History of Greenday

Billie Joe Birthday

Feb 17, 1972

Mike's Birthday

May 4, 1972

Tre's Birthday

Dec 9, 1972

Look For Love

Oct 4, 1977

Billie recorded his first seven-inch single

Billie and Mike's First Meeting

Dec 9, 1982

Billie and Mike meet in the school cafeteria and discuss songwriting.

First Show

Jun 5, 1987

Billie and Mike, play their first show at Rod's Hickory Pit, where Billie's mom works. Thirty friends show up.

First Tour

May 10, 1989

Billie plays guitar for Corrupted Morals

First Tour

May 14, 1989

Mike sings for Crummy Musicians, since the real singer's mother won't let him go on tour

Smooth

Apr 13, 1990

First album

First Green Day tour

Oct 4, 1990

The day after Mike graduates from high school, they hop into a van and do forty-five dates across the U.S.

Tre Joins

Oct 4, 1990

Original drummer John Kiftmeyer leaves for college. His drum teacher, Tre Cool, joins the band

Kerplunk

Jan 17, 1992

The band released "Kerplunk" and begin to achieve minor fame.

Reprise Records

Oct 4, 1993

Green Day decide to leave Lookout! Records and join a major label. There is a huge bidding war amongst the labels but Reprise Records comes out on top and signs the band to a 5 record deal.

Dookie

Feb 1, 1994

"Dookie" is released and first single "Longview", Green Day's popularity sky-rockets.

Appearing in more places

Feb 15, 1994

During the coarse of the next two years, Green Day appear on several magazine covers but most notably Rolling Stone and Spin. They also appear on talk shows like "The Late Show with David Letterman", "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" and "Late Night with Conan O'Brian".

European Tour

Jun 1, 1995

Green Day packs up and heads home claiming exhaustion. During the next year, Billie Joe writes around 50 songs

Insomniac

Oct 10, 1995

The bands "Insomniac" album is released and is loved by reviewers but fails to come close to the sales of "Dookie".

Nimrod

Oct 14, 1997

Green Day record their new album, "Nimrod"

Tower Records

Nov 27, 1997

Green Day make headlines for 'destroying' Tower Records when they trash the store and Billie writes "Fuck You" and "Nimrod" on the windows in black spray-paint

Headlines Again

Dec 29, 1997

The band again makes headlines when they thow the stage Christmas tree into the crowd. Once again Billie wrote obscenities on the stage and apparently there was a fight backstage with KROQ workers. KROQ called the police but no charges where laid.

Warning

Oct 3, 2000

Green Day release their 6th full length album, "Warning"

Warning tour

Jan 6, 2001

Band launches it's "Warning" tour in St. Paul, MN.

American Idiot

Sep 21, 2004

21st Century Breakdown

May 15, 2009