EARLY

The leap to success: Dookie and Insomniac (1992 - 1996)
Billie Joe Armstrong in the Tour of American Idiot

• Having sold 55,000 copies of Kerplunk, the group signed with Reprise Records (a subsidiary of Warner Bros) in April 1993, leaving Lookout! amicably. The year 1994 was an eventful year for Green Day in particular and punk in general. Their album Dookie has sold 14,000,000 copies convirtiédose one of the most successful alternative rock albums of the decade (only surpassed by Nirvana's Nevermind sold 15,000,000), being Lollapallooza openers, and the festival's most acclaimed Woodstock 1994, which led to a chaotic war of mud and the band had to flee by helicopter. They played to a benefit concert at Madison Square Garden where Billie Joe played the last song, "She", naked but covering her with his guitar. Also won a Grammy for best alternative interpretation by Dookie.

The three singles from the album ( "Longview," "Basket Case" and "When I Come Around") were overwhelmingly popular. His tour was a success. Within all this as a curiosity, Billie Joe and Tré married, and Mike got engaged. The latter two were divorced after. In 1995, another Green Day song hit number one, "JAR", which deals with the death of a friend of Mike.

The group's fourth album, Insomniac, was recorded in six weeks between July and August 1995 and was released in October of that year. This album was much less commercial than its predecessor, with less catchy songs, and, according to critics, it mimics the way that Kurt Cobain got rid of their fans false with 'In Utero'. Insomniac, though undoubtedly a great album, failed to match the success of Dookie, sold 5,000,000 copies in the U.S. and elsewhere. Insomniac's first single was "Geek Stink Breath", a topic that describes the effects caused by addiction to methamphetamine (known as "speed"). The b-side brought the songs "I Want To Be On TV" and "Do not Want To Fall In Love". Both issues are a joke, the last of them written by Tré. The second single, which reached number one, was "Brain Stew / Jaded", which deals with sleep problems caused in Billie Joe the birth of his son Joey. The B-side of this were "Do Da Da" and the original version of "Good Riddance", which brings no string section. The third and fourth singles were "Stuck With Me" and "Walking Contradiction". The first b-side brought two songs live. For the second not made a B-side

• Post American Idiot (2006 - 2008)

In 2006, the band has released some singles with destiny beneficial, as the song a duet with U2, The Saints are Coming to collect funds for victims of Hurricane Katrina

In 2007, the band released a new single, a cover of the John Lennon song "Working Class Hero" to support victims of civil war in Darfur, also made a cameo in The Simpsons Movie, where also interpret the theme of the film, which later die in the middle of the concert. In a following scene, in tribute to their persons, touch the funereal version of "American Idiot".

In December 2007 he appeared on MySpace a garage band rock under the name of The Foxboro Hot Tubs, there was no information about its members, but the singer had a voice similar to Billie and belonged to Reprise Records, the Like Green Day. In spring 2008, Billie confirmed that they were the mysterious band and they would release an album under that identity, the album was released in May, titled Stop, Drop and Roll! and made a small tour of his country.

• 21st Century Breakdown (2009 - present)

After work began in 2006, at the Grammy gala in 2009, Billie Joe announced the title of the next job in the band, 21st Century Breakdown and April's release of first single "Know Your Enemy", as Billie Joe "This album has a more punk rock style and political content." The band has begun the 21st Century Breakdown World Tour, world tour that runs until 2010, later appeared a new single, "21 Guns". The following are Green Day singles East Jesus Nowhere for the U.S. and the UK, and 21st Century Breakdown for the rest of the world. The song "East Jesus Nowhere" and has a live video, which was published in the official page of the group, and the song "21st Century Breakdown" and was published on mtv websites.

Wake Me Up When September Ends and letter

• letter of Wake Me Up When September End

Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
wake me up when september ends

like my fathers come to pass
seven years has gone so fast
wake me up when september ends

here comes the rain again
falling from the stars
drenched in my pain again
becoming who we are

as my memory rests
but never forgets what I lost
wake me up when september ends

summer has come and passed
the innocent can never last
wake me up when september ends

ring out the bells again
like we did when spring began
wake me up when september ends

here comes the rain again
falling from the stars
drenched in my pain again
becoming who we are

as my memory rests
but never forgets what I lost
wake me up when september ends

Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
wake me up when september ends

like my father's come to pass
twenty years has gone so fast
wake me up when september ends
wake me up when september ends
wake me up when september ends

American Idiot and letter

• letter of American Idiot

Don't wanna be an American idiot.
Don't want a nation that under the new media.
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mindfuck America.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
Convincing them to walk you.

