Tre Cool Facts


  • Tre was class president for a time when he was in high school.
  • Tre is the only person to ever climb the Universal Studios ball (their trademark) in Orlando, Florida with out getting arrest. He climbed the ball at the 1998 MTV Music Awards.
  • Tre has his left nipple peirced (however he might have took it out in recent years).
  • Tre once milked a dog because he wanted milk for his coffee, and the house he was staying in didn’t have any.
  • Tre loves to golf.
  • Tre only has one testicle. He lost the other one in a tragic unicycle accident. He was riding it on a stage at a high school near his home town when suddenly he fell off the stage and landed on the unicycle. His testicle went inside his body, and the doctor examining him took one look and said “hmm… translucent scrotum…”
  • Tre played violin in the second grade and he said if you can make a sound then you can play it.
  • Tre’s dad built Lawrence Livermore’s house.
  • Tre actually went to a clown college before the band got big which explains his wild antics.
  • Tre uses the same drumkit, Slingerland, as the drummer from The Who does, which is Keith Moon. This is also of course Slingerland, and oddly the two drummers have the same wild and crazy stage antics.
  • Tre likes his shoes :D.
  • On MTV’s Wildest moments of the VMA’s there’s a short Clip of Tre with David Grohl from The Foo Fighters (and previously from Nirvana) singing to Marilyn Manson’s “Beautiful People”.
  • Tre dressed as a priest at a gig (in Dublin). It was probably in reference to Matt Skiba (Alkaline Trio) who is a big fan.
  • In an interview on Trio, Tre has said that if he were any female celebrity he would be “that chick from the Golden Girls, because she’s old and loose”.
  • Tre once caught a shark on accident, and after beating it with a baseball bat multiple times, it finally died when he hit it with the stump of the bat.
  • Tre is the godfather of Billie Joe’s kids.
  • In an interview, they were asked what kind of music they liked, and Tre answered, ” I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song”…………….Mike “seconded the motion”.
  • Tre’s dad was a Vietnam helicopter pilot and in one gig he dad drove for green day at the time he heard the bass and was like woow I don’t like that sound and they asked why and he said it remind him of the bomb.
  • Tre dressed up as Benji Madden of Good Charlotte for Halloween, 2004 and in 2011 he dressed up as a fairy he had a pink dress and blond curcly hair

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