Green Day is an American punk rock band formed in 1987. The awesome members include: Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, and Tré Cool.
In 1987, friends Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt, 15
years old at the time, formed a band called Sweet Children. The first Sweet
Children show took place on October 17, 1987, at Rod's Hickory Pit in Vallejo,
California where Armstrong's mother was working. In 1988, Armstrong and Dirnt
began working with former Isocracy drummer, John Kiffmeyer (also known as Al
Sobrante). Kiffmeyer served as both the band's drummer and business manager,
handling the booking of shows and helping the band establish a fan base. As
said in the film Punk's Not Dead, Armstrong
cites the band Operation Ivy (which features Tim Armstrong and Matt
Freeman of Rancid) as a major influence, and a band that drove Billie Joe to form a band.
Larry Livermore, owner of Lookout! Records, saw the band
play an early show and signed them to his label. In 1989 they recorded their
first EP, 1,000 Hours. Before 1,000 Hours was released, the band dropped the
name Sweet Children, according to Livermore this was done to avoid confusion
with another local band Sweet Baby. Lookout! would release Green Day's first
LP, 39/Smooth in early 1990. Green Day would record two EPs later that year:
Slappy and Sweet Children, the latter of which included some older songs they
had recorded for Minneapolis indie label Skene! Records. In 1991, Lookout!
Records released 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours, a compilation of the
39/Smooth, Slappy, and 1,000 Hours EPs. In late 1990, shortly after the band's
first nationwide tour, Sobrante left the East Bay area to attend college. The
Lookouts drummer Tré Cool began filling in as a temporary replacement, and when
it became clear that Sobrante did not plan to commit to the band full time, Tré
Cool's position as Green Day's drummer became permanent. The band went on tour
for most of 1992 and 1993, and played a stretch of shows overseas in Europe.
The band's second full length album Kerplunk sold about 50,000 copies in the
U.S which let to there break out success in 1994-1996. By now, they had already
put out Dookie and Insomniac. From 1997-2002 there was a fall in popularity.
This was when they made Nimrod and
Warning which are some of my favorite albums.
But then Green Day struck a chord all over the world when
they released American Idiot in 2004. In the summer of 2003 the band went into
a studio to write and record new material for a new album, tentatively titled
Cigarettes and Valentines. After completing 20 tracks, the master tapes were
stolen from the studio :(. The band chose not to try to re-create the stolen
album, but instead started over :). By the end of 2003, Green Day collaborated
with Iggy Pop on two tracks for his album Skull Ring. On February 1, 2004 a new
song, a cover of "I Fought the Law" made its debut on a commercial
for iTunes during NFL Super Bowl XXXVIII. The band underwent serious "band
therapy," engaging in several long talks to work out the members'
differences after accusations from Dirnt and Cool that Armstrong was "the
band's Nazi" and a show-off bent on taking the limelight from the other
band members.
The resulting 2004 album, American Idiot, debuted at number
one on the Billboard charts, the band's first ever album to top the chart,
backed by the success of the album's first single, "American Idiot."
The album was billed as a "punk rock opera" which follows the journey
of the fictitious "Jesus of Suburbia". American Idiot won the 2005
Grammy for "Best Rock Album" and the band swept the 2005 MTV music
awards, winning a total of seven of the eight awards they were nominated for,
including the coveted Viewer's Choice Award.
Through 2005, the band toured in support of the album with
about 150 dates — the longest tour in its career — visiting Japan, Australia,
South America and the United Kingdom, where they drew a crowd of 130,000 people
over a span of two days. While touring for American Idiot, they filmed and
recorded the two concerts at the Milton Keynes National Boal in England, which
was voted 'The Best Show On Earth' in a Kerrang! Magazine Poll.
These recordings were released as a live CD and DVD called
Bullet in a Bible on November 15, 2005. This CD/DVD featured hits from American
Idiot as well as a few songs from all its previous albums, except
"Kerplunk" and "1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours". The DVD
featured behind-the-scenes footage of the band, and showed how the band
prepared to put on the show. The final shows of its 2005 world tour were in
Sydney, Australia, and Melbourne, Australia, on December 14 and 17
respectively. On January 10, 2006 the band was awarded with a People's Choice
Award for favorite group.
Green Day engaged in several other smaller projects in the
time following the hype of American Idiot. Green Day released a new album under
the band name Foxboro Hot Tubs entitled Stop Drop and Roll!!!. In 2008, the
Foxboro Hot Tubs went on a mini-tour to promote the record, hitting tiny Bay
Area venues including the Stork Club in Oakland and Toot’s Tavern in Crockett,
CA. One song, “Ruby Room,” even gives a shout-out to the Oakland dive bar where
“the Pabst Blue Ribbon unravels.”
In an interview with Kerrang!, Armstrong revealed that 2008
would "be a fair estimate of the release date of their new untitled eighth
studio album for Green Day." In an interview with Carson Daly, Garbage
lead singer Shirley Manson revealed that Butch Vig would be producing Green
Day's forthcoming album.] The span of nearly five years between American Idiot
and 21st Century Breakdown was the longest gap between studio albums in Green
Day's career. The band had been working on new material since January 2006. By
October 2007, Armstrong had 45 songs written, but the band showed no further
signs of progress until October 2008, when a video of the group recording with
producer Butch Vig in the studio was posted on YouTube. Two videos showing the
band in the studio were posted on YouTube. In the tour section of the band's
official website, the message "World Tour coming soon!" is shown. The
writing and recording process, spanning three years and four recording studios,
was finally finished in April 2009.
The new album, titled 21st Century Breakdown, was released
on May 15, 2009. The album had mainly positive reception from critics, getting
an average rating between 4 and 5 stars. After the release, the album hit #1 in
fourteen different countries, hitting Gold or Platinum in each. 21st Century
Breakdown achieved Green Day's best chart performance to date. The band started
playing shows in California in April and early May. It was their first live
show in about 3 years. Green Day is currently on a world tour that started in
North America in July, 2009 and continuing around the world throughout the rest
of 2009 and early 2010.
It has also been announced that Green Day will be getting
their own Rock Band video game entitled Green Day: Rock Band. A trailer of the
game was shown during the Spike TV Video Game Awards 2009. It was released on
June 8, 2010.
Green Day do plan on having a follow up album within the
next couple years, but no specific dates have been stated. They have said that
they are writing new material. In a recent interview with Kerrang magazine,
Armstrong spoke about the possible new album: “We did some demos in Berlin,
some in Stockholm, some just outside of Glasgow and some in Amsterdam,” he
tells K!. “We wanted get [the songs] down in some early form."
Their latest release was a live album called "Awesome
as F***" which sold many lot and got great reviews.
List album green day:
Smoothed Out Slappy Hours
Rilis tanggal: April 19, 1991
Di rilis ulang oleh Reprise Records: January 9, 2007
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Kerplunk
Rilis tanggal: Januari 17, 1992
Di rilis ulang oleh Reprise Records: January 9, 2007
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Dookie
Rilis tanggal: Februari 1, 1994
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Insomniac
Rilis tanggal: Oktober 10, 1995
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nimrod.
Rilis tanggal: Oktober 14, 1997
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Warning
Rilis tanggal: Oktober 3, 2000
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Shenanigans
Rilis tanggal: Juli 2, 2002
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American Idiot
Dirilis tanggal: September 21, 2004
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21st Century Breakdown
Dirilis tanggal: mei 15, 2009
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Awesome As Fuck
Dirilis tanggal:maret 22,2011
eir latest release was a live album called "Awesome as
F***" which sold many lot and got great reviews.
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