Blog: Consequence Of Sound

"I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today." - Billie Joe Amstrong. Green Day hardly met any challenges 'til the 00s. From the get-go, Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt witnessed success. In 1988, after only a year on the circuit, Larry Livermore of Lookout! Records signed their band, then called Sweet Children, to record a handful of EPs, which would more or less become the basis for their initial 1990 debut, 39/Smooth . Things hardly slowed down, either. They wrote, they toured, they snagged drummer Tré Cool, and they [...]