Mike Dirnt celebrates his 38th birthday today. Mike Drint whose full name Micheal Ryan Pitcahrd 4 may 1972, in Berkeley, California, USA.
I hope he will be the greatest bassist in the world ^^
Here some history about Mike Drint :
Full Name: Michael Ryan Pritchard (Dirnt)
Age/Birthdate: 37; May 4, 1972
Hometown: Berkeley, California, USA
Eye Color: Blue
Natural Hair Color: Brown
Height: 5'10"
Marital Status: Married first wife, Anastacia in 1996. Later remarried second wife, Sarah in 2004 but then divorced. Mike and his wife Brittney, married on March 14, 2009.
Children: Daughter, Estella Desiree (Stella), born April 1997, to Anastacia; Son, Brixton Michael, born October 11, 2008 to Brittney
Family: Mike was adopted. His adoptive parents divorced when he was 7, and both are now remarried. Mike has at least one step sister, named Myla.
Instruments: Bass, farfisa, guitar, drums, and a baseball bat.
Restaurant: Mike owns
Rudy's Can't Fail Cafe, in Emeryville, CA.
Other Bands: Mike still plays with The Frustrators. He has also played with Screeching Weasel, Crummy Musicians, and Squirtgun. Most recently he has been playing with the Network and
Foxboro Hot Tubs.
Michael Ryan Pritchard, now known as Mike Dirnt, was born on May 4, 1972. Mike's mother was a heroin addict. He was given up for adoption when he was a baby to a Native American mother and a white father. When he was 7, his adoptive parents got a divorce. Mike lived with his father for a while, but confrontations sent him back to his mother. He lived there on the borderline of proverty, while his sister left home at the age of 13. "There were all sorts of things happening," says Mike. "When I was in fourth or fifth grade, my mom stayed out all night, came home the next day with a guy, and he moved in. I'd never met the guy before, and all of a sudden he's my stepdad. We didn't get along for years. Later on, when I hit high school, my mom moved away from us, and me and my stepdad got real close. He instilled a lot in me. The one thing my family did give me is blue-collar morals. But then he died when I was 17."
By that point, Mike had already moved out, leaving home when he was 15 to live out of his truck. He then rented a room in Billie's mom's house, and later he lived in a punk squat. Billie and Mike began living for their weekends at the Gilman Street Project. Mike still continued to go to school, play in Sweet Children (which later became Green Day, of course), and live on his own. He supported himself by working as a cook. Mike almost didn't graduate from high school, because his mother refused to sign one of his mandatory-attendance forms. "I took my mom aside," Mike says. "I said, 'This is how it is. You have so much shit going on in your life, so if once every semester you ask me if I've done my homework and jump all over my case, that's not right. Have I failed yet? No. And I'm going to graduate if you stay off my back. The one time in your life you chose to have morals, and it's going to fuck me up. Don't play mom once a year. It doens't fucking cut it.'" In the end, Mike did graduate from high school, and he even took more than a year's worth of courses at a community college. Then Billie and Mike moved into a squat in Oakland, California (the inspiration for "Welcome to Paradise").
Mike married his long-time girlfriend Anastacia in 1996, and their daughter, Estella-Desiree, was born in April 1997. Mike loves his daughter very much, and his nickname for her is "Hero." Today, Mike and Anastacia are divorced but still remain very good friends. He remarried in 2004 to Sarah, however his wife left him because he was spending too much time in the studio recording American Idiot. Mike married his wife, Brittney, in March of 2009. He and Brittney welcomed the birth of their son, Brixton Michael, on October 11, 2008. He and his family now reside in Oakland, California. Mike also owns a cafe/resturant named
Rudy's Can't Fail Cafe, named after a song by the Clash. The cafe is located in Emeryville, CA.
Check out this interview with Mike Dirnt, from a recent NBC news report. He gives a mini tour around the newly opened Rudy's Cafe. 
At last, Mike now have a account in Twitter, This news has been confirmed by Green Day's official website at Greenday.com. 
Last night Mike Dirnt was in the audience to watch Billie Joe perform as St. Jimmy in the American Idiot musical. At the end of the show, the entire cast comes out and performs Good Riddance - but last night Billie pulled Mike up on stage to play the rest of the finale.
Mike Dirnt did an interview with Radio W discussing Green Day's upcoming show on October 10th in Bogota, Colombia 
The Mike Dirnt Macbeth Studio Project: Available July 2010Pre-sale begins June 1 exclusively on Maxim.com- Stay tuned to www.macbeth.com for more info.
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