actually a lot of people liked it. The only reason it wasn't as commercially successfull as their other albums was that Billie Joe was in rehab and wasn't there to tour or promote the albums.
You didn't give all the facts about Wake me up When September Ends. During the funeral, Billie ran away to his home and locked he door. His mother asked if he was okay then Billie said: "Wake me up When September Ends".
Royce Manson Nirvana is just heavily influenced by clash. Kurt cobain created his own sound and was heavily influential in grunge. You’re absolutely right that they’re grunge, they just have punk rock elements
#6 is wrong. Billie's mom gave him his first guitar using tips from her job as a waitress. Billie talked about it during an interview, not sure which one.
Blue was only his first electric guitar. His dad _did_ give him his first ever guitar, which was a Cherry Red Hohner acoustic. Don't know what became of it...
Alana D Shit, sorry. Didn't know that. I assumed that Blue was his first guitar since I've never heard about Billie's first guitar being an acoustic :/ It makes sense to start off with and acoustic.
green day is called green day because Billy Joe Armstrong smoked a whole punch of pot and wrote a song called green day based on how the drugs made him feel. someone either a fan or one of the band members wrote the phrase green day onto the back of a jacket and from there on everyone sorta called them green day although Billy Joe states himself in a interview that i quote "we probably have the dumbest band name ever" so i have to disagree with fact #20
Jesus Christ Yeah, very old news lmao. He even made a more clear reference to this later on in American Idiot, with the lyrics "Maybe I'm the faggot America"
Hehe on an interview with Bill Maher, Bill asked Billie if the name “Green Day” had anything to do with pot or if it was a myth and Billie responded “oh it’s definitely about pot” maybe not those exact words but it’s an entertaining interview if you haven’t seen it🤣😂
they even talk about them in the video. maybe they started writing it before those albums released. or maybe they just thought it would be confusing to explain right at the beginning that green day's latest album was three albums.
@@adog3129 I never said they invented the grunge genre. I said they were labelled as "punk" or "alternative" before "grunge" became the term they were referred to as.
I've been a HUGE Green Day fan for many years now, and I've read basically every article and book on them possible, so I just want to say that you did a great job on all these facts! Loved it!
I lost my dad at 8, same type of cancer as Billie Joe’s dad. I see Billie joe as someone just like me, a role model of how he dealt with the exact same thing, and came out stronger. I lost my dad in September and Wake me up when September ends, and boulevard of broken dreams especially connected to me. I was sent to an all boys school and had no friends for years, constantly bullied. I walked alone, not knowing my worth. Billie joe’s music got me through all of that. Thank you.
well, that's kind of valid and also completely wrong. they're the same person. st jimmy is the main character's more violent mentally unstable drug-addicted alter ego. and he's typically just called jesus, not the jesus of suburbia. the jesus of suburbia is just how he describes himself at one point, he has no actual name in the album. this is the widely accepted explanation, but then again it's a rock opera and it's open to interpretation
Micdrop,I just gotta say Thank You for making a video about Green Day. It Truly made my day turn around and it was worth the wait and also the fact that Green Day will realise a new album this year is something I'm very hyped for Once again thank you Mic Drop for the video it was awesome.
"They're latest album 21st Century Breakdown".....what..the..feck.....this was released a week ago...you don't have an excuse!! Where's ¡Uno!, ¡Dos! and ¡Tré!???!!!
This doesn't sound convenient but a few days ago I was arguing green day was the best band and in my pizzaria had the painting, buelevard of broken dreams
Something I can relate to with Billie is that I lost my one of my mom’s closest friends who was basically her sister to cancer as well. And a few months ago, I made the connection between when we lost her and he lost his dad; we were both 10 years old.
39/Smooth was not a combination of 1,000 Hours and Slappy. Those were packaged WITH 39/Smooth in the compilation album 1,039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours.
