I would like to invite you to watch my presentation about my hobby. Its about music. ENTER

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I would like to invite you to watch my
presentation about my hobby. Its about music.
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Welcome!
During the show you could listen to some songs
of Green Day. Well we can START! GO!
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• Introduction and something about author)
• The biography of Green Day
• Members of band
• Text of songs
• Some Green Days albums
• American Idiot The commercial boom
• Gallery
• Conclusion
• Ending show

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• Hobbies are the activities that we do
  regularly for our pleasure and satisfaction. A
  lot of people like going to the cinema, theatre,
  concerts and art exhibitions. Others practise
  sports, for ex. tennis, football, basketball,
  volleyball, swimming, exercise in fitness
  centers, train cycling and jogging. There are
  also more and more extreme sports enthusiasts
  who not only want to be in good shape but also
  try some unusual experience, have thrilling
  adventures and test their abilities. The most
  popular risky sports are surfing, scuba diving,
  rafting, caving, parachuting, bungee jumping,
  paragliding, hang gliding, alpinism and motor
  racing.
• Those who prefer safer and more
  relaxing activities go fishing, take pictures,
  mend things in the house, cultivate the garden,
  play a musical instrument, keep a pet, collect
  things such as phone cards, coins, porcelain
  figurines or model cars, knit, sew, read books
  and watch TV.
• My name is Ann. I am 18 years old. I
  live in a small villlage - where is the popular
  Museum of Maria Konopnicka in Zarnowiec. I go
  to the third class to High Shool in Krosno. I am
  interested in computers but my hobby is music.
• Music is very important in my life. I
  listen to music every evening at home and when I
  am on the bus with my personal stereo. I listen
  to many kinds of music but expecially rock,
  techno, and sometimes heavy metal. My favourite
  music band is GREEN DAY.
• I would like to tell you some stories
  about this marvellous and popular (expecially
  among teenagers but the older people also )
  group. They arent controversial like TaTu but
  they are a brilliant team. I like listening to
  Green Days songs because they have got very
  suprising lyrics.
• From my presentation you may learn
  some facts about biography of this gorgeous band
  and about the divine singer - Billie. I admire
  Billie for his love to music and his rare voice.
• Certainly, you could read the texts of
  songs and watch unique photos.
  

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• Green Day is a pop punk band
  consisting of Billie Joe Armstrong (lead vocals,
  guitar), Mike Dirnt (bass, backing vocals, born
  Michael Ryan Pritchard), and Tra Cool (drummer,
  backing vocals, born Frank Edwin Wright III, in
  Germany). Since their sixth album, the band have
  included close friend and associate, back-up
  guitarist Jason White.
• At the age of 12, Tra Cool became a
  member of the band The Lookouts. Their album
  attracted some attention, and Tra began
  performing at an early age at the Berkeley,
  California punk rock all-ages venue 924 Gilman
  Street. In 1988, Billie Joe Armstrong, (aged
  16) and Mike Dirnt (also aged 16) formed "Sweet
  Children", with Armstrong on lead vocals and
  guitar, Dirnt on bass and backing vocals, and
  John Kiffmeyer (a.k.a. Al Sobrante), on drums.
  Their first show was in 1988 at Rod's Hickory's
  backyard in Rodeo, California. A couple of
  months later, they played a high school party
  with the Lookouts in a remote mountain location
  near Willits, California, where Tre and Kain Kong
  of the Lookouts lived and attended school. Only
  five kids showed up for the party but they left
  after the first song, and there was no
  electricity in the house and the toilet didn't
  work, so Sweet Children had to play using a
  generator and candlelight, but they played, as
  Lookouts singer/guitarist Larry Livermore put it,
  "as if they were The Beatles at Shea Stadium."
• Livermore, who also ran the Berkeley
  independent label Lookout! Records, immediately
  offered them a deal, and in early 1989 they
  recorded their first EP, 1,000 Hours, and then
  decided, weeks before the EP release, to change
  their name to Green Day, a slang term for a day
  spent smoking cannabis. The band were smokers
  since puberty and Billie Joe got his nickname,
  "Two Dollar Bill", from selling joints at that
  price (2) at his high school. The song "Green
  Day", written by Billie Joe, is about his first
  experience using marijuana. Many references to
  the drug appear in Green Day's music, though it
  is by no means their defining characteristic.
• One year later, in April 1990, Green
  Day released their first album 39/Smooth, and
  that summer they set out in a van on their first
  national tour. Before leaving, they recorded
  another four-song EP called Slappy and while in
  Minneapolis-St. Paul they recorded a four-song EP
  of some of their old songs for the local label
  Skene Records, and called it "Sweet Children". In
  1991, 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours was
  released on CD, this re-issued 39/Smooth with
  all the tracks from Slappy and 1,000 Hours.
  

