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
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,
suggest time
It was pretty intense. I don't suggest it any time soon.
genre musical passion reflective statement
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.
invested
It showed us he was emotionally invested in the record.
today next planning
If you start planning too far ahead, the next thing you know you forget you're living today
being-yourself
Be yourself. Unless you have the option to be Batman, then always be Batman.
destination roads-traveled traveled
Happiness is a road traveled, not a destination.
bass doe reason
I started playing bass for the same reason everyone else does – I’m a lousy guitarist.
magic closest
Music's awesome, it's the closest thing we have to magic.
rocks world proud
It makes me extremely proud to make punk rock the biggest music in the world right now.
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.