Facts about Green Day * Green Day were one of the latter-day punk bands to emerge from the 924 Gilman Street club scene in Berkeley, California. Champions of East Bay punk-pop, their mid-'90s success helped bring punk briefly to the forefront of the music industry, which caused a backlash among some fans who accused them of "selling out." * After their first two independent releases, Green Day developed a fervent fanbase, which prompted a bidding war among record labels eager to sign them. They milked the attention for all it was worth, allowing labels to pay for trips, dinners and alcohol even though they had no interest in most of them. They made one suitor take them to Disneyland. * Billie Joe recorded and released his first single, "Looking For Love," at the age of 5 on Fiat records. The first song he wrote and then recorded was "Why Do You Want Him?" when he was 12. * Armstrong and Dirnt played together in a band called Sweet Children before forming Green Day. They once played at a high school party with the band The Lookouts in a remote mountain location near Willits, California. Only five kids showed up for the party and there was no electricity in the house, so Sweet Children had to play using a generator and candlelight, but they played, as Lookouts singer/guitarist Larry Livermore put it, "As if they were the Beatles at Shea Stadium." * The band's name comes from a term referring to a day spent smoking pot, hanging around, and doing absolutely nothing. The band were joint-smokers since puberty and Billie Joe got his nickname, "Two Dollar Bill," from selling joints at that price at his high school. It is widely reported that when the boys went to their high school principal to say that they were dropping out to become a full-time band the principal observed that "would be a green day in hell" before they amounted to anything. * At age 12, Tre Cool became a member of the band The Lookouts. Their album attracted some attention, and Tre began performing at an early age at 924 Gilman Street. In 1987, Armstrong and Dirnt formed The Sweet Children with Armstrong on lead vocals and guitar and Dirnt on bass and backing vocals. They began playing in 1988 at Rod's Hickory Pit in Rodeo, California. In 1989, the Children renamed themselves Green Day, after their first semi-successful song. They soon added Al Sobrante (born John Kiftmeyer), and went looking for a record deal. * Green Day signed with Lookout Records in 1989 and released their first EP, 1,000 Hours And Slappy in 1990. The next year, they produced the album 39/Smooth and released it in 1991. (The EPs would eventually be re-released on one CD as 1039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours). Al Sobrante left the band at this point, and was replaced by Tre. Green Day kicked off a national tour the day after Dirnt graduated from high school in 1990, then returned to the studio to produce their second album Kerplunk in 1992. The group signed with Reprise Records in April 1993 and released Dookie in February 1994. * They played both Lollapalooza and Woodstock 1994. At their Woodstock gig, a mud fight broke out between the band and the audience. The audience won: Dirnt ended up losing his front teeth. * Mike Dirnt was adopted. His adopted parents got divorced when he was young. * Billie Joe's father died of cancer when Billie was 10 years old. Before he died, he gave Billie Joe his first guitar. Billie named it Blue and later created various replicas. >> * Billie Joe Armstrong is a playable character in the skateboarding game Tony Hawk's American Wasteland. The game also includes numerous Marvel characters. >> * Armstrong married Adrienne Nesser in 1994, shortly after Dookie was released. The couple met in 1990 when Green Day played a show in Minnesota, where Adrienne lived. They have two children, Jacob and Joesph. Tre Cool has been married twice, and divorced twice, and has two children, Frankito and Ramone. Mike Dirnt also has a daughter, Estelle. * Every member in Green Day has tattoos, but they all have "E.B.P.M." somewhere on their bodies, meaning "East Bay Punk Mafia." * Other bands Billie Joe was in were Pinhead Gunpowder, Blatz, Goodbye Harry and Corrupted Morals and Rancid. Other instruments he plays are the drums, harmonica, guitar and the mandolin. * Billie Joe's cat, Zero, died in a tragic dryer accident. He confirmed this on Twitter. * In the 2003 film Freaky Friday the daughter Anna (played by Lindsay Lohan) has a Green Day poster in her room. * During soundcheck, Billie Joe likes to practice on the drums, and Tre likes to play Frisbee with the other crew members while they are riding skateboards. Tre also gives away a pair of drumsticks to a random person watching the soundcheck. * Tre is the godfather of Billie Joe's kids. * Billie Joe's hair is naturally reddish brown. If you've seen him with it dyed, you know he's no-holds-barred: blue, red, green, orange, and bright yellow are regularly rotated. * The first instrument Tre played was violin when he was nine years old. >> * They released their Warning album on October 3, 2000, less than two months before the US presidential election, so their record label promoted it with a campaign envisioning Billie Joe Armstrong in the running. One mock ad was pro-Armstrong, proclaiming him "a leader with a flair for leadership and the ability to lead" and ending with the tagline, "Burning the bridge to the 21st century." Another ad was anti-Armstrong, explaining why we shouldn't vote for him: He's a dick and his wife is very ugly. * Dirnt worked as a cook before Green Day became famous. * Armstrong is the youngest of six children. * The band has always been very candid about their drug use. When they started out, they talked openly about their recreational use of amphetamines, alcohol, and of course, marijuana. With the "War On Drug" still raging, this was an unusual admission. * In 2015, the band were inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame, with pop-punk band Fall Out Boy inducting the band at the ceremony on April 18th. To celebrate, Green Day performed a two-hour-plus show at the House of Blues in Cleveland two days before the ceremony, featuring a special hour-long set as their original Sweet Children incarnation - complete with original drummer John Kiffmeyer performing with them for the first time in well over two decades. They also invited Rancid singer Tim Armstrong up to play some songs, including the Rancid song "Radio" that Billie Joe Armstrong had co-written for the band back in 1993. * Facebook founder and Green Day fan Mark Zuckerberg asked Billie Joe Armstrong to play at his wedding in 2012. The singer told Q magazine Zuckerberg set up his first Facebook account for him. "It's a secret one," he said. "Nobody knows I'm on there."
