-=-Biography-=-
Full Name: Frank Edwin Wright III
DOB: December 9, 1972
Hometown: Willits, California, USA
Marital Status: Married his long time girlfriend Lisea Lyons in March of 1995. In May 2000, married to Claudia. In 2003, he and Claudia broke up. Currently, Tre is dating Donna C., drummer of The Donnas.
Children: Ramona, born 1995 to ex-wife, Lisea ; Frankito, born 2001 to Claudia.
Family: Tre grew up with his father and 2 siblings.
Wheels: A SUV.
Instruments: Drums, the accordion, and the guitar.
Other Bands: Tre has also played with The Lookouts, Sreeching Weasels, and Samiam.
Frank Edwin Wright III, now known as Tre Cool, was born December 9, 1972. He lived in Willits, California with his dad and 2 siblings. His dad built houses in the area, including that of Lookout! Records owner Laurence Livermore. At age 12, Tre joined Livermore's band The Lookouts. Evenually, when John Kriftmeyer decided to leave Green Day, Livermore suggested Tre as their new drummer. Billie Joe and Mike grabbed at the opportunity to have Tre in the band.
-=-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 whom he now has a son with, Frankito.
-=-Symbol 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 when 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.
-=-Quotes-=-
"Dogs are gonna take over the world. It's a known fact for those who believe it, kinda like the Bible."
"I have a homosexual crush on most adolescents."
[Talking about Mike taking a s**t off the hotel balcony]: "She was so pissed, so she was gonna make us leave the hotel..but she didn't. big mistake!"
"It's, like, an ok tour bus and all, but people see book mobile on the side and come up and ask us if we have any book to sell. I mean how stupid is that....books? We don't even read."
"They should legalize pot, do it!! Do it!!"
"We kick a** now. We've seen a million faces and we rocked them all."
"I wanna survive an avalanche, I wanna be one of those people a dog finds burried uder a ton of snow, almost dying of starvation."
"I always said that the world is a better place because of Joey Ramone."
"Music has never been at a better time then it is right now, we're really lucky to be a part of this wonderful thing called music."
"You'd think we were really good at writing songs or something."
[On MTV]: "I don't see anything on it, all I see is shows. There is never anything on it. Just MTV talking about how cool MTV is."
"Mmm, you can almost smell the burning pork...Hey, you ever thrown rocks at cops?"
"You know, I knew the day that George Bush was elected president that we were in deep, deep sh-t. I knew it. I was like, 'Well, some sh-t's gonna hit the fan now,' 'cause, you know, the Bush family's been in the politics business for way too long to not have crazy enemies."
"Satan. Satan, Satan,'' he chanted. "That's what's different. We're all firm believers in Satan now. We think Satan is cool. "How the ******** do you think a band like Green Day got popular?'' [Talking about how he doesn't belive they sold out]
"Lets count the waves...one, one thousand, two one thousand"
"I don't understand what Billie just said so, I'll talk about chickens...."
"It's good to have some offspring...oops..shouldn't say that word, can you edit it out?"
"It was the pile of s**t I ever saw." [On the MTV Video Music Award's in '95]
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