GREEN DAY

#01 American Idiot
#02 Jesus Of Suburbia
#03 Holiday
#04 Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
#05 Are We The Waiting
#06 St. Jimmy
#07 Give Me Novacaine
#08 She's A Rebel
#09 Extraordinary Girl
#10 Letterbomb
#11 Wake Me Up When September Ends
#12 Homecoming
#13 Whatsername

#01 Suffocate
#02 Desensitized
#03 Outsider
#04 Don't Wanna Fall In Love
#05 Scumbag
#06 I Want To Be On TV
#07 Tired Of Waiting
#08 Sick Of Me
#09 Rotting
#10 Do Da Da
#11 On The Wagon
#12 Ha Ha You're Dea

#01 Warning
#02 Blood, Sex And Booze
#03 Church On Sunday
#04 Fashion Victim
#05 Castaway
#06 Misery
#07 Deatbeat Holiday
#08 Hold On
#09 Jackass
#10 Waiting
#11 Minority
#12 Macy's Day Parade

#01 Nice Guys Finish Last
#02 Hitchin' A Ride
#03 The Grouch
#04 Redundant
#05 Scattered
#06 All The Time
#07 Worry Rock
#08 Platypus (I Hate You)
#09 Uptight
#10 Jinx
#11 Haushinka
#12 Walking Alone
#13 Reject
#14 Take Back
#15 King For A Day
#16 Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)
#17 Prosthetic Head

#01 Armatage Shanks
#02 Brat
#03 Stuck With Me
#04 Geek Stink Breath
#05 No Pride
#06 Bab's Uvula Who?
#07 86
#08 Panic Song
#09 Stuart And The Ave
#10 Brain Stew
#11 Jaded
#12 Westbound Sign
#13 Tight Wadd Hill
#14 Walking Contradiction

#01 Burnout
#02 Having A Blast
#03 Chump
#04 Longview
#05 Welcome To Paradise
#06 Pulling Teeth
#07 Basket Case
#08 She
#09 Sassafras Roots
#10 When I Come Around
#11 Coming Clean
#12 Emenius Sleepus
#13 In The End
#14 F.O.D.
#15 All By Myself

# 01 2000 Light Years Away
# 02 One For The Razorbacks
# 03 Welcome To Paradise
# 04 Christie Road
# 05 Private Ale
# 06 Dominated Love Slave
# 07 One Of My Lies
# 08 80
# 09 Android
# 10 No One Knows
# 11 Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?
# 12 Words I Might Have Ate
# 13 Sweet Children
# 14 Best Thing In Town
# 15 Strangeland
# 16 My Generation

#1 At The Library
#2 Don't Leave Me
#3 I Was There
#4 Disappearing Boy
#5 Green Day
#6 Going To Pasalacqua
#7 16
#8 Road To Acceptance
#9 Rest
#10 The Judge's Daughter
#11 Paper Lanterns
#12 Why Do You Want Him?
#13 409 In Your Coffeemaker
#14 Knowledge
#15 1,000 Hours
#16 Dry Ice
#17 Only Of You
#18 The One I Want
#19 I Want To Be Alone

Green Day je dio Kalifornijske punk scene. Billie Joe Armstrong (gitara i vokali) i Mike Dirnt (bas gitara) koji su prijatelji od malih nogu osnovali su svoj prvi band, Sweet Children u Rodeu-Kalifornija, kad im je bilo 14 hodina. Do 1989 bendu se pridružio i bubnjar Al Sobrante i promijenili su ime u Green Day. Te godine bend je neovisno pustio u prodaju svoj prvi EP, 1.000 Hours, koji je bio jako dobro prihvaćen od punk scene. Ubrzo, bend je poptisao ugovor sa lokalnom nezavisnom kućom Lookout! Records. 39/Smooth, bio je prvi album Green Day-a i pušten je u prodaju iste godine. Ubrzo nakon puštanja u prodaju bend je zamijenio Kiftmeyer-a sa Tree Cool-om. Tre Cool je postao stalan bubnjar benda.
Kroz rane devedesete, Green Day je nastavio svoj uspon ka kultnom bendu, a njihov drugi album Kerplunk (1992) im je samo pomogao u tome. Uspjeh Kerplunka doveo je do interesa velikih izdavačkih kuća, i bend se s vremenom odlučio na sklapanje ugovora s Reprise. Dookie je bio pušten u prodaju u proljeće 1994. Zahvaljujući MTV-evoj potpori za singl Lognwiev, Dookie je postao veliki hit. Album je nastavio s uspjehom i kroz ljeto sa idućim singlom Bascet Case koji se nalazio 5 tjedana na vrhu Američke ljestvice modernog rock-a. Na kraju ljeta bend se pojavio na Woodstock-u 94' što im je pomoglo da prodaja Dokkie-a još poraste. S vremenom četrvrti singl «When i come around» je započeo svoj sedmotjedni ostanak na vrhu moderne ljestvice. Početkom 1995, Dookie je prodao preko 5 milijuna kopija samo u USA, da bi na kraju prodao 8 milijuna u Americi i preko 11 milijuna kopija u svijetu. Dookie je također, 1994, osvojio Gramy za najbolji performance alternativne glazbe.