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• After this tour, at the end of the
  summer of 1990, Al Sobrante left the band on what
  was supposed to be a temporary basis to attend
  college in Arcata, California. By this time the
  Lookouts had become mostly inactive, and Tra
  Cool, now 17 and living in Berkeley, began
  playing with Green Day as a temporary
  replacement. The combination worked out so well
  that he soon became Green Day's permanent
  drummer. During 1991, the band toured and
  played locally, building up a large fan
  following, and also wrote and recorded their
  second album, Kerplunk!, which was released on
  Lookout Records in January 1992. The CD version
  also included the four tracks from the Sweet
  Children EP. They continued to tour through 1992
  and 1993, ranging as far afield as the United
  Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Italy, The Netherlands,
  Poland, and Czechoslovakia (now the Czech
  Republic) When the tour came through the UK, it
  was notable for a famous appearance at a Wigan
  social club called The rainbow. The gig would
  have been a standard stop on an independent punk
  band's minor UK tour, were it not for one small
  fact the band decided to use their set to stage
  their own version of the Nativity, featuring
  Billie Joe as all three schizophrenic Three Wise
  Punks, Mike as Santa Claus and a bad-taste
  version of the Virgin Birth featuring Tre as
  Mary, a roadie as Jesus and a bag of rice pudding
  and tomato ketchup as the Holy Placenta. This
  sort of theatrical show would become common
  practice for the band ten years later, only on a
  much larger scale. By 1993, Green Day had
  sold about 55,000 copies of Kerplunk!, a large
  amount for the independent punk scene in those
  days, and attracted a great deal of attention
  from the major labels. Eventually they decided to
  sign a deal with Reprise Records, leaving Lookout
  on friendly terms, and spent the greater part of
  the year recording their major label debut,
  Dookie, which proved to be an almost instant
  sensation, helped by extensive MTV airplay for
  the videos "Longview", "When I Come Around" and
  "Basket Case". In 1994, Green Day embarked
  on a nationwide tour and chose queercore band
  Pansy Division as their opening act and backstage
  fun. At the time this was regarded as quite
  controversia, nonetheless, the tour was a huge
  success. Green Day had made their audience aware
  that they were not just another 'pop' band with a
  couple of hit singles. The band joined the
  lineups of both the Lollapalooza Festival and
  Woodstock 1994. Green Day's Woodstock gig
  included a gigantic mud fight between the band
  and the audience, leading to a melee in which
  Dirnt lost his front teeth.

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• 
  Rise in popularity
• Following the cancellation of the
  European tour, the band spent the next
  year-and-half resting in reclusion and writing
  new material, issuing Nimrod in October 1997 with
  a more artistic and conceptual approach. It
  reached 10 at home and went double platinum on
  the strength of the surprise crossover hit "Good
  Riddance (Time Of Your Life)". After that the
  band took some time out of the spotlight, issuing
  the poppy Kinks-like Warning, another Top 5 hit,
  three years later in fall 2000. In 2002 the band
  issued their first b-side Album Shenanigans,
  which was received warmly by fans and included
  the song "Ha Ha You're Dead ", written by Mike
  Dirnt and recorded exclusively for this album.
  In 2003, during time Green Day spent in the
  studio, a New Wave band appeared on the scene,
  known as The Network. Three of five members of
  the band are the three main members of Green Day.
  The frontman, known as "Fink", is Billie Joe
  Armstrong. Billie has referred to himself as
  Wilhelm Fink in the past. This is confirmed on
  the Pinhead Gunpowder Web site bio of Billie. The
  bass player, known as "Van Gough", is Mike Dirnt
  (both are vegetarians). The Network's drummer,
  "The Snoo", is Tra Cool. John Roecker, director
  of 'Live Freaky Die Freaky', starring Green Day
  and other East Bay punk alumni, and Green Day's
  DVD Documentary "Heart Like A Hand Grenade", has
  spoken of various projects recorded at Studio
  880, including a New Wave album and a Christmas
  album, during the sessions of their latest album.
  Studio 880 is the credited studio in The
  Network's Money Money 2020 album and Green Day's
  American Idiot.
  

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American Idiot the commercial boom

