Mike Dirnt
Mike Dirnt
Michael Ryan Pritchard, known professionally as Mike Dirnt, is an American musician best known for being the co-founder, bassist, backing and occasional lead vocalist of the American punk rock band Green Day. He has also played in several other bands, including The Frustrators. His stage name was originally a nickname from his friends at grade school, as he would constantly play "air bass" and make a "dirnt, dirnt, dirnt" noise while pretending to pluck the strings...
ProfessionBassist
Date of Birth4 May 1972
CityBerkeley, CA
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For a long time we were regarded as the Susan Lucci of the Video Music Awards, ... because we could just never, we were nominated, like, 14 times or something before we ever got one.
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I think that statement is reflective of where he is in life, and an opinion. I don't think any musical genre will ever be dead, as long as someone has passion about what they're doing in it.
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Here's to our soldiers. Let's bring them home safe.
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Get in there and cut loose and have a good time, ... It's a punk rock show, it's fun, it's got a sense of humor about itself. But nonetheless, it is a (freakin') rock show. It's a show that I think a lot of people have been waiting to come around. A lot of shows come through and they've got the lights or they've got the flames or they have the music. But they don't have both. This show is firing on all cylinders.
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It's this total epic, theatrical number, so to hear it on the radio, it feels like you're doing something that's groundbreaking.
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It's the end of the day, I've got my chinese chicken salad, Mike's a happy boy.
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It started off as this little joke and ended very grandiose kind of like the theme from 'The Muppet Show,' kind of how that was humorous but it was supposed to be very grand at the same time, very operatic, ... When everyone came back, Billie heard it and he was like, 'Oh, my God. That sounds so fun. I want to do one.' So he did one. He connected it to mine. ... We just kept playing musical hot potato.
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Now are any of these vegetables magic? I mean if I rub that bean on my foot will I run faster?
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Definitely 'Jesus Of Suburbia' because it's pulverizing and I really love playing 'Homecoming' whenever we decide to pull that one out,
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At the end of the day, we speak for ourselves, but I think a lot of people on this planet and especially in the United States can relate to us, ... We live in the United States too and we watch the news and we have the same questions and the same fears and angers and everything else that everyone else has. The difference is, I guess, we have each other to talk about it with and kind of sort our opinions out on paper. And we also have a creative forum in which to voice our opinions and our frustrations and happiness and everything. Not everybody has that forum.
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We had a lot of serious discussions about who we wanted to be as a band, where we wanted to be and who we wanted to be as individuals and where we wanted to be as men and as people, ... Those are difficult questions to ask. Most people need a counselor to do that. And this is a marriage really.
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We were up to the challenge. We're probably the best Green Day-type band there is out there.
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When I was a kid, my influences were just my early friends' punk rock bands and listening to the radio,
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It showed us he was emotionally invested in the record.