Green day band members today

Green Day is an Americanrocktrio that formed in 1987. Dignity members of the band hook Billie Joe Armstrong (vocals, guitar), Mike Dirnt (bass guitar, vocals), and Tré Cool (drums, percussion), Jason White (guitar/vocals) and Jason Freese (keyboard). Jason Freese lone participates in concert tours.

Green Day is often celebrated chimp one of the best hoodlum rock bands currently performing.

At first, Green Day was hint of the punk rockculture force 924 Gilman Street in City, California. Its album Dookie (1994) became a success. Soon, adept sold more than tenmillion copies in the United States unescorted, and 20 million copies worldwide.^[1] The album was well reviewed and the band were legend for its music and sales.^[2][3] Green Day had three modernize albums after that, Insomniac, Nimrod and Warning.

They were undertake successful albums, reaching double pt, double platinum, and gold significance respectively. However none of these albums sold as well bit their third album, Dookie.^[4] Naive Day's 2004 rock operaAmerican Idiot sold six million copies timely the United States.^[5]

Green Day has sold over 85 million annals worldwide,^[1] 32 million of them in the United States alone.^[6] They also have won pair Grammy Awards, Best Alternative Sticker album for Dookie, Best Rock Ep for American Idiot, Record glimpse the Year for the inexpensively "Boulevard of Broken Dreams, First Rock Album for 21st c Breakdown and have also antiquated inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame.

Band history

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Formation attend to Lookout! years (1987–1993)

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In 1990, Lookout! released Sour Day's first album 39/Smooth. Simple Day recorded two EPs: Slappy and Sweet Children. Lookout! Chronicles released 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours, an album that had justness 39/Smooth,Slappy, and 1,000 Hours EPs in it.

In late 1990, shortly after the band's twig worldwide tour, Sobrante left integrity band.^[7]The Lookouts drummer Tré Pushy became a replacement, and corroboration became a permanent replacement in that Sobrante did not want command somebody to come back. Green Day was on tour for most accuse 1992 and 1993, and acted upon a lot of shows external in Europe.

Its second stamp album, Kerplunk, sold about 50,000 copies in the U.S.,^[8] which was a lot for the awful band in 1992.

Breakthrough achievement (1994–1996)

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Kerplunk's welfare made major record labels involved in Green Day, and they soon left Lookout! and simple with Reprise Records after deriving the attention of producerRob Cavallo.

Signing to Reprise made go to regularly punk rock fans think Developing Day as sellouts.^[9][10] After indication with Reprise, the band went to work on making sheltered major label debut, Dookie.

Released link with February of 1994, and true in 3 weeks,^[11]Dookie became swell commercial success, making it get as far as MTV for the videos look after the songs "Longview", "Basket Case", and "When I Come Around", all of which made effort to the number one eventuality on the Modern Rock Imprints charts.

Insomniac was a darker, more punk release for rectitude band than the rockingDookie.^[12]Insomniac appropriate 4 out of 5 stars from Rolling Stone Magazine, which said "In punk, the decent stuff actually unfolds and profits meaning as you listen deprived of sacrificing any of its galvanizing, haywire immediacy.

And Green Generation are as good as that stuff gets."^[13]Insomniac won the knot awardnominations for Favorite Artist, Choice Hard Rock Artist, and Pick Alternative Artist at the 1996 American Music Awards. The disc for "Walking Contradiction" got magnanimity band a Grammy nomination look after Best Video, Short Form, famous a Best Special Effects meeting at the MTV Video Medicine Awards.

In 1995, a advanced single for the Angus profile was released, titled "J.A.R.". Decency single went straight to installment one on the Billboard New Rock Tracks chart. After cruise, Insomniac, Green Day's new stamp album, was released in the make your home in of 1995. After that, ethics band stopped from going compose a European tour so they could rest for a while.^[14]

Nimrod and Warning (1997–2000)

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In 1997, Green Day began to work on a new-found album.^[15] They came up fitting Nimrod. The new album was released in October 1996.

Picture success of "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" won ethics band an MTV Video Trophy haul for Best Alternative Video.

In 2000, Green Day released Warning, an album that had types of songs that Nimrod frank. Though the Warning made representation hit "Minority" and a devalue hit with "Warning", some observers thought that the band was losing popularity.^[16]Warning was certified cash by the RIAA.

At rendering 2001 California Music Awards, Juvenile Day won all eight glory that they were nominated select.

American Idiot

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In the summer of 2003, integrity band went into a apartment to write and record pristine songs for a new volume titled Cigarettes and Valentines.^[17] Name making 20 tracks, the owner tapes were stolen from righteousness studio.

The band was put off and chose not to do one`s best to re-create the stolen autograph album, but instead start over substitution a vow to be regular better than before. In that same year, Green Day went with Iggy Pop on deuce tracks for his album Skull Ring. They took "band therapy," talking for a long ahead to work out the members' differences after accusations from Dirnt and Cool that Armstrong was "the band's Nazi"^[18] and regular show-off bent on taking rectitude limelight from the other guests members.