• Fighting burnout after Warning, the
  band went into the studio to write and record new
  material for an album. After completing 20
  tracksmdash. an impressive album according to
  those few who heard itmdash. The master tapes
  were stolen from the studio. The band chose not
  to try and re-create the stolen album but instead
  started over with a vow to be even better than
  before. The resulting 2004 album, American Idiot,
  was billed as a "punk rock opera", or more
  accurately a concept album, which follows the
  journey of the fictitious 'Jesus of Suburbia' and
  the characters he meets along the road,
  principally 'St. Jimmy' and 'Whatsername'. The
  album could also be described as an anti-war
  allegory, as it features songs denouncing George
  W. Bush and the invasion of Iraq. The story of
  Jesus of Suburbia is deliberately ambiguous, and
  it is possible to interpret it as the story of a
  young man going to serve his country overseas.
  Indeed, this is plausible, as this is the very
  narrative that features in the music video for
  the fourth single to be taken from American
  Idiot, Wake Me Up When September Ends.
  American Idiot won a Grammy in 2005 for Best Rock
  Album along with 5 other Grammy nominations. The
  song "American Idiot" was featured in the video
  game Madden NFL 2005. The band at the moment are
  touring, promoting the album with a largely
  failing dates, continuing the theatrics of the
  shows from the Warning and Shenanigans tours by
  featuring a horn section dressed as a pink rabbit
  and a bumblebee, Billie Joe donning a crown and
  silk cape for the song "King For A Day" and
  drawn-out performances of certain songs like
  "Hitchin' a Ride" and "Minority", where Billie
  Joe uses the instrumental sections to make
  popcorn with the crowd, a staple of Green Day's
  blue live performances. They also perform covers
  of the songs "We are the Champions" by Queen,
  "Shout (song)" by Otis Day the Knights.
  Many long-time Green Day fans felt uncomfortable
  and even threatened when American Idiot was
  released. The music was much more accessible, and
  was occasionally mistaken by younger music fans
  and so called posers who had previously been
  oblivious to Green Day's work, for the 'boybands
  with guitars' style of Busted and McFly. This was
  particularly insulting, as some would argue that
  such boybands exploit the very things that made
  the likes of Green Day, and later Blink-182,
  strike a chord with young audiences and mimic
  them in a contrived and insincere way, in what
  amounts to no more than a marketing ploy.

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Members of Green Day

• 1.Billie Joe Armstrong

2.Micheal Ryan Pritchard
3.Frank Edwin Wright III
4.Jason White
5.John Kiffmeyer
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The Superstar of Green Day - Billie (basic info)

•  FULL NAME Billie Joe Armstrong
   AGE/BIRTHDATE 33 born February 17, 1972
   HOMETOWN Rodeo, California, USA  EYE COLOR
  Green  NATURAL HAIR COLOR Reddish Brown
   HEIGHT 5'7  MARTIAL STATUS Married
  Adrienne Nesser (July 2, 1994)  CHILDREN
  Joseph Marciano born in March of 1995, and Jakob
  Danger born September of 1998.  FAMILY
  Billie's father, Andy, died of cancer when he was
  10 years old (September 1982). His mom, Ollie,
  raised him from then on. He has 5 older siblings
  (David, Allen, Marcy, Holly, and Anna).  WHEELS
  A black BMW convertible.  INSTRUMENTS
  Guitar, harmonica, mandolin, drums, piano, and
  most recently, the saxophone.  RECORD COMPANY
  Billie and Adrienne have co-ownership of Adeline
  Records.  OTHER BANDS Billie still plays with
  Pinhead Gunpowder. He has also played with The
  Influents, Corrupted Morals, Rancid, the
  Lookouts, Goodbye Harry, and Blatz.

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Billie
Billie

• Childhood
• One of the influental people in punk rock
  music, as he was ranked, Billie Joe, was born on
  February 17, 1972 in Rodeo, California, as the
  youngest of 6 children. His dad, Andy, was a jazz
  musician and a truck driver for safeway, who
  passed away of lung cancer, in September 1982,
  Billie Joe was only 10. His mother was a waitress
  at a restaurant called Rod's Hickory Pit. As far
  as he started to talk he also began to sing and
  got used to go around to hospitals and sing to
  patients to cheer them up! Billie Joe's first
  song was Look For Love. When he was 5, he
  recorded this song for the locally based Fiat
  Records.
• Apperance
• Billie has green eyes. His hair color is
  naturally brown, but through the years has gone
  many coolers ranging from blue to blond. He
  currently has black hair. He is 5'6. He once had
  a nose ring, which he no longer wears as it kept
  getting caught on his guitar. He has the names of
  his family tattooed on his arms, also 5 piercing
  which can all be found in the ear.
• Sweet children
• At the age of 10, Billie Joe met Mike
  in the school canteen and they got hooked up on
  punk rock music... Soon after they had formed
  their first band named Sweet Children. At the age
  of 11 Billie Joe got his first guitar he called
  Blue, as a present from his father. At 14 he
  wrote his first song was a song named Why Do You
  Want Him? (This can be found on 1039 Smoothed Out
  Slappy Hours, track 12). This song was about
  Billie Joe's mum, and how his step dad who he and
  his fellow siblings hated. It's obvious that
  Billie Joe's biggest love was music so he dropped
  out of school to devote to the band.
• Green Day
• As soon as band's first drummer Al
  Sobrante quit the band in a purpose of going to
  college, was quickly replaced by Tre Cool. Who
  was at the time playing with the lookouts. Then
  Sweet Children was renamed Green Day. In a matter
  of time they were playing around the country,
  traveling in a bookmobilie driven by Tres's
  father. In 1997 (Just after the release of
  Nimrod) Green day played a show at tower records,
  the show only last 40 minuets. During this time
  they totally wrecked the place, which cost up to
  50,000 the band however were not charged.

