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Drumming Equipment

In the earlier years of Green Day, Tré used a DW drum kit. Since the album Warning, Tré has got his own signature Slingerland drum kit, called the "Spitfire". However, on the American Idiot tour, Tré parted ways with his Slingerland kit, and now uses a Ludwig-Musser Classic Maple kit with a Shadow Purple paintjob. He uses Zildjian cymbals and Danmar products. According to an interview with Drum Magazine, his most prized and "still go-to" snare is a Noble & Cooley which he purchased for $600 before making Dookie

His current drum kit is as follows:

Drums:

* 22"x18" bass drum
* 14"x6.5" Ludwig Black Beauty Brass Super Sensitive snare
* 14"x11" rack tom
* 16"x16" floor tom
* 18"x16" floor tom
* A tambourine

Cymbals (From left to right):

* Zildjian K/Z 14" Special Hi-hat (K Hi-hat on top, Z Custom Dyno Beat on the bottom)
* Zildjian K 19" Dark Medium Thin Crash
* Zildjian A 19" Medium Thin Crash
* Zildjian A 22" Ping Ride
* Zildjian K 20" Crash/Ride (centre right)
* Zildjian FX 20" Oriental Classic China

Drumheads:

* Snare: REMO Coated Powerstroke 3(Batter), REMO Ambassador Snare Side Hazy (Resonant)
* Toms: REMO Coated Emperors (Batter), REMO Clear Ambassadors (Resonant)
* Bass drum: REMO Powerstroke 3 with a REMO Falam Slam Pad (back), Ebony Powerstroke 3 drum head with the American Idiot logo (front)

Drumsticks: Zildjian Tré Cool Artist Series

Hardware: DW

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Singing

Tré sings and plays guitar on the tracks "Dominated Love Slave" and "All by Myself", from Kerplunk! and Dookie, respectively. He wrote the subtrack "Rock and Roll Girlfriend" from the medley, "Homecoming," featured on the album American Idiot. He also sang and composed the track "DUI" ("Driving Under the Influence"), which was recorded during the nimrod. sessions, and was due to be released on Shenanigans (a compilation of B-sides), but was inexplicably omitted.

During a radio interview at Washington DC's alternative station DC 101, Tré sang and played the guitar to a short song titled "Like a Rat does Cheese", a song about the pleasure of fellatio.

Several live tracks also exist, usually from early dates around 1993, such as "Food Around the Corner", a song from the 1943 Elmer Fudd cartoon "An Itch in Time".

FULL NAME : Frank Edwin Wright III

BIRTHDATE : born December 9, 1972

HOMETOWN : Willits, California, USA

EYE COLOR : Blue

NATURAL HAIR COLOR : Brown

MARTIAL STATUS : Married his long time girlfriend Lisea Lyons in March of 1995. They divorced sometime after. In May 2000, he married Claudia. In 2003, he and Claudia broke up.

CHILDREN : Ramona, born January 1995 to ex-wife, Lisea Lyons; Frankito ("Little Frank"), born 2001 to Claudia.

FAMILY : Tre grew up with his father and 2 siblings. He now lives in Oakland, California.

INSTRUMENTS : Drums, the accordion, and the guitar.

OTHER BANDS : Tre has also played with The Lookouts, Sreeching Weasels, and Samiam.

Frank Edwin Wright III was born December 9, 1972 in Frankfurt, Germany, making him the youngest member of Green Day. He lived in the Mendocino mountains, California with his dad and his 2 older siblings. His dad, a helicopter pilot in Vietnam, decided the move the family there to insulate them upon his return to the United States. Tre's closest neighbor was none other than Lookout! Records owner Lawrence Livermore, who also owned the punk band the Lookouts. At age 12, Livermore recruited Tre to join The Lookouts, and that's when Livermore gave him the name of Tre Cool (which means Very Cool in French). After Green Day's first tour around the country (following the release of 39/Smooth), John Kiffmeyer decided to leave Green Day. Looking no farther than Gilman Street, Billie Joe and Mike recruited Tre, who was already a 5 year veteran of the Gilman Street scene.

Tre decided to drop out of high school his sophmore year. However, he did pass an equivalency test and earned his GED, and he even 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. Tre's father, who owns a small trucking company, overhauled a used bookmobile, and even served as the driver on three seperate tours. "I watched them go from a bunch of kids to a group of musicians with work ethic," says Tre's father, Frank Wright. "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)

Tre had a daughter named Ramona in January of 1995, then he married his long time girlfriend Lisea Lyons in March. Him and Lisea are divorced now, but Tre remarried in May of 2000, to Claudia. Claudia and him have a son named Frankito, which means "Little Frank". Tre and Claudia divorced in 2003, but they still live together with Frankito in Oakland, California. Recently, Tre has been linked to Donna C., drummer of The Donnas, however they are no longer together.

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