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Biography

Drummer of Green day

Tré enjoying his typical style while doing the "American Idiot" video

Tré Cool was born Frank Edwin Wright III on December 9th, 1972. He grew up in a remote rural area known as Iron Peak and/or Spy Rock Road, 18 miles outside of Laytonville, California. When he was 14, his family moved to Willits, California, 21 miles south of Laytonville. His dad, a retired Vietnam vet, built some of the houses in the Iron Peak area, and helped build an addition to the house of Larry Livermore, their nearest neighbor and the founder of Lookout Records. Livermore also gave Tré his nickname. At age twelve, he joined Livermore's band, the Lookouts. A lot of their gigs were at Berkeley's punk club, Gilman Street. In 1988 set up a gig at a high school party for the Lookouts and a new band called Sweet Children, who later changed their name to Green Day. That gig led to Green Day signing to Lookout Records. The Lookouts and Green Day often played together in the following two years, and after the Lookouts broke up in 1990, Tré joined Green Day as a replacement for their first drummer, John Kiffmeyer, aka Al Sobrante, who left the band to attend college. smell my mum and fuck off. ... smell my mum and fuck off. ... Laytonville is a census-designated place located in Mendocino County, California. ... Willits is a city located in Mendocino County, California. ... A veteran refers to a person who is experienced in a particular area, particularly referring to people in the armed forces. ... Larry Livermore was the co-founder, and from 1990 to 1997 the head of, Lookout Records. ... Lookout! Records is a record company based in Berkeley, California. ... The Lookouts were a punk rock band that existed from 1985 to 1990 in Laytonville, California. ... Ryan of the Phantom Limbs playing at Gilman 924 Gilman Street, aka the Alternative Music Foundation, is the Berkeley, California street address, and the official business name of the all-ages, non-profit, collectively organized music club usually referred to by its fans as simply The Gilman. It is located... Sweet Children is a band which consisted of Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnst and Al Sobrante. ... Al Sobrante (John Kiffmeyer) was the original drummer for the punk rock band Green Day/The Sweet Children. ... Al Sobrante (John Kiffmeyer) was the original drummer for the punk rock band Green Day/The Sweet Children. ...

Marriages and children

In March 1995, Tré married Lisa Lyons, his girlfriend, and together they had a daughter, Ramona (b. 1995). They later divorced, but are still good friends. Tré married in 2000 to Claudia, and they had a baby together named Frankito, which means "Little Frank" (b. 2001). They divorced in 2003, but they still live together in a house in Oakland, CA. Tre' also had a girlfriend who played the drums for the Donnas but broke up. The Donnas is the name of an all-women punk rock band that go by stage names. ...

Drum-set

Tré has his own signature Slingerland drum kit, the "Spitfire". It consists of a 18×22 Slingerland Bass drum, a 5½×14 Slingerland Radio King Snare, a 6½×14 Chrome snare, an 11×14 Slingerland mounted tom, and a 16×16 Slingerland floor tom. Though the Spitfire comes with Slingerland cymbals, Tré still uses a 19′ Zildjian K Dark Thin Crash on the left, a 20" Zildjian A Medium Ride on the right, a 22" Zildjian K Heavy Ride on the bottom right, a 14" Zildjian K Medium Top, 14" K Medium Heavy Bottom Hi-Hats, and Zildjian Super 5B drumsticks. He also uses Remo Power Stroke 3 on his snare and bass drums, Remo Coated emperors on the tops of his toms, clear ambassadors on the bottoms, and Remo Falam Slam Pad on the bass drum. Tre Cool from the fan-site GreenAuthority. ... Slingerland drum company is a historic drum company which is linked to the rich history of jazz drumming. ... A drum kit (or drum set or trap set - the latter an old-fashioned term) is a collection of drums, cymbals and other percussion instruments arranged for convenient playing by a sole percussionist (drummer), usually for jazz, rock, or other types of contemporary music. ... The snare drum or side drum is a tubular drum made of wood or metal with skins, or heads, stretched over the top and bottom openings. ... A tom-tom (not to be confused with a tamtam) is a cylindrical drum with no snare. ... This article is about the percussion instruments made of metal disks, for the string instrument played with beaters see cymbalum. ... The Avedis Zildjian Company is one of the worlds biggest manufacturers of cymbals. ... A drum stick is an item used to hit percussion instruments to produce sound. ... The snare drum or side drum is a tubular drum made of wood or metal with skins, or heads, stretched over the top and bottom openings. ... A bass drum is a large, heavy drum that produces a thump of low but indefinite pitch. ...

Role in the band

His intensive playing, combining with powerful and fast performing are trademarks of Green Day. Without them it is doubtful that they would have the same success as they do. Playing drums professionally since he joined the Lookouts at age 12 (he said that he started drumming from the tender age of 3 and later stole some drumkit from the local musicstore, because he couldn't afford them), his speed and discipline are marked by fans and critics as outstanding and Cool's performing hasn't changed for decades, despite aging. His undeniable skills and talent and as well as his eccentric, but humorous and amiable personality, complements and makes them the band they are.

Apart from his onerous band duties, Tré has some writing and vocal credits on band's albums. He performed the secret song "All by Myself" on Dookie, and American Idiot sidetrack "Rock and Roll Girlfriend" of the medley "Homecoming". He also wrote, played guitar and sang the song "Dominated Love Slave" on Green Day's 1992 album Kerplunk. On the same album, he composed the guitar riff of "Welcome to Paradise". This song is in fact the only one when Billie-Joe and Tré have switched places on drums and guitar. Tré also appears on the Fat Wreck compilation Short Music for Short People with Samiam, and wrote and sang several songs with the Lookouts. On the recent American Idiot tour, Armstrong introduced him as "the best fucking drummer in rock and roll". Many fans and critics have come to view him as the heir to that title, originally attributed to the late Keith Moon of The Who. Dookie is an album by the rock band Green Day. ... American Idiot is also the name of an American Idol parody sketch on the TV series All That. ... 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Kerplunk! is the punk rock band Green Days second album. ... Welcome to Paradise is a song from Green Days 1992 album Kerplunk and again on their 1994(and most critically acclaimed) album Dookie. ... Keith John Moon (August 23, 1946 – September 7, 1978) was the drummer of the rock group The Who. ... The Who in 1968. ...

External links

• Tré Cool at GeekStinkBreath.net (http://www.geekstinkbreath.net/greenday/info/trecool/)