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Billy

• Family
• Billie Joe's dad died when he was
  only 11. In 1990 in Minneapolis Billie Joe caught
  a glimpse of Adrienne for the first time. They
  got married on July 2, 1994, there service only
  lasted 5 minutes!! The next day came another
  little surprise, Adrienne was pregnant!! Now they
  have 2 kids, I mean, 2 sons, Joseph Marciano who
  was born on March, 1995 and Jakob Danger, born on
  September 12, 1998.
• Some interesting Facts
• I believe that you'd be interested in
  the first album Billie Joe bought.. It was Elvis
  Presley's The Sun Sessions. I guess you'd agree
  with me that Billie Joe is known for his odd and
  amusing actions on the stage and kinda rebellious
  sense of humor. I think you know that bit I'll
  mention it anyway, Billie Joe is co-founder and
  partial owner of the independent label Adeline
  Records. He's a member of a band named Pinhead
  Gunpowder. He was also member of Blatz, Rancid,
  The Lookouts, Goodbye Harry, Corrupted Morals.
  When Billie Joe was in high school he was given
  the nick name "2 bill" because he used to sell
  joints for 2! On the topic of joints, he smoked
  his first joint with his best friends mum.
• Guitars
• Speaking of his guitars, he has since
  had a copy of Blue made by Fender. It's just like
  the original one but with different stickers on.
  Billie Joe's original Blue had two single-coil
  pick ups and a Seymour Duncan "Jeff Beck"
  Humbucker pick up. Billie Joe has a Fender
  Jazzmaster, a sonic blue Fender Jagstang, a
  Gibson classic Series ES-135 and ES-335, an SG,
  Rickenbacker, and a Guild sunburst
  acoustic(Played in the good ridance video). And
  to play them lovely gutiars he uses a Dunlop
  Tortex standard size (0.88mm) picks.

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Basic info Mike.

• Name Micheal Ryan PritchardDate/place of
  birth 5.4.1972 / Rodeo, California Zodiac Sign
  Taurus Band position bass player, backing
  vocals Plays bass, guitar, drums, farfisa,
  baseball bat.. Songs he has written Emenius
  Sleepus, J.A.R., Scumbag, Ha Ha You're Dead,
  Nobody Likes You (from Homecoming) Other bands
  The Frustrators, Screeching Weasel, Crummy
  Musicians, Squirtgun Current Residence Oakland,
  California Mike owns a BMW and likes to show it
  around.

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Mike Dirnt

•   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 (since then,
  they have gotten back together), 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 when he was 15. Unlike Billie Joe, who was
  expelled from 2 schools and eventually dropped
  out, Mike got good grades in school, and even
  completed a few courses at a local community
  college. 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 Anastacia
  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 Anastacia marriage to withstand
  and they got divorced. Unfortunatellt, they
  couldnt patch the things up but they are still
  good friends and Mike also re married in 2004
  to Sarah, but that too was cut short because he
  was spending to much time in the studio. World
  is, he is currently engaged, but it all could
  just be rumors.

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Mike
Other bands He also played for
Screeching Weasel, Crummy Musicians, Squirtgun,
and still plays with The Frustrators, who are
signed by Adeline records, the company co-owned
by fellow band mate Billie Joe. But Green Day
needed him the most soo...

• Mikes Caffine mad!
• Many fans know by now that Moke loves
  star buck coffee... He actually opened a cafe in
  Oakland, California and sells a lot of coffe
  there too, star bucks style people.
• Guitars
• All of Green Day freaks would be batty
  at me for not mentioning Mikes bass. The Mike
  Drint Precision Basse has been designed to Mikes
  unique specifications and comes in three colours
  two colour Sunburst, Black and Vintage White so
  if you tend to buy one... Way to go He also uses
  the Fender 62 American Standard Precision Basse
  and a Gibson G-3 Bass. He also uses a Mesa\Boggie
  Bassis M-2000 amp and custom made 6x10 and 1x18
  Mesa\Boogie cabinets. He plays Ernie Ball
  strings, and he custom made yellow Dunlop, 73 mm
  picks. So long!

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Frank Edwin Wright III

• FULL NAME Frank Edwin Wright III
  AGE/BIRTHDATE 32 born December 9, 1972
  HOMETOWN Willits, California, USA EYE COLOR
  Blue NATURAL HAIR COLOR Brown HEIGHT
  5'6 (?) MARTIAL STATUS Married his long time
  girlfriend Lisea Lyons in March of 1995. They
  divorced sometime after. In May 2000, he married
  Claudia. In 2003, he and Claudia broke up.
  CHILDREN Ramona, born January 1995 to
  ex-wife, Lisea Lyons Frankito ("Little Frank"),
  born 2001 to Claudia. FAMILY Tre grew up
  with his father and 2 siblings. He now lives in
  Oakland, California with his ex-wife, Claudia,
  and son, Frankito. WHEELS A SUV.
  INSTRUMENTS Drums, the accordion, and the
  guitar. OTHER BANDS Tre has also played with
  The Lookouts, Sreeching Weasels, and Samiam.

