Good Charlotte

[*SK8ER Girl*]

"GOOD CHARLOTTE"

5 punk lads, are you ready for them !?!

Billy

Joel
Benji
Paul
Chris

Name : Billy Dean Martin (Guitar)

D.O.B. : June 15, 1981

Hometown : Naptown, MD
Height : 5' 11"
Eye Colour : Blue
Clothing : Dickies, Puma, East Coast Clothing, Volcom, Tribal Gear
Gear : Paul Reed Smith Guitars, Mesa-Boogie Amps, Boss effect pedals
Pets : (Bunji, Sam, Cash)-Dogs, (Nelly, Nelson, Stellar)-cats, and 127 hamsters
Fav. Food : Pizza, Food with peanut butter in it, sushi, bean burritos
Fav. Colour : Black
Fav. Movies : Star Wars, The Crow, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Nightmare Before Christmas
Fav. T.V. Show : The Simpsons
Fav. Cereal : Anything with Marshmallows in it....Lucky Charms, Boo Berry....
Fav. Star Wars : Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Fav. Famous Chick : Too hard....Angelina Jolie, Mandy Moore, Jennifer Lopez, Christina Aguilera
Fav. Holiday : Christmas
Fav. Restaurant : Taco Bell
Fav. Rapper : Don Gilmore
Fav. Ice Cream : Ben and Jerry's Peanut Butter Cup
Fav. Superhero : Batman

Name : Joel Rueben Madden aka "Sickboy" (Vocals)

D.O.B. : March 11, 1979

Hometown : Waldorf/Naptown
Height : 5' 9"
Eye Colour : Brown
Clothing : Diesel, Dickies, Docs, studded jewelery, and belts, t-shirts, eastcoast clothing, evolve clothing, boxers (sometimes boxer briefs)
Pets : Cash (the #1 stunner)
Fav. Food : Cookies (snicker doodles), and anything home cooked
Fav. Colour : Baby blue
Fav. Movie : Any Star Wars and Trainspotting
Fav. T.V. Show : The Simpsons, martin, southpark, and seinfield
Fav. Cereal : Cinnamon Life
Fav. Star Wars : Episode 1: The Phantom Menace
Fav. Famous Chick : Natalie Portman
Fav. Holiday : Christmas
Fav. Restaurant : Rubio's (on the west coast) Acme (in Naptown)
Fav. Rapper : Tupac (the greatest of all time)
Fav. Person In History : Elvis, or James Dean
Fav. Ice Cream : Mint chocolate cookie
Fav. Super Hero : Spiderman

Name : Benji Levi Madden aka "Kid Vicious" (Guitar/Vocals)

D.O.B. : March 11, 1979

Hometown : Waldorf/Naptown
Pets : Cash (dog)
Height : 5' 7"
Eye Colour : Brown
Clothing : my bondage pants/shorts, grinders, chuck taylors, t-shirt, eastcoast clothing
Gear : soldano hot rod 100, marshall vintage series cabinet, 68' telecaster, custom 22 prs.
Fav. Food : free food, pizza
Fav. Colour : black and baby blue
Fav. Movie : another state of mind, sid and nancy
Fav. TV Show : the simpsons, Saturday night live, 7th heaven (jessica beale)
Fav. Cereal : count chocula or Boo berry
Fav. Star Wars : the empire strikes back
Fav. Famous Chick : jessica beale
Fav. Holiday : Christmas
Fav. Restaurant : Acme Bar&Grille in Annapolis
Fav. Person In History : Martin Luther King Jr.
Fav. Super Hero : the toxic avenger

Name : Paul Anthony Thomas a.k.a. St. Paul (Bass)

D.O.B. : October 5, 1980

Hometown : Waldorf
Height : 5'9"
Eye Colour : Brown
Clothing : Doc's, East Coast Clothing, Dickies, Band T-Shirts
Gear : 5 string Tobiaz Killer B, David Eden World Tour amp, David Eden cabinets
Pets : Max, Sweat pea, Cash (the biggest playa in nap town)
Fav. Food : anything Italian
Fav. Colour : black or grey
Fav. Movie : Jacob's Ladder
Fav. T.V. Show : The Simpsons
Fav. Cereal : Golden Grahams
Fav. Star Wars : Return of the Jedi
Fav. Famous Chick : Christina Ricci
Fav. Holiday : any day that I get off
Fav. Restaurant : The Palm in NYC
Fav. Rapper : Prodigy
Fav. Person In History : Doc Holliday
Fav. Ice Cream : cookies and cream
Fav. Super Hero : Mighty Mouse

Name : Chris Wilson (Drums)

D.O.B. : May 5, 1981

Hometown : Provo, Utah
Eye Colour : Brown
Hair Colour : Used to be black, but now he's bald!
Fav. Colour : Pink

Who are they ?

