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[Juan]

yeah, but he stopped using Slingerand since 2004, and Tre was notorious for playing with Frankenstein kits

[GreenDayChannel08]

Darn.. well, that's the most I know about his drums, sorry.

[Juan]

Darn.. well, that's the most I know about his drums, sorry.

don't be sorry. What you said is better than nothing and I think it was his kit during the Nimrod and Warning tours

[J'net]

don't be sorry. What you said is better than nothing and I think it was his kit during the Nimrod and Warning tours

Agreed - any help I can get is MUCH appreciated!

[localinsomniac]

Mike has his collection of signature Precision basses; he was using the black/white, white/black and vintage white/white for a while, and has been playing a sunburst/white model at the warm-up shows along with the black/black in the video.

Where it mentions the picks that Billie and Mike use, it's actually .73-.88, as Dunlop does not make guitar picks of the .76 thickness.

Mike's strings are Medium Fender Superbass 7250s, thickness .045-.105

In a pre-American Idiot interview with Bass Player Magazine, Mike mentions that he picked up a Gretsch Broadkaster bass that he was thinking about using for some songs, but that never came to fruition.

In this photo, Billie is playing what appears to be a Gibson Les Paul Custom which has been modified with a pair of P-90 pickups, replacing the stock Gibson 490R and 498T humbuckers.

For the September Ends video and the 2008 PHGP shows, Billie is playing a Gretsch, also with aftermarket P-90 pickups. I couldn't find the model anywhere, it doesn't match anything in the company's current line.

That's all I got for now!

[fashionvictim86]

Uhm, our boys, Courtney ... .

And I agree about the tabs section.

Yeah yeah I know. I've been saying my boys for years around my friends, boyfriends, and - now - fiance. I even had one boyfriend literally almost break up with me because I said that Green Day were my boys! How retarted!

[Juan]

I think it's a Chet Atkins, just modified the fuck out of it. 2 P-90's, but only the bridge volume works, cavities filled. something like that

[localinsomniac]

I think it's a Chet Atkins, just modified the fuck out of it. 2 P-90's, but only the bridge volume works, cavities filled. something like that

The headstock would make it a match, but if they filled the cavities where the electronics would have been at the upper bout, they did a great job of hiding it. It did look like a Chet though.

[Juan]

after all it's customized with P-90's and all electronics, except for volume got taken off

[apocalipstick]

I'm pretty sure he was referring to Blue, but Billie told me that he got his first guitar at Fiat Music in Pinole, if you'd like to include that!

[Juan]

well, Blue was given away as a present for his birthday?, and it was bought (secretly) from his music teacher or something like that

[fashionvictim86]

well, Blue was given away as a present for his birthday?, and it was bought (secretly) from his music teacher or something like that

No his dad gave it to him for a birthday present.

[Juan]

No his dad gave it to him for a birthday present.

that's almost what I said

[localinsomniac]

No his dad gave it to him for a birthday present.

In the book "Nobody Likes You", Marc Spitz cites one of Billie's siblings (David maybe) as his source for the information, and that it was in fact his mother who bought Blue from the guitar teacher. His name is George Cole. His first guitar was a red Hohner student acoustic, which his father purchased at Fiat.

[dallasthemenace]

over the years, tre's played TONS of different types of kits. there's an old photo of him circa kerplunk/early dookie where he's playing a red 5 piece Rogers set...his first kit belonged to larry livermore who wouldnt let him have cymbals 'til he learned how to play the drums themselves. during the dookie tour, he played a DW 5 piece. he played DW until he started knocking over his kit at the end of gigs, they got upset that he destroyed "their drums", so to get back at 'em, the drum kit that gets thrown in front of a bulldozer in the brain stew video..is a DW kit. thats when he started playing AYOTTE drums, which sounded good, but they have wooden rims and dont last very long if you bash 'em like tre does. soon after, he got his endorsement with slingerland, where he was playing a studio king drum set with a radio king snare...a $4000 dollar kit at least, sometimes literally going up in flames. and they were cool about it, they'd send him more drums, no questions asked. then he got his signiture kit, which was the spitfire. it was an entry level kit slingerland made to try and compete with pearl for the young drummer's market. it was a good kit for what it was, i had one for a while. not sure why his endorsement ended with slingerland, but now he's with ludwig. from a quote in a zildjian catalog i used to have, tre says he's played every drum there is, but only one cymbal. he uses dw harware mostly.

