Green Day Drummer - Tre Cool Biography

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Tre Cool is an alias for Green Day drummer Frank Edwin Wright III who was born December 9, 1972 in Frankfurt, Germany, making him the youngest member of Green Day. He lived in Laytonville, California with his father and his 2 older siblings. His dad, a helicopter pilot in the Vietnam War, decided the move the family there to insulate them upon his return to the United States. Tré’s closest neighbor was future Lookout! Records owner Lawrence Livermore, who at the time was the singer of the punk band The Lookouts. At age 12, Livermore recruited Wright to join The Lookouts, and gave him the moniker of Tré Cool. It was when Green Day’s drummer current drummer at the time Alo Sobrante left the band that they recruited Tré to play drums. Tré decided to drop out of high school his sophomore year. However, he passed an equivalency test and earned his GED, and began taking classes at a nearby community college. He had to drop out of college however, when the demands of Green Day’s touring intensified.

Tré’s father, who owned a small trucking company, overhauled a used bookmobile, and even served as the driver on three separate tours. “I watched them go from a bunch of kids to a group of musicians with work ethic,” says Tré’s father, Frank Wright II. “On their first tour or two, it was more of a party than anything else. I still scratch my head and say, ‘How in the hell did they make it?’ They used to practice in my living room here — a lot of the songs they did on Dookie. You hear it coming together, and you don’t expect people are going to go out and buy it. But when it does, you just say, ‘Wow, that’s so cool.’” (Rolling Stone, January 26, 1995)

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