Facts

*The first time Tre saw himself on T.V., he trashed his hotel room. That is such a shocker! I wonder why, well I'm just not going to ask, like the Bullwinkle thing(100 percent Green Day on Fuse) I'm not gonna ask, just like Billie-joe(again, 100 percent Green Day on Fuse.)
*Dookie was originially going to be called "Liquid Dookie", but some band members decided that would be to gross.
*Billie and Mike both suffer from panic attacks, and they are both vegetarians.
*The song "409 In Your Coffemaker" is about an experience where Billie-joe put 409 in his teacher's coffemaker.
*The cover art for Insomniac was done by a man named Winston Smith. Winston stayed up for several days to finish it, and when Billie asked him how he did it, he responded "It's easy. I'm an insomniac." Insomniac also got its name because Billie's son Joey kept him awake at night.
*Billie-Joe's mother misspelled his name on his birth certificate because she was high off the drugs given to her during pregnancy.
*Upon looking in the booklet that came with the Nimrod CD you will see that some of the lyrics were scratched out,although common belief that this is not just an artistic design actual lyrics were taken out of the songs.
*Tre loves to golf.
*Billie-Joe and lucky wife Adrienne spent their honeymoon at the Claremont Hotel in Berkley.
*The song "Pasalacqua" is an actual place,a funeral home in Rodeo, California.
*The hidden track on Dookie is called "All By Myself",Tre Cool sings it. It was recorded at a party, which is why you hear people talking in the background.
*The picture of Mike Dirnt in the little booklet that comes with the Nimrod CD, Mike took himself.
*There used to be a picture of Ernie from Sesame Street on the back of Dookie; but than the band got sued.
*Billie Joe's favorite book is Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger, which he refused to read it in high school, but later on ended up reading it and liking it, as the main character was an outcast. This is where the song "Who Wrote Holden Caufield" comes from.
*In Berkley, California there is a corner of Telegraph Avenue and Stuart St.which is how the song "Stuart and the Ave." got its name.
*Rancid, New Found Glory, Blink 182, NOFX, The Donnas, Weezer, Unwritten Law, Sum 41, MxPx, Reel Big Fish and Good Charlotte all thank Green Day in their CDs.
*Billie-Joe dislikes Slipknot and Eminem.
*Billie and Mike went to school at Pinole Valley High.