Green Day's punk rock band from USA formed in 1987. year. The group consists of Billie Joe Armstrong (lead vocalist and guitarist), Mike Dirnt (bass guitarist and vocalist) and Tré Cool (drummer, vocalist and percussionist). Formation and Lookout! Records (1987th-1993rd) [edit]
1987th The Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt formed satav called Sweet Children. The first performance was held at Rod's Hickory Pit in Vallejou in California. 1988th joins them and drummer John Kiffmeyer (aka Al Sobrante). Besides being the drummer, Kniffmeyer was also a "manager" group, dealing with the organization of appearances. Soon, they observed Larry Livermore, owner of Lookout! Records and invited them to sign a contract to his label. 1989th year, they recorded their first EP, 1,000 Hours. Before leaving the EP, the band has decided to dismiss her former name of Sweet Children, and rename it to Green Day, because on the local scene was present composition with a similar name, Sweet Baby.
1990. The group issued their first album 39/Smooth, and later that year and released two EPs and Slappy Sweet Children. 1991st released a compilation album 1.039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours, containing songs from the album 39/Smooth and EPs 39/Smooth, Slappy and 1,000 Hours.
In mid-1990th , shortly after their first tour, Kiffmeyer left the band in order to finish college. Then they are from the group joined the Lookouts current drummer Tre Cool. With a new member of the group recorded and issued second album Kerplunk. Kerplunk was in the U.S. selling over 50,000 copies, which was a great success for the satav from the independent punk scene 1992nd year.
Breakthrough success (1994th-1996th) [edit]
Kerplunk great popularity in the underground scene was interested in big publishing houses, Green Day, and the group left Lookout! and signed a contract with Reprise Records, after having attracted the attention of producer Rob Cavallo. Moving into a larger label, the group lost a lot of fans with the punk scene, which were then called "sold souls."
In February 1994. The released their third studio album, Dookie, who achieved huge success and the group brings fame. The singles "Longview," "Basket Case" and "When I Come Around" take first place in the rock charts. That same year, Green Day starts the first major tour with queercore band Pansy Division as an opening act. The group has also performed at Lollapalooza and Woodstock in 1994, at which have caused infamous mud fight. During the chaos that has emerged in the audience and on stage security guard was mistakenly replaced by bassist Mike for a fan from the audience and he while trying to remove him from the stage broke a few teeth. After the Woodstock group receives significant media attention, which affects the sales of their album, which acquired the diamond circulation. 1995th The group received a Grammy Award for Dookie in the category "Best Alternative Album".
1995. Group publishes new single "J.A.R." that appears on the soundtrack of the movie "Angus". "J.A.R." quickly climbed to the top of Billboard's Modern Rock chart. Shortly after the single "J.A.R." released fifth studio album called Insomniac. Insomniac was a much harder and darker than melodic album Dookie. As the album cover was taken of the image "God Told Me To Skin You Alive" by Winston Smith.
Insomniac has been well received, although it was not so much selling as Dookie. From the album were released singles "Geek Stink Breath," "Brain Stew / Jaded" "Walking Contradiction" and "Stuck With Me." Green Day for Insomniac won several awards, American Music Awards 1996th , and the video for the song "Walking Contradiction" was nominated for a Grammy. Group the same year, embarks on a tour of Europe, but in the end canceled several concerts due to exhaustion and a desire to spend more time with their families.
Nimrod and Warning (1997th-2002nd) [edit]
After the break, 1996th, Green Day 1997th started working on a new album. The group and producer Rob Cavallo agreed that the new album will be different from previous works. The result was Nimrod, who by the sound of deviated from the standard punk rock sound to listeners who were accustomed to. The new album is released 1997th years and contained a variety of musical styles, from punk rock, surf rock and ska, to an acoustic ballad. On the albums released singles "Hitchin 'a Ride," "Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)" "Redundant" and "Nice Guys Finish Last," from which "Good Riddance" achieved the greatest success, and won the MTV Video Award in the category Best Alternative Video. The song also appears in the final episode of Seinfeld in two episodes of "ER (Emergency Department). That same year the group has performed in the U.S. animated series "King of the Hill", in the episode entitled "The Man Who Shot Cane Skretteberg.
In 2000. Green Day released Warning, which is the sound went a step further in the direction outlined by the Nimrod. The album was the best received by audiences and critics made a gold circulation, unlike the previous albums have earned platinum. From the album are the singles off "Minority" "Warning" "Waiting" and "Macy's Day Parade, the largest of which had a successful single" Minority ".
During the next few years coming greatest hits album International Superhits! and a compilation album, Shenanigans, which contained the B side of their previous singles, including the instrumental song "Espionage" which appears in the film "Austin Powers: The Spy Who caught me," and who was nominated for a Grammy in the category "Best Instrumental song" .
In the spring of 2002. The Green Day went on tour with the band Blink 182, entitled "Pop Disaster Tour. The tour is presented in the documentary film "Riding in a van with boys."
American Idiot and renewed popularity (2003rd-2006th) [edit]
In the summer of 2003. The group began working on a new album, working title Cigarettes and Valentines. Once recorded 20 tracks, the master tapes were stolen from the studio. Group despite the trouble, decided not to try to record stolen album, but they decided to start over with a vow to be even better than stolen. At the same time, the group collaborated with Iggy Pop on his album Skull Ring. Also, the group was in serious "band therapy," which included a long conversation, in an attempt to reduce the differences between members of the group following accusations bassist Mike and drummer Trea that Billie Joe "Nazis in the band" because it is constantly exposed and neglects other members to be in the spotlight.
2004th album, American Idiot, which now sits on the Billboard charts the first place, and the first single "American Idiot" became a huge hit. The album is called "punk rock opera centered on a fictional action figure called" Jesus of Suburbia "(" Jesus of Suburbia "). American Idiot won a Grammy for "Best Rock Album" and the band swept the MTV Music Awards, winning seven awards out of eight nominations, including the cherished Viewer's Choice Award.
During 2005. The composition of the odžao 150ak appearances in which he promoted the new album as well as their longest tour, which visited Japan, Australia, South America and the UK, where the two performed together for more than 130,000 people. During the American Idiot tour, recorded the two concerts at the National Bowl in Milton Keynes in England, which according to the magazine Kerrang! proclaimed "the best show on Earth."
These recordings were released as a live CD and DVD called Bullet in a Bible 15th November 2005. year. CD / DVD featuring hits from the album American Idiot, as well as songs from previous albums, but the album Kerplunk and 1.039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours. DVD also contained footage from backstage, and preparing for performances. The last concert of their tour 2005th were in the 14 and 17 December in Sydney and Melbourne in Australia. 10th January 2006. was awarded People's Choice Award for most popular group.
1st August 2005. Green Day has released news that denies the rights of her former publishing house Lookout! Records on the older material, citing portions of the contract related to unpaid fees for copyrights. Similar complaints had other bands that were once under the Lookout! Records. The pre-Dookie material, which was released almost a year, was re-issued under their current Reprise Records 9th January 2007. 2006th The Green Day won a Grammy for "Song of the Year" with the song "Boulevard of Broken Dreams," which spent 16 weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.
In an interview with Kerrang! Billie Joe revealed that the 2008th was able to get out of their eighth studio album. In October 2007. The Billie Joe has discovered more about the new album, saying that the songs written on piano, and wrote about 45 songs. He noted that he wanted the new material shows how it feels in middle age.
Foxboro Hot Tubs and the 21st Century Breakdown [edit]
Musical style and influences [edit]

