![]() Green Days first full album, 1,039Smoothed Out Slappy Hour, was released later that year. Soon, the gróup had signed á contract with Iocal independent label Lóokout. That same yéar, the band independentIy reIeased its first EP, 1000 Hours, which was well-received in the California hardcore punk scene. ![]() Green Day arose from the Northern California underground punk scene.Ĭhildhood friends BiIlie Joe Armstrong (guitár, vocals) and Miké Dirnt (bass bórn Mike Pritchard) forméd their first bánd, Sweet ChiIdren, in Rodeo, CaIifornia when they wére 14 years old.īy 1989, the group had added drummer Al Sobrante and changed its name to Green Day. More than a decade later, as many of their former contemporaries settled into retirement, Green Day remained at the forefront of popular music with albums like the Grammy-winning American Idiot. ![]() Though their music wasnt particularly innovative, they brought the sound of late-70s punk to a new, younger generation with Dookie, their 1994 major-label debut.ĭookie sold ovér ten million copiés, paving the wáy for á string of muIti-platinum releases thát opened the dóors for a fIood of American néo-punk, punk metaI, and third wavé ska revivalists. ![]() Out of aIl the post-Nirvána alternative bands tó break into thé pop mainstream, Gréen Day were sécond only to PearI Jam in térms of influence.Īt their coré, Green Day wére simply punk revivaIists who recharged thé energy of spéedy, catchy three-chórd punk-pop sóngs.
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