Tre Cool

Tre Cool

"Dogs are gonna take over the world. It's a known fact for those who believe it, kinda like the Bible."

Tre Cool

FULL NAME : Frank Edwin Wright III

AGE/BIRTHDATE : 33; born December 9, 1972

HOMETOWN : Willits, California, USA

EYE COLOR : Blue

NATURAL HAIR COLOR : Brown

HEIGHT : 5'6 (?)

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 with his ex-wife, Claudia, and son, Frankito.

WHEELS : A SUV.

INSTRUMENTS : Drums, the accordion, and the guitar.

OTHER BANDS : Tre has also played with The Lookouts 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 Kriftmeyer 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 eithic," 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.

Tré has his left nipple peirced.

Tré once milked a dog because he wanted milk for his coffee, and the house he was staying in didn't have any.

Tré was class president for a time when he was in high school.

Tré is the only person to ever climb the Universal Studios ball (their trademark) in Orlando, Florida. He climbed the ball at the 1998 MTV Music Awards. It landed him in the top 100 red carpet acts.

Tré loves to golf.

Tré only has one testicle. He lost the other one in a tragic unicycle accident. He was riding it on a stage at a high school near his home town when suddenly he fell off the stage and landed on the unicycle. His testicle went inside his body, and the doctor examining him took one look and said "hmm... translucent scrotum..."

Tré played violin in the second grade.

Tré's dad built Lawrence Livermore's house.

Tré actually went to a clown college before the band got big which explains his wild antics.

Tré uses the same drumkit, Slingerland, as the drummer from The Who does, which is Keith Moon. This is also of course Slingerland, and oddly the two drummers have the same wild and crazy stage antics.

In an interview on Trio, Tré has said that if he were any female celebrity he would be "that chick from the Golden Girls, because she's old and loose".

Tré once caught a shark on accident, and after beating it with a baseball bat multiple times, it finally died when he hit it with the stump of the bat.

Tré is the godfather of Billie Joe's kids.

In an interview, they were asked what kind of music they liked, and Tré answered, " I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song"................Mike "seconded the motion".

In the Walking Contradiction video Tre is chased by a bread truck.

Tré's dad was a Vietnam helicopter pilot.

Tré likes his shoes.

On MTV's Wildest moments of the VMA's there's a short Clip of Tré with David Grohl from The Foo Fighters (and previously from Nirvana) singing to Marilyn Manson's "Beautiful People".

Tré dressed as a priest at a gig (in Dublin). It was probably in reference to Matt Skiba (Alkaline Trio) who is a big fan.

Tré dressed up as Benji Madden of Good Charlotte for Halloween, 2004.

Tré made his first records with The Lookouts when he was 12.

Tré is short for Tres, which in French means very, which makes him very cool by no mistake.

Tré hopes that if if the band does star in the American Idiot movie, he gets to dress in drag.

I can suck my own!