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In 1987, childhood friends Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt (both 14 years old) formed a two person 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.
[6] In late 1989, Armstrong, Dirnt and John Kiffmeyer (aka
Al Sobrante) formed Green Day, allegedly choosing the name for their fondness of
marijuana.
[7] Green Day performed its first show in the courtyard of
Contra Costa College, a junior college in
San Pablo, California that Sobrante attended.[
citation needed]
Larry Livermore, who played guitar for
The Lookouts and ran the
Berkeley, California independent label Lookout! Records, offered the band a record deal after hearing them play. The band, he said, played the show like "
The Beatles at
Shea Stadium"
[8][9] In late
1989 they released their first
EP,
1,000 Hours, and quickly followed it up with their first
LP,
39/Smooth in early
1990.Green Day printed a fictional letter purporting to be from
I.R.S. Records that claimed the label had made an attempt to sign them. In a mock reply to the fictional letter, the band made it clear that they were loyal to Lookout! Records, saying that I.R.S. was a cheesy and washed-up label.
[10] They recorded two more EPs later that year:
Slappy and
Sweet Children, the latter of which included some older songs for the
Minneapolis, Minnesota 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 moved to
Arcata, California to attend college.[
citation needed] Lookouts drummer Tré Cool began filling in as a temporary replacement, and when it became clear that Sobrante did not plan on committing to the band full time, Tré Cool's position as Green Day's drummer became fixed. The band went on tour for most of 1992 and 1993, and played a stretch of shows overseas in
Europe. They headlined a gig at the Hollywood Palamino club in
1992 with
Jughead's Revenge and
Strung Out, a show that would become legendary among the band's following.[
citation needed] Kerplunk sold about 50,000 copies in the U.S.,
[11] which was considered quite a large amount for the independent punk scene in 1992. It eventually sold over 2 million albums worldwide.
Breakthrough success (1994–1996)
Kerplunk!'s underground success led to a wave of interest coming from major record labels, and eventually they left Lookout! on friendly terms and signed with
Reprise Records after attracting the attention of producer
Rob Cavallo. Signing to Reprise caused many punk rock fans to regard Green Day as
sellouts.
[12] Reflecting on the period, Armstrong told
SPIN magazine in 1999, "I couldn't go back to the punk scene, whether we were the biggest success in the world or the biggest failure ... The only thing I could do was get on my bike and go forward."
[13] They then went to work on recording their major label debut, Dookie.
Released in February of 1994, and recorded in a mere 3 weeks, Dookie became a commercial sensation, helped by extensive
MTV airplay for the videos "
Longview," "
Basket Case," and "
When I Come Around," all of which sat in the #1 position on the
Modern Rock Tracks charts. That year, Green Day embarked on a nationwide tour with
queercore band
Pansy Division as their opening act. The band also joined the lineups of both the
Lollapalooza festival and
Woodstock 1994, where they started an infamous mud fight. During the concert, a security guard mistook bassist
Mike Dirnt for a stage-invading fan and punched out some of his teeth. Viewed by millions via
pay-per-view television, the Woodstock 1994 performance further aided Green Day's growing publicity and recognition,
[14] and helped push their album to eventual
diamond status. In 1995, Dookie won the
Grammy Award for
Best Alternative Album and the band was nominated for 9 MTV Video Music Awards including Video Released in February of 1994, and recorded in a mere 3 weeks, Dookie became a commercial sensation, helped by extensive
MTV airplay for the videos "
Longview," "
Basket Case," and "
When I Come Around," all of which sat in the #1 position on the
Modern Rock Tracks charts. That year, Green Day embarked on a nationwide tour with
queercore band
Pansy Division as their opening act. The band also joined the lineups of both the
Lollapalooza festival and
Woodstock 1994, where they started an infamous mud fight. During the concert, a security guard mistook bassist
Mike Dirnt for a stage-invading fan and punched out some of his teeth. Viewed by millions via
pay-per-view television, the Woodstock 1994 performance further aided Green Day's growing publicity and recognition,
[14] and helped push their album to eventual
diamond status. In 1995, Dookie won the
Grammy Award for
Best Alternative Album and the band was nominated for 9 MTV Video Music Awards including Video of the Year.
