Some New Facts •Benji's first song to play on a guitar was "When I come Around" by Green Day.
•Benji wants to tour badly with Nirvana
• He has a twin brother, Joel, who is the lead singer of Good Charlotte, a younger sister, Sarah and an older brother called Josh.
•His real hair colour is brown.
•He has his lip pierced four times
•When he was in 10th grade Joel kissed his girlfriend
•His middle name is Levi.
•His childhood hero is Superman
•Until nine years ago, lead guitarist Benji had never strummed a single chord. However, he taught himself how to play and formed G.C four weeks after he began.
•He got his stage name, Kid Vicious, when Joel called him Kid Vicious cuz he looked like a lil' mini Sid Vicious when he was doing his hair, and, when he was playing shows he played like him. They made fun of him saying 'Look dude, you're like Sid Vicious', and, as he loves Sid, they called him Kid.
•He has had many jobs including working as a stock boy, a waiter, and "his best job" – as a shampoo boy at a beauty salon.
•His lifegoal is to "have a good influence on the world and kids, to stay true to God and his family and make the world a better place, plant a flower and paint a horse, to pick up trash and then light everything on fire."
•Benji plays different guitars, the one he's playing in the Girls & boys video (the green one) is an 'Ernie Ball Silhouette Special' and he uses two amps - a 'Soldano Decatone' head into a 'Marshal 4X12' and a 'Budda' combo (depending on what sound he wants to make).
•He is 2 inches shorter than Joel and a bit heavier
•He is older than Joel by 5 minutes
•He once drank his own pee
•He once said his dream was "to live on the water with a wife and kids, split a piece of property with Joel with a weeping willow tree, basketball court, a recording studio and a boat"
•He said that his pet peeve is people with pet peeves
•Benji & Joel's last name was 'Combs' before they legally changed it to 'Madden'
•benji has over 30 tattoos and had at one time more than 10 piercings in his face!
•benji cried while he was writing the song emotionless