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[QUOTE=Wikipedia]Green Day is an American rock trio formed in 1987. The band has consisted of lead vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist and backing vocalist Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tré Cool for the majority of its existence. [/QUOTE]
Billie Joe
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[QUOTE]Billie Joe Armstrong was born in Oakland, California, and was raised in Rodeo, California, as the youngest of six children to Andrew "Andy" Armstrong[1] and Ollie Jackson.[1] His father worked as a jazz musician and truck driver for Safeway Inc. to support his family. He died of esophageal cancer on September 10, 1982, when his son Billie was ten years old.[1] The song "Wake Me Up When September Ends" is a memorial to his father. He has five older siblings: David, Alan, Marci, Hollie, and Anna. His mother worked at Rod's Hickory Pit.[1] Armstrong and Mike Dirnt got their first gig at Rod's Hickory Pit during their early years.
Armstrong's interest in music started at a young age. He attended Hillcrest Elementary School in Rodeo, where a teacher encouraged him to record a song titled "Look For Love" at the age of five on the Bay Area label "Fiat Records".[1][2] After his father died, his mother married a man whom her children disliked, which made Armstrong retreat further into music. Armstrong dedicated a song to him called "Why Do You Want Him".[1] At age 12 while attending Carquinez Middle School in nearby Crockett, California, he met Mike Dirnt, and they immediately bonded over their love of music.[1] As a teenager he originally was into Heavy metal music, but became interested into punk rock after hearing the Sex Pistols song "Holidays in the Sun".[3] Armstrong has also cited Minneapolis-based bands The Replacements and Hüsker Dü as major musical influences. Armstrong attended John Swett High School, also in Crockett, and later Pinole Valley High School, in Pinole, California, dropping out on February 16, 1990, one day before his 18th birthday, to pursue his musical career. In 1987, Armstrong formed a band called Sweet Children with childhood friend Mike Dirnt at the age of 15. In the beginning, Dirnt and Armstrong were both on guitar, with John Kiffmeyer, also known as Al Sobrante, on drums[4], and Sean Hughes on bass. After a few gigs and a demo recording (later featured at the end of Green Day's Kerplunk!) Hughes left the band in 1988. At the same time Dirnt switched to bass and they became a 3-piece band. They changed their name to Green Day in April 1989, allegedly choosing the name for their fondness of marijuana.[4] That same year they recorded the EPs 39/Smooth, 1,000 Hours, and Slappy, later combined into the LP 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours, on Lookout! Records. Tré Cool eventually replaced Sobrante in late 1990 when he left Green Day in order to go to college. California Punk band Rancid's lead singer Tim Armstrong asked Billie Joe to join Rancid, but he refused due to the progress with Green Day. Tré Cool made his debut on Green Day's second album, Kerplunk!. With their next album, Dookie (1994), the band broke through into the mainstream, and have remained one of the most popular rock bands of the 1990s and 2000s with over 60 million records sold worldwide.[5]
Apart from working with Green Day and side-band Pinhead Gunpowder, Armstrong has proved himself busy in the music world, collaborating with many artists over the years. He has co-written for The Go-Go's ("Unforgiven") and former Avengers singer Penelope Houston ("The Angel and The Jerk" and "New Day"), co-written a song with Rancid ("Radio"), and sung backing vocals with Melissa Auf der Maur on Ryan Adams' "Do Miss America" (where they acted as the backing band for Iggy Pop on his Skull Ring album ("Private Hell" and "Supermarket"). Armstrong has produced an album for The Riverdales, and has also been confirmed to be part of a side project called The Network. The Network released an album called Money Money 2020. Many Green Day fans who listened to the record remarked the similarity between the two bands.[citation needed] Money Money 2020 was released on Adeline Records, a record label co-owned by Armstrong. He also worked with the band U2 with The Saints Are Coming.[/QUOTE]
Mike Dirnt
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[QUOTE]Dirnt was born and raised in California. He was adopted by a Native American mother and a white father. He has one sister, Myla. His parents divorced when he was seven years old. His mother remarried a few years later. When asked about his stepdad, he says, "We didn't get along for years."[1] The one thing my family did give me is blue collar morals. But he died when I was 17."[1] Dirnt had left home when he was 17 to live out of his truck, but later rented a room in Billie Joe Armstrong's house. He attended Salesian High School (where he briefly played with the band Helder and the Heldernauts), John Swett High School, and ended up graduating from Pinole Valley High School in 1990, and Green Day went on their first tour the day after graduation.