Nakon Dookie ubrzo je došao Insomnica u jesen 1995, kroz ljeto opet su se popeli na vrh moderne rock ljestvice sa «J.A.R» i svojom suradnjoj za Agnus soundtrack. Insominac se pokazao dobrim i dostigao je 2. mjesto US charts i prodao preko 2 milijuna kopija do proljeća 1996, ali ni jedan singl uključujući i favorit radia «Brain Stew/Jaded» --koji je bio popularan poput onih sa Dookie-a. U prljeće 1996, Green Day otkazao je europsku turneju, tvrdeći da su izmoreni. Posljedica tog otkazanja bio je odmor benda i pisanje novog materijala. Rezultat je, svi kažu najbolji album, Nimrod.

Nimrod je bio dobro primljen i od kritike i od fanova. Album je prodao 80 000 kopija u prvom tjednu i dospio na #10 Billboard liste. Prvi singl sa Nimrod-a bio je «Hitchin' A Ride». Taj singl dospio je na #5 na modernim rock listama. Slijedeći singl koji je band izdao nije dospio do broja jedan (njegov najvisi rang bio je #2) ali je najvjerojatnije najpoznatija pjesma Green Day-a ikad napisana – «Time of your life» postala je pjesma koja se svirala u relativno tužnim situacijama. Ta je pjesma čak korištena u zadnjoj epizodi hit TV serije Seinfeld (koja je bila najgledaniji finale u povijesti TV-a) Zajedno sa Seinfeldom pjesma je svirama i na E.R. (Hitna Služba) i na još dvije serije. Nimrod je prodan u otprilike 2milijuna kopija, najniža stopa prodaje sveukupno od 3 velika albuma, ali je isto tako dao bendu poštovanje koje im nebi dali još jedan Dookie ili Insomniac. Bend je također popravio svoje nastupe uživo i čak imao jednu «Best Live Performance» na Kerrang awards.

Nakon gotovo dvije godine u kojima se bend gotovo i ne spominje, Green Day se vratio krajem 1999 da bi odsvirao na Neil Youg-ovu «Bridge School Benefit Concert», njihovom prvom akustičnom nastupu uživo. Green Day počeo je sa snimanjem nasljednika «Nimrod» i uslijedio je «Warning». Na početku snimanja bend je odlučio otpustiti producenta Scoot Litt-a, i album su producirali sami, označavajući prvi put nakon «Kerplunk» da je itko osim Rob Cavallo-a producirao bandove snimke. Nakon što su završili sa snimanjem, Green Day je odlučio napraviti nešto drugo, što nisu napravili prije roka 2000 Vans Warped Tour. Green Day svira nevjerojatan set i dovodi više obožavatelja na turneju nego bilo koje prethodne godine Warped. (njihov nastup u Torontu je privukao 7000 obožavatelja više nego bilo koje godine)

«Warning» je pušten u prodaju u jesen 2000 i bio je jedan od najambicioznijih albuma Green Day-a do sad. Prvi singl «Minority» i naslov albuma bili su pokazatelji da bi se album mogao pokazati i vise nego uspješnim. Nakon samo 4 tjedna što je «Minority» pušten u prodaju zasjeo je na prvo mjesto Billboard's Modern Rock ljestvice, ni jedan hit Green Day-a nije to uspio u tako kratkom roku.