I mean they had good songs, but it was definitely their weakest effort yet so far. I feel like they should have just taken the best songs from those three albums and compiled it into one album.
Yeah, I know. Which is fine. I respected the ambition. Just think the execution was a little underwhelming. But there were still a decent amount of great tunes.
Another fun fact: The girlfriend frequently refered to in Green Day's music as 'Amanda' never actually dated Billie Joe. He had a massive crush on her and kept trying to date her, to which she responded with promptly friend-zoning him and eventually moving away.
The song "Brain Stew" is not about drugs. It's about Billie Joe being unable to sleep after his first kid was born because he was worried that something might happen to his son while we was sleeping. He stayed up for days at a time, to the point of hallucinating.
Okay, for 1, 21st Century breakdown is not their latest album, its their new one Revolution Radio, but that has not come out yet so its Uno Dos and Tre, i am a gigantic fan of Green Day knowing all their songs and i will agree that this video is accurate on facts so applause to you guys! My favorite song off dookie is Coming Clean or Pulling Teeth It was not his manager who told him to go to rehab, it was his wife so 106 facts
+Rejected Jupiter They have punk-ish elements, yes, but they are not a punk band. That's kind of like saying that Panic! at the Disco is a rock band, because they evolved from rock, even though Panic! is pop, not rock.
+Rejected Jupiter But I don't want to argue. You have a point, it just kind of surprised me because I've never heard Nirvana classified as punk before.
Also good points, it seems like everywhere on UA-cam if people get in arguments over something they get super heated rather than just discussing it :P thanks for not being one of those people lol
I think you're forgetting the most important fact of all : "Billie has discovered the fountain of youth"
but now it's dehrydated
Lizzy Armstrøng Tre got away from it a while ago.
I swear, he's a freaking VAMPIRE!!! Or possibly a god.
Hannah jones I hope so god
I think you mean Gerard way found it
"To their latest album 21st Century Breakdown!"
your off by 3 albums, and 7 years
Thank you!!@
4 albums. Nobody cares about Uno!, Dos!, Tres! And Demolicious.
they got it right in description lol
actually a lot of people liked it. The only reason it wasn't as commercially successfull as their other albums was that Billie Joe was in rehab and wasn't there to tour or promote the albums.
Well maybe they just didn't want to mention them
"Some say the band's name is about pot"
"It was absolutely about pot"
yeah I saw that in an interview 😂
probably my favorite Billie Joe interview
"You've never gad a gravity bong!?"
Fact 108: Johnny Test took a lot from Green Day, a dog named Dookie, and even the theme song is a parody of American Idiot
Jared Vise YES THANK YOU i actually liked that show and people don't remember it much
American idiot is a parody of Johnny test 😤😤😤
Necronomibro Okay, American idiot- 2004
Johnny Test- 2005
Because obviously 5 comes before 4.
I watched that show as a kid and never got the reference
@@dootfromthebasement like the picture.
You didn't give all the facts about Wake me up When September Ends. During the funeral, Billie ran away to his home and locked he door. His mother asked if he was okay then Billie said: "Wake me up When September Ends".
I feel like it's made up..
@@posiechristina It's not watch them perform wake me up when september ends on howard stern. he says it himself.
Which is why Billie pretty much dislikes September.
he also missed that it triples as a part of the rock opera, it is the jesus of suburbia's reaction to breaking up with whatsername
This doesn't seem right
did i hear you say that nirvana is punk rock? It's grunge dude....
Royce Manson Nirvana is just heavily influenced by clash. Kurt cobain created his own sound and was heavily influential in grunge. You’re absolutely right that they’re grunge, they just have punk rock elements
Grunge is just sad punk
I thought grunge is punk with slower tempo and metal influence in it..
IKR! Check out my comment at the top.
Royce Insanity Grunge is punk it’s just like punk metal
"Brain Stew" is actually about the insomnia that Billie Joe suffered after the birth of his first son.
and what about Jaded?
That's also why the album's called Insomniac!
#6 is wrong. Billie's mom gave him his first guitar using tips from her job as a waitress. Billie talked about it during an interview, not sure which one.
