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Mike Dirnt (born Michael Ryan Pritchard on May 4, 1972, in Rodeo, California) is best known as the bassist and backing vocalist of Green Day. While at school, he would play unamplified plucking the strings, making a noise soon familiar (dirnt, dirnt, dirnt), he later adopted his stage name, "Mike Dirnt". Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... is the 124th day of the year (125th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Rodeo (pronounced row DAY oh) is a census-designated place located in Contra Costa County, California. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... Pop punk is used for two separate subgenres of punk rock music: the kind typically found on Lookout! Records, which stray very little from the three-chord formula that The Ramones pioneered, as well as a newer subgenre of melodic, more emotional punk, which includes by bands like NOFX and... Alternative music redirects here. ... â€œInstrumentalistâ€ redirects here. ... A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. ... A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. ... A sunburst-colored Precision Bass The electric bass guitar (or electric bass; pronounced , as in base) is a bass stringed instrument played with the fingers (either by plucking, slapping, popping, or tapping) or using a pick. ... An electric guitar An electric guitar is a type of guitar that uses pickups to convert the vibration of its steel-cored strings into electrical current, which is then amplified. ... In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i. ... For other kinds of drums, see drum (disambiguation). ... Farfisa is a brand name for a series of electronic organs and later multitimbral keyboards, made in Ancona in the Marche region of Italy. ... In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. ... Reprise Records is an American record label, owned by Warner Music Group, operated through Warner Bros. ... Lookout! Records is an independent record label based in Berkeley, California. ... This article is about the band Green Day. ... The Frustrators is a music band with Jason Chandler (lead vocals), Terry Lineham (guitar, vocals), Art Tedeschi (drums), and Mike Dirnt (bass). ... Screeching Weasel was an American punk band from Chicago, Illinois. ... The Network is a 6-piece New Wave band and a supposed side-project of the band Green Day. ... is the 124th day of the year (125th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Rodeo (pronounced row DAY oh) is a census-designated place located in Contra Costa County, California. ... This article is about the band Green Day. ...

Biography

Dirnt was born to a heroin-addicted teenage mother, who soon gave him up for adoption at 6 weeks of age. He was adopted by a Native American mother and a European American father. He has one step-sister, Myla, who left home at 13. Soon after Dirnt's 7th birthday, his adoptive parents divorced, leaving him torn between his father, a prosperous computer programmer, and his struggling mother. "I grew up with my mom hating the white man and loving me," he has said. His mother later remarried. "When I was in fourth or fifth grade, my mom stayed out all night, came home the next day with a guy, and then he moved in. I'd never met the guy, and suddenly he's my step-dad." When asked about his stepdad, he says, "We didn't get along for years. [1] For other uses, see Heroin (disambiguation). ... This article is about the people indigenous to the United States. ... European American is a term for an American of European descent, who are usually referred as White or Caucasian. ... In computing, a programmer is someone who does computer programming and develops computer software. ...

"Later on," Dirnt continues, "my mom moved away and my stepdad and I got real close. He instilled a lot in me. The one thing my family did give me is blue collar morals. But he died when I was 17."[2] Mike had left home at 15 to live out of his truck, but later rented a space over Billie Joe Armstrong's garage. 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. A blue-collar worker is a working class employee who performs manual or technical labor, such as in a factory or in technical maintenance trades, in contrast to a white-collar worker, who does non-manual work generally at a desk. ... Billie Joe Armstrong (born February 17, 1972, in Oakland, California) is best known as the lead vocalist, main lyricist, and guitarist for the rock band Green Day. ... Salesian High School is a private, co-ed (formerly all boys) Catholic high school in inner-city Richmond, California, on the San Pablo border. ... John Swett High School is located in Crockett, California, USA, and serves the communities of Crockett, Port Costa, Rodeo, and the Foxboro area of Hercules. ... Pinole Valley High School is a high school in Pinole, California, in Contra Costa County. ... Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ... This article is about the band Green Day. ...

