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
Mike Dirnt quotes about
bands early friends-or-friendship influences listening punk rock
When I was a kid, my influences were just my early friends' punk rock bands and listening to the radio,
being-yourself
Be yourself. Unless you have the option to be Batman, then always be Batman.
counselor difficult marriage men people questions serious
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.