In 1988, Larry Livermore , owner of Lookout! Records , saw the band play an early gig and signed them to his label. In April 1989, the band released its debut extended play 1,000 Hours . Shortly before the EP’s release, the group dropped the name Sweet Children. According to Livermore, this was done to avoid confusion with another local band Sweet Baby . Sweet Children adopted the name Green Day, instead, due to the members’ fondness for cannabis . In the Bay Area , where the band was formed, “green day” was slang for spending a day doing nothing but smoking marijuana. Armstrong admitted in 2001 that he considered it to be “the worst band name in the world”.
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