“Where have all the bastards gone? / As your city's motto gets pulverized”
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Mike Dirnt
Michael Ryan Pritchard, better known by his stage name Mike Dirnt, is an American rock musician who is the co-founder, bassist, backing vocalist, and occasional lead vocalist of Green Day.
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entertainment · American rock musician (born 1972) · bassist · singer · songwriter · composer · musician · also Mike Dirnt, Michael Pritchard, Michael Ryan Pritchard, Dirnt
Born 4 May 1972 · Q713286
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2026· 70 entries
“You're not the Jesus of Suburbia / The Saint Jimmy is a figment of / Your father's rage and your mother's love / made me the idiot America”
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“Where will all the martyrs go when the virus cures itself? / and where will we all go when it's too late?”
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“So strike the fucking match to light this fuse”
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“He says, 'We're fucked up, but we're not the same/ and mom and dad are the ones you can blame.'”
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“Jimmy died today / he blew his brains out into the bay / In the state of mind / It's my own private suicide”
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“There's a glow of light / The St. Jimmy is the spark in the night / bearing gifts and trust / the fixture in the city of lust”
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“Summer has come and passed, / the innocent can never last, / wake me up / when September ends.”
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“And I walked this line / A million and one fucking times / But not this time”
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“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”
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“Read between the lines, what's fucked up and everything's alright”
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“Starry nights, city lights coming down over me”
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“My name is Jimmy / and you'd better not wear it out / Suicide commando that your momma talked about”
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“Cigarettes and ramen and a little bag of dope / I am the son of a bitch and Edgar Allan Poe”
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“Are you talkin' to me? I'll give you something to cry about!”
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“Give me a long kiss goodnight, and everything will be alright / Tell me Jimmy, I won't feel a thing”
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“She's a rebel / She's a saint / She's the salt of the Earth and she's dangerous”
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“She's a rebel, vigilante / Missing link on the brink of destruction”
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“Nobody likes you, everyone left you / They're all out without you having fun”
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“I here by solemnly swear to tell the whole truth/ And nothing but the truth is what I'll ever hear from you.”
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“Trust is a dirty word that comes from such a liar / But respect is something I will earn if you have faith”
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“Stepped out of the line/Like a sheep runs from the herd”
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“A free-for-all / FUCK 'EM ALL! / You are your own sight!”
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“Dawning of a new era / Calling, don't let it catch you/ Falling, ready or not at all”
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“Maybe I'm the faggot America, / I'm not part of a redneck agenda.”
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“Now everybody do the propaganda, / and sing along to the age of paranoia.”
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“I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies”
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“I'm the son of rage and love, / The Jesus of Suburbia”
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“It says: home is where your heart is / But what a shame / 'Cause everyone's heart / doesn't beat the same”
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“I read the graffiti / In the bathroom stall / Like the holy scriptures of a shopping mall / And so it seemed to confess / It didn't say much / But it only confirmed / That the center of the earth / Is the end of the world / And I could really care less”
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“Everyone's so full of shit / born and raised by hypocrites”
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“Dearly beloved are you listening? / I can't remember a word that you were saying”
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“Are we demented or am I disturbed? / The space that's in between insane and insecure”
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“Oh therapy can you please fill the void? / Am I retarded of am I just overjoyed?”
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“To live and not to breathe / is to die in tragedy / To run, to run away / To find what you believe”
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“And there's nothing wrong with me / This is how I'm supposed to be / In a land of make-believe / That don't believe in me”
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“You ain't worth the shit under my shoes or the piss on the ground”
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“No one loves you and you know / And you know it / Don't pretend that / You enjoy it / Or you don't care / Cause now I wouldn't lie / Or tell you all the things you wanna hear / Cause I hate you!”
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“Glory days don't mean shit to me / I drank a six-pack of apathy”
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“Life's a bitch and so am I / The world owes me, so fuck you”
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“It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right. / I hope you had the time of your life.”
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“So take the photographs and still frames in your mind / Hang them on a shelf in good health and good times / Tattoos of memories and dead skin on trial / For what it's worth, it was worth all the while”
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“What's the difference between you and me? / I do what I want, and you do what you're told.”
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“There's a drought at the fountain of youth / now I'm dehydrating.”
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“Fucked without a kiss again and dragged it through the mud”
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“Where do we go from here / And what did you do with the directions? / Promise me no dead end streets / And I'll guarantee we'll have the road”
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“I got a new start on a dead end road/ Peaked, peaked out on reaching new lows/ Owed, payed off all my debts to myself/ Perfect picture of bad health”
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“Uptight, I'm a nag with a gun / All night, suicide's last call”
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“Don't pat yourself on the back / you might break your spine”
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“Pressure cooker, pick my brain and tell me I'm insane / I'm so fucking happy I could cry”
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“We're living in repetition / Content in the same old schtick again”
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“'Cause I love you's not enough / I'm lost for words.”