Blue was only his first electric guitar. His dad _did_ give him his first ever guitar, which was a Cherry Red Hohner acoustic. Don't know what became of it...
Alana D Shit, sorry. Didn't know that. I assumed that Blue was his first guitar since I've never heard about Billie's first guitar being an acoustic :/ It makes sense to start off with and acoustic.
A lot of these “facts” are wrong
Glad SOMEONE Noticed 😃
I wish MTV would be what it was back when I was a kid
I tear up everytime when I hear someone talking about Billie Joe's dad
Hope he in heaven
green day is called green day because Billy Joe Armstrong smoked a whole punch of pot and wrote a song called green day based on how the drugs made him feel. someone either a fan or one of the band members wrote the phrase green day onto the back of a jacket and from there on everyone sorta called them green day although Billy Joe states himself in a interview that i quote "we probably have the dumbest band name ever" so i have to disagree with fact #20
I'm Sorry but I must do this....
Billie*
Defiantly better than limp biscuit
Weed is not a drug it's a plant I am sick of people calling.it a drug
@@jasonsnider7306 it is a drug, just as alcohol is a drug
Jason Snider Yes, marijuana is just that; a plant.
And fact #108: Green Day Is back and better than every before (well we don't know that yet) With Bang Bang and Revolution Radio. SO HYPED!
JustinTheOreo tttxx c.
That whole album is amazing
yeh! Green Day r my fav band and i hav the new album (just found out u posted this last year sry:))
JustinTheOreo great album... really.
21st Century Breakdown is their best album
Green Day is definitely my favorite band!
im 5 years late to this comment but same lmao
Watching this after going to their concert for Revolution Radio!
hope to see them one day
Barry B Benson Me too!
Barry B Benson lucky
I was there!
Barry B Benson same
WAIT BILLIE'S BISEXUAL
WH AT
Jesus Christ Yeah, very old news lmao. He even made a more clear reference to this later on in American Idiot, with the lyrics "Maybe I'm the faggot America"
Nicholas Osborne yeah, that’s not a reference to it, at all.
Me: ~Generally Hoping that all of the members get divorced and have a threes-~ *This comment has been banned*
There is a line in basket case. I went to a whore. HE said my life’s a bore
Im Bisexual
Starting a video about Green Day facts by saying that 21st Century Breakdown was their latest album is not a very good introduction...
Brian Jordan Bartels They also said ‘Demolicious’ is their latest album in the description......
Billie Joe is 44 years old... wow.
Sushiyoda he looks like he’s 30
Now he’s 47 ;-)
Wait no way
Wait what tha frick
Sushiyoda 47 now... crazy he looks 20
My very first CD i bought was Dookie, still play it almost everyday ! My fav songs are Basket case, She and Longview
Hehe on an interview with Bill Maher, Bill asked Billie if the name “Green Day” had anything to do with pot or if it was a myth and Billie responded “oh it’s definitely about pot” maybe not those exact words but it’s an entertaining interview if you haven’t seen it🤣😂
is NO ONE gonna talk about how he said "fact number 97" again at 21:50 ?
he also calls the band Garbage Garage at 22:32
They’re making movies about Queen and the Beatles and stuff. I hope one day we get a movie about Green Day!
21st century breakdown latest album
¡Uno!
¡Dos!
¡Tre!
Hello micdrop they were released in 2012
they even talk about them in the video. maybe they started writing it before those albums released. or maybe they just thought it would be confusing to explain right at the beginning that green day's latest album was three albums.
Revolution radio was the latest album when you posted this comment
@@ryantunbridge9666 but it wasn't out when this video was made
And Revolution Radio was released the same year as this video
@@adog3129 Idk about you but I don't think it took them *5 years* to make a video. But yeah, maybe they did think it was just confusing
From Dookie to...
(leaves video)
Got an ad for Father of All before this and I'm so happy
7:11 nirvana aren't a punk band, they're a grunge band
The term "grunge" didn't exist when Nirvana started out. They were a punk band who was called "grunge" later on.
@@dpm12 that's wrong. they didn't invent the grunge genre, soundgarden and alice in chains exist.
true, but they have a few songs with some heavy punk vibes
@@adog3129 I never said they invented the grunge genre. I said they were labelled as "punk" or "alternative" before "grunge" became the term they were referred to as.
I've been a HUGE Green Day fan for many years now, and I've read basically every article and book on them possible, so I just want to say that you did a great job on all these facts! Loved it!
Green Day means a day spent smoking pot.
Also Mike's nickname is a bass sound.
I was told Tre became their drummer when he showed up to a concert wearing his grandmothers dress and a bonnet.