Green Day was part of the California punk scene. Childhood friends Billie Joe Armstrong (guitar, vocals) and Mike Dirnt (bass; born Mike Pritchard) formed their first band, Sweet Children, in Rodeo, California when they were 14 years old. By 1989, the group had added drummer Al Sobrante and changed their name to Green Day. That year, the band independently released their first EP, 1,000 Hours, which was well-received in the punk scene. Soon, the group had signed a contract with the local independent label, Lookout! Records. 39/Smooth, Green Day's first album, was released later that year. Shortly after its release, the band replaced Kiftmeyer with Tre Cool (born Frank Edwin Wright, III); Tre Cool became the band's permanent drummer.
Throughout the early '90s, Green Day continued to cultivate a cult following, which only gained strength with the release of their second album, 1992's Kerplunk. The underground success of Kerplunk led to a wave of interest from major record labels; the band eventually decided to sign with Reprise. Dookie, Green Day's major label debut, was released in the spring of 1994. Thanks to MTV support for the initial single "Longview," Dookie became a major hit. The album continued to gain momentum throughout the summer, with the second single "Basket Case" spending five weeks on the top of the American modern rock charts. At the end of the summer, the band stole the show at Woodstock '94, which helped the sales of Dookie increase. By the time the fourth single "When I Come Around" began its seven-week stay at number one in the modern rock charts in early 1995, Dookie had sold over five million copies in the US alone; it would eventually top eight million in America, selling over eleven million copies internationally. Dookie also won the 1994 Grammy for Best Alternative Music Performance.

Green Day quickly followed Dookie with Insomniac in the fall of 1995; during the summer, they hit number one again on the modern rock charts with "J.A.R.," their contribution to the Angus soundtrack. Insomniac performed well initially, entering the US charts at number two, and selling over two million copies by the spring of 1996, yet none of its singles -- including the radio favorite "Brain Stew/Jaded" -- were as popular as those from Dookie. In the spring of 1996, Green Day abruptly cancelled a European tour, claiming exhaustion. Following the cancellation, the band spent the rest of the year resting and writing new material. The end result is what is called by many, the best album of their career, Nimrod.

Nimrod was well recieved by most critics and fans. The album sold 80,000 copies in it's first week to land at #10 on the Billboard charts. The first single from Nimrod was "Hitchin' A Ride". The single made it to #5 on the modern rock charts and was in heavy rotation on MuchMusic and MTV. The next single the band released would not make it to number one (it's highest position was #2), but it is now probably the most well known songs Green Day ever wrote. Featuring Billie Joe on accoustic guitar and vocals, "Time Of Your Life" became the song to play in any remotely sad situation. The song was even used on the last ever episode of the hit TV show Seinfeld (it was also the most watched finale in the history of TV). Along with Seinfeld, the song was also played on E.R on two different shows. Nimrod has sold about two million copies, the lowest sales total out of their three major label albums, but it probably garnered the band more respect than they could have expected with another Dookie or Insomniac. The band also vastly improved their live show and even one "Best Live Performance" at the Kerrang awards.

After nearly two years with barely any mention of the band, Green Day returned in late 1999 to play Neil Young's "Bridge School Benefit Concert", their first live accoustic performance. Green Day began recording their follow-up to "Nimrod" shortly after, which would eventually become "Warning:". Early in the recording process, the band decided to fire their new producer, Scott Litt, and produce the album themselves, marking the first time since "Kerplunk" that anyone but Rob Cavallo produced the bands recording. After they finished recording, Green Day decided to do something else they hadn't done before headline the 2000 Vans Warped Tour. Green Day played an amazing set and brought more fans to the tour than any other year in Warped's history (their Toronto performance alone attracted 7,000 more fans than they had any other year).

"Warning:" was released in the fall of 2000, and is by far Green Day's most ambitious album to date. If its first singles, "Minority" and the album's title track, are any indication, the album could prove to be extremely successful. Just four weeks after the release of "Minority", it sat atop Billboard's Modern Rock chart; no other Green Day song has hit the top that fast. Green Day are currently on tour supporting their latest album, boasting a monster setlist containing songs from all six albums.

Puno ime: Frank Edwin Wright III
Svira: bubnjeve, udaraljke
Rođen: 9. prosinca, 1972.
Obitelj: Žena Claudia (oženjeni u svibnju 2000) kćer Ramona (rođena 1995,iz braka sa prvom ženom Liseom)
Također svira: harmoniku i gitaru
Svirao je i sa: The lookouts, Samiam

Tre je odrastao u Willits, Kalifornija sa ocem i dvoje rođaka. Njegov otac je sagradio mnoge kuće na tom području uključujući i onu od Lawrance Livermore, njihovog najbližeg susjeda i osnivaća Lookout! Records. Kad mu je bilo 12 pridružio se Livermore-ovom bendu, the Lookouts. Ubrzo nakon toga Al Sobrante je napustio Green day, Tre je uskočio umijesto njega. Tre i njegova žena Claudia očekuju svoje prvo dijete.