However, Dirnt almost didn't graduate. He had missed school because of work, and his mother wasn't around to sign absentee forms. Two unexcused absences caused him to lose a full grade point; and at the end of senior year, he had lowly results instead of the grades he'd worked to achieve. "I took my mom aside and I said to her, 'This is how it is. You have so much stuff going on in your life, so if once every semester you ask me if I've done my homework and jump all over my case, that's not right. I haven't failed yet, have I? And I'm going to graduate if you stay off my back. The one time in your life you choose to have morals, and it's going to mess me up."
Dirnt met Billie Joe Armstrong in 1982, at age 10, in the Rodeo Elementary School cafeteria, a few months before Armstrong's father died of Esophageal cancer. He and Armstrong first founded Sweet Children in 1987, and they then started their current band Green Day with former Isocracy drummer Al Sobrante (a.k.a John Kiffmeyer) in 1989 and then switched to their present drummer, Tré Cool. Some years before, Dirnt moved in with Armstrong because his mother and sister moved away from Rodeo. Dirnt did not want to move away from his new-found best friend and love for music.
Green Day's Woodstock '94 gig was one for the history books: a huge mud fight ensued between the band and the audience. So many mud-covered fans got up on stage by the end of the set that one of the security guards mistook Dirnt for a marauding fan, tackled him, and broke several of his teeth while attempting to haul him off the stage.
He used to play an old Gibson G-3 bass, but during Nimrod., Tré Cool accidentally broke it on stage trying to show fan Brendan Taylor how to spin a bass around his back. Armstrong then sent Dirnt's bass tech out to get him a new bass. It resulted in a '69 Fender Precision Bass. He later asked Fender to make him a custom P-Bass, and the result is modeled after the '51 P-Bass with a '59 Custom Shop "Hot Rod" Split-Coil Pickup, a BadAss II bridge and a thinner neck. It was released in early 2004.[/QUOTE]
Tré Cool
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[QUOTE]Frank Edwin Wright III was born in Frankfurt, Germany. He lived in Willits, California with his father and his older sister, Lori. His father, a helicopter pilot in the Vietnam War, decided to move the family there to insulate them upon his return to the United States.
Wright's closest neighbor was Larry Livermore, who at the time was the singer of the punk band The Lookouts. At age 12, Livermore recruited Wright to join The Lookouts and gave him the name of Tre Cool [2] relying on both the French word très (meaning very)[3] combined with the word cool. However, the silent "s" has been dropped in the spelling, as a play on the "third" in his name.
When Green Day's drummer, John Kiffmeyer, left the band they recruited Cool to play drums. Cool decided to drop out of high school in his sophomore year. Instead, he passed an equivalency test and earned his GED, and began taking classes at a nearby community college. He had to drop out of college, however, when the demands of Green Day's touring intensified.
Cool's father, who owned a small company, overhauled a bookmobile and even served as the driver on three separate tours. "I watched them go from a bunch of kids to a group of musicians with work ethic," he later recalled. "On their first tour or two, it was more of a party than anything else. I still scratch my head and say, 'How in the hell did they make it?' They used to practice in my living room here - a lot of the songs they did on Dookie. You hear it coming together, and you don't expect people are going to go out and buy it. But when it does, you just say, 'Wow that's so cool.'"
In 1998, after Green Day won a "Moon Man" Trophy at the MTV Music Awards, Tré Cool famously scaled the Universal globe at Universal studios, but escaped with no punishment - only compliments and cheers. Cool has been the only person to ever do so.[4]
Tré was once notorious for burning his drum kit, on stage, upon completion of every set on the "Warning" tour. He has a tradition also that if he cracks a cymbal during a concert, he gives it away at the end.[/QUOTE]
Former Drummer John Kiffmeyer
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[quote]ohn Kiffmeyer was born in California on July 11, 1969. His first exposure in the punk scene was as the drummer of the band Isocracy. The group was popular in the East Bay, and mainstays at the famed club, 924 Gilman Street.
However, Kiffmeyer is most well known for his time in Green Day. After the end of Isocracy, Kiffmeyer helped form Green Day. Because of his experience and knowledge of the underground community, Kiffmeyer was able to get the young band on its feet by placing calls to friends, among them prominent figure of the East Bay Larry Livermore. The first few performances took place at Contra Costa College, where Kiffmeyer was a journalism student. On the strength of an early performance, Livermore vowed to release a Green Day record on his Lookout! Records. The group's first full-length effort, 39/Smooth, would feature a Kiffmeyer original, "I Was There", which documented the band at that place in time.