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Frank
Frank

• Frank Edwin Wright III was born
  December 9, 1972 in Frankfurt, Germany, making
  him the youngest member of Green Day. He lived in
  the Mendocino mountains, California with his dad
  and his 2 older siblings. His dad, a helicopter
  pilot in Vietnam, decided to move the family
  there to insulate them upon his return to the
  United States. Tre's closest neighbor was none
  other than Lookout! Records owner Lawrence
  Livermore, who also owned the punk band the
  Lookouts. At age 12, Livermore recruited Tre to
  join The Lookouts, and that's when Livermore gave
  him the name of Tre Cool (which means Very Cool
  in French). After Green Day's first tour around
  the country (following the release of 39/Smooth),
  John Kriftmeyer decided to leave Green Day.
  Looking no farther than Gilman Street, Billie Joe
  and Mike recruited Tre, who was already a 5 year
  veteran of the Gilman Street scene.
• Tre decided to drop out of high
  school his sophmore year. However, he did pass an
  equivalency test and earned his GED, and he even
  began taking classes at a nearby community
  college. He had to drop out of college however,
  when the demands of Green Day's touring
  intensified. Tre's father, who owns a small
  trucking company, overhauled a used bookmobile,
  and even served as the driver on three seperate
  tours. Frank Wright. "On their first tour or two,
  it was more of a party than anything else. I
  still scratch my head and say, 'How in the hell
  did they make it?' They used to practice in my
  living room here - a lot of the songs they did on
  Dookie. You hear it coming together, and you
  don't expect people are going to go out and buy
  it. But when it does, you just say, 'Wow, that's
  so cool.'
• Tre had a daughter named Ramona in
  January of 1995, then he married his long time
  girlfriend Lisea Lyons in March. Him and Lisea
  are divorced now, but Tre remarried in May of
  2000, to Claudia. Claudia and him have a son
  named Frankito, which means "Little Frank". Tre
  and Claudia divorced in 2003, but they still live
  together with Frankito in Oakland, California.
  Recently, Tre has been linked to Donna C.,
  drummer of The Donnas, however they are no longer
  together.

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Jason White

•   FULL NAME Jason White  AGE/BIRTHDATE
  31 born November 11, 1973 HOMETOWN Little
  Rock, Arkansas, USA.  EYE COLOR Blue  NATURAL
  HAIR COLOR Brown  HEIGHT 5'10 MARTIAL
  STATUS Jason recently got married in February
  2005. INSTRUMENTS Guitar and bass.  RECORD
  COMPANY Co-founder of Adeline Records. OTHER
  BANDS Pinhead Gunpowder, The Influents, Chino
  Horde,
• and The Big Cats.

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Jason

• Adeline Records
• Jason met Billie Joe when he moved
  California and lived in the Bay area. They soon
  became good friends and started a record company
  named Adeline Records with Adrienne Armstrong
  (Billie Joe's wife), Jim Thiebaud and Lynn
  Parker. As well as co-owning a record company
  with Billie Joe he is also in a band with him,
  Pinhead Gunpowder, where he plays guitar and
  vocals. Jason joined Pinhead Gunpowder in 1995 to
  replace Mike Kersh. On the album 'Shoot the Moon'
  Jason wrote 'Cabot Gal'. He and Bill Schneider
  (bass) wanted to try something new, recruiting
  Bill's brother, Greg Schneider (vocals and
  guitar) and Willie Samuels (drums) of The
  Receivers. Jason and Greg began writing songs and
  sharing the vocal duties - sometimes
  collaborating, other times bringing in their own
  compositions. After taking their time working and
  playing together for a little over a year, and
  after only a handful of live shows, they went in
  and self-recorded and produced their debut album,
  'Check Please', in the summer of 2000. The
  articles and reviews came in. They were taken
  back by the praise it was receiving in the press
  and in magazines from all over the globe. 'Check
  please' was a Top Five Artist Pick in Rolling
  Stone and a Top 10 Best Seller at local chain
  Rasputin's that same year.
• Green Day
• Soon Billie Joe needed his help on an
  album (Jason to the rescue) and became second
  guitarist for Green Day on the Warning album to
  add a richer sound. If that wasn't enough he then
  played on tour with Green Day on the Pop
  Disaster, Warning and American Idiot tours. Green
  Day must like this guy a lot as he has appeared
  in two of their videos, When I Come Around, he's
  the guy kissing his, then, girlfriend by the car
  whilst that man is perving on them, and their
  most recent Wake Me up When September Ends. Whist
  playing with Green Day he likes to stay out of
  the spotlight. He says "I'm just a helping hand
  to the band it's all about them three" A lot of
  people have been wondering and saying that he is
  the fourth member now but that isn't true at all
  and isn't planning to be. Billie Joe has said
  "He'll be playing with us for this tour, but
  we're not going to a four-member band from now
  on." Jasons going to carry on working with Green
  Day whilst they are on the American Idiot tour,
  after that he is going to be recording new
  material with The Influents

