Green Grin Act Biography

Jason White Gitar. Green Day was originally part of a punk-rock environment formed around the Gilman Street punk club Berkeley. Their first albums recorded on the independent company Lookout! Records, allowed the group to earn many fans. As a result, the group, together with other California punk, The Offspring, Rancid raised a wave of great interest in punk music not only in the USA, but all over the world.

Green Day is part of the California punk rock scene. In the year, the drummer al sobrante, the real name John Alan Kiffmeyer, was invited to the group, and they changed the name to Green Day in honor of one of their songs. In the same year, the group independently releases its first EP-1, Hours, which was well accepted in punk rock circles. Later, the group signs a contract with the independent local Lobel Lookout!

He becomes a permanent participant in the group. In the year, Green Day releases their second Kerplunk album. The success of Kerplunk attracted the attention of large labels and, as a result, the group signed a contract with Reprise. The debut on this label was the Dookie album released in the spring of the year. Green Day continue to advance to the masses of the same year with the song “Basket Case”, which was at the top of American hit parades for five weeks.

After that, the dookie sales increase. Later, the single "When I Come Around" conquers American hit parades. By the year, more than 5 million copies of the Dookie album were sold in the United States, and about 11 million in the world in total. Dookie won the Grammy Award for the best performance in alternative music. In the year, the album of Insomniac was released, and in the summer of the same year the song “J.

R "from the soundtrack to the film Angus conquers rock charts. In the spring of the year, Green Day suddenly cancel the European tour, and the group spends a whole year resting and preparing material for the new album. The result of this was the best, according to many, the group’s album - Nimrod. Nimrod was well accepted by critics and fans. In the first week after the release, 80 copies were sold and it was in 10th place in the Billboard chart.

The next single rose no higher than the second place, but became one of the most famous songs by Green Day - “Time of Your Life Goodans”, where Billy Joe plays the acoustic guitar and sings. Nimrod was sold by a circulation of 2 million copies and became the most poorly sold in the entire history of cooperation by Green Day with a large label. After about two years of lull, in the year Green Days return to the stage to play at the concert of Neal Jung “Bridge School Benefit Concert”, their first acoustic performance.

The group begins to record a new album - Warning. They decide to dismiss the new producer, Scott Lita, and producing the album themselves, doing this for the first time after the Kerpplunka. After recording the album, the group becomes the Vans Warped Tour Tour Hedliner and acquires many new fans. Warning was released in the fall of the year. None of the songs Green Day conquered the hit parades so fast.

In the summer of the year, a collection of songs from single and rare records of Shenanigans was released. The next album became a turning point. So, the group entered the studio to write and record material for the new album, believing that it will be called “Cigarettes and Valentines”. After the completion of 20 tracks is an impressive likening for the album to Nimrod and Warning, they were stolen from the studio.

The group, of course, in an disorder, did not want to try to refresh the stolen album and instead began with an oath, which would make even better than before. In addition, for a long time the group tried to settle some disagreements that arose after the accusations of Drint and Kula that Armstrong is the “Nazi group” and is inclined to posture in order to distract attention from other members of the group.

After the restoration of democracy in the group, creative gateways were opened so that everyone could offer something new-this was most especially manifested in the creation of two 9-minute tracks for the upcoming Green Day album. Billy Joe also stated that he was previously afraid of the “corpus channel” game of Solo on the guitar, but ultimately decided “I am going to play fooking-giving ...” and played on this album whenever it was necessary.

The album was declared as a “punk rock-Opera”, or more accurately the “album of the concept”, which follows the trip of the fictitious “Jesus suburbs” “Jesus of Suburbia”. During the album, Jesus becomes enthusiastic drugs, making them called himself “St. Jimmy” “St. Jimmy "; falls in love with a girl under the name “Whatsername”, which is literally translated as “some kind of man-and manner”; Learns to live and grows like a person.

In the penultimate song of the album "Homecomping", when it is said that Jimmy commits suicide, poems mean that Jimmy, perhaps the image of Jesus Art. Another example from the song "Letterbomb" almost proves this Art. The album could also be described as anti -war allegory against George Bush’s policy and against the invasion of Iraq. Another significant turn in the life of the group was that the members of the group rejected the instruments of their brand.

Armstrong, however, continues to use its copy of Strat at every living show.Mike Dern used his Gibson G-3 bass guitar for several albums, for example, for NIMROD, but now it plays Fender Precision Bass. Three kul has also long been associated with Slingerland, which he used in the years of Nimrod, but now began to use the Ludwig-Musser drums. American Idiot also notes changes in the image.

While in the past they dyed their hair in different colors, from red to green and pink and appeared in a variety of clothes, now they began to wear black shirts with thin ties and dye their hair in simpler colors like platinum and black. Tre and Billy Joe also began to use an eye pencil. Throughout the tour, Billy Joe wore a guitar on a belt of a guitar with a image of manual grenades in the shape of a heart.

Throughout the year, the group performed tour, promoting and advertising the album. This tour continued the theatricality of Warning and Shenanigans. The culmination of the show was the choice of three fans from the crowd to get on the stage and perform the cover version of the Operation IVY "KnowLEDGE" cover using the group's instruments. At the end of the song, a man who played instead of Armstrong could keep his guitar or an exact copy of the childhood guitar of Armstrong “Blue”, and the person who played on the drums of Tre or, in some cases, dives from the path to the crowd.

Final shows from their round -the -world trip to M were in Sydney and Melbourne Australia on December 14 and 17, respectively. At the beginning of the year, the cult Irish rock band U2 recorded a duet with the Green Day punk rockers. It is noteworthy that the last time the Irish sang a duet with Paul McCartney two years ago. The album immediately headed the national charts of more than 20 countries, and many songs of this album such as Know Your Enemy, 21 Guns became super-hits.

The sale of the album sold as of July 10 was 1. There are two main characters in the album. The main thing is Gloria, who seeks to resist his faith, tries to receive vital energy and radiate light. Her opponent is Christian, who becomes a victim of his own demons. And instead of living further, he tries to end life. The political side of the album lies in the different things that the Americans have experienced over the past 5 years, such as natural disasters or various crises.

We want to give the point of what we watch on TV or see on the Internet. In other words, what destroys us. The main message is the search for meaning in these hopeless times and universal chaos. Two single album came out - “Know Your Enemy” and “21 Guns”. They do not try to compete with anyone, but only express their own thoughts. Any song is as a whole, and each adds all new particles of meaning to the common topic.

And, I must say that the musicians have done a real work worthy of the title of world rock stars. Green Day became the only punk group that has experienced the years difficult for rock culture, picked up the fallen banner and now proudly carries it forward. Their new album is fresh and impressive. I am sure that many will be shocked. Nice shocked ... ” - Review of“ 21st Century Breakdown ”, Rolling Stone magazine.

At the annual Grammy Musical Prize 21 Century Breakdown, he won the nomination “Best Rock Album of the Year”. Although the musicians have not yet released the ninth album, information about it has already appeared on the Internet. At the end of December, the output of the Awesome as Fuck concert album was announced. The album was recorded during the European and North American tours, includes CD and DVD 17 and 16 songs, respectively.

Exit date: March 22 of the year.

Veterans of the American Pop Panku Green Day are absolutely deservedly considered the legendary group: this is one of the few teams along with The Offspring, which not only joined the next fashionable current, but created it. The group is equally good at rhythmic, incendiary songs and melodic ballads. In the year, the trio was recognized as the best punk group in the history of music based on the survey conducted by Rolling Stone.

In the year, Green Day was included in the "Hall of Glory of Rock-n Roll." The group has become one of the most popular and successful punk rock groups.