Billie Joe Armstrong’s Dunlop Tortex .73mm Picks

These days, Billie plays with Dunlop Tortex .73 mm picks, usually with custom Green Day artwork on them. His tech has confirmed that this is the gauge he prefers now, and Dunlop themselves list him as a Tortex player.

Back in the earlier years, it seems that on ocassion Billie would use green Dunlop Tortex .88 mm picks as they were sometimes seen tucked into his microphone stand. However, according to Billie himself, the .73mm yellow tortex picks were used as far as back as Dookie, so the green ones were probably used for just a brief period.