Benji Madden-Lead Guitarist and Joel's Twin

Billy Martin-Guitarist

Paul Thomas-Bassist

Chris Wilson-Drummer

ABout Billy,Paul,and Chris

Billy: Was in a band called Overflow, as the lead singer, before entering GC

has his own clothing line called,Level 27-(27 is his lucky number and he chose level cos it fits)had dreds in High School-(when they cut them off they found a doritto in there)(great guitarist)

Paul:Son of a Waldorf,Maryland police officer. Was expelled from school for threatening to punch the principal in the face. has been playin bass since 6th grade-he is a great bassist lol

Chris-the newest drummer: Idolizes Nirvana ex drummer,foo fighters lead singer Dave Grohl and wants to be as good as him some day(chris is a great drummer)

More Info to come

About the Twins

Early Life

They loved to play baseball and were really good. Their dad walked out on them when they were 15 years old on christmas eve(how festive).

Without money from dad to pay the bills -they got evicted and a nice farmer allowed them to stay in an extra barn type thing for a while-so this meant the twins got any jobs they good find to raise money to pay the bills

They first realized they really wanted to do music was after seeing a beastie boys concert. Benji picked up an old guitar and taught himself(with a lil help from a teacher at his high school)

Joel and Benji used to lock themselves in a pantry to listen to their brother josh's records of The cure,rancid,etc because their mother didnt allow them to listen to rock music.

Two weeks after Benj learned guitar they had their first GC practice.

The twins moved into billys house for a while and invited him to audition for gc - i guess he made it lol

Joel had a bad experience in High School-some of the "popular" guys held him down and put bengay on HIM(for those who dont know what bengay is look it up on the internet)

Once the word got out about them trying to get signed some kids from school would call the twins' house and pretend to be record executives with deals for them -(whos laughing now!)

**When their dad left they changed their last name from Combs-their dads last name to Madden -their mom's maided name!

More info on gc soon to come

Birthdays

Joel Madden-March 11,1979

Benji Madden -March 11,1979 (5 minutes older)

Billy Martin-June 15,1980

Paul Thomas-October 5,1980

Chris Wilson-May 5,1981