Billie Joe Armstrong (Quis Writing 1)

My idol is Billie Joe Armstrong. He is the vocal and guitarist for the American punk rock band Green Day.
Billie Joe Armstrong was born in Piedmont, California, a small town surrounded by the city of Oakland, and was raised in Rodeo, California, as the youngest of six children to Andrew "Andy" Armstrong and Ollie Jackson. His father worked as a jazz musician and truck driver for Safeway Inc,  to support his family. He died of esophageal cancer on September 10, 1982. The song "Wake Me Up When Sepyember Ends" is a memorial to his father. He has five older siblings: David, Alan, Marci, Hollie, and Anna. His mother worked at Rod's Hickory Pit restaurant (now closed, with a Target store taking its place) in El Cerito. Armstrong and Mike Dirnt's first live performance was at Rod's Hickory Pit in 1987; their first performance under the name Green Day was in Davis, a college town approximately an hour's drive northeast of the Bay.

Armstrong's interest in music started at a young age. He attended Hillcrest Elementary School in Rodeo, where a teacher encouraged him to record a song titled "Look for Love" at the age of five on the Bay Area label Fiat Records. After his father died, his mother married a man whom her children disliked, which resulted in Armstrong retreating further into music. Armstrong wrote a song about him called "Why Do You Want Him?" at age 14, which was reportedly the first song he wrote At the age of 10, Armstrong met Mike Dirnt in the school cafeteria and they immediately bonded over their love of music^. He became interested in punc rock after being introduced to punk rock by his brothers. Armstrong has also cited Minneapolis-based bands The Replacements and Husker Du as major musical influences.
Armstrong attended John Swett High School, also in Crockett, and later Pinole Valley High School in Pinole, California, but then dropped out to pursue his musical career.

In 1987, Armstrong formed a band called Sweet Children with childhood friend Mike Dirnt at the age of 15. In the beginning, Dirnt and Armstrong both played guitar, with John Kiffmayer, also known as Al Sobrante, on drums, and Sean Hughes on bass. After a few performances, Hughes left the band in 1988; Dirnt then began playing bass and they became a three-piece band. They changed their name to Green Day in April 1989, allegedly choosing the name because of their fondness for marijuana. Tre Cool eventually became Green Day's drummer in late 1990 when Sobrante left Green Day in order to go to college. California punk band Ranci's lead sing Tim Armstrong asked Armstrong to join his band, but he refused due to the progress with Green Day. Cool made his debut on Green Day's second album, Kerplunk. With their next album, Dookrie (1994), the band broke through into the mainstream, and have remained one of the most popular rock bands of the 1990s and 2000s with over 60 million records sold worldwide. In 2009, their hit American Idiot became a musical on Broadway.


Apart from working with Green Day and side-band Pinhead Gunpowder, Armstrong has collaborated with many artists over the years. He has co-written for The Go-Go's ("Unforgiven") and former Avengers singer Penelope Houston ("The Angel and The Jerk" and "New Day"), co-written a song with Rancid ("Radio"), and sung backing vocals with Melissa Auf De Maur on Ryan Adams' "Do Miss America" (where they acted as the backing band for Iggy Pop on his Skull Ring album ("Private Hell" and "Supermarket"). Armstrong has produced an album for The Riverdales. He has also been confirmed to be part of a side project called The Network, which released an album called Money Money 2020. Money Money 2020 was released on Adeline Records, a record label co-owned by Armstrong.



He is multitalented and the best guitarist.I am a one of the his fans. All the song so interesting for me. I hope his band would come to my country.Finally he a rockstar man.

Bukittinggi

West Sumatera has many cities. The most famous is Bukittinggi. Bukittinggi is one of the larger cities in West Sumatera. Most tourism come to Bukittinggi, because Bukittinggi has many tourist objects, the cultere, the weather is so fresh and many more.

Jam Gadang is the unique tourist object in Bukittinggi. Jam Gadang built an architect Yazid Sutan Dental Amehin 1926. It`s an icon that became the pride of Bukittinggi. Jam Gadang has an unsolved mistery until now, the mistery that is unique Jam Gadang, namely the number for on the hour which should be when written in Roman numeral is IV, but written with the number one (I) Roman as many as four pieces, namely IIII.

There is a Canyon in Bukittinggi called Sianok Canyon. Sianok Canyon is a steep valley located in the border town of Bukittinggi with district IV Koto,Agam regency.
The fauna found such long-tailed, monkeys, gibbons, hoop, deer, wild boar, leopard, and tapirs.

Also there is "Nasi Kapau" which has becoma famous in Bukittinggi. The Bukittinggi administration has especially provided space for the seller of this specific rice menu from the Kapau region. Restaurant serving Minangkabau cuisine are widely known, both in West Sumatera and thoughtout the archipelago, as Rumah Makan Minang.

Beside that, Bukittinggi has natiral nature bacause the located between two mountains Merapi and Singgalang.
That is all of many factors why the most people and tourism come to Bukittinggi. Basicly, Bukittinggi is a beutiful city.