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Mike plays the bass guitar, sings in the background, & occasionally whacks around his baseball bat for effect. |
 Like
we said before, everything here is mostly from the back of the sick and
twisted minds of Mike & myself. This bio of Mike was not written
to be accurate, but rather to be amusing. Of course, most of it is
true, but the rest of it we threw in there for a laugh. So love it
or leave it, pal! |
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Mike Dirnt's childhood was like one big after school special.
First off, he was born Michael Ryan Pritchard on May 4, 1972. His
biological mother was a single heroin addict, & put him up for adoption
in hopes for the best for him. Looks like they eventually got their
wish! But it sure did take a while to get him there! Mike's
adoptive parents, a Native American mother & a white father, lived
in poverty. To top things off, they got divorced when Mike was 7.
He hopped from one parent's house to the other, here & there for a
while, then he finally settled in with his real mother when and she got
married to a guy after only knowing him one day. Mike got ever close
to his step dad. Then he died when Mike was 17. Things weren't looking
up for poor Mike Dirnt.
Mike's childhood wasn't all that sucky. He had some good times with his good buddy, Jason Relva (aka J.A.R.). They used to soak themselves in rubbing alcohol, light themselves on fire and go running down their street to scare the living shit out of their neighbors! Then they'd go roll around on a wet lawn. Now that's what I call a hobby! Unfortunately, the poor kid dies later on in our story. I don't know exactly when, so I'm just gonna stick it here. One day when Mike was a cute little boy in the 5th grade, he was sitting at the lunch table, minding his own business. Then, he finds himself talking about Metallica with a happy little chum named Billie Joe. Mike knew at that moment that he had found the one with him he wanted to spend the rest of his life... playing music, that is. What are you thinking, you pervert?! Anyway, back to Mike's crappy suck teen years. He hopped from job to job, eventually working steady at Rod's Hickery Pit with Billie's mother. Pretty soon, he found himself renting a room on the side of the Armstrong residence! Hey, all the other kids are all growed up & moved out, right? So Mike started to save like crazy... not only to pay the rent, but to buy a guitar so that he & Billie could start a band. Finally, he got enough cash to buy himself his very first gueetar. He later decided to switch to bass, so that he & Billie could start their band. Sweet Children started with a couple Metallica covers (of course), & the rest writes itself! A few years went by. The band changed their name to Green Day, got a record contract, made it big, signed with a major label, and lived happily ever after. Meanwhile, Mike married his girlfriend, Anastasia, in August of 1996. They now have a daughter named Estelle-Desiree, who was born in April 1997. Though Mike & Anastasia are now seperated, they are still very good friends. Mike didn't want the same thing that happened to his family as a kid to happen to Anastasia & Estelle. He admires how his daughter accepted the fact, calling her his hero. Mike has played with a few other Bay Area bands, including Screeching Weasel, Crummy Musicians, & Squirtgun, under his birth name, Michael Pritchard. He's got 7 tattoos, including his "39/smooth face" oh his arm, and one that only the really lucky ones get to see... but that's another story. |
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