Tre Cool Biography
Name (Real Name): Frank Edwin Wright III
Age, Date of birth : 32; born December 9, 1972
Hometown : Willits, California, USA
Eye colour : Blue
Natural Hair colour: Brown
Height : 5foot 6 inches
Marriges : 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.
Kids : 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.
Car : A SUV.
Tre was born in 1972, in December, in Frankfurt, In germany. And he is the youngest member of Green Day. Like Billie joe, Tre is also the youngest child. And he has 2 older Siblings. His dad brought him up, and he was a helicopter pilot in Vietnam. He wanted to learn the drums. But before his dad would let him he got Tre to hop on one foot, with his eyes closed, singing the national anthem, to see if he had the balance or something (I'm not even sure if that's exacly what he had to do.) But Tre did it straight away. So his next door neighbour, the owner of Look out records taught him the drums. To strat off with he didn't let Tre use any symbols. And Tre got so frustrated he quit lessons and stole some from a music store and went crazy on them. That's why ina lot of greenday songs you can hear them alot. He also has a bit of an odd habit of setting fire to his drum kits on stage.
Tre joined his first band, The lookouts, when he was 12. And that's when he got the name Tre cool, it was given to him by founder of the band, his neighbour and teacher, Lawrence Livermore.
When John left Green Day the first person they turned to for a new drummer was Tre, who had already been playing in bands for 5 years. Green Day used to practise in Tre's dad's living room. He says "I watched them go from a bunch of kids to a group of musicians with work eithic, 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.'"
Tre worte and sang the songs "Dominated love slave" (I myself thought Billie sang this, but abarently not) "All by myself" and "Rock and Roll Girlfriend" as well as a little known song called "Like a rat does cheese" which I found slightly disturbing
Tre married his long term girlfriend, Lisea Lyons. They have a daughter called Ramona (Don't quite know about that name..) But they're now divorced. He remarried in 2000 to Claudia and they have a son called Frankito, which means little Frank ( I think they didn't want to call him Frank Edwright the fourth?) They then got Divorced but still live together with little Frank. In oakland, Calafonia.
A couple more Tre stories
When staying at a fans house when Green Day were on tour Tre wanted some milk for his coffee. Unforutunatly the house he was staying in didn't have any, so he went outside and milked there dog! Later, when Tre was saying about it in a interview, Mike said "You didn't tell them it was a boy dog" Now that's some strange coffee.
Tre went to clown college before he officialy joined GreenDay, and he took a few courses (Thats why he's so crazy in interviews) But, once when he was performing on a unicycle he fell off, and he landed on the unicylce and one of his balls got stuck inside him. The doctor said he'd have to have it removed. But he still has the other one!
The Instuments Tre plays The drums, and the accordian and the guitar. Here's a diagram of Tre's Drum Kit. I don't understand it. But one of my friends told me there's more symbols then there should be in a standard kit. 
Now for all the techno stuff that I also Don't understand. So I've added a pic of Tre to keep me entertained.
Drums: Ludwig Custom Silver Sparkle Lacquer Finish
~14" x 6 1/2" Black Beauty Snare 
~22" x 18" Bass Drum
~14" x 10" Tom
~16" x 16" Floor Tom
~18" x 16" Floor Tom
Cymbals: Zildjian
~14" K/Z Dyno Beat Combination Hi-Hats
~19" K Medium Thin Dark Crash
~19" A Medium Thin Crash
~22" Deep Ride
~20" K Constantinople Orchestral (Crash-Ride)
~19" K China
Timpani: Ludwig
~23" Timpani
~26" Timpani
Pedals: DW
Sticks: Zildjian Tre Cool Artist Series
Source: The Green Day Authority
Stuff Tre's said
"I lost my pants yesterday, coz I got really wasted, so if anybody out there has my pants - I'd like them back. Thanks."
"Remember, question everything. The world is yours for the taking, but they're not gonna give it to ya..."
(During a radio interview in New Zealand)"I'm not exactly sure how many kids I have, but yes, I do miss them officially, for the record. In case any of them are listening, I love you."
“Gardening tip number 5... never jack off a cactus because you'll only hurt your hand and the cactus's feelings.”
“I wanna survive an avalanche. I wanna be one of those people a dog finds buried under a ton of snow, almost dying of starvation.”
“It’s not how you pick your nose, it’s where you put the booger that counts.”
(In reply to the interview question, “Have any of you ever slept with a groupie?”)“Is a groupie a fish? I can’t fall in love with a different species. I don’t have gills and I can’t fertilise the eggs. I’ve tried!”
“I wish people would turn off their computers, go outside, talk to people, touch people, lick people, enjoy each other’s company and smell each other on the rump.”
“I’m the greatest rock and roll drummer on the planet and you suck.”
“It’s better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven’t done.”
“I have a homosexual crush on most adolescents.”
“I live in a bucket.”
These are the only 2 pictures that I know of, of Tre climbing the universal globe and universal studios, He's the only person to have ever done it
 
TRE'S RULES OF COOL
Kerrang! Magazine
1. Trying to be cool, is not that cool. "Everyone should have their own style. Yesterday we were on a plane from Berlin and there were 25 hair models all coming back from some hair convention. They were trying to out-cool each other so much. They were wearing weird clothes, it looked like every single thing they were wearing was thrift store items. It was like everything had a story. That was pretty cool, but trying to out-cool people is not cool. You've got to let it just course through your veins."
2. Hair maketh the man/woman. "Cutting your own hair is really cool. I've had disasters, but it's always grown back. The extra inch is cool. You know, when you cut the hair at the top of your dick really short so when you're standing naked your dick looks longer? That's a top tip for the gents."
3. Respect the cock! "Condoms are very cool, because they allow you to have sex without getting diseases. And children, which is kind of like a disease because it makes you throw up in the morning and then it turns you into a parent. Sex toys are cool, too. Dildos and whatnot. Wow, Tré's guide to cool is getting good!"
4. Don't wear sunglasses indoors without a very good excuse. "I think it's a little weird unless you've just been in a 12-round boxing match. And even then, let me check out the shiner, dude."
5. Only get into fights you can win. "It's best to either just walk away or make sure you win. It depends how important it is. If it doesn't really matter fuck all at the end of it forget it, but if it has something to do with my band or my family then it's cool as long as I make sure I win. I almost got my ass kicked the other day. I know it's a little homoerotic, but I've been wrestling people bigger than me on the tour, and once they start kicking my ass I start cheating. Cheating's not cool. Wrestling's not cool either. It hurts."
6. Build up your alcohol tolerance. "Being able to drink more than all your friends and being the last one standing is cool. But don't drink and dial. It's better to text when you're wasted. Texting is cool."
7. If you're not blessed with natural cool, work with what you've got. "Embrace your geekiness - own it, make it yours."
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