Green Day journalism FAIL

Was looking up Green Day after watching them on the Grammys last night. I've always been a fan. But I never knew the three guys in the band aren't the original three. Seems like the drummer, Tre Cool, joined in 1990. Now, they didn't hit it big til 1994, so pretty much everyone knows the current three as Green Day. But the band formed in 1987.

The original drummer? John Kiffmeyer. What happened to him? Well, he left the band in 1990 to go to college. That's reasonable. Hell, Green Day wasn't on the verge of greatness then. They had toured nationally, but who knows where something like this is going. It's really only in retrospect that you can consider Kiffmeyer the Pete Best of punk rock. Who wouldn't want to secure his future by leaving a fledgling punk rock band to enter college?

Except that Kiffmeyer left Green Day to go to Humboldt State.

Except that he Kiffmeyer left Green Day to go to Humbolt State for his journalism degree.

And his replacement, Tre Cool? Dude had dropped out of high school. Then he got his GED and was in community college when the band hit big. He dropped out AGAIN to start touring. Billy Joe, also a HS dropout.

Egads. I hope he's getting royalties for helping found Green Day or helping write songs or something.

 

newspapers were booming then

 

He'd only be the Pete Best of punk rock if he'd been kicked out while they were right on the verge of fame.

Leaving of his own accord well in advance of that fame? He's more like Stu Sutcliffe. Except he's not dead. Yet.

 

Green Day is a punk band?

 

Fixed.

 

That's fair.

 

If my memory serves, humboldt state won the division 2 xc national championships in 1983.

 

Well, it'd do less damage than a liberal arts degree.

 

Great band, but sooner or leater they need to dress their age.

 

did someone just use the word, "egads"?

 

It worked for this art college dropout.