Full Name : Frank Edwin Wright III
Plays : Drums, Percussion
Born : December 9, 1972
Family : wife, Claudia (married May 2000); daughter, Ramona (born 1995 to ex-wife, Lisea)
Also Plays : Accordion, Guitar
Has Also Played With : The Lookouts, Samiam

Tré grew up in Willits, California, with his father and two siblings. His dad built many of the houses in that area, including that of Lawrance Livermore, their nearest neighbor and the founder of Lookout! Records. At age twelve, he joined Livermore's band, the Lookouts. Shortly after Al Sobrante left Green Day, Tré hopped aboard. Tré and his wife, Claudia, are expecting their first child.

Tré has his own signature Slingerland drumkit, the "Spitfire". It consists of a 18x22 Slingerland Bass drum, a 5 1/2x14 Slingerland Radio King Snare, a 6 1/2x14 Chrome snare, an 11x14 Slingerland mounted tom, and a 16x16 Slingerland floor tom. Though the Spitfire comes with Slingerland cymbals, Tré still uses a 19" Zildjian K Dark Thin Crash on the left, a 20" Zildjian A Medium Ride on the right, a 22" Zildjian K Heavy Ride on the bottom right, a 14" Zildjian K Medium Top, 14" K Medium Heavy Bottom Hi-Hats, and Zildjian Super 5B drumsticks. He also uses Remo Power Stroke 3 on his snare and bass drums, Remo Coated emperors on the tops of his toms, clear ambassadors on the bottoms, and Remo Falam Slam Pad on the bass drum.

Teško djetinjstvo
Mike Dirnt (pravim imenom Michael Ryan Pritchard) rodio se 4. svibnja 1972. Majka mu je bila ovisnica o heroinu. Kad je Dirnt imao 7 njegovi staratelji su se rastali i Dirnt je skakukao između njih dvoje dok se konačno nije smjestio sa ženom koja ga je posvojila i starijom sestrom. Ali čak i to je kratko trajalo i ubrzo zatim Dirnt je počeo raditi kao konobar u Rod's Hickery Pit gdje je radila i majka od Billie Joe-a. Uipoznali su se u školskoj kantini kad im je bilo 10. Mike je odlazio kod Billie Joe-a svirati gitaru. Mike and Billie (tim snova) napravi su puno covers zajedno i Mike se odlučio prebaciti na bass gitaru. Dirnt je unajmio sobu nasuprot kuće Bille Joe-a. 1986 Mike i Billie Joe osnovali su svoj prvi band koji se zvao Sweet Children koji je 1989 promijenio ime u Green Day. S vremenom Billie Joe i Mike su se odselili i živjeli u punk rock komuni koja se zvala Seventh Street (neki izvori kažu da je pjesma Welcome to Paradise posvećena upravo tom mjestu)

Obitelj
Mike se oženio svojom djevojkom Anastasiom u kolovozu 1996, sada imaju kćer koja se zove Estelle-Desiree koja se rodila u travnju 1997. Biti u Green Day bendu bio je prevelik pritisak za Mike-a i Anastasiu pa su se rastali. Na nesreću nisu se uspjeli pomiriti, ali su još uvijek dobri prijatelji i Mike posjećuje svoju kćer koliko može.

Također je svirao sa The Frustrator, Screeching Weasel, Squirthun, ali Green Day ga je najvise trebao..

Difficult Childhood
Mike Dirnt (actually, Micheal Ryan Pritchard) was born in California on May 4th, 1972., to a heroin-addicted mother. When Dirnt was seven, his adoptive parents divorced, and Dirnt bounced between the two until finally settling in with his adoptive mom and older sister. That, too, was short lived, and soon Dirnt struck out on his own, working, among a handful of jobs, at Rod's Hickery Pit where Billie Joe's mom was a waitress. He had a difficult childhood but let's say it this way, Billie Joe brightened up his life. They met each other in the school canteen at the age of 10 and Mike got used to go to Billie Joe's house to play guitar. Mike and Billie Joe (dream team =) did a load of covers together and Mike decided to switch to bass. Dirnt rented a room on the side of Billie Joe's house at one point. In 1986, Mike and Billie Joe founded their first band called Sweet Children which, in 1989, changed its name to Green Day. Eventually Billie Joe and Mike moved out and lived in a punk rock commune called Seventh Street (some sources say that they dedicated a song called Welcome To Paradise to that place).


