Michael Ryan Pritchard (born May 4, 1972) is best known as the bassist of Green Day. While at school, he would play "air-bass." While pretending to pluck the strings, he made the noise, "dirnt, dirnt, dirnt," so his schoolmates started to call him "Mike Dirnt". He used to play a Gibson G-3 bass, but during Nimrod., Tré Cool accidentally broke it on stage trying to show fan Brendan Taylor how to spin a bass around his back. Armstrong then sent Dirnt's bass tech out to get him a new bass. It resulted in a '69 Fender Precision Bass. He later asked Fender to make him a custom P-Bass, and the result is modeled after the '51 P-Bass with a '59 Custom Shop "Hot Rod" Split-Coil Pickup, a BadAss III bridge and a thinner neck. It was released in early 2004. Armstrong credits Dirnt as "The best bass player in the history of punk rock."
Don't fret. When I Come Around is on the playalong page.
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