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 crap 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. Don't play mom once a year. It doesn't cut it."[3]

Dirnt met Billie Joe Armstrong in 1982, in the Rodeo Elementary School cafeteria, a few months before Armstrong's father died. He first founded Sweet Children with Armstrong in 1988, then Green Day with Armstrong and former Isocracy drummer Al Sobrante in 1989. Some years before, Dirnt moved in with Armstrong because his adoptive mother and step-sister moved away from Rodeo. Dirnt did not want to move away from his new-found best friend and love for music. Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ... Sweet Children, the former name for Green Day. ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... This article is about the band Green Day. ... Al Sobrante (born John Kiffmeyer 1969) was the original drummer for the punk rock band Green Day. ... Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ...

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. Woodstock 94 poster design Woodstock 94 is a rock concert that was held in order to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the original Woodstock concert of 1969. ... This article is about a type of online computer game. ...

He used to play an old Gibson G-3 bass, but during Nimrod, Tre Cool accidentally broke it on stage. Armstrong then sent Mike'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" Single Coil Pickup, a BadAss II bridge and a thinner neck. It was released in early 2004. The Gibson G3 bass was a comapnion model to the Gibson Grabber, and a bass version of the S-1. ... Nimrod is the fifth album by the punk rock band Green Day, released on October 14, 1997 on Reprise Records. ... The Fender Precision Bass, known as P-bass for short, is the first model of the electric bass designed by Clarence Leonidas Fender and brought to market in 1951. ...

Mike Dirnt married his girlfriend Anastasia in 1996, from whom he again separated a few years later because the pressure of the success of Green Day was too much for Anastasia. He has a daughter, Estelle-Desiree, who was born in April 1997 and has the nickname "Hero". In 2004 he married his then girlfriend Sarah. The two divorced that same year because Mike allegedly could not spend enough time with the family. Since 2005 he has been dating a girl named Brittney.

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The lyrics of this song promote living without warning. Billie Joe Armstrong has said in interviews that the original concept was to create a song whose lyrics were made up of all signs and... Waiting is the third single from Green Days 2000 album, Warning, also appearing on the bands Tune in Tokyo EP. It was released as the main promotional single for the International Superhits! greatest hits collection. ... Macys Day Parade was the final single and is the final track of Green Days album Warning:. It also appears on the compilation album, International Superhits!, and the live EP Tune in Tokyo. ... Poprocks and Coke is a song by the band Green Day from their International Superhits! album. ... The Clash (US ver. ... American Idiot track listing American Idiot (1) Jesus of Suburbia (2) American Idiot is a song by American Rock band Green Day, and is the first single from their seventh album, American Idiot. ... 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Live Freaky Die Freaky is a stop motion-animated, musical independent film directed by John Roecker. ... Adeline Records is a record label co-owned by Billie Joe Armstrong, lead singer of Green Day, his wife Adrienne Nesser (Armstrong), bandmate Jason White, and Jim Theibaud, professional skateboarder. ... The California punk scene is a regional punk music scene that started in the late 1970s and still exists today. ... Ever since 1991, some members of punk band Green Day have branched out past their main band and have started other projects with other musicians and have released full-length albums and several EPs. ... The Network is a 6-piece New Wave band and a supposed side-project of the band Green Day. ... Pinhead Gunpowder is an East Bay Punk Rock band consisting of Aaron Cometbus (drums, lyrics), Bill Schneider (bass), Billie Joe Armstrong (guitar, vocals) and Jason White (guitar, vocals). ... 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Major Label Debut was a 1998 EP by the Chicago punk rock band Screeching Weasel. ... Jesus Hates You is an EP of cover songs, by the punk rock band Screeching Weasel. ... Released in 1995, Kill the Musicians was meant to serve as a cleaning up of loose ends after Screeching Weasels breakup in 1994. ... Beat is on the Brat is a CD compilation of out of print and vinyl-only material from Screeching Weasel. ... Thank You Very Little is a compilation by Screeching Weasel. ... Weasel Mania is a best of compilation album from the Chicago punk rock band Screeching Weasel. ... Underdog Records was a Chicago based independent record label during the late 1980s and early 1990s. ... The Queers are an American pop punk band formed in 1982 by Portsmouth, New Hampshire native Joe King (A.K.A. Joe Queer). ... The Riverdales are an American punk rock music group. ... Even in Blackouts, known occasionally by the acronyn EiB, are an acoustic pop-punk band from Chicago, Illinois. ... 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