Mike Dirnt..

BassSurfer · #1 10-24-2006, 07:27 PM

Hey guys what do you all think of him?

I mean the old Mike Dirnt like songs like No one Knows etc.. i love his playing and tone. espically back in the old days.. i remember being a kid and hearing those sick fills, solos etc..

Anyone else have similar stories etc?

vindy500 · #2 10-24-2006, 07:28 PM

just recently ive rediscovered greenday

i remember these songs when i was a kid, pre teens sorta age, and just recently hearing em, wow that songs greenday??? and this one? whoa cool, lol

BassSurfer · #3 10-24-2006, 07:32 PM

heh yeah ive been a fan since the kerplunk era.. and always knew about slappy hours.. but yeah listen to no one knows off kerplunk.. amazing.. and hes truthfully a great bassist..

Mojo-Man · #4 10-25-2006, 03:30 PM

I dig the band as a whole.

Mike's playing is solid, but I don''t listen to Green Day,
for his bass playing.

MammaryVest · #5 10-26-2006, 09:51 AM

I know this guy who is an unreasonably huge fan of Greenday, and thinks that mike is the best bassist around. For this reason, I now can't stand them. Mike Dirnt is no more than the average run-of-the-mill bassist. Nothing about his playing is outstanding.

JamesM · #6 10-26-2006, 05:30 PM

Hes a great bassist. Great tone and he comes up with some pretty cool unique bass lines.

Dash Rantic · #7 10-26-2006, 05:57 PM

He's a very good bassist IMO. It's too bad that he toned it downa bit on American Idiot, but that's the only bad part of an otherwise great album.

But yeah, I love his lines. Not the best bassist in the world, but definitely one of the better punk bassists. It seems he always has great lines to add

I hope he'll break out more on their new album (supposedly they're recording it now!).

-Dash

Tbirdbassist · #8 10-26-2006, 06:26 PM

He's a very solid palyer in my eyes. He has some very cool catchy/rememberable lines on the older stuff.

BassSurfer · #9 10-26-2006, 07:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MammaryVest

I know this guy who is an unreasonably huge fan of Greenday, and thinks that mike is the best bassist around. For this reason, I now can't stand them. Mike Dirnt is no more than the average run-of-the-mill bassist. Nothing about his playing is outstanding.

you obviously never ever never heard of old green day havent you?

MammaryVest · #10 10-26-2006, 08:59 PM

Yeah, that's obviously my problem...Longveiw is like the holy grail of bass playing. He can obviously play a song, But that's to be expected. I don't consider someone a great bassist unless they exeed expectations.

BassSurfer · #11 10-26-2006, 09:33 PM

well.. my friend you have not heard the real mike dirnt then.. and no im not saying " longview " listen to no one know's off kerplunk if you can or check his sick lines and fills from dookie... and every cd pretty much...

MammaryVest · #12 10-26-2006, 09:53 PM

It sure doesn't sound like your expecting me to be blown away.

vindy500 · #13 10-27-2006, 12:01 AM

people who knock on other bassists only do so because they are jealous and are trying to make themselves feel better. f ex. mark hoppus sucks he only plays simple lines, really means, its not fair i can play way cooler sounding stuff but he makes 100x more money than me

or mike dirnt sucks, look who's successful guys, who's making more album sales mike dirnt or victor Wooten? you see, victor wooten may be a more talented bassist but mark hoppus is more famous, so whos more succesful? (im using hoppus coz he gets so much hate here on tb)

patrickj · #14 10-27-2006, 12:44 AM

I've always been a Green Day fan, but I never really considered Dirnt anything special (just a good rock/punk bassist) until seeing him on the Bullet In A Bible DVD. The man has chops.

MammaryVest · #15 10-27-2006, 07:21 AM

I'm pretty sure if there are enough people who say someone is not that good a bassist, it may not be from jealousy, and there could be a chance that they really aren't that good a player. Like I said, The guy can play a song, but that doesn't make him a great bassist, it just means he can kind of play. He's never done anything out of the ordinary. Maybe someday if salary becomes the official measuring stick of success, I'll change my mind.

cowsgomoo · #16 10-27-2006, 07:45 AM

his bass playing works great for the band he's in...

and that's all you can ask of any bass player anywhere

BassSurfer · #17 10-27-2006, 08:03 PM

its just cause most of the people here just credit him for american idiot stuff... but no one really knows the old stuff and his amazing things.. download no one know's off kerplunk to see what i mean

BassoProfondo · #18 10-27-2006, 08:46 PM

BassSurfer, you're obviously a huge fan of Greenday and that's cool.

He uses a pick, loses points with me just based on that. No right hand technique.
He plays ok, nothing more to me. His playing fits the simple chords of Greenday. Compare him to a Mike Watt with the minutemen or firehose, and he doesn't register on the same scale to me.

If he's a "great" bassist, what does that make Larry Graham or Geddy Lee?

patrickj · #19 10-27-2006, 09:04 PM

In Bullet In A Bible (2 day live DVD show in the UK) he does this great swing/jazzy walking bass thing finger style (had to see it and in the context of the event - I actually was mighty impressed), which is entirely why I bump him up a bunch of knotches. He can definitely do quite a lot more than what we only see him do in Green Day [which he does well imo].

$.02

Dash Rantic · #20 10-27-2006, 10:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BassoProfondo

He uses a pick, loses points with me just based on that. No right hand technique.

Sorry man, but a stupid statement like that makes you lose ALL points from me. There's plenty of upsides to pick playing, and plenty of downsides to fingerstyle.

And BTW, I am a fingerstyle-only player. But I've seen plenty of pickstyle bassists who are great... Oh, and how about that Bill Clements, plays only by tapping on his left hand? By your logic, he must be a REALLY terrible player since he doesn't even have a right hand.

-Dash