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
chicken chinese happy
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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It was pretty intense. I don't suggest it any time soon.
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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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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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It's this total epic, theatrical number, so to hear it on the radio, it feels like you're doing something that's groundbreaking.
invested
It showed us he was emotionally invested in the record.
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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.
real thinking important
I think that's the most important thing you can do to be a real person - is to be honest with yourself.
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Here's to our soldiers. Let's bring them home safe.
believe kind life-after-death
I'm an optimist, so I believe in some sort of life after death; I don't know what kind.
thinking next-week silence
Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what's going on next week, next month.
mother daughter giving
I have a daughter and she's the greatest thing that ever happened to me. She gives me a good excuse to watch cartoons.