Green Day to sell career-spanning collection of guitars, amps and more

Green Day

Green Day have become the latest artist to hook up with Reverb.com to sell a bunch of their gear.

Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward and Foo Fighters’ guitarist Chris Shiflett previously teamed up with the company to sell some of their items – and the Green Day online store will open on February 7.

The collection will feature more than 100 items, with a statement saying: “When the shop launches you’ll be able to buy a guitar used on Dookie, speaker cabinets still marked from the mud-fight at Woodstock ‘94, drum kits that have toured the world – and some remnants that have been set ablaze – vintage bass amps, and recording gear.”

Fans are asked to register on the Reverb site for further information.

Green Day drummer Tré Cool says: “I’m a crazy cat person hoarder. I can hardly see out the front of my car, it’s full of newspapers. It’s a real problem. So you hoard the right shit long enough, they call you a collector.

“I’m selling off just a wee bit of the collection – just a selected few items. I’m not doing them any justice sitting around when somebody could be using this stuff and enjoying it.

“I haven’t really sold anything ever – my psychiatrist said I have to do this!’

Speaking about his guitar collection, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong adds: “After 30 years of collecting odds and ends and really good stuff, what ended up happening is I got too many, so I was like, ‘We gotta sell some of this off!’

“Some of it I’ve used, and some of it just sat there in pristine condition."

Check out the pair talking about the sale in the video below.

Scott Munro
Louder e-commerce editor

Scott has spent more than 30 years in newspapers, magazines and online as an editor, production editor, sub-editor, designer, writer and reviewer. Scott joined our news desk in the summer of 2014 before moving to the e-commerce team in 2020. Scott maintains Louder’s buyer’s guides, scouts out the best deals for music fans and reviews headphones, speakers, books and more. He's written more than 11,000 articles across Louder, Classic Rock, Metal Hammer and Prog and has previous written for publications including IGN, the Sunday Mirror, Daily Record and The Herald, covering everything from daily news and weekly features, to video games, travel and whisky. Scott's favourite bands are Fields Of The Nephilim, The Cure, New Model Army, All About Eve, The Mission, Cocteau Twins, Drab Majesty, Marillion and Rush.