released debut album 39/Smooth

Lookout! released Green Day’s debut studio album 39/Smooth in early 1990. Green Day recorded two extended plays later that year, Slappy and Sweet Children , the latter of which included older songs the band recorded for Minneapolis independent label Skene! Records . In 1991, Lookout! Records re-released 39/Smooth as 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours and added the songs from the band’s first two EPs, Slappy and 1,000 Hours . In late 1990, shortly after the band’s first nationwide tour, Kiffmeyer left the East Bay area to attend Humboldt State University in Arcata, California . The Lookouts ‘ drummer Tré Cool began filling in temporarily, and later permanently, a situation which Kiffmeyer “graciously accepted”. The band went on tour for most of 1992 and 1993 and played a number of shows overseas in Europe. By then, the band’s second studio album Kerplunk had sold 50,000 copies in the US. Green Day supported another California punk band Bad Religion as an opening act for their Recipe for Hate Tour for most of 1993.