In 1990, he left the band to attend college at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California. Kiffmeyer later joined the band The Ne'er Do Wells, leaving abruptly in 1994. Following a stint with punk band The Ritalins, he became manager of The Shruggs until their split. Recently he produced "The Lost Troublemakers Album" by The Troublemakers, a garage band from Sacramento, California. He now lives in San Francisco, California with his wife Greta and his young son Lolo.[/quote]
Wikipedia :eng101:
Green Day has released 6 Albums
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[*][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/39/Smooth"]29/Smoothe - 1990[/URL]
[*][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerplunk_(album)"]Kerplunk - 1992[/URL]
[*][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dookie"]Dookie - 1994[/URL]
[*][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insomniac_(Green_Day_album)"]Insomniac - 1995[/URL]
[*][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrod_(album)"]Nimrod - 1997[/URL]
[*][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warning_(Green_Day_album)"]Warning - 2000[/URL]
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A favorite of mine
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A few of their hit songs
Basket case
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Longview
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Welcome to Paradise
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She
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Note: He may or not have been stoned off his ass in this viedo
When I Come Around
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Brain Stew/Jaded
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Walking Contradiction
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Nice Guys Finish Last
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Minority
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green day more like green gay
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I heard somewhere that Tre lost a testicle in a tragic unicycle accident.
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also I think you're missing a few albums
Plus it's aint 29/smooth it's 39.
Above poster is right about the testicle thingy.
Missing some good songs off kerplunk and 1039 smoothed out slappy hours... also maybe the original drummer info?
[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;21174048]green day more like green gay
[editline]11:24PM[/editline]
I heard somewhere that Tre lost a testicle in a tragic unicycle accident.
[editline]11:26PM[/editline]
also I think you're missing a few albums[/QUOTE]
Bad puns are for the news section.
If thats true, then I have a new respect for unicycles.
American Idiot and 21st Century breakdown have 2 or 3 good songs, but overall they aren't good enough to be considered an album, a green day album at least.
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[QUOTE=HoldenC;21174398]Plus it's aint 29/smooth it's 39.
Above poster is right about the testicle thingy.
Missing some good songs off kerplunk and 1039 smoothed out slappy hours... also maybe the original drummer info?[/QUOTE]
Typo.
I'll add those.
It's still albums released by green day. And American Idiot is one of the best selling albums ever.
they get worse by the minute imo
[QUOTE=Vedicardi;21174748]they get worse by the minute imo[/QUOTE]
Their music is pretty good. Something I don't mind hearing on the radio.
I don't really respect them as good artists, but the music is OK. I won't say "oh fuck, it's green day, turn it off" when I hear them.
They are quite overrated, though. I always see them at those awards shows and shit. If they were more modest and dorky, I'd probably like them more.
I can kind of enjoy their earlier stuff if I'm in the right mood.
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[QUOTE=hypno-toad;21174805]Their music is pretty good. Something I don't mind hearing on the radio.
I don't really respect them as good artists, but the music is OK. I won't say "oh fuck, it's green day, turn it off" when I hear them.[/QUOTE]
even when they play know your enemy?
[QUOTE=Reaver1991;21174826]even when they play know your enemy?[/QUOTE]
I don't know much of their music. Usually the only songs I'll hear are Basket Case, Holiday, and American idiot. Those are all OK songs in my books.
It's actually kind of refreshing compared to most of the tripe on "popular music" stations. They are a good radio band, that's the best I'll give them.
[QUOTE=hypno-toad;21174919]I don't know much of their music. Usually the only songs I'll hear are Basket Case, Holiday, and American idiot. Those are all OK songs in my books.[/QUOTE]
Basket Case is one of their best.
Good Riddance is Billie Joe's best.
I tend to hear Brain Stew, Longview, and She a lot as well.
All they ever play here is 21 Guns and Know your Enemy :saddowns:
I'll hear Brain Stew/Jaded every once in a while, but that's not any better.
Fuck I love this band. I've spent so many days listening to their music.
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wtf? 6 albums? LIES!
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Oh. nvm. American Idiot and 21'st both had great music, but they didn't live up to the older albums, IMO.
Examples:
21'st Century Breakdown:
¡Viva La Gloria!
¿Viva La Gloria? (Little Girl)
Horseshoes and Handgrenades
East Jesus Nowhere
American Idiot:
Holiday
Jesus Of Suburbia
Homecoming
homecoming, like for real?
[QUOTE=Dolton;21174407]Bad puns are for the news section.
If thats true, then I have a new respect for unicycles.
American Idiot and 21st Century breakdown have 2 or 3 good songs, but overall they aren't good enough to be considered an album, a green day album at least.
I'll add those.[/QUOTE]
Still missing international superhits and maybe shenanigans?
every time I hear the shitty autotune in 21 guns I want to kill myself
my friend is obsessed with this band
it's painful
lol just because you don't think they're good doesn't mean theyre not albums
lol thats just silly
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