The bare butt was too much, even for Green Day.
It was the early 1990s, and big record companies were courting the band. Hard. So the three East Bay stoners started making demands—some more serious than others. They got one label to take them to Disneyland. Another flew them to New York. Then there was the unnamed A&R man they hooked with a gonzo request.
“We said, ‘We will sign with you if you tattoo Green Day on your ass,’” lead singer and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong recalls. The next time the trio saw him, he had a surprise waiting. “He pulled his pants down and someone drew the Green Day logo on his ass,” Armstrong says. “We were like, ‘Oh my God.’”
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