Dookie was amazing. Best album EVER
I lost my dad at 8, same type of cancer as Billie Joe’s dad. I see Billie joe as someone just like me, a role model of how he dealt with the exact same thing, and came out stronger. I lost my dad in September and Wake me up when September ends, and boulevard of broken dreams especially connected to me. I was sent to an all boys school and had no friends for years, constantly bullied. I walked alone, not knowing my worth. Billie joe’s music got me through all of that. Thank you.
Billy in some interview said that green day came from weed smoking day
yeah, sorry for misspelling, i'm not really good at english sometimes
Favorite song on Dookie is Longview but I really identify with Coming Clean so I love that song too.
+Peter Art Yes... I'm bisexual
+Senpai Jones Well that's my icon. When people call me him, it really RUSSELLS my jimmies.
same
same I love coming clean
Nirvana wasn't created before Green Day. They were both created in the same year, 1987.
yeah but nirvana went mainstream much faster
The best song from dookie is "she" hands down and no one will ever change my mind
i think longviews great
I love that song!!!
@@3zazie longview is the best absolutely
L take
What I wanna see is "Green Day Presents The Funeral Of Saint Jimmy"
Mason McNeely maybe a sequel to American Idiot? or a bonus track?
Every Green Day fan already knows all these
If they were even all correct 😂 just do some simple ones if you didn't have enough time to google search
Alli Catttyy Art I didn't know a lot of this.
True
Alli Catt Art I’ve watched this three times and wouldn’t be surprised if I watched it again
/r/gatekeeping
21:49 Fact #98 = Fact #97???
i noticed that too!
I love all the Dookie songs
"Nimrod was a turning point in their career" I see what you did there
the main character is the jesus of suburbia. st jimmy is an alter ego that only appears for about a half of the show/album
Exactly
YES!!! I've screamed about this shit.
well, that's kind of valid and also completely wrong. they're the same person. st jimmy is the main character's more violent mentally unstable drug-addicted alter ego. and he's typically just called jesus, not the jesus of suburbia. the jesus of suburbia is just how he describes himself at one point, he has no actual name in the album. this is the widely accepted explanation, but then again it's a rock opera and it's open to interpretation
Well I don't care if you don't
me and billie have the same bday yas
me too february 17th brothers unite!!!!!!!!!
memes and yees if that is true then we have the same month, happy early b day
Well, happy birthday then!
memes and yees me and his child have the same birthday
Me too
I wouldnt say Limp Biscuit dominated anything....
DaleyGaming *Bizkit
DaleyGaming well fred durst may be a fucking idiot but my way and that cover of behind blue eyes was pretty good in my opinion
They were in Indonesia. Nookie, My Generation, Take a Look Around, My Way were overly hyped, along wity LP ofc...
Well, they may have dominated wwe...their songs were always used in the pay per views back in the early 2000s. Fred Durst was even in a WWE GAME!
Dominated shit maybe
When I Come Around was my favorite song off Dookie
Same
@@dantemeza1 mine was sassafras roots and also she
@@Razorzfort33th mine now is Longview
@@dantemeza1 mine is sassafras roots she and geek stink breath
@@Razorzfort33th i love Jesus of Suburbia its actually my favorite Green Day song
2:25 I don't know why I love that picture so much, but something about Mike's head pasted on top of a stock chef photo is so funny to me.
Green Day seriously saved my life...I wish I could somehow thank them :')
me too:) still currently saving it...
They regularly save mine 💚
Micdrop,I just gotta say Thank You for making a video about Green Day. It Truly made my day turn around and it was worth the wait and also the fact that Green Day will realise a new album this year is something I'm very hyped for Once again thank you Mic Drop for the video it was awesome.
"They're latest album 21st Century Breakdown".....what..the..feck.....this was released a week ago...you don't have an excuse!! Where's ¡Uno!, ¡Dos! and ¡Tré!???!!!
*Their (dammit😂)
i thought the same 😂😂
What about revolution radio? 😐
+Abby Kristine does it come out at the beginning of September, or do we have to wait until September ends? 😏😉
+Abby Kristine thanks......... Was the joke not good enough for an lol?
wrong revolution radio is the latest album
Look at the date.
i know XD
Uno dos and tré were the most recent when this was made. They came out in 2012
Look at the date dumbass
Yeah 2016. Uno Dos Tre came out like 4 years earlier so 21st Century Breakdown is STILL not their latest album at that point.
My teacher played 21 guns in class while I was listening to Green Day with earbuds
This is very interesting, I've been a huge Green Day fan for over 5 years and I didn't know these things until just now
4:01 You even used a magazine that said "¡Uno! ¡Dos! ¡Tre!" on it...