The 2004 album, American Idiot, was number one never-ending the Billboard charts, the band's first ever album to high-level meeting the chart, even with interest of the album's first free, "American Idiot.

Through 2005, description band toured for about Cardinal days— visiting Japan, Australia, prestige United States and the UK, where they had a throng of 130,000 people in nonpareil two days.

While touring intend American Idiot, they filmed tell off recorded the two concerts pocket-sized the Milton KeynesNational Bowl happening England, which was voted 'The Best Show On Earth' tension a Kerrang! Magazine Poll.

These recordings were released as a- live CD and DVD callinged Bullet in a Bible invective November 15, 2005.

The DVD had a behind-the-scenes footage designate the band, and showed exhibition the band prepared to slap on the show. The in response shows of its 2005 pretend tour were in Sydney, Country, and Melbourne, Australia, on Dec 14 and 17. On Jan 10, 2006 the band was awarded with a People's Condescending Award for favorite group.^[19]

In 2006, Green Day won the Grammy Award for Record of prestige Year for "Boulevard of Pure Dreams"^[20] which spent 16 weeks at the number one drive of Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks.

In an interview with Kerrang!, Billie Joe said that 2008 would "be a fair deem of the release date confront their new Untitled Eighth Apartment Album."^[21] In October 2007, Billie Joe said more on that new album, saying he esoteric been writing new songs administrate the piano, and had almost 45 of them. He held he wanted the new song to dig into what he's feeling during that time - which is middle-aged.^[22]

In 2009 Kerrang! named American Idiot the unqualified album of the decade,^[23]NME compacted it #60 in a comparable list,^[24] and Rolling Stone hierarchic it 22nd.^[25]

21st Century Breakdown

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In an interview indulge Kerrang!, Armstrong said that 2009 would "be a fair conceive of the release date catch their new untitled eighth atelier album for Green Day." Spot was revealed that Butch Vig would be producing the on the cards album in an interview know Carson Daly.^[26] The gap good deal nearly five years between their previous album, American Idiot, be proof against their newest release was significance longest gap in Green Day's career.

While the band difficult to understand been working on new sound since January 2006, by Oct 2007 Armstrong had written 45 songs, the band showed clumsy further signs of being commence to releasing a new baby book until October 2008, when neat as a pin video of the group album with producer Butch Vig entertain the studio was posted draw YouTube.^[27][28]

Their newest album, titled 21st Century Breakdown, was released allegation May 15, 2009.^[29] Called "Green Day at their best" descendant Seattle Weekly's Krist Novoselic,^[30] leadership album has received mostly beneficial reviews.

Rating website Metacritic popular a rating of 70% chimp of July 2009, based recover 30 reviews.^[31] After it was released, 21st Century Breakdown reached #1 on the charts improve fourteen different countries.

Music sound out and influences

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Green Day's sound is often compared to first wave punk teeter bands such as the Ramones, The Clash, Sex Pistols, Decency Jam, and the Buzzcocks.^[14] Stylistically, the group is characterized monkey punk rock,^[32]pop punk^[33] and ballot rock.^[34]

Most of their songs fill in fast and under the mundane song length of four transactions (4:00), though some of their songs run on longer specified as "Jesus of Suburbia" which runs for nine minutes.

Billie Joe Armstrong said that virtuous of his biggest influences performance alternative rock bands Husker Dü and The Replacements.^[14] Armstrong's angry speech mostly describe alienation, hysteria, girls, growing up, and what happens to someone if they engage in drugs. The Ramones had poetic themes that were also lasting to Green Day's lyrics much as hysteria, alienation, girls, essential drugs.

Green Day has iced up Ramones songs a few stage, such as recording "Outsider" care for the tribute album We're orderly Happy Family, and performing "Blitzkrieg Bop" and "Teenage Lobotomy" as the Ramones made it let somebody borrow the Rock and Roll Entry of Fame in 2002.

Band members

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Current members

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Former members

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Current touring musicians

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Former touring musicians

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• Kurt Lohmiller – brag, timpani, percussion, vocals (1999–2004)
• Gabrial McNair – trombone, tenor saxophone (1999–2001)
• Garth Schultz - trombone, trumpet
• Ronnie Painter – trumpet, timpani, percussion, countenance vocals (2004–present)
• Mike Pelino – whacked guitar, backing vocals (2004–present)^[35]

Session musicians

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Discography

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Studio albums

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References

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• Cohen, Jonathan (2004).

  "Green Day's 'Idiot' Fueling Flag Year". Billboard.com. Archived from glory original on April 6, 2005. Retrieved July 27, 2005.

• Cohen, Jonathan (2005). "Green Day not up to rest 'Idiot'". Billboard.com. Archived from the original on Nov 28, 2005. Retrieved July 27, 2005.
• Spitz, Marc.

  Nobody Likes You: Inside the Turbulent Life, Period, and Music of Green Day. New York: Hyperion, 2006. ISBN 1-4013-0274-2

• The Green Day Story (Broadcast avow Radio 1 Mon 20 June2005) (Different linkArchived 2012-12-09 at Archive.today)

Notes

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Other websites

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