Billie Joe Armstrong

"These heads were at Woodstock. I repainted them for some other show back then. We call these the Dookie mod and also the Bradshaw Gain mod. This cascades the front end and puts on the master volume. The SE lead mod adds a tube to it for even more gain. The way we run the heads is really all the knobs pretty much straight up and the master and gain at 10 o'clock. You turn it up any louder or any more gain it doesn't really sound that great. And Billie's tone is really not about tons of gain. It's actually cleaner than you would think it is. His technique playing and using the pick is more about where the sound is coming out of. I mean he'll turn the guitar down and clean it up then pop it back up," explains Hans, the tech for Billie Joe Armstrong.

Billie Joe Armstrong used the Marshall JCM900 4100 100-watt 2-channel Tube Head during the recording of Green Day's "Kerplunk." He also utilized it for live performances, including some shows during the "Dookie" era.

Billie with a wall of JCM800s from Marshall’s website.

“I didn’t want to go for a modern Marshall amp sound,” Armstrong says. “I wanted to do something that sounded more like a classic rock tone. I used a Gretsch guitar, and we figured if we couldn’t find the exact vintage amp we were looking for we would just build it. But I did use a Vox AC 30 and a 1974 Marshall JTM45. We miked the room and captured that.”

It was main Billie's amp in 1990, and a backup amp in 1989, 1991 and even in 1992. Used for recording "39/Smooth", all the early EP's (e.g. "1,000 Hours", "Slappy" and "Sweet Children") and "Kerplunk!". The amp was mostly held together by duct tape, and there is some stickers on the top.

Billie Joe's guitar tech explains how they use the Custom Audio 3+ SE Preamp at 9:19, "We only use the top two channels, our clean channel and then the mid. And we're trying to mimic a small 10 inch combo amp cranked up all the way. All the lows are cut out, all the mids are cranked up."

Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day's amp setup includes several Marshall 1960A and 1960B 300W 4x12 cabs.

Visible in Bullet in a Bible backstage practice sessions for Green Day World Tour 2005 EDIT: ...just wow. Not only would an AC10 be impractical and unnecessary here, I'd wager those saying it looks/sounds nothing like a Pathfinder have never seen/played through either amp in their lives.... If you need concrete justification, look at the size of the amp handle in relation to its body when Tre puts his beer atop it. That's the Pathfinder's handle, the AC10 is smaller. Cheers.

In the official live video for "Let Yourself Go" by Green Day, Billie Joe Armstrong is seen using a Mojotone JTM45 clone amp head. This amplifier was used during the recording sessions for the albums Uno, Dos, and Tre.

From an eMusician interview that is no longer available:

“ I didn’t want to go for a modern Marshall amp sound. I wanted to do something that sounded more like a classic rock tone. I used a Vox AC 30 and a 1974 Marshall JTM45. We miked the room and captured that.”

This photo was taken in the last live stream before Green Day's last show, it show us Billie Joe's Gibson Les Paul and this Marshall MS-2R Mini Amp

In the link interview he mentions the Divided by 13 FTR 37 head.

Part of the interview:

"What was your go-to guitar and amp recipe for the overdriven sounds on Revolution Radio?

It was a combination of different things. For starters, I often had my ’56 Les Paul Junior plugged into an old Park head that has been totally rebuilt. Another underlying thing on a lot of parts is a Rickenbacker 360—like the ones Peter Case and Peter Buck use—through a Divided By 13 head. [...]"

This amp was used on 21st Century Breakdown, Uno, Dos, Tre, and Rev Rad.

At 0:11 this item can be seen on top of a JCM900, presumably a backup amp.

50:32 is clearly a Fender combo amp, & you can tell by the number of knobs, knob placement & panel color that it's a '65 Deluxe Reverb. Billie Joe Armstrong used this amp for the recording of the American Idiot album.

Billie Joe is using a Vox AC10. 0:34

In this Instagram post, Armstrong shared the photo of his Park 75 Amplifier Head, which could announce Green Day's new studio recordings? Also this amp can be visible on the Heart Like a Hand Grenade Documentary, The Uno Dos Tre trailer, and some of the 21st century breakdown video recordings from 2008.

At 9:00 in this rig rundown of Green Day, you can see that on the back of the Marshall heads it says "Super Lead 100" and it is one of what is probably many amplifiers that Billie uses that has the "Dookie Mod" installed in it.

He used this to record “Father of All...” and ended up blowing it up.

As seen on this source, Billie Joe Armstrong is using a 1958 Fender Twin 5F8-4 Combo Amp. Billie says that he used this amp on 21st Century Breakdown. It's not known what songs he used it on.

At 7:37 you can see the cabs and he says at 8:03 that they're Vintage 30s

In this Bad Religion Rig Rundown Brian shows off His Marshall Plexi heads. He states that one of the heads originally belonged to Billie Joe Armstrong. The amp has Billies famed Dookie Mod in it. Billie lent Brian the amp to try out. Brian states that Billie Gave him the amp almost 8 years prior, but never returned it.

This head was borrowed from Jamie Owen, Jaicell Recipes guitarist. Used during the show at The Den in Wigan and The Joiner's Arms - December 21st and December 17th in 1991 respectively. He also used this amp on American Idiot. 48:26

In this photo, we can see Armstrong's equipment for 2016. He has two Park 75 heads, with one of them being a 50-watt.

In the very first frame of this video you can see Billie's seafoam green Fender Vaporizer.

Billie has been known to use this amp during his time in The Longshot and a couple of Coverups shows.

Billie states him and Jason played them on the trilogy records.

It looks like Billie's using a Fender Hot Rod Deville.

This amp can be seen on Heart Like A Hand Grenade at 18:01. This amp is also used on Nimrod and Warning.

Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day uses the Marshall 9200 MonoBlock Power Amp, as noted by Customaudioelectronics. The connection was facilitated by producer Rob Cavallo, with whom they have collaborated extensively.

Back in the second half of the 1990s, he had a Fender Bassman head in his collection. The amp was used for the recording of “Nimrod,” Green Day’s fourth album. He also had it for the next album, “Warning,” released in 2000. Although this amp head had a few versions over the years, one thing’s always the same – a very powerful and bottom-end-heavy tone. They were introduced in the early 1950s and were intended as bass amps. However, their specific tone made them really popular among guitarists. It’s not certain, however, which exact model was in Billie’s possession.

Used on the more clean parts of American Idiot such as the intro to American Idiot, Letterbomb, and Homecoming.