This doesn't sound convenient but a few days ago I was arguing green day was the best band and in my pizzaria had the painting, buelevard of broken dreams
Emenius Sleepus from Dookie
Something I can relate to with Billie is that I lost my one of my mom’s closest friends who was basically her sister to cancer as well. And a few months ago, I made the connection between when we lost her and he lost his dad; we were both 10 years old.
Longview is my favorite song from the Dookie album, the baseline is killer
Dookie is my favorite Green Day Album. Favorite song? That's really hard but I think It would either be Basket Case or Welcome to Paradise.
Dragon Lover favorite albums gotta be American idiot song whatsername
YES, also she
Or when I come around
@@auri8810 I love she!!
My favorite song in dookie is either Welcome to Paradise, Longview, or FOD
honestly, my favorite song from Dookie is When I Come Around, because it's so catchy
I'm going to see Green Day on 9/11
Gotta love Tre Cool's handwritten songs
39/Smooth was not a combination of 1,000 Hours and Slappy. Those were packaged WITH 39/Smooth in the compilation album 1,039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours.
Butch Vig was in Garbage, not Garage.
I had to listen 3 times to make sure he said GARAGE!
LOL! I did the same thing!
This needs more upvotes and the video needs to be edited. To drag Garbage in the dirt like that is not cool...
I think that flub really dates this host's musical exposure. Garbage was hugely successful in the 90's and beyond.
mattlamb ikr
the network is great it has some of my favorite records on there. they never get old.
Facts about Green Day
* Green Day were one of the latter-day punk bands to emerge from the 924 Gilman Street club scene in Berkeley, California. Champions of East Bay punk-pop, their mid-'90s success helped bring punk briefly to the forefront of the music industry, which caused a backlash among some fans who accused them of "selling out."
* After their first two independent releases, Green Day developed a fervent fanbase, which prompted a bidding war among record labels eager to sign them. They milked the attention for all it was worth, allowing labels to pay for trips, dinners and alcohol even though they had no interest in most of them. They made one suitor take them to Disneyland.
* Billie Joe recorded and released his first single, "Looking For Love," at the age of 5 on Fiat records. The first song he wrote and then recorded was "Why Do You Want Him?" when he was 12.
* Armstrong and Dirnt played together in a band called Sweet Children before forming Green Day. They once played at a high school party with the band The Lookouts in a remote mountain location near Willits, California. Only five kids showed up for the party and there was no electricity in the house, so Sweet Children had to play using a generator and candlelight, but they played, as Lookouts singer/guitarist Larry Livermore put it, "As if they were the Beatles at Shea Stadium."
* The band's name comes from a term referring to a day spent smoking pot, hanging around, and doing absolutely nothing. The band were joint-smokers since puberty and Billie Joe got his nickname, "Two Dollar Bill," from selling joints at that price at his high school. It is widely reported that when the boys went to their high school principal to say that they were dropping out to become a full-time band the principal observed that "would be a green day in hell" before they amounted to anything.
* At age 12, Tre Cool became a member of the band The Lookouts. Their album attracted some attention, and Tre began performing at an early age at 924 Gilman Street. In 1987, Armstrong and Dirnt formed The Sweet Children with Armstrong on lead vocals and guitar and Dirnt on bass and backing vocals. They began playing in 1988 at Rod's Hickory Pit in Rodeo, California. In 1989, the Children renamed themselves Green Day, after their first semi-successful song. They soon added Al Sobrante (born John Kiftmeyer), and went looking for a record deal.
* Green Day signed with Lookout Records in 1989 and released their first EP, 1,000 Hours And Slappy in 1990. The next year, they produced the album 39/Smooth and released it in 1991. (The EPs would eventually be re-released on one CD as 1039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours). Al Sobrante left the band at this point, and was replaced by Tre. Green Day kicked off a national tour the day after Dirnt graduated from high school in 1990, then returned to the studio to produce their second album Kerplunk in 1992. The group signed with Reprise Records in April 1993 and released Dookie in February 1994.
* They played both Lollapalooza and Woodstock 1994. At their Woodstock gig, a mud fight broke out between the band and the audience. The audience won: Dirnt ended up losing his front teeth.
* Mike Dirnt was adopted. His adopted parents got divorced when he was young.
* Billie Joe's father died of cancer when Billie was 10 years old. Before he died, he gave Billie Joe his first guitar. Billie named it Blue and later created various replicas. >>
* Billie Joe Armstrong is a playable character in the skateboarding game Tony Hawk's American Wasteland. The game also includes numerous Marvel characters. >>
* Armstrong married Adrienne Nesser in 1994, shortly after Dookie was released. The couple met in 1990 when Green Day played a show in Minnesota, where Adrienne lived. They have two children, Jacob and Joesph. Tre Cool has been married twice, and divorced twice, and has two children, Frankito and Ramone. Mike Dirnt also has a daughter, Estelle.