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John Kiffmeyer

• Name John Kiffmeyer
• Date / place of birth ?Family wife
  GretaBand position ex drummerPlays drumsSong
  he has written I Was ThereOther bands Ne'er Do
  Wells
• Early Days
• Al Sobrante was the original drummer
  for Green Day (then Sweet Children). He drummed
  on 1,039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours and several
  other EP's. He did one tour with them and then
  dropped out to go to college. After that he
  produced Kerplunk and seemed to drop off the face
  of the earth.
• Underground bands
• However he has been seen around
  Berkeley 'hanging out, drinking beer, and playing
  in underground bands'. As for Ne'er Do Wells they
  changed their name to the Hi-fives and he no
  longer plays for them.
• Family
• John now lives in San Francisco with
  his wife Greta (they were married in the summer
  of '94). And as far as we know he no longer plays
  music.

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"1039/Smoothed Out
Slappy hours"

• Release Date April 19, 1991 Track
  Listing 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 Laterns 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
  That I Want 19. I Want to Be Alone

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"Kerplunk"

• Release Date January 17, 1992 Track
  Listing 1. 2,000 Light Years Away 2. One for
  the Razorbacks 3. Welcome to Paradise 4.
  Christie Road 5. Private Ale 6. Dominated Love
  Slave 7. One of My Lies 8. 80 9. Andriod 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

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"Dookie"

• Release Date February 1, 1994 Track Listing
  1. Burnout 2. Having a Blast 3. Chump 4.
  Longview 5. Welcome to Paradise 6. Pulling
  Teeth 7. Basket Case 8. She 9. Sassafras Roots
  10. When I Come Around 11. Coming Clean 12.
  Emenius Sleepus 13. In the End 14. F.O.D. (Fuck
  Off and Die) 15. All by Myself

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"Insomniac"

• Release Date October 10, 1995 Track
  Listing 1. Armatage Skanks 2. Brat 3. Stuck
  With Me 4. Geek Stink Breath 5. No Pride 6.
  Bab's Uvula Who? 7. 86 8. Panic Song 9. Stuart
  and the Ave 10. Brain Stew 11. Jaded 12.
  Westbound Sign 13. Tight Wad Hill 14. Walking
  Contradiction

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"nimrod"

• Release Date October 14, 1997 Track
  Listing 1. Nice Guys Finish Last 2. Hitchin' a
  Ride 3. The Grouch 4. Reduntant 5. Scattered
  6. All the Time 7. Worry Rock 8. Platypus (I
  Hate You) 9. Uptight 10. Last Ride In
  (Instrumental) 11. Jinx 12. Haushinka 13.
  Walking Alone 14. Reject 15. Take Back 16.
  King for a Day 17. Good Riddance (Time of Your
  Life) 18. Prosthetic Head

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Here you can find the text of some songs. Choose
the lyrics.
Boulevard of broken dreams
Holiday
Wake me up when September ends
Basket case

• American Idiot

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"Boulevard of broken dreams"

• I walk a lonely road The only one that I have
  ever known Don't know where it goes But it's
  home to me and I walk alone I walk this empty
  street On the boulevard of broken dreams Where
  the city sleeps And I'm the only one and I walk
  alone I walk alone I walk alone I walk alone
  I walk a My shadow's the only one that walks
  beside me My shallow heart's the only thing
  that's beating Sometimes I wish someone out
  there will find me Til then I walk alone I'm
  walking down the line That divides me somewhere
  in my mind On the borderline of the edge And
  where I walk alone Read between the lines of
  what's Fucked up and everything's alright Check
  my vital signs to know I'm still alive And I
  walk alone

• I walk alone I walk alone I walk alone I
  walk a
• My shadow's the only one that walks beside
  me My shallow heart's the only thing that's
  beating Sometimes I wish someone out there will
  find me Til then I walk alone I walk alone I
  walk a I walk this empty street On the
  boulevard of broken dreams Where the city sleeps
  And I'm the only one and I walk a My shadow's
  the only one that walks beside me My shallow
  heart's the only thing that's beating Sometimes
  I wish someone out there will find me Til then I
  walk alone

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"Holiday"

• Hear the sound of the falling rain, Coming
  down like and Armageddon flame, The shame, The
  ones who died without a name, Hear the dogs
  howling out of key, To a hymn called "Faith and
  Misery", And bleed the company lost the war
  today I beg to dream and differ, From the
  hollow lies, This is the dawning of the rest of
  our lives On Holiday Hear the drum pounding
  out of time, Another protester has crossed the
  line, To find the money's on the other side,
  Can I get another Amen? There's a flag wrapped
  around the score of men, A gag, A plastic bag
  on a monument