[15]In 1995, a new single for the
Angus soundtrack was released, titled "
J.A.R.." The single went straight to #1 on the Billboard
Modern Rock Tracks chart. The song was followed by their new album,
Insomniac, which was released in the fall of 1995. Insomniac was a much darker response by the band, compared to the poppy, more melodic Dookie.
[14] Insomniac opened to a warm critical reception, earning 4 out of 5 stars from
Rolling Stone Magazine, raving "In punk, the good stuff actually unfolds and gains meaning as you listen without sacrificing any of its electric, haywire immediacy. And Green Day are as good as this stuff gets."
[16]Insomniac used a piece of art by
Winston Smith entitled
God told Me To Skin You Alive for its album cover. Smith said to drummer Tré Cool that if he ever needed album artwork, that he should call him. Singles released from Insomniac were "
Geek Stink Breath," the radio-favorite double single "
Brain Stew/Jaded," "
Walking Contradiction," and "
Stuck With Me." One track, "86," was a reference to the Gilman Street club refusing them entry after the release of Dookie, claiming that they had "gone too commercial." Though the album didn't approach the success of Dookie, it still sold seven million copies
[12] in the United States. Insomniac won the band award nominations for Favorite Artist, Favorite Hard Rock Artist, and Favorite Alternative Artist at the 1996
American Music Awards, and the video for "Walking Contradiction" got the band a Grammy nomination for Best Video, Short Form, in addition to a Best Special Effects nomination at the MTV Video Music Awards.
[17] After that, the band abruptly cancelled a European tour, claiming exhaustion.
[18]Nimrod and Warning: (1997–2002)
After taking a break in 1996, Green Day began work on a new album in 1997. From the outset, both the band and Cavallo agreed that the album had to be different from their previous records.
[19] The result was
nimrod., an experimental deviation from the band's standard pop-punk brand of music. The new album was released in October 1997. It provided a variety of music, with everything from upbeat pop-punk, laid-back surfer rock, and peppy, silly ska, to an acoustic ballad. nimrod. entered the charts at number 10, thanks to the surprise hit "
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)," an acoustic ballad that singer Billie Joe almost did not place on the album for fear of it being too different from the band's usual style. The success of "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" won the band an MTV Video Award for Best Alternative Video for the song's video, which depicted people undergoing major changes in their lives while Billie Joe Armstrong strummed his acoustic guitar.
[20] Other singles released from nimrod. were
Nice Guys Finish Last,
Hitchin' a Ride and
Redundant. Nimrod. also featured one of the band's live staples, "
King for a Day," which, when played live, is accompanied by Billie Joe wearing a crown and/or cape. After the release of nimrod, Green Day took a two-year break, deciding to step back from the spotlight and spend some time with their new families.
In 2000, Green Day released
Warning:, a step further in the style that they had hinted at with nimrod. Changes in their personal lives were reflected in the more mature and straightforward approach they took to their music, replacing nearly adolescent mantras of masturbation with more introspective statements. Critics' reviews of the album were fairly positive, although the album was greeted with mixed reviews within their fan base, who had grown accustomed to their 1990s pop punk sound. Though it produced the hit "
Minority" and a smaller hit with "
Warning," some observers were coming to the conclusion that the band was losing relevance, and a decline in popularity followed. While all of Green Day's past albums had reached a status of at least double platinum, Warning: was only certified gold. Although the band felt this was some of their strongest work to date, the decline of sales fueled questions regarding the band's future.
At the 2001 California Music Awards, Green Day won all eight awards that they were nominated for. They won the awards for Outstanding Album (Warning:), Outstanding Punk Rock/Ska Album (Warning:), Outstanding Group, Outstanding Male Vocalist, Outstanding Bassist, Outstanding Drummer, Outstanding Songwriter and Outstanding Artist.