* Every member in Green Day has tattoos, but they all have "E.B.P.M." somewhere on their bodies, meaning "East Bay Punk Mafia."
* Other bands Billie Joe was in were Pinhead Gunpowder, Blatz, Goodbye Harry and Corrupted Morals and Rancid. Other instruments he plays are the drums, harmonica, guitar and the mandolin.
* Billie Joe's cat, Zero, died in a tragic dryer accident. He confirmed this on Twitter.
* In the 2003 film Freaky Friday the daughter Anna (played by Lindsay Lohan) has a Green Day poster in her room.
* During soundcheck, Billie Joe likes to practice on the drums, and Tre likes to play Frisbee with the other crew members while they are riding skateboards. Tre also gives away a pair of drumsticks to a random person watching the soundcheck.
* Tre is the godfather of Billie Joe's kids.
* Billie Joe's hair is naturally reddish brown. If you've seen him with it dyed, you know he's no-holds-barred: blue, red, green, orange, and bright yellow are regularly rotated.
* The first instrument Tre played was violin when he was nine years old. >>
* They released their Warning album on October 3, 2000, less than two months before the US presidential election, so their record label promoted it with a campaign envisioning Billie Joe Armstrong in the running. One mock ad was pro-Armstrong, proclaiming him "a leader with a flair for leadership and the ability to lead" and ending with the tagline, "Burning the bridge to the 21st century." Another ad was anti-Armstrong, explaining why we shouldn't vote for him: He's a dick and his wife is very ugly.
* Dirnt worked as a cook before Green Day became famous.
* Armstrong is the youngest of six children.
* The band has always been very candid about their drug use. When they started out, they talked openly about their recreational use of amphetamines, alcohol, and of course, marijuana. With the "War On Drug" still raging, this was an unusual admission.
* In 2015, the band were inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame, with pop-punk band Fall Out Boy inducting the band at the ceremony on April 18th. To celebrate, Green Day performed a two-hour-plus show at the House of Blues in Cleveland two days before the ceremony, featuring a special hour-long set as their original Sweet Children incarnation - complete with original drummer John Kiffmeyer performing with them for the first time in well over two decades. They also invited Rancid singer Tim Armstrong up to play some songs, including the Rancid song "Radio" that Billie Joe Armstrong had co-written for the band back in 1993.
* Facebook founder and Green Day fan Mark Zuckerberg asked Billie Joe Armstrong to play at his wedding in 2012. The singer told Q magazine Zuckerberg set up his first Facebook account for him. "It's a secret one," he said. "Nobody knows I'm on there."
The snoo was done dirty with his mask😂😂😂 tre has such a distinct look
Are you seriously just going to forget Uno, Dos, and Tre
And Demolicious
+kevin willems same
I mean they had good songs, but it was definitely their weakest effort yet so far. I feel like they should have just taken the best songs from those three albums and compiled it into one album.
Wallace McGudis they were experimental albums
Yeah, I know. Which is fine. I respected the ambition. Just think the execution was a little underwhelming. But there were still a decent amount of great tunes.
whos watching after Bang Bang announcement?
Me
I'm dying
Same. I can't contain my happiness
Me
Lol me
17:17 that's obviously Billie Joe with a mask on
17:26 that's just Tre with a luchador mask
that's seriously what it looks like bruh. I'm glad I'm not the only one who sees it
@@colonelyngus4160 that and mike confirmed it was them
@@lukethespook2784 when? 👉👈
@@colonelyngus4160 2013
Good spanish pronunciation. Buen Español. Felicitaciones !
103 i don't blame him for being pissed! I would be too
He went into rehab directly after because he was having issues with alcoholism.
you said he met Mike Dirnt in 1972. Billie was born in 1972
yes he meet him as a baby
No he didn't. I'm pretty sure they met in like 5th grade
+Nicholas Coble but how they said it
+Nicholas Coble he met in 1982
Lmao
who's here from BANG bang or revolution radio
Me.
+Diamonder 905 me tre
+thealexanderwhat ? lol
me :v
markie moo meeeeeeeeeeeeee
Another fun fact: The girlfriend frequently refered to in Green Day's music as 'Amanda' never actually dated Billie Joe. He had a massive crush on her and kept trying to date her, to which she responded with promptly friend-zoning him and eventually moving away.
19:35 I remember seeing that painting in my 9th grade English teacher's room!
0:14 they don't kick butt they kick ass
I think it can go either way.