Family
Mike married his girlfriend Anastasia in August of 1996, they now have a daughter named Estelle-Desiree born in April 1997. The pressures of being in Green Day have become to much for Mike and Anastasia' marriage to withstand and they got divorced. Unfortunatelly, they couldn't patch the things up but they are still goood friends and Mike visits their daughter as much as he can..

He also played for The Frustrator, Screeching Weasel, Squirtgun but Green Day needed him the most so..


Guitars
All of Green Day freaks would be batty at me for not mentioning Mike's bass. The Mike Dirnt Precision Bass® has been designed to Mike's unique specifications and comes in three colours: Two Colour Sunburst, Black an Vintage White so if you tend to buy one.. way to go!
He also uses the Fender '62 Vintage Precision Bass® , Fender '66 and '69 American Standard Precision Basse and a Gibson G-3 Bass. So long..!

Puno ime: Billie Joe Armstrong
Svira: Gitaru + vokali
Rođen – 17.2.1972.
Obitelj: žena, Adrienne ( Nesser, udata u Srpnju 1994); sin, Joseph Marciano (rođen u travnju 1995); sin, Jacob Danger (rođen u studenom 1998)
Također svira: harmoniku, mandolinu, bubnjeve, klavir
Također je svirao sa: Pinhead Gunpowder, Blatz, Rancid, The Lookouts, Goodbye Harry, Corrupted Morals

Billy Joe je najmlađe od šestoro djece u obitelji radničke klase iz Rodea u Kaliforniji. Njegov otac je bio vozač kamiona, koji se u slobodno vrijeme bavio Jazz-om, a umro je od raka kada je Billie Joe-u bilo deset. Njegova majka bila je konobarica i ljubiteljica country glazbe. Kao djete Billie bi pjevao pacijentima u bolnici da bi ih razveselio. Također je snimio pjesmu imenom «Look For Love» za lokalni studio Fiat Records kad mu je bilo 5 godina. Prvi album koji je Billie Joe kupio bio Elvis Presley – The Sun Sessions. Ubrzo nakon što ga je nekoliko priljatelja «navuklo» na punk bendove poput DOA, TSOL i Dead Kennedys, Bille Joe je kupio svoju prvu gitaru, plavu Startocaster-icu na kojok svira i dan danas. Napisao je i svoju prvu pjesmu «Why Do You Want Him» kad mu je bilo 14. Billie Joe je suosnivač i djelomični vlasnik nezavisne kuće Adeline Records.


(ispričavam se na lošem i djelomičnom prijevodu)

Full Name : Billie Joe Armstrong
Plays : Vocals, Guitar
Born : February 17, 1972
Family : wife, Adrienne ( Nesser, married July 1994); son, Joseph Marciano (born March 1995); son, Jacob Danger (born September 1998)
Also Plays : Harmonica, Mandolin, Drums, Piano
Has Also Played With : Pinhead Gunpowder, Blatz, Rancid, the Lookouts, Goodbye Harry, Corrupted Morals

Billie Joe was the youngest of six kids in a working-class family in Rodeo, California. His father was a truck driver and part time jazz musician who died of cancer when Billie Joe was ten, his mother a waitress and diehard country music fan. As a child, Billie would sing at hospitals to cheer patients up. He also recorded a song called "Look For Love" for the locally based Fiat Records when he was five. The first album Billie Joe bought was Elvis Presley's The Sun Sessions. Soon after a couple friends got him hooked on punk bands like DOA, TSOL, and the Dead Kennedys. At age eleven, Billie got his first guitar, a blue Stratocaster that he plays to this day. He wrote his first song, "Why Do You Want Him", when he was 14. Billie Joe is the co-founder and partial owner of the independant label Adeline Records.

Billie Joe's favorite and most famous guitar is a Fernandes Stratocaster copy he called "Blue". It has two single-coil pick-ups and a Seymour Duncan "Jeff Beck" humbucker pick-up in the bridge position, but he only plays through the humbucker pickup. He has since had a copy of "Blue" made by Fender. It is exactly the same as the original one, but with different stickers on it. He also has a Fender Jazzmaster, a sonic blue Fender Jagstang, a Gibson Classic Series ES-135 and ES-335, an SG, a Rickenbacker, and a Guild sunburst acoustic. Billie Joe mainly uses a clone of his original 1959 Marshall 100W SLP modified amplifier, with 1960 4x12" Marshall Cabinets. He has also used Fender Bassman, Hiwatt, and Leslie amps. Billie mainly uses green, custom made Dunlop Tortex Standard .88mm picks, Ernie Ball .10 strings, and GHS Boomers.