the dimensions of his insomniac - warning era kits

11 x 14 rack tom

16 x 18 floor tom

18 x 22 kick drum

snares varied from 5 x 14 to 6.5 x 14, mostly deeper snares though

the spitfire kit's dimensions (tre played these on occasion, like the drunken new year's on mtv)

11 x 14 rack tom (a very unique size for an entry level drum set)

16 x 16 floor tom

16 x 22 kick drum

5.5 x 14 metal snare

his american idiot set up (only including the drums themselves, not the extra percussion accessories)

10 x 14 rack tom

16 x 16 floor tom

16 x 18 floor tom

18 x 22 kick drum

6.5 x 14 snare (mostly a noble & cooley snare he's had since dookie)

and it looks like he's using the same size shells this time around as well....

his cymbal set up from insomniac - warning

19 zildjian k series dark crash medium thin

19 zildjian a/z crash ride ( i never found this cymbal to exist, but its what was reported in '97), also speculated to be a 19 zildjian a/z medium thin crash

22 zildjian k series heavy ride

14 zildjian k/z dyno beat hi hats (the top is a k series & the bottom is a z custom)

i dunno the specs of his AI gear....

hope this helps....god im a fuckin nerd.

[Haz]

http://www.dnalounge.com/gallery/2009/04-09/017.jpg

Jason is starting to lose his hairs !

[Nobody_Likes_You]

^and where's the Problem? Everyone ages.

And since your post is useless in this thread, mine is too.

[Juan]

Billie got a new Double cut yesterday to play 21stCentury Breakdown, not the same as the pics in the independent show

Because the jack strap is on the top horn, and the pickguard is a different color (black instead of tortoise). also it looks like Billie's white jr isn't as white, but maybe that's the lighting

[localinsomniac]

Did some more searching!

In this picture, Mike is playing what looks like an old Kramer 250B, and it appears the pickup cover has been removed.

In this picture, he is playing a G&L L2000. The one Mike is playing in the photo looks to be sort of unique; almost all of the GIS results for that bass turned up photos without that chrome control plate, and the current L2000 does not have it either.

I couldn't find any pictures, but Mike played the short-lived Fender Precision Bass Lyte for at least one Frustrators show.

[J'net]

Did some more searching!

To all of you who are contributing to this thread, I can't thank you enough! You are really helping. When I have a first pass ready at what I think this might look like, I'm going to ask a few of you to review it for me.

Let me know if you're interested in helping with that - it will still be a while - this project is a LOT of work, but I will continue to make progress as I can (while keeping up with other project work - oh, and my daytime job ).

[J'net]

So, here I am once again asking for more help.

I appreciate all the information contributed so far. I have been very fortunate in the Drums section as Alexandre and Alex have taken it and run with it. They sent me a lot of information (including graphics and photos) this weekend regarding the drums for AI and 21CB. I've updated Tre's section of the Equipment page with it. Take a look - it's rather awesome! A & A are going to work their way through the earlier albums as well until we get the section completed.

Alexandre/Alex you might want to share the approach you took to get such good information. I was impressed with how seriously you took this job!

What I'm looking for now is someone who would like to do the same for Billie's equipment and someone who'd like to take that job for Mike's. PM me if you're interested.

Otherwise, I'll slowly work my way through each one using the info that's already in this thread (I'm no expert, though, so it will take a while).