Green Day's sound is often compared with the first wave of punk bands like Ramones, The Clash, Sex Pistols, The Jam and Buzzcocks. Most of their songs consist of distorted guitars, fast, manic drums and the slow, heavy bass. Most of the songs are faster and shorter than the average of 4 minutes (4:00). Billie Joe Armstrong said it was the most affected group of Husker Dü and The Replacements, which can be felt by the alternating chords in their songs. Green Day has also arranged a group Husker Dü song "Do not Want to Know If You Are Lonely," a character "Mr. Whirly "in their song" Misery "is taken from the homonymous group Replacements song. Armstrong verses commonly describe alienation ("Jesus of Suburbia," "Boulevard of Broken Dreams," "Road to Acceptance," "Disappearing Boy", "Castaway"), hysteria ("Basket Case", "Panic Song"), girls ( "She", "80" "Only of You," "Maria," "She's a Rebel"), growing up ("Longview" and "Welcome to Paradise"), and the effects of drugs ("Geek Stink Breath", "Green Day "). Ramones have similar themes in songs such as hysteria," Anxiety, "" Psycho Therapy "), alienation (" Outsider "," Something To Believe In "), girlfriend (" I Want to Be Your Boyfriend, "" Sheena Is a Punk Rocker ") and drug (" Now I Want to Sniff Some Glue, "" Chinese Rocks "). Green Day has a few songs featuring the Ramones, including the song" Outsider "for the tribute album" We're a Happy Family "and performance of songs "Blitzkrieg Bop" and "Teenage Lobotomy" when the Ramones were introduced into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002..
Criticism and controversy [edit]