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“Sugar and spice and everything nice wasn't made for only girls / GI Joe in panty hose is making room / for the one and only / King for a Day, Princess by dawn / King for a Day -- in a leather thong...”
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“Waiting in a room / All dressed up and bound a gagged / Strapped to a chair / It's so unfair / I won't dare to move / For the pain she puts me through is what I need / So make it bleed”
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95.9 The Rat: Green Day Bassist Mike Dirnt to Sell Career-Spanning Gear Collection on Reverb
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chorus.fm: Green Day’s Mike Dirnt Selling More on Reverb
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Guitar.com: Green Day bassist Mike Dirnt is selling Dookie-, Nimrod- and American Idiot-era gear and clothing on Reverb
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RockFM: Mike Dirnt (Green Day) pone a la venta bajos y equipos míticos de la era de 'Dookie'
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Far Out Magazine: Here's how you can own Green Day's Mike Dirnt's bass guitars
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Reverb: Mike Dirnt's Reverb Shop is coming...
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Guitar World: “There’d be a 20-foot fire going, and my bass and Tré’s kit are burning while Billie’s playing Time of Your Life”: Green Day's Mike Dirnt is selling iconic gear – from Dookie era and beyond – on Reverb
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Reverb: Green Day's Mike Dirnt Is Selling a Career-Spanning Collection of Gear on Reverb
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Yahoo: Green Day's Mike Dirnt is selling some of his most iconic gear – from Dookie era and beyond – on Reverb
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Yahoo: Green Day’s Mike Dirnt to Sell One-of-a-Kind Bass Guitars, Clothing, More on Reverb
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chorus.fm: Mike Dirnt Talks With Rock Sound
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Rock Sound: INTERVIEW: Green Day’s Mike Dirnt On ‘Nimrods’ Movie: “When You’re Young, Everything’s An Adventure…”
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ScreenRant: Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong, Tré Cool & Mike Dirnt Talk Nimrods And Needle Drops
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Public attention spiked: 2,847 Wikipedia readers in one day, 5.2× the usual 544, with 0 article edits. Coverage that week: “Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong, Tré Cool & Mike Dirnt Talk Nimrods And Needle Drops” (ScreenRant).
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The Lufkin Daily News: Green Day – from left, Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool – perform at the 1994 edition of Woodstock.
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BroadwayWorld: Mike Dirnt Photos
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2025· 1 entry
Dirnt and his Green Day bandmates received a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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2021· 1 entry
Rolling Stone: Billie Joe Armstrong Remembers Meeting Mike Dirnt in Clip From Audible Original
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2015· 1 entry
Dirnt and his Green Day bandmates were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in their first year of eligibility
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2012· 1 entry
During the iHeartRadio Music Festival, Dirnt and Armstrong smashed their respective bass and guitar after Armstrong became agitated onstage and ranted about Green Day's set being cut short
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2010· 1 entry
Dirnt helped develop an updated Super Bassman model; it has since become his main amplifier
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2009· 1 entry
Married Brittney Cade in a private ceremony in Brittney's hometown of Ojai, California
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2004· 2 entries
“I've been waiting a lifetime / For this moment to come I'm / Destined for anything at all / Dumbstruck, color me stupid / Good luck, you're gonna need it / Where I'm going if I get there at all / Wake up / Better thank your lucky stars”
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Married girlfriend Sarah Garrity in a private villa in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
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2003· 1 entry
Using Bassman Pro and TB-1200 heads with 8×10 Pro cabs
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2000· 3 entries
“Sanitation, expiration date, QUESTION EVERYTHING!/ Or shut up and be a victim of authority.”
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“CAUTION: POLICE LINE, YOU BETTER NOT CROSS! Is the cop or am I the one that's really dangerous?”
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“Loose ends tied in knots leaving a lump down in my throat / I'm gagging on a souvenir / Lodged to fill another year / Well dragging on and on until my skin is ripped to shreds / I'm leaving myself open wide/ Living out a sacrifice”
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1997· 2 entries
“Red eye, code blue, / I'd like to strangle you.”
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“Dickhead, fuck-face, cock-smoking, motherfucking, asshole, dirty twat, waste of semen, I hope you die ~ HEY!”
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1989· 1 entry
The band recorded its debut album, 39/Smooth, over the 1989 Christmas holiday break
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1972· 1 entry
Born 1972-05-04.
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