[21]The release of a Greatest Hits compilation,
International Superhits!, and the token complementary assemblage of B-sides,
Shenanigans, only fueled the theory that Green Day's career was on the rocks. International Superhits and its companion collection of music videos, titled
International Supervideos! sold reasonably well, going platinum in the
U.S. Shenanigans sported the band's b-sides, including "Espionage" which was featured in
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me and was nominated for a Grammy for
Best Rock Instrumental Performance. "
Ha Ha You're Dead," recorded specifically for Shenanigans, is seen as the highlight of the album.
In 2002, Green Day co-headlined the
Pop Disaster Tour with
blink-182 helped to resurrect some of the band's popularity, and earned the group many positive concert reviews. The band decided to take some more time off after the Pop Disaster Tour closed, to spend more time with their families.
American Idiot and renewed popularity (2003–present)
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.
[22] After completing 20 tracks, the
master tapes were stolen from the studio. The band, understandably upset, chose not to try to re-create the stolen album, but instead started over with a vow to be even better than before. In this same year, Green Day collaborated with
Iggy Pop on two tracks for his album
Skull Ring. In addition, they 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"
[23] and a show-off bent on taking the limelight from the other band members.
The resulting 2004 album,
American Idiot, debuted at #1 on the
Billboard charts, the band's first ever album to reach #1, 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".
[24] Also the album marked a significant growth in the band as musicians. 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.
[25]Through 2005, the band toured in support of the album with about 150 dates — their longest tour in their career — visiting
Japan,
Australia,
South America and
the UK, where they drew a crowd of 130,000 people over a span of two days - one of the largest crowds ever drawn for a rock concert. While touring for American Idiot, they filmed and recorded the two concerts at the
Milton Keynes National Bowl 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 their 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 their 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.
On
August 1,
2005, it was announced that Green Day had rescinded the master rights to their pre-Dookie material from Lookout! Records, citing
breach of contract regarding unpaid royalties that had been ongoing for some time, and with other Lookout! bands as well. The pre-Dookie material was reissued by their label, Reprise, on
January 9,
2007.
[26]In 2006 Green Day won the
Grammy Award for Record of the Year for "
Boulevard of Broken Dreams"
[27] which spent 16 weeks at the number one position of Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks, a record it shares along with
Red Hot Chili Peppers' "
Scar Tissue" and
Staind's "
It's Been Awhile". Green Day was also nominated for Best Rock Video for "
Wake Me Up When September Ends" at the 2006 MTV Video Music awards, but lost to
AFI's "
Miss Murder". Both the music videos "Wake Me Up When September Ends", "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams" retired showing on
TRL after being on the top ten for 50 days each.
In September 2006, Green Day teamed up with
U2 and producer
Rick Rubin to record a cover of the song "
The Saints Are Coming" with an accompanying video, originally recorded by
The Skids. The song is to benefit Music Rising, an organization to help raise money for musicians' instruments lost during
Hurricane Katrina, and to bring awareness on the eve of the one year anniversary of the disaster.
In December 2006, Green Day and
NRDC opened a web site in partnership to raise awareness on America's dependency on Oil.
[28][29]Future plans
The video of Jesus of Suburbia is stated to be a prequel to their upcoming film, American Idiot: The Motion Picture. In an interview with
Billboard magazine, Billie Joe Armstrong revealed that the group are still considering turning their alternative rock opera into a film, in much the same spirit as the Beatles'
Yellow Submarine,
Pink Floyd's
The Wall and
the Who's
Tommy and
Quadrophenia. The band has stated they have no intentions to act in the movie, although they may make an appearance.
Lou Taylor Pucci and
Kelli Garner from the "Jesus of Suburbia" music video could make an appearance if the motion picture does go into production. Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has said "It's definitely unfolding. Every single week there's more ideas about doing a film for American Idiot, and it's definitely going to happen."
[30]The band's official website stated on September 2 that the band was back from their "summer vacation" and was back in the studio working on new material. A recent edition of
NME has an interview with Green Day discussing future plans. The band said they have three albums' worth of material, all different types of music. The first is another American Idiot-style album, the second experimental type music (such as
The Clash's
Sandinista!), and the third, hard and fast punk music, much like their Insomniac album. Recently, in an interview with
Kerrang!, Billie Joe Armstrong revealed that it will be a "fair estimation" that the new album will be released in 2008.
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