John Kiffmeyer

John Kiffmeyer (1990)

John Kiffmeyer alias Al Sobrante (born July 11, 1969 in California ) is an American musician and former drummer in the punk rock band Green Day . The stage name was given to him because of his hometown El Sobrante .

Life

As a student, Kiffmeyer attended De Anza High School in El Sobrante in Contra Costa County in the US state of California , where the yearbooks a. a. Kirk Hammett ( Metallica ), Les Claypool ( Primus ) and Larry LaLonde Possessed , later Primus.

He was the first drummer in 1987 for The Sweet Children , which later renamed itself Green Day .

Kiffmeyer played drums on the band's previous EPs and on the first Green Day album 39 / Smooth . In the fall of 1990 he left the band to go to Humboldt State University in Arcata . Kiffmeyer later joined the Berkeley band The Ne'er Do Wells , then the punk band The Ritalins .

He lives in San Francisco with his wife Greta, whom he married in the summer of 1994, and their son Lolo . Kiffmeyer works as a cameraman specializing in green screen recordings and mainly produces commercial work.

As part of their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame , Green Day played a concert in Cleveland on April 16, 2015, at which they surprisingly played their own supporting act in the original line-up with Kiffmeyer and under their original name The Sweet Children. The set with Kiffmeyer only contained songs from the band's first releases, most of which hadn't been played live since the early 1990s.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ben Myers: Green Day - American Idiots & The New Punk Explosion . Disinformation Books, New York 2005, ISBN 978-1-932857-32-0 , pp. 33 ( full text / preview in Google book search).
2. ^ Paul Brannigan, Ian Winwood, Birth School Metallica Death: The Biography . Droemer Knaur , Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-426-27647-1 , p. 70 ( full text / preview in Google book search).
3. ↑ Dan Kimpel: How they made it: true stories of how music's biggest stars went from start to stardom! Hal Leonard Corporation, 2006, ISBN 978-0-634-07642-8 , pp. 47 ( full text / preview in Google book search).
4. ^ The Work And History Of Green Day Music Essay. March 23, 2015, accessed March 3, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Kjersti Egerdahl: Green Day: A Musical Biography . Greenwood, Westport 2009, ISBN 978-0-313-36597-3 , pp. 34 ( full text / preview in Google book search).
6. ↑ James Harper: Lousy Timing: 9 Musicians Who Came This Close to the Big Time. In: guitartricks.com. June 12, 2014, accessed March 18, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Green Day Setlist at House of Blues, Cleveland. In: setlist.fm. April 16, 2015, accessed March 18, 2018 . 
8. ^ Matt Hendrickson: Green Day Return to the Stage With Raucous, Career-Spanning Cleveland Gig. In: Rolling Stone. April 17, 2015, accessed March 18, 2018 .