawrance Livermore, Tre's nearest neighbor and the founder of
Green Day's original label, Lookout! Records. At the age of 12, Tre joined Livermore's
pop-punk band, the Lookouts, recorded an album, and began gigging regularily at Gilman
Street (Berkeley's punk club). When John Kiffmeyer, the drummer on Green Day's debut
39/Smooth, left the band for college, Tre, with Livermore's blessing, hopped aboard. Tre
married his girlfriend Lisea Lyons in March of 1995, they have a daughter together named
Ramona. They have since seperated but are apparently still on good terms. Tre has been
romantically linked to Wynonna Ryder, but they claim they are just friends.
