Little Frankie became an avid musician, excelling at the drums.  When he was 12, he was asked to play for his neighbor's band, the Lookouts.  That's right, his closest neighbor (which, up in the moutains, means you life a mile away) was Lawrence Livermore, the founder of Lookout Records!  It was Livermore that first called Frank "Tré Cool."  Apparently, he wasn't fond of the name Frank Edwin Wright III.  Apparently, it wasn't cool enough for him.  Well, Larry, ol' boy, I think we all like the change!

On a more intellectual and quite unnecessary note, "Tré" has to be a variation of the French word "très," meaning "very" or "totally."  I'm sure of this, because in an interview, when asked what his name would be if he were a professional wrestler, he said, "I'd be 'Tré Joli,' the Happy Wrestler."  Yes, that was an actual interview, conducted by Ben, the happy Riverdales frontman dude.  You see, in French, "très joli" means "very pretty."  That sounds like our Tré, alright!

So where were we?  Oh yes... little Tré!  Although he was a good student and president of his class, Tré didn't like high school very much.  So he took the GED and passed.  In other words, he was so damn smart, that he took a test and graduated early!  I don't know what GED stands for, but let's just say that it stands for Good Enough Diploma!  Tré went on to a community college for a little while to study music.

You know John Kiffmeyer (aka Al Sobrante), Green Day's original drummer?  Guess who his drum tutor was!  Yup, you guessed it!  After Kiffmeyer quit the band to go to college, Billie & Mike were looking for a new drummer.  They picked up Tré hitchiking, knowing him from the Lookouts!  They signed him up as Green Day's drummer, took the world by storm, and lived happily ever after, as they sailed into the sunset.  The end.

Oh, I'm sorry.  The story's not over!  Didn't mean to trick you like that.  Tré got married to the lovely Lisea Lyons in 1994, but then they got separated about a year later.  They are still very good friends, and he still pays visits to her & their daughter, Ramona.  Now I'd like to point out another amazing coincidence that has nothing to do with anything.  If you've been paying attention, you'll notice that Billie Joe's first child's name is Joey, and Tré's is Romana.  Put 'em together, you get Joey Ramone.  Coincidence?  Definately!  The boys are neither smart enough nor dumb enough to come up with that one!

Tré doesn't have any tatoos, but he does wear an anklet all the time!  And I'd also like to point out that he does NOT believe that dogs are going to take over the world!  First off, Mike said that!  Get your Green Day members straight!  Secondly, it's called a joke.  If you believe for one minute that Green Day actually has a canine-resistant bomb shelter in their basement, then you are not only mental, but... well, that's about it.  You're mental.  But that's ok, I dig mental!  Finally, you know those shirts with silhouettes of naked chicks that Tré wears on the Nimrod inlay, & that fans assume that he's got a whole stock of?  Well, that's the logo of a clothing company called Kappa.  I saw their advertisements all over Italy when he went, & I had just gotten Nimrod at the time, so I kinda did a double take when he saw the ads.  I almost bought a shirt just like Tre's, too, but I was short on cash, dang it!