Tré Cool is tagged as: funny, rock, punk rock, best drummer ever, alternative Frank Edwin Wright III (born December 9, 1972, in Frankfurt, Germany), also known as Tré Cool, is the drummer of Green Day, a pop punk/alternative rock band. He replaced former drummer John Kiffmeyer (aka Al Sobrante). Biography Tré grew up in a remote rural area known as Iron Peak and/or Spy Rock Road, 18 miles outside of Laytonville, California. When he was 14, his family moved to Willits, California, 21 miles south of Laytonville. His dad, a retired Vietnam vet, built some of the houses in the Iron Peak area, and helped build an addition to the house of Larry Livermore, their nearest neighbor and the founder of Lookout! Records. Livermore also gave Tré his nickname (comes from “tré cool” which means very cool in French). At age twelve, he joined Livermore’s band, the Lookouts. A lot of their gigs were at Berkeley’s punk club, 924 Gilman Street. In 1988, Tré played a gig at a high school party for the Lookouts and a new band called Sweet Children, who later changed their name to Green Day. That gig led to Green Day signing to Lookout Records. The Lookouts and Green Day often played together in the following two years, and after the Lookouts broke up in 1990, Tré joined Green Day as a replacement for their first drummer, John Kiffmeyer (aka Al... Read More About Tré Cool Biography...  Send Tré Cool ringtones to your cell
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