Green day: their story

Armstrong and Dirnt met while attending grade school in Crockett, California, and bonded over their love of classic punk groups such as the Ramones and the Dead Kennedys. In 1987 they and drummer Sean Hughes formed their first band, a punk outfit called Sweet Children.

Sweet Children adopted the name Green Day, instead, due to the members' fondness for cannabis. The phrase "green day" was slang in the Bay Area, where the band originated, for spending a day doing nothing but smoking marijuana.

Armstrong has been candid about his issues for years. He first addressed dealing with anxiety and panic attacks on Green Day's 1994 single "Basket Case," and the band announced he entered a treatment facility following an onstage rant in 2012. These days, the five-time Grammy winner is happy, healthy and sober.

In 1990, Armstrong met Adrienne Nesser (the sister of professional skateboarder Steve Nesser) at one of Green Day's early performances in Minneapolis. They married on July 2, 1994, with Nesser discovering that she was pregnant the day after their wedding.

A disclaimer: It's well-documented that "Warning" lifted its riff from The Kinks' "Picture Book", there was a decently popular mashup a decade ago that highlighted the similarities between "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" and Oasis' "Wonderwall", and every punk rocker and their fat drunk uncle knows that "American Idiot" ...

Written by the band's front man Billie Joe Armstrong, the song is about the death of Armstrong's father in September 1982 and his life since. The song's lyrics have also been interpreted in other ways, including as a song about the victims and survivors of the September 11 attacks.

(KRON) — East Bay punk trio Green Day has been banned from two Las Vegas radio stations after frontman Billie Joe Armstrong trashed the city on stage last week.