Green Day Facts

The album Dookie was going to ba named 'Liquid Dookie' As you may know dookie is a translation of the word poo. But even Green Day realised liquid dookie was a bit to gross, so they shortened it to Dookie!

Billie Joe plays in a side band called 'Pin Head Gunpowder'. The bands latest release is Shoot to the Moon!

Billie Joe is married and has 2 sons. Their names are Joey and Jacob Danger

T he song Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) was written when Billie split up with his girlfriend! It is about breaking up and going separate ways! ut when their relationship got worse he called it Good Riddance!

Billie left school when he just turned 18

Billie Joe was once arrested for dropping his pants and mooning to the crowd at a concert! He got out on a bail!

Green Day were once called Sweet Children. Under that name they wrote a song called 'Green Day' about when they were teenagers and smoke pot!

The song 'Welcome to Paradise' is about Oakland!

The Geek Stink Breath Video when it was released caused much controversey and was only shown late at night! this is because the video has heaps of puss and stuff

Once while Green Day were playing at a concert, A mamber from 'Third Eye Blind' threw a beer bottle at Mike Dirnt from backstage! as you can imagineMike was pretty pissed!

Mike and Billie where high school friends!

The song J .A.R. stands for Jason Andrew Relva. Mike wrote it about his friend who died!

The band smoked heaps of pot through out high school

The concert woodstock II attracted a crowd of over 300 000 and Green Day started a mud fight where 4 people died and 750 people broke their legs! It was the biggest mud fight ever captured on film.