Tre Cool Talks Green Day’s ‘Once In A Lifetime’ Tour with Pierre Robert
Green Day has come a long way from packing tiny South Street clubs. Since 1993, the East Bay trio has returned to Philadelphia time and time again, working their way up through our city’s iconic venues: J.C. Dobbs, the Trocadero, the Spectrum, and last Friday night, a sold out Citizens Bank Park, where they tore through a two-hour set for a crowd that was over three hundred times the size of Dobbs.
This time, they were back in Philly to commemorate thirty years since the release of Dookie and twenty years for American Idiot. Green Day have been performing those albums in full on this current tour, with the songs arranged just as they land on each LP. Both records are designated as “no skips” albums by fans: each one is pinned together with a sonic thread, with the tracks often blending into one another, presenting their punk rock anthems like movie soundtracks.
“It just feels good,” drummer Tré Cool tells WMMR. “It feels right. Both of those albums are the kind of records you’d keep in the tape deck, or on the turntable, or the CD player, and just kind of keep running and listening to, so you know at the end of one song where the next one picks up. And to hear it live, you know, it’s kind of refreshing and satisfying.”
In an extended conversation with Pierre Robert, Tré talked about Green Day’s place in pop culture, from their link to Deadpool & Wolverine to working alongside Mark Hamill in new video for “Corvette Summer.” He shared stories of drumming alongside not one, but two Beatles, plus the time he jammed with Willie Nelson: “Willie’s asking you to play drums; who cares how high you are?!”
Tré also reflected on the way that Green Day’s audience has grown up with them, and how the band are feeling better – and closer – than ever before. And it’s clear that they love coming back to Philly, as they’ve been doing faithfully since ’93.
Take it from Tré: “It’s nice to be on America’s finest, curated-by-hand rock and roll radio station: WMMR!”
Tré Cool of Green Day and Pierre Robert on WMMR
Follow Pierre on Instagram for video clips from the interview and the concert.
