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Billie occasionally wears nail-polish
Billie and Mike recorded the vocals for 1,039 / Smoothed Out Slappy Hours simultaneously, to save money, and Lawrence Livermore gave them the $1000 needed for the album.
A "Sassafras" is a type of tree in America, hence the title "Sassafras Roots".
In one episode of Bugs Bunny, Bugs Bunny was taking the piss out of Elmar Fud (the hunter) shouting nimrod though great nimrod, and then later, Bugs Bunny was pretending to be a woman and was singing " king 4 a day ". It sounds weird but on mtv interview twice when explaning what was there influences in writting nimrod they basically said "we watch a lot of cartoons".
In the kerplunk inlay, it also thank Addrienne Nesser, now Billie's wife.
Billie Joe had a cat named "Zero" that died in his washing machine.
The song title "Armatage Shanks" comes from the toilets in England or has something related to masturbation.
The lyrics that are scratched out inside the "nimrod" cover are actual lyrics that were taken out.
Green Day hates ska except for the band "Operation Ivy"
Nimrod was supposed to contain a song by Tre called "D.U.I." but the record company thought the lyrics were to vulgar.
Most of the songs on "1039 / SOSH" were done in one take.
Billie, Mike, and Tre did all of their own stunts in the "Walking Contradiction" video including a scene were Billie almost gets nailed by a car.
Billie also has a side-project band called "Pinhead Gunpowder" and Mike has a side band called "The Frustrators".
The song "J.A.R." wasn't supposed to be played on the radio.
In the Kerplunk credits, they thank some guy named "Brainstew"
There is an actual verse in the Bible that talks about a guy named "nimrod." It's in Genesis chapter 10.
"I Was There" is the only song written by their former drummer John.
The song "In the End" is about Billie's mom's boyfriend that was a real jerk.
The song "F.O.D." stands for "Fuck Off And Die"
The song "Reject" is about an angry letter from a parent Billie recieved.
Part of Billie's response is in the letter. (I do what I want, and you do what you're told.)
Tre was once class president at his high school.
"Dookie" was orginally called "Liquid Dookie".
Mike has a tatoo of the cartoon of gim from the "1039 SOSH" booklet.
Billie got the name "Insomniac" while he was staying up late with his new born baby.
Tre's name (Tre Cool) was given to him by the owner of lookout records lawrence livermore when Tre played in the band "The Lookouts".
Billie owns his own record label called Adeline Records. I've also heard that his wife, Adrienne owns it, so I'm not to sure about this one...
Mike has played in other bands such as Screeching Weasel and Corrupted Morals.
Billie Joe Armstrong pees his bed. (?)
Mike once rented a small part of Billie's house to live in during high school.
Tre cool is not from Berkeley like the others he is from the Mendocino mountains near Berkeley but not in it.
Tre once locked Rob Cavallino and the recording guy in a closet during a recording day.
Tre believes that dogs are going to take over the world at some point.
Did you know that "Pasalacqua" is a funeral home near Rodeo, CA, where Billie Joe and Mike Dirnt grew up.
Billie Joe wrote "Time of Your Life" after breaking up with an ex-girlfriend of his. After their relationship became even worse, he renamed the song "Good Riddance."
Did you know that the song "80" is about Billie Joe's wife, Adrienne. He wrote the song when he first met her, and "80" is his nickname for her (it's short for Adrienne). "Everything she does questions my mental health, it makes me lose control I just can't trust myself...80 please keep taking me away".
1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours songs are mostly about Billie Joe's girlfriends or people he liked.
Stuart and the avenue is a song named after the real street on the corner of Stuart street and Telegraph avenue in Berkeley. (Go to 'Green Day Inspirations' to see pictures)
Tight Wad Hill is a place in Crockett,CA where all the druggies would hang out and watch the John Swett high school football games for free. (Pictures in 'Green Day Inspirations')
"Why Do You Want Him?" was directed at his mother and not on his own personal experiance. He said that her boyfriend left her and she was sad so he wrote it about that. He was about 12 years old at the time.
Mike says he likes beer, his cat gravy and likes driving his old '56 truck but he hates having hangovers.
If Billie Joe and Mike could play any movie role in history, they would both choose Austin Powers. Tre would prefer to be Cat Woman.
Tre has a reccuring violent dream about David Copperfield. "In it I'm pummelling the shit out of him", he says. "That dude really freaks me out, I hate him. He's a horrible fucker!".
At a show at Newport TJ's during Green Day's December 1991 UK Tour, the band performed their own version of the nativity, this featured Tre as the Virgin Mary.
"At The Libary" is about a girl who was really ugly and Billie though that she liked him but he was wrong.
"Sassafras Roots" was thought up (the title for the song) by Mike because Green Day thought "Wasting Your Time" would be a little too obvious for the song title. It's about wasting your time in a relationship.
"The Grouch" was originally titled "Happy Grouch".
"Having A Blast" is actually about Having A Blast. Or in other words, it's about hostage situations with bombs and stuff.
"Longview" was changed for what it originaly sounded like. The bass riff was the same but the end as a little shorter and the drums were played like "Hitchin' A Ride" during the verses. The lyrics were a little different too. They only changed it when they were playing a gig before they recorded Dookie and they wanted to mix Chump into Longview.
It's interesting how the song "Stuck With Me" got its name. When Green Day was recording songs for Insomniac, they were trying to think of an appropriate name for the song. The band recorded the song now called "Do Da Da" around the same time, and that song was originally called "Stuck With Me", because those words actually appear in that song. But, there was a studio mix-up, and someone labeled the third track on Insomniac "Stuck With Me". When the band discovered the error, they felt the name was appropriate for the song and kept it. Later, they decided to release the real "Stuck With Me" as a b-side, so they gave it the nonsensical name "Do Da Da".
Billie Joe wrote the song "One For The Razorbacks" about a girl he met in Arkansas during Green Day's first ever U.S. tour in 1990. University of Arkansas' team nickname is the Razorbacks, and Billie originally named the song "One For The Razorback", but it was somehow changed when Kerplunk! was being produced.
Ever wonder who did the artwork on the CD for 1,039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours? No? Well anyway, it turns out that it was Jesse Michaels, the former singer for "Operation Ivy". Since he ended his music career, Jesse now works for Lookout! as an artist.
Green Day got their name from an injoke meaning "pot".
Billie Joe's mother misspelled Billie's name of his birth certificate because she was high.
The title of the Insomniac cover art is "God Told Me To Skin You Alive".
In high school, Billie was nicknamed "Two Dollar Bill" because he sold joints for two dollars each.
There isn't an OFFICIAL title for the Dookie bonus track "All By Myself".
There had been 750 broken legs when Green Day started to play at Woodstock '94.
Billie Joe and Adrienne do actually use the Internet on a regular basis.
Rumors say that Green Day's new album will have an "espionage James Bond" feel to it with Green Day in Tuxedos.
It cost Green Day only $1000 to make their first album, while "nimrod." cost $100,000.
Billie Joe says he like The Pretenders, his 3 cats and his dog but he hates Leonardo Di Caprio.
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