Which Green Day album was the first to feature Tré Cool?

Which Green Day album was the first to feature Tré Cool? Kerplunk was the first Green Day album to feature Tré Cool.

Tré Cool replaced original drummer John Kiffmeyer, who left Green Day to attend college after touring behind 39/Smooth. Kerplunk therefore marks the first album in the band’s studio-album sequence with the drummer who would become a permanent member.

Green Day recorded Kerplunk at Art of the Ear Studios in San Francisco in May and September 1991. The band initially tracked six songs, paused to resume touring, and then returned to finish the album. Andy Ernst co-produced the sessions with the band.

The distinction is easy to confuse with Dookie, the group’s major-label breakthrough, but Cool was already established in the lineup by then. Kerplunk was released by Lookout! Records on December 17, 1991, and its success helped position Green Day for the wider audience that arrived with Dookie in 1994.