Tre Cool (Frank Edwin Wright III) was born in Willits on December 9th , 1972, grew up in the Mendocino mountains, where his father, a Vietnam vet, raised Tre and his two siblings. Tre's dad built many of the houses in that area, including that of Lawrance Livermore, Tre's nearest neighbor and the founder of Green Day's original label, Lookout! Records. At the age of 12, Tre joined Livermore's pop-punk band, The Lookouts, recorded an album, and began gigging regularily at Berkeley's punk club. It's kinda funny but Tre had known Green Day for some time from the Gilman Street scene and he helped out its former drummer with drum lessons. When John Kiffmeyer (aka Al Sobrante), the drummer on Green Day's debut 39/Smooth, left the band for college, Billie Joe and Mike signed up Tre and that was the time when Green Day, as the band we know today, was born.

Family

»» Tre married his girlfriend Lisea Lyons in March of 1995, they have a daughter together named Ramona. They have since seperated but are apparently still on good terms. In March, 2000, Tre married again, this time to his girlfriend Claudia and now they have a baby together! They spent 2 week honeymoon in Hawaii. Whoa!! 'Symbols Story'When Tre first took drum lessons from one of his neighbours, the guy would not let him have any symbols! Just so he could get better on his drum skills! Than after he quit going to its drum lessons, he stole symbols from a local music store and used them like there was no tomorrow. If you listen closely to the drumming in most of their song, Tre's going nuts on the symbols.. Don't you think I forgot to mention one of his specialities; yeah, he got used to set his drums on fire on stage!

Drums

»» Tre has his own signature Slingerland drumkit, the Spitfire. It consists of a 18x22 Slingerland Bass drum  a 5 1/2x14 Slingerland Radio King Snare, a 6 1/2x14 Chrome snare, an 11x14 Slingerland mounted tom, and a 16x16 Slingerland floor tom. Though the Spitfire comes with Slingerland cymbals, Tre still uses a 19" Zildjian K Dark Thin Crash on the left, a 20" Zildjian A Medium Ride on the right, a 22" Zildjian K Heavy Ride on the bottom right, a 14" Zildjian K Medium Top, 14" K Medium Heavy Bottom Hi-Hats, and Zildjian Super 5B drumsticks. He also uses Remo Power Stroke 3 on his snare and bass drums, Remo Coated emperors on the tops of his toms, clear ambassadors on the bottoms, and Remo Falam Slam Pad on the bass drum. Tre Cool's Studio King set includes an 11x14 rack tom, 16x18 floor tom, 18x22 bass drum and various Slingerland and vintage snares including Slingerland 5/1/2 and 61/2x14 snares depending upon the sound in the venue.