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Green Day's Mike Dirnt: “My wife bought me a ’58 Olympic White Fender P-Bass - it eats my friends alive that I play it live” By Mike Brooks published 1 July 20 The icon of the low-end talks songwriting, collecting vintage basses and giving others to good causes
