Mike Dirnt

Mike Dirnt
File:Dirnt.jpg Mike Dirnt, bassist for punk rock/pop punk/rock band Green Day
Background information
Origin	Rodeo, California
Years active	1986 to Present Day (With Green Day)

Mike Dirnt (born Michael Ryan Pritchard on May 4th, 1972, in Rodeo, California) is the bassist for the band Green Day. While at school, he would pretend to play the bass when unable to practice, making a noise of someone playing single notes (dirnt, dirnt, dirnt), resulting in the onomatopoeia that he later adopted as his stage name, Mike Dirnt.

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Trivia

• He wrote the bassline for Longview while he was high and forgot it the next day.
• Mike took the picture of himself in the nimrod. booklet.
• Mike was born with a heart problem and sometimes has panic attacks.
• According to the band, Mike is a good cook.
• Mike is the only member of Green Day to Graduate from High School, Tré and Billie both dropped out (Tré, however, later passed an equivalency test and earned his GED).
• Pulling Teeth is a song about Mike Dirnt's and his wife before they got married, getting into a pillow fight and Mike ran around a corner, hit a lower ceil beam and fell back breaking both his elbows.He had 6 stitches on his head.
• Mike has written quite a few of Green Day's songs, including J.A.R., Governator, Panic Song, Ha Ha You're Dead and Nobody Likes You from the medley Homecoming, which appeared in their 2004 album American Idiot.
• In the Canadian cartoon 6teen there is a character named "Mike Dent" which may be a pun on his name.
• Mike loves coffee.

See also

• Green Day
• Green Day's Homepage
• Green Day Online
• Green Day's most dedicated global fansite
• GeekStinkBreath.Net - popular fansite

References

• Fender Australia: Mike Dirnt Precision Bass
• Metal Hammer Green Day Collectors Issue