Its 1994 release, Dookie, proclaimed the next generation of punk, hitting Number Four on the album chart, buoyed by the band's effervescent presence on MTV and at Lollapalooza and Woodstock 1004. With a solid fanbase built on the nurturing, all-ages hardcore scene in Berkeley, the group signed with Reprise in April 1993. Two more EPs followed, with Kiffmeyer leaving to focus on his studies and Tre Cool, with whom Armstrong had played in a band called the Lookouts, taking over on drums for 1992's Kerplunk. The next year, the group recorded its first full-length album, 39/Smooth, in a day. When they were 17, the pair first recorded as Green Day, signing with the punk label Lookout and releasing the 1989 EP 1,000 Hours with drummer John Kiffmeyer. They formed their first real band, Sweet Children, at 14. But Green Day became elder statesmen during the 2000s with American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown-a pair of epic, politically charged rock and roll operas that chronicled the confused reality of life in the first decade of the new millennium.įriends since age 10, Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt grew up in Rodeo, California. They were bratty, mischievous twentysomethings when they hit MTV in 1994, and with a green-haired, snaggle-toothed Billie Joe Armstrong ripping up the furniture, dancing with a monkey, and singing about the joys of masturbation, the raucous trio's major-label debut, Dookie, went triple-platinum. Punk revivalists with style, substance and hooks galore, Green Day have gone through two distinct identities.
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