Well maybe I'm the fuckhead America.
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda.
Now everybody do the propaganda.
And sing along in the age of paranoia.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
Convincing them to walk you.

Don't wanna be an American idiot.
Don't want a nation controlled by the media.
Information nation of hysteria.
It's going out to idiot America.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
Convincing them to walk you.

Holiday and letter

• letter of holidey

Hear the sound of the falling rain"
Coming down like an Armageddon flame (Hey!)
The shame
The ones who die without a name

"Hear the dogs howlin' out of key"
To a hymn called "Faith and Misery" (Hey!)
And bleed, the company lost the war today

I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives
On holiday

Hear the drum pounding out of time
Another protestor has crossed the line (Hey!)
To find, the money's on the other side

Can I get another Amen? (Amen!)
There's a flag wrapped around the score of men (Hey!)
A gag, A plastic bag on a monument

I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives
On holiday

"The representative from California has the floor"

Seek out to the president gas-bag
Bombs away is (your punishment)
Pulverize the Eiffel towers
Who criticized (your government)
Bang bang goes the broken glass man
Kill all the fags that (don't agree)
Trials by fire, setting fire
Is not a way that's meant for me
Just cause
Just cause
Because we're all Okay!

I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives
I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives

This is our lives on holiday...

SONGS BASKET CASE

• letter of BASKET CASE

Do you have the time,
to listen to me whine about nothing and everything all at once,
i am one of those,
melaudramatic fools neurotic to the bone no doubt about it,
Chorus:
sometimes i give myself the creeps sometimes my mind plays tricks on me,
it all keeps adding up i think i'm cracking up,
am i just paranoid,
i'm just stoned.
I went to a shrink to analyze my dreams,
she says it's lack of sex that's bringing me down,
i went to a whore he said my life's a bore,
just quit my whining cause it's bringing her down,
Chorus
Grasping to control,
so i better hold on.
Chorus

MEMBERS

MEMBERS

• Billie Joe Armstrong
  

Billie Joe Armstrong (17 February 1972, Berkeley, California) is the main songwriter, vocalist
and guitarist of the punk rock band Green Day. In his albums also plays the piano, saxophone, drums, harmonica and mandolin.
In 1988, Billie Joe formed a band called Sweet Children with his friend Mike Dirnt and a classmate, Al Sobrante. They changed the name to Green Day in March 1989, just before taking the first EP, 1,000 Hours, on Lookout Records.

He and Adrienne are co-founders of Adeline Records, an independent label where he recorded many bands Bay Area of San Francisco. Have alternative projects on his other band Pinhead Gunpowder which is under the label Lookout! Records and the band Foxboro Hot Tubs also involving Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool, bassist and drummer for Green Day

He has played with bands such as U2, The Influents, Corrupted Morals, Rancid, the Lookouts, blink-182, Goodbye Harry, and Blatz.

• FRANK EDWIN WRIGHT

FRANK EDWIN WRIGHT III (born 9 December 1972 in Frankfurt, Germany), better known under the name Tre Cool is the drummer for the punk rock band Green Day. He replaced original drumme Al Sobrante, who quit the band. He also played guitar and accordion.
ROLE IN GREEN DAY
Tre, like Mike Dirnt has a minor role in the lyrics. He has authored a few letters of the records released by the band as Dominated Love Slave (on Kerplunk), All By Myself, hidden track on the album Dookie, after "FOD," or "Rock and Roll Girlfriend", Part IV of "Homecoming", a song by the band's album "American Idiot", dedicated to Torry Castilian, his then girlfriend.

He has written lyrics for songs that are not part of any album, and are considered "oddities" such as "Food Around the Corner", "Like a rat does cheese", "Boys in the bathroom stall" and "Billie Joe's Mom" Tre not only can play the drums. also play the guitar (in the live performances of his songs he is responsible for this and Billie Joe Armstrong passed on drums and accordion
.

• MICHAEL RYAN PRITCHARD

Michael Ryan Pritchard (born on 4 May 1972), Berkeley, California, is the bassist of the punk rock band Green Day.