• The representative from California has the
  floor Zieg Heil to the president gas man,
  Bombs away is your punishment, Pulverize the
  Eiffel towers, Who criticize your government,
  Bang, Bang goes the broken glass, Kill all the
  fags that don't agree, Trials by fire setting
  fire, Is not a way that's meant for me, Just
  cause, Just cause because we're outlaws, yeah!
  I beg to dream and differ, From the hollow
  lies, This is the dawning of the rest of our
  lives, I beg to dream and differ, From the
  hollow lies, This is the dawning of the rest of
  our lives This is our lives on holiday

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"American Idiot"

• Don't wanna be an American idiot Don't
  want a nation under the new mania And can you
  hear the sound of hysteria The subliminal mind
  fuck America Welcome to a new kind of tension
  All across the alien nation Where everything
  isn't meant to be okay Television dreams of
  tomorrow We're not the ones meant to follow For
  that's enough to argue Maybe I am the faggot
  America I'm not a part of a redneck agenda Now
  everybody do the propaganda And sing along to
  the age of paranoia Welcome to a new kind of
  tension All across the alien nation Everything
  isn't meant to be okay Television dreams of
  tomorrow We're not the ones meant to follow For
  that's enough to argue
• Don't want to be an American idiot One
  nation controlled by the media Information age
  of hysteria Calling out to idiot America
  Welcome to a new kind of tension All across the
  alien nation Everything isn't meant to be okay
  Television dreams of tomorrow We're not the
  ones meant to follow For that's enough to argue

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Wake me up when September ends

• Summer has come and passedThe innocent can
  never lastWake me up when September endsLike
  my fathers come to passSeven years has gone so
  fastWake me up when September endsHere comes
  the rain againFalling from the starsDrenched in
  my pain againBecoming who we areAs my memory
  restsBut never forgets what I lostWake me up
  when September endsSummer has come and
  passedThe innocent can never lastWake me up
  when September ends

• Ring out the bells againLike we did when spring
  beganWake me up when September endsHere comes
  the rain againFalling from the starsDrenched in
  my pain againBecoming who we areAs my memory
  restsBut never forgets what I lostWake me up
  when September endsSummer has come and
  passedThe innocent can never lastWake me up
  when September endsLike my father's come to
  passTwenty years has gone so fastWake me up
  when September ends

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"Basket case"

• Do you have the time to listen to me whine
  About NOTHING and EVERYTHING all at once I am
  one of those Melodramatic fools Neurotic to the
  bone No doubt about it Sometimes I give myself
  the CREEPS Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
  It all keeps adding up I think I'm CRACKING UP
  Am I just PARANOID? I'm just STONED I went to
  a shrink To analyze my dreams SHE says it's
  lack of sex that's bringing me down I went to a
  whore HE said my life's a bore And quit my
  whining cause it's bringing HER down Grasping
  to CONTROL So you BETTER hold on

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Some Green Days albums

• 1039/Smoothed Out Slappy hours

Kerplunk
Dookie
Insomniac
Nimrod
American Idiot
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First Green Days album

• Green Day's first album, was released
• later that year. Shortly after its
  released,
• Sobrante quit the bandand, as I said,
• Kerplunk was quickly replaced with Tre
  Cool who became
• the band's permanent drummer.
• In that time they changed their name to
• Green Day. Yep, they owe their name to CA
  slang, actually kinda
• humorous name for wasting your day smoking
  pot..
• Released under Lookout! Records. Recorded
  at Art of Ears Studio, San Francisco. Produced by
  Andy Ernst and Green Day. All lyrics by Billie
  Joe, except Knowledge, which is a cover by
  Operation Ivy. 1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours is
  a combination of the vinyl EPs Slappy and 1,000
  Hours. This album is the only entire album that
  features John Kiffmeyer on drums. He later quits
  the band and Tre Cool joins the band.

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Second Green Days album

• Throughout the early 1990, Green Day
  continued to cultivate a cult following, which
  only gained strength with the release of their
  second album Kerplunk, 1992's. The underground
  success of Kerplunk led to a wave of interest
  from mayor record labels the band eventually
  decided to sign with Reprise Records.
• Released under Lookout! Records.
  Recorded in May September 1991 at Art of Ears
  Studio, San Francisco. Produced by Andy Ernst and
  Green Day. All lyrics written by Billie Joe
  Armstrong, except for My Generation written by
  Pete Townshend for The Who, Dominated Love Slave,
  written and sung by Tre Cool, and Sweet Children,
  by Billie Joe and Mike Dirnt. Drums for tracks 13
  - 16 by John Kiffmeyer.

