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Green Day
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Background information
OriginOakland, California, USA
Years active1988 – present
MembersBillie Joe Armstrong
Mike Dirnt
Tré Cool

Green Day is a California based pop punk/punk rock band the band will "take their time" before making a follow-up to American Idiot: "We'll probably start writing after the first of the year and then just regroup. We've gotta take our time — this year was such a big year for us. I think it's a good time to regroup and have good substance to write about instead of hopping into something really fast."

Finally coming off the road means the band can "get back to some of the other aspects of what we do," bassist Mike Dirnt says, "whether it's recording or just getting back into the creative process again." Although Armstrong says discussions about the next album will begin this month, he says not to expect anything too soon. "We'll start .com that individual ideas for new songs are germinating. "We always share everything that we're doing. Right now, it's a lot of writing for ourselves and it's staying right there for right now and then [we'll] start to put the puzzle together and then try to up the ante a little bit."

Line-up

Backing members

  • Jason White: Second Guitar, Backup Vocals (1999-present)
  • Jason Freese: Keyboard/Piano, , Backup Guitar, Accordion, Backup Vocals (2003-present)
  • Ronnie Blake: Trumpet, Timpani/Percussions, Backup Vocals (2005-present)
  • Mike Pelino (from The Enemies): Third Guitar (2004-present)

Former members

Other projects

The Network

Main article: The Network

In 2003, during time Green Day spent in the studio, a New Wave band appeared on the scene, known as The Network. Three of five members of the band are also members of Green Day. The frontman, known only as "Fink", is Billie Joe Armstrong. Armstrong has referred to himself as Wilhelm Fink in the past and Fink's identity is confirmed on his [[Pinheaddirector of "Live Freaky Die Freaky," starring Green Day and other East Bay punk alumni, and Green Day's DVD Documentary "Heart Like A Hand Grenade," has spoken of various projects recorded at Studio 880, including a New Wave album and a Christmas album, during the sessions of their latest album. Studio 880 is the credited Network's Money Money 2020 album and Green Day's American Idiot. No official connection has been made between the two bands, and both bands have defended, sometimes aggressively (in a probably staged press conference where some members from both bands engaged in a heated argument then broke out in a minor conflict), the lack of connection between the two.

The end of the American Idiot tour saw The Network support Green Day three times, along with Jimmy Eat World, playing the opening slot.

Charity events

Green Day performed at the Live 8 concert on, 2005 in Berlin, Germany, where they played "Holiday," "American Idiot," "Minority" and a rendition of Queen's "We Are The Champions."

The band also contributed a prerecorded performance to the Hurricane Katrina Benefit relief event on September 10, 2005 from their perf the prior week at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts. The televised portion (shown on MTV and VH1) showed the trio performing their latest single, "Wake Me Up When September Ends."

Discography

Main article: Green Day discography

References

Notes

  1. ^ {{Web reference | title=Green Day — How the brats grew up, bashed Bush and conquered the world | work=Rolling Stone | url=http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/6959133/greenday?pageid=rs.News&pageregion=single2&rnd===External links==
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