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| | Green Day - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06) |
 | | Their first show was in 1988 at Rod's Hickory Pit in Rodeo, California. |
 | | One year later, in April of 1990, Green Day released their first album, "39/Smooth" (re-issued on CD in 1991, with 9 additional tracks from "Slappy" and "1,000 Hours", as "1,039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours"), and that summer set out in a van on their first national tour. |
 | | By 1993 Green Day had sold about 55,000 copies of each of their first albums, a huge amount for the independent punk scene in those days, and attracted a great deal of attention from the major labels. |
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