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Hi, My name is Michael O'Rourke I'm 13 and from Michigan. I have all of Green Day's Cd's and I've been a fan for years. Green Day, the trio from Berkeley,California who burst on the American Punk scene in 1994 with there album Dookie. They've been taged the leaders of the new punk revolution and the cure to the music industry's grunge doldrums. With Billie Joe Armstrong, Frank Edwin Wright the third( tre cool), and Mike Durint. Who would of thought that an album about boredom, laziness, masturbation, getting stoned, whining, and self hatred would sell over eight million copies?Well Green Day's good at what they do they've been at it half their lives. Here's their story... | |||||||||||||||||
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Rodeo, California is were Billie joe and Mike became freinds in 1983. They where only 12 years old. Billie joe's only had 1 guitar the same guitar he has now it's a Stratocastor. Billie was born Febuary 17, 1972, the youngest of a family of six kids. His father was a jazz drummer and his mother a Hank Williams and Elvis fan.Billie's father died when he was only ten years old and his mother remaried and got waitressing job to support the family.He reportedly started his music career when he was 5 years old when he would sing to childrens hospitals and old folks homes. Mike's childhood wasn't an easy one.His mother was a heroin adict who gave him up for adoption soon after his birth May 4, 1972.At age 7 mikes adoptive parents divorced and he was shiffted between his father and his biological mother.Dirint left home for good at 15, living for a short time with the armstrong family befor moving to a squat in a building full of punk rockers. He finished high school while living on his own. He also took a job as a cook to make enough money to get by. Billie not long after moved with mike to a squat in oakland.This was the inspiration behind the song welcome to paridice. In the mean time the two young independents had found a home in the established underground punk scene.where they created 39/smooth which these days is available as 1039 smoothed out slappy hours.They did not yet have a drummer so one was provided by the record company Look out records,John Kiftmeyer(the drummer) soon droped out of the band. So Mike and Billie whent to Gilmore street and recrutied a real punk veteran seventeen year old tre cool, who has been playing drums professsionally since the age of 12. Tre had grone up in the wilderness of the mendocinoi mountains, site of green days lookout records audition there first record lable. Tre was born December 9, 1972. 1992's kerplunk, green days second album now had the present day line up.Setting behind his drums in drag must have been tre's way of rebelling aginst his own musical acuman.But the whole album was recorded on a very low budjet of $1000 The only means of transpertation they had was tre's trucker father. It was all getting out of controll with shows being canceld becuse of to many fans. The band decided to meet with managment who now also handle offspeing, pennywise,rancid, and other punk bands.Bill Bently vice president of media relations at warner brothers records saw one of there shows and eventualy got them a record deal with one of there titles reprise.The band spent the next summer recording dokie. Offspring would follow green day all the way to the billboard top ten.Woodstock two was a big showing for greeen day where it was said to be the biggest mud fight in music history. | |||||||||||||||||
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Green day countinued on like this with the release of insomniac and nimrod. that laeads up to now now i hope you are as much of a green day fan as i am but maybe not but i hope this at least mayed you like, respect, or enjoy them a littl e more thank you and send this page to all your freinds who would like to now the story Thats it Live it in Green You can get your free e-mail herehttp://www.zzn.com/informail/images/but_service_English.gif | |||||||||||||||||
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