Billie to Billie Joe Armstrong in 1982, a couple of months before the father died. He first founded Sweet Children with Billie, and then Green Day in 1989. The first conversation between Billie and Mike tried about music. A Mike Dirnt they put their pen at school, when it was as if play bass. It was the sound of the bass and sounded something like "Dirnt, Dirnt, Dirnt" so that children will put Mike Dirnt, who is his stage name today.

Mike Gibson played above low G-3, but for Nimrod, Billie Joe bought a Fender Precision Bass Precision Bass. Fender Mike asked if he could make a custom low P-bass and the result is the model 55 'P-bass 2004.

It was Screeching Weasel bassist on the album How to Make Enemies and Irritate People, and was vocalist on the debut of Squirtgun (also from Lookout).

SOURCES

Beginnings (1990 - 1992)

Tre Cool in 2004

The origins of the band date back to 1988] when Billie Joe and Mike, two boys of fifteen years of Rodeo met and became friends. Both shared a special fondness for the current punk groups at Berkeley that developed at that time (Mr. T Experience, Operation Ivy, Crimpshrine) and other punk groups of the late 80s as Husker Du and Social Distortion.

Influenced by such groups, decided to form their own pop punk band, originally called Sweet Children, with John Kiffmeyer (aka Al Sobrante, who had previously played in the band neighboring Isocracy) on drums in 1989. The group debuted at Rod's Hickory Pit restaurant (where he worked Billie Joe's mother) to about 30 friends. Later the group settled permanently in Berkeley, one of the epicenters of the current California punk .

In the same year they recorded their first EP with Skene! Records simply called Sweet Children. It contained three original songs: "Sweet Children", "Best Thing In Town" and "Strangeland" (where is, with its catchy chorus, which comes closest to cultivate the group style that later). The fourth song on the EP was a cover of the famous "My Generation" by The Who. In that year they recorded under the name Green Day 1,000 Hours EP, which was well received in the punk and hardcore scene in California.

In 1990, the band officially changed its name to Green Day (the name of a song written when they were still Sweet Children), and after a demonstration in the rain to Lawrence Livermore, they signed to their label, Lookout! Records. The Green Day's first album, 1,039 / Smoothed Out Slappy Hours was released that same year, collecting previous work (1,000 hours, 39 Smooth and Slappy). Shortly after its launch, Al Sobrante longer the battery to resume their studies at university. [7] was then recruited Tré Cool, a resident of the founder of Lookout! Larry Livermore and battery Lookouts, who remains the band's drummer until now. Armstrong and Dirnt and Cool knew of several concerts and was even Sweet Children. The day after graduation from high school John Swett (where Mike graduated, and Billie Joe was sent the day after turning 18) began a tour of the mobile library Tré's father to places like Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York and Canada.

The band's second album Kerplunk was launched on 17 January 1992 by Lookout!, His latest album with the band. The CD version included four tracks from the Sweet Children EP. This album is even softer and more accessible than before, with songs paused as "Christie Road" and "No One Knows". With Kerplunk group fame transcended the borders of California, making them very popular throughout the country. The album sold 500,000 copies, a figure very good for a punk group in an independent firm. and to make extra money on the band and that which is indispensable

HISTORY

Green Day

is an American rock band that formed in 1987. The members of the band are Billie Joe Armstrong (vocals, guitar), Mike Dirnt (bass guitar, vocals), and Tré Cool (drums, percussion, Jason White (guitar/vocals) and Jason Freese (keyboard). The band sees itself as a trio, John White and Jason Freese only participate in concert tours.

At first, Green Day was part of the punk rock scene at 924 Gilman Street in Berkeley, California. Its record label debut Dookie (1994) became a success. Soon, it sold more than ten million copies in the United States alone, and 15 million copies worldwide.

The album was well reviewed and the band were praised for it's music and sales. Green day had three more albums after that, Insomniac, Nimrod and Warning. They were still successful albums, reaching double platinum, double platinum, and gold status respectively. However none of these albums sold as well as their first, Dookie. Green Day's 2004 rock opera American Idiot sold five million copies in the United States.

Green Day has sold over 65 million records worldwide, 22 million of them in the United States alone. They also have won three Grammy Awards, Best Alternative Album for Dookie, Best Rock Album for American Idiot, and Record of the Year for the song "Boulevard of Broken Dreams".