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Profile of Mike Dirnt on Famous Like Me

 
Name: Mike Dirnt  
   
Also Know As:
   
Date of Birth: 4th May 1972
   
Place of Birth: Berkeley, California, USA
   
Profession: Composer
 
 
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Mike Dirnt from the video of Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Michael Ryan Pritchard (born May 4, 1972) is the bassist for the punk band Green Day. He got the stage name Mike Dirnt from his school days, when he would pretend to play the bass in school, making a noise of someone playing single notes on a bass, which sounded like "Dirnt, dirnt, dirnt."

Pritchard met Billie Joe Armstrong in 1982, a few months before Armstrong's father died. He first founded Sweet Children with Armstrong, and then Green Day in 1988. Some years before, Mike moved in with Billie-Joe because his adopted mother and sister moved away from Rodeo. Mike didn't want to move away from his new found best friend and love for music.

Pritchard went to Salesian High School as a freshman but graduated from Pinole Valley High in 1990.

He used to play an old Gibson G-3 bass, but during Nimrod, Billie got Mike his first Fender Precision Bass. He later asked Fender if they could make him a custom P-Bass, and the result is a bass modeled after the 55' P-Bass with a split-coil pickup in the middle. It was released in early 2004.

Pritchard is also bassist in another band called The Frustrators. He was the bassist for Chicago punk band (and Lookout Records labelmates) Screeching Weasel on the album How to Make Enemies and Irritate People, and also appeared as a guest vocalist on the debut album by Squirtgun (yet another Lookout Records recording artist).

Fan Clubs

In response to Green Day's rising popularity, a small group have risen, calling themselves the Pants Mike Brigade. The people who make up this group are all rabid Mike fans, and are all members of the Geek Stink Breath message boards. These people are known as 'Pantsers'. Members have committed themselves to 'Pants Mike' and get it on tape/video/any other form of media. Various clubs have formed out of the Brigade including the Mike Dirnt is God Club.

It is said that one of the brigade's members scored backstage passes to a Green Day concert, and informed Mike of the brigade's plans. His exact response was, "Maybe I'll show everyone someday," followed by a wink. Another pantser decided to scream "PANTS MIKE!" at a Green Day concert. The result of that was a puzzled look on the part of both Billie Joe and Mike.

Also, pantsers enjoy RPing situations between the members of Green Day or coming up with new ways to pants Mike. Pantsers also entertain the possibility of a Tre/Mike sex tape which they like to believe is "coming soon!"

To find out more information on this group, visit the Geek Stink Breath message boards or the Pants Mike Brigade.


Marriages and children

Prichard married his girlfriend Anastasia in 1996, and had a daughter named Estelle-Desiree (b. April 1997). They divorced in 1999 because of the pressures of Mike being in Green Day.

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