Do 107 facts about mcr or blink 182
Fact 8 is wrong. Billie Joe didn't meet mike in 1972, they were both born that year
No, he was describing Mike's birthday
21st Century Breakdown isn't there latest album...Uno Dos And Très is...do your research..
seriously, how are you going to do a fact video about them if you don't even know what their last album was?
Revolution Radio :)
Revolution radio. Do your research.
I didn't do my research
no its gods favorite band do your research
The song "Brain Stew" is not about drugs. It's about Billie Joe being unable to sleep after his first kid was born because he was worried that something might happen to his son while we was sleeping. He stayed up for days at a time, to the point of hallucinating.
1:24 so, we could call him "Chef Boyardirnt" back then.
Ik i suck at jokes XD
Ok but that was funny as fuck, not gonna lie.
Do 107 facts about The Red Hot Chili Peppers
YESSS plz do it
This^
yess
Yes.
Yeah,absolutely!
Okay, for 1, 21st Century breakdown is not their latest album, its their new one Revolution Radio, but that has not come out yet so its Uno Dos and Tre,
i am a gigantic fan of Green Day knowing all their songs and i will agree that this video is accurate on facts so applause to you guys!
My favorite song off dookie is Coming Clean or Pulling Teeth
It was not his manager who told him to go to rehab, it was his wife so 106 facts
its revolution radio
That kid From UA-cam i know....thats what i said
No you didnt you put radio revolution
That kid From UA-cam i meant Revolution Radio my apologies
i keep mixing up the name
check the date of the video
they excluded uno dos tre because they were a trilogy
Favorite song of dookie burn out by far
purple headed hedgehog I'm not growing up
I honestly can't pick a favorite, but that's one of the picks tied for first XD
That one's pretty good, but I like Having a Blast better.
i concur
No F. O. D
I WATCHED
THIS VIDEO
*ONE TIME* IN 2017
AND IT’S IN MY RECOMMENDED
*EVERY*
*SIX*
*MONTHS*
I think he meant Butch Vig was a member of Garbage, not "Garage"
Was hoping someone else noticed...
Actually, Billie's mom bought him his first guitar (he told this at the concert)
Billies mom bought his first electric guitar but his dad bought his first ever acoustic:)
7:10 Punk bands like the Ramones and NIRVANA? Nirvana ... punk?
To clarify, Nirvana evolved from punk, and grunge was a genre that evolved out of Nirvana not the other way around.
+Rejected Jupiter They have punk-ish elements, yes, but they are not a punk band. That's kind of like saying that Panic! at the Disco is a rock band, because they evolved from rock, even though Panic! is pop, not rock.
+Rejected Jupiter But I don't want to argue. You have a point, it just kind of surprised me because I've never heard Nirvana classified as punk before.
Also good points, it seems like everywhere on UA-cam if people get in arguments over something they get super heated rather than just discussing it :P thanks for not being one of those people lol
+Rejected Jupiter Lol you're welcome.
My friend's dad died from overdosing on pain killers on September 11th. She gets really upset when she hears "Wake Me Up When September Ends."
8:01
Guy:this songs still get played on the radio TODAY
Me:MAN I WISH now all I hear on he radio is all that rap trash they call music
Code Zero rap isn't trash
@@ajplaze8001 eminem
Listen to the 97.9 radio, they play greenday on it every day
@justarandomperson agreed
@justarandomperson Old School Rap (Eminem, Ice Cube, N.W.A, Tupac, etc.) is good, but modern rap (Lil ) is so fuckin annoying.
Cheers to Rodeo, CA though!! Very cool and I hope Green Day keeps on rocking for a long time!!
Longview is my favorite song off of Dookie.
Short blind is kinda not gay tho???
My brother loves “Basket Case”. That’s actually gonna be my ringtone for him.
MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
n o
+What is a Green Day why?
No
Brandon Hoelzel Why?
yas
....And their new album 21 Century Breakdown!
*Made in 2016*
*Tf this is outdated*
Lol love the pic
@@FRhinestone_yt and the username
@@yeesusofsuburbia yeah me too 😄
Does anyone know if theres a way to listen to the monkey prank call (19:07)?
So. Glad i got to these guys. They're basically the successors to Queen, my other favorite band.
There is only one logical reason for the origin of the name, "green day". Aliens.
One there's the trio ¡Uno! ¡Dos! ¡Tre!. And two most of these are facts true green day fans would know
22:32 You. Did. Not. Just. Say. Garage.
he said comment my favorite song from dookie... having a blast is my favorite green day song... and my favorite song EVER
Ad: Green Day: Father of all
I got that too lmao