| 1972: Everyone is born: Billie Joe in February, Mike in May, and Tre in December. |
1972 |
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1977 |
1977: Billie, then an angelic kid with ringlets, records a seven-inch single called "Look For Love." |
| 1979: Mike smokes his first joint, with a friend of his mom's. |
1979 |
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| 1982: Billie's career as a flasher begins at a swim meet in Crockett. He takes off all his clothes and streaks around the swimming pool. |
1982 |
1982: Billie and Mike meet in the school cafeteria and discuss songwriting. |
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1983 |
1983: Mike sleeps over at Billie's house. They learn to play "Ain't Talking About Love" by Van Halen, "Photograph" by Def Leppard, and "Crazy Train" by Ozzy Osbourne. |
| 1985: Armed with screwdrivers, Mike and his friend Jason break into newly built houses and dismantle them. |
1985 |
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1986 |
1986: Billie's sister Anna buys the replacements Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash. Then she pounds on Billie for scratching the record. |
| 1987: Billie and Mike, as Sweet Children, play their first show at Rod's Hickory Pit, where Billie's mom works. Thirty friends show up. |
1987 |
1987: Billie sells joints at school for two dollars apiece. He is called Two-Dollar Bill. |
| 1989: Billie and Mike tour for the first time in different bands. Billie plays guitar for Corrupted Morals. Mike sings for Crummy Musicians, since the real singer's mother won't let him go on tour. |
1989 |
1989: Billie writes an article on how to be a couch potato -- root beer, pizza, and TV -- for his friend Eggplant's fanzine, Absolutely Zippo.
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| 1990: Billie drops out of high school the day before his eighteenth birthday. |
1990 |
1990: First Green Day tour. The day after Mike graduates from high
school, they hop into a van and do forty-five dates across the U.S. |
| 1990: Original drummer John Kiftmeyer leaves for college. His drum teacher, Tre Cool, joins the band. |
1990 |
1990: Billie and Tre get a job selling newspaper subscriptions outside Safeway. They end up ditching the papers and smoking weed the rest of the day. They are fired.
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1991 |
1991: Billie has a peculiar speed experience, smashing beer bottles and screaming "God damn Van Damme!" He has never seen a Van Damme movie. |
| 1992: Tre's dad buys a disused bookmobile from the Phoenix library
system. It becomes Green Day's new travelling home, with Mr. Cool Sr. as
driver. |
1992 |
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| 1994: Green Day releases the multi-platunum record "Dookie" which ended up selling over 10 million copies. |
1994 |
1994: Woodstock 2 turns into "Mudstock" after Green Day encourages people to throw mud. |
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1994 |
1994: Green Day slips through MTV's no-drug-references policy by talking about burning Jurassic monkeys, their personal slang for joints. |
| 1995: Green Day releases the follow-up to Dookie,"Insomniac" which only sold about 8 million copies. |
1995 |
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1997 |
1997: Nimrod Released |