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Next album - "Dookie"

• Released by Reprise Records. Produced
  by Rob Cavallo and Green Day.
• All lyrics by Billie Joe, except Emenius
  Sleepus, which was written by Mike.
• Green Day's mayor label debut was released
  in the spring of 1994.
• Dookie The album continued to gain
  momentum throughout the summer, with the another
  single Basket Case, spending 5 weeks on the top
  of the American modern rock charts. At the end of
  summer, the band stole the show at Woodstock 1994
  which helped the sales of Dookie increase. By the
  time the 4th single When I Come Around began its
  7 weeks stay at number 1 in the modern rock
  charts in
• early 1995, Dookie has sold over 5 million
  copies in the USA alone it
• would eventually top 8 million in America,
  selling over 12 million
• copies internationally. Dookie also won a
  Grammy in for best
• alternative music performance of 1994.
• An interesting fact about Dookie is
  that on the back of the original copies, it
  showed a crowd holding up a stuffed Ernie doll
  from Sesame Street.
• The band had to later reprint Dookie's
  back minus Ernie because they were threatened
  with lawsuits. Also some copies of Dookie come
  with a brown tray for the CD.

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Insomniac

• Day quickly followed Dookie with
  Insomniac in the fall of charts with J.A.R.,
  their contribution to the soundtrack of the movie
  Angus. Insomniac performed well initually,
  entering the U.S. charts at number 2, and selling
  over 2 million copies by the spring of 1996, yet
  none ofits singles, including the rado favorite
  Brain Stew/Jaded, were as popular as those from
  Dookie.
• In the spring of 1996, Green Day cancelled
  an European tour, claiming exhaustion. Released
  by Reprise Records.
• All lyrics by Billie Joe. Produced by
  Rob Cavallo and Green Day. The artwork for this
  album is titled "God Told Me To Skin You Alive",
  by Winston Smith.

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Nimrod

• Released by Reprise Records. All lyrics by Billie
  Joe. Produced by Rob Cavallo and Green Day.
• Following the cancellation, the band spent
  the rest of the year resting
• and writing new material. The end result is what
  was called the best
• album of their career Nimrod. Nimrod
  was well received by most critics and fans. The
  album sold 80,000 copies in its 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 Much Music and MTV. The next
  single the band
• released would not make it to 1 but it's now
• probably the most well known song Green Day ever
  wrote. Featuring
• Billie Joe on accoustic guitar and vocals, Good
  Riddance (Time Of Your
• Life) became the song to play in any remotely sad
  situation. The song
• was even used on the final episode of the hit TV
  show Seinfeld (the
• most watched finale in the history of TV). Along
  with Seinfeld, the
• song was also played on 2 episodes of E.R..
  Nimrod has sold just over 2
• million, the lowest sales total out of their 3
  mayor label albums, but
• it probably garnered the band more respect than
  they could have
• expected with another Dookie or Insomniac.

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The lastest Green Day album American idiot
Release Date September 21, 2004 Track Listing
This album was released by Reprise
Records. Produced by Rob Cavallo and Green Day.
There is also a limited special edition
verison, which contains a 52 page color book.
1. American Idiot 2. Jesus Of Suburbia 3.
Holiday 4. Boulevard Of Broken Dreams 5. Are We
The Waiting 6. St. Jimmy 7. Give Me Novacain
8. She's A Rebel 9. Extraordinary Girl 10.
Letterbomb 11. Wake Me Up When September Ends
12. Homecoming 13. Whatsername
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Gallery
Click on the picture.
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Billie Joe's Tattoos
Here is a list of all the known tattoos of the
guys of Green Day.
1. Right arm Adrienne's (his wife) name, a
vine, and 2 angels facing each other and praying
(Jesus Christ Superstar logo). 2. Left arm A
baby smoking a cigar, a clown bracelet (clowns
holding hands), E.B.P.M. (East Bay Punk Mafia)
with a star on each side. 3. Left arm Jakob's
(his son) name in block letters with a soccer
ball, stars, and rockets around it.
4. Right arm All Ages written with a star
on each side, the Japanese symbols for pot and
pinhead, the Riverdales logo (the 27 with the
circle around it), Joseph's (his son) name. 5.
Right arm Looks like a photostrip of his wife,
Adrienne. 6. Waist/Hips The number 80 on the
left side, PUNX on the right side (not shown).
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Mike's Tattoos
1. Left shoulder/arm Building blocks, a
cross with a pyramid that has an eye in the
middle, water with a can that says "Product of
East Bay", a key with a heart at the end. 2.
Right shoulder/arm Estelle's (his daughter) name
with yellow and red stars, E.B.P.M. (East Bay
Punk Mafia) with a smilie face on the left side
and a sad face on other side, a picture of 45 RPM
adaptor for playing vinyls, the face from
1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours. 3. Right leg A
tribal around his ankle.
4. Left shoulder/arm A dagger with a snake
around it with the word "brother" inside of it
(Jason Andrew Relva, a friend who died in a car
accident, had the same tattoo), the Screeching
Weasel's symbol (inside right arm). 5. Right
upper arm The skull and cross symbol for the
Frustrators. 6. Right arm The Japanese symbol
for pot, another Japanese symbol
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Tre's Tattoos

• 1. Right shoulder E.B.P.M. (East Bay Punk
  Mafia), a broken window with a TV falling through
  it.