Green Day is a punk rock band which formed in the East Bay, California, United States in 1987. They consist of Billie Joe Armstrong (vocals, guitar), Mike Dirnt (bass, vocals; born Michael Pritchard) and Tré Cool (drums; born Frank Edwin Wright III). Jason White has played second guitar when the band performs live since 2000 (and is considered to be the unofficial fourth member of the band, to the point where he’s appeared in several of the band’s music videos since 2004), and Jason Freese is the band’s live keyboardist.
Billie Joe and Mike began the band under the name Sweet Children near ]San Francisco, California in 1987. In 1988, they changed the band’s name to Green Day. After the original drummer Al Sobrante (John Kiffmeyer) left for college in 1991, Tré Cool joined the band. Green Day released two albums, 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours and Kerplunk! with Lookout! Records before their breakthrough album, Dookie, was released in 1994 under Reprise Records. Just before this release however, many feared the end of Green Day as Billie Joe was at the time spending more and more time playing in his Status Quo tribute band “Status Joe.”
Dookie was certified diamond (10 million copies shipped) in the United States. Their second best-selling album, American Idiot, released in 2004, has sold over eleven million copies worldwide, and won the 2005 Grammy Award for “Best Rock Album”.
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#1 by wxp - June 19th, 2009 at 03:06
Link brings up archive with one song only!