With the release of the album Dookie and the amount of which is shown on MTV, Green Day has been criticized by those who see punk as a social movement independent of corporate sponsorship. With the release of the album [American Idiot]] band has encountered similar criticism. As the matter appeared characterization of their musical direction. In response to the musical style and their history, many fans and musicians have expressed serious charges for using the term punk when it comes to Green Day.
Also, Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher was izkritizirao song "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" as a copy of their hit "Wonderwall."
Other projects [edit]

Since 1991. year, some group members had other projects with other groups and musicians. Important projects related to Green Day as Pinhead Gunpowder, whose band the Billie Joe Armstrong (Green and Dayev extra guitarist and longtime friend of the band Jason White), The Frustrators which is a member of bassist Mike Dirnt, and The Network, a group in which all three members play under pseudonyms. Also, all three gang members were part of a group Foxboro Hot Tubs.
Green Day has teamed up with the band U2, and are jointly recorded the song "The Saints Are Coming" to help raise money for Music Rising organization whose goal is to buy musical instruments for musicians who lost their due to Hurricane Katrina. The group also began to collaborate with the organization NDRC in ecological campaign "Move America than oil."
Green Day recorded a cover song John Lennon's "Working Class Hero" for the album Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur, together with twenty other musicians. 2007th The band appeared in a cameo in The Simpsons Movie, which also recorded the song "The Simpsons Theme".

Band members [edit]

The current setup [edit]
Billie Joe Armstrong - lead vocalist, guitarist (1987th - present)
Mike Dirnt - bass guitar, backing vocalist (1987th - present)
Tré Cool - drummer, percussionist, backing vocalist (1990th - present)
Former members [edit]
John Kiffmeyer - drummer, percussionist, backing vocalist (1987th-1990th)
Current members on tours [edit]
Jason Freese - keyboards, piano, trombist, saxophone, accordion, backing vocalist (2003-present)
Jason White - the capital and rhythmic guitarist, backing vocalist (1999th - present)
Mike Absinthe - a rhythmic guitarist, backing vocalist (2004th - present)
Ronnie Blake - trumpet, timpanist, percussionist, backing vocalist (2004 - present)
Former members of the tour [edit]
Kurt Lohmiller - trumpeter, timpanist, percussionist, backing vocals (1999th-2004th)
Gabrial McNair - trombonist, saxophonist (1999. - 2001.)
Garth Schultz - trombonist, trubarč
Session musicians [edit]
Rob Cavallo - piano on the album American Idiot (2004).
Stephen Bradley - trumpet on Warning (2000.) And Nimrod (1997).
Petra Haden - violin on Nimrod (1997).
Gabrial McNair - trombonist on Nimrod (1997).