Mike Dirnt
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Michael Ryan Pritchard (born May 4, 1972) is the bassist for the pop punk band Green Day.
He met Billie Joe Armstrong in 1982 a few months before Billie's father's died. Mike founded first The Sweet Children with Billie, and then Green Day in 1988. Green Day put out 1,000 Hours their first EP and Slappy was 1990 as their second EP. Green Day recently released American Idiot in 2004, which has been #1 on the charts.
Mike used to play an old Gibson G-3 bass, but during Nimrod Billie got Mike his first Fender Precision bass. Mike recently asked Fender if they could make him a custom P-bass and the result is a bass modeled after the 55' P-bass with a split-coil pickup in the middle. It was released in early 2004.
Mike is also a bassist in another band called The Frustrators. They only play when they all can get together (which is rare).
Marriages and children
Mike married his girlfriend Anastasia in 1996 and had a daughter named Estelle-Desiree (b. April 1997). They divorced in 1999.
External links
- Mike Dirnt Info at GeekStinkBreath.net (http://www.geekstinkbreath.net/greenday/info/mikedirnt/)
Sources
- Fender Australia: Mike Dirnt Precision Bass
- greendayauthority.com
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