Pixies, Paul McCartney and Lorde performed in the past between desert shows, and on April 17, Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt of Green ... and Bill Schneider on bass. When festival ...

The guitarist’s side-project includes Green Day bass player Mike Dirnt and touring foil Jason ... It shows that just because guitar solos are a rare breed in Green Day’s music, doesn’t ...

“Me, Mike [Dirnt, bass], and Billy Joe [Amstrong, guitar] from Green Day would jam all the time,” Barker relays. “At the end of the tour Mike was like, ‘Dude, I want to give you this bass!

To Mike Hall, the bass guitar is not simply a background instrument; it’s a tool of creative expression. Inspired by bass-playing virtuosos such as Red Hot Chili Peppers Flea, Metallica’s ...

Epiphone has raided the Gibson archives to reanimate the Grabber Bass, a lost classic bass guitar made famous by the likes of Krist Novoselic, Mike Dirnt and perhaps most notably Gene Simmons. The ...

“Dilemma” started off with a snippet of “Free Fallin’” by Tom Petty, and then Armstrong and Dirnt lived out “a dream come true” as they were moving their guitars in sync at center ...

Main members Billie Joe Armstrong (vocals, guitar), Mike Dirnt (bass), Tre Cool (drums) and touring musicians Jason White (guitar), Kevin Preston (guitar), Coley O' Toole (keyboards). (Video by ...

By Isabella Kwai Reporting from London No one seemed to know what had happened to one of the most important bass guitars in music history, though in the decades since it went missing there had ...