Billy Martin:

Other Things I love :Drawing, Comic books, Cartoons, girls, going online, music in general, sleeping, tattoos

Things I Don't Love : People who dont use their blinkers, really lazy people, meat, annoying people, turtlenecks, snakes

Musical Influences/Favourite Bands : silverchair, Incubus, Deftones, Michael Jackson, Lit, Linkin Park, Orgy, KoRn
Favourite Part Of Being In GC : Getting to meet new fans across the whole U.S. every day with my best friends

Joel Madden :

Other Things I Love :Anything starwars, going to the movies by myself, cooking, toys, sushi, girls, spiked hair, piercings, tattoos, the east coast, the west coast, clean socks, jewelery, getting mail, shopping malls, veggie burgers,

Things I Don't Love : Waking up, wasabi, rainy days, humidity, every math teacher I've ever had, manual labor, 6th & main, bitter ex-football players

Musical Influences : The smiths, the cure, beastie boys, weezer, cash money millionaires, green day, goldfinger, mxpx, social distortion, depeche mode, the lemonheads, ben lee, the clash, Jimmies chicken shack, Tupac, Fiona Apple, bjork, everclear, nirvana
Favourite Part Of Being In GC : Our fans are always really cool and interesting people, and travelling around the country, and hopefully the world, meeting them is awesome. Especially with my bros.........

Benji Madden:

Other Things I Love : 63' chevy impala, punk rock shows, punk rock girls, girls with tatoos and piercings, goth girls, old clothes, old junk stores, my bicycle, cashdog

Things I Don't Love : humidty, politicians, food poisoning, and anything else I might not like at that certain time

Musical Influences : Minor threat, Rancid, Government issue, Greenday, the clash, Ben Lee, the sex pistols, the beastie boys, Apoptygma Berzerk, MxPx, Oasis, Nirvana, Evan Dando, Dave Grohl, Everclear, Mc Hammer, Goldfinger

Favourite Part Of Being In GC : being able to hang out with my best friends and do what I love to do the most.

Paul Thomas:

Other Things I Love :reading Shakespeare amongst many other awesome authors, my family, my bed at home that i never see, my GC scooter, and my pets

Things I Don't Love : being homesick, not having enough underwear and socks on the road, humidity, dumb muscle heads, my high school math department, and the fact that I can actually miss Waldorf

Musical Influences : Pixies, Joy Division, Bauhaus, Sebadoh, Skinny Puppy, Mobb Deep, Wu-Tang, Tool, The Misfits, Lagwagon, Rage Against the Machine, New Order, and Fugazi
Favourite Part Of Being In GC : the fact that i get to do all of this with my best friends

Chris Wilson:

Bet you didn't know...

GC got to know Chris through the band The Used.

Chris used to play drums in a band called ECO.

Chris first met GC on the 7th of November in his hometown, Utah.
As a fan of Good Charlotte, Chris already knew how to play the songs before he joined the band.
When doing recent interviews and photo shoots, Chris was in the background 'cause GC wanted to make sure he was the right one.

How did they meet?

Twin brothers Benji and Joel (born 3/11/79) grew up in a lower middle-class family in the town of Waldorf, Maryland-"the middle-of-nowhere suburbs," says Benji.

"Ours was definitely a dysfunctional family situation," he admits, "but luckily me and Joel always had each other. When things started to fall apart, we just got into music." The twins' older brother Josh turned them on to influential albums by Rancid, Minor Threat, the Cure, the Smiths, and many more.
Benji began teaching himself guitar at 16; Joel gravitated towards lead vocals. "Right away, Joel and I started thinking up songs," Benji recalls. "We'd go straight to our room after school, singing and playing for hours every day."
After Paul (bass) and Billy (guitar) joined, Good Charlotte took their name from a children's book and played their first gig in a neighbor's basement for an audience of 20. "We only played our own songs-we weren't good enough to learn anyone else's songs!"
The brothers dedicated themselves to their music, although they had almost no money for equipment and no connections in the industry. They cut their first demo, wrote their own bio, and began mailing packages off to a list of record companies obtained from a magazine.
"I wrote this letter saying, we're Good Charlotte and if you sign us now it will be a lot cheaper than if you wait!" recalls Benji. "Our ignorance was kind of a blessing. We couldn't be discouraged by knowing too much about how the business really works."
Benji and Joel graduated high school in June 1997, and for a graduation present the twins' mother presented them with a pair of open airline tickets to California. "Some of our favorite bands like Green Day had started out at this East Bay club called 924 Gilman Street. So when we graduated, that summer we made a pilgrimage to visit the club. We'd never even been on a plane before, but we have an aunt in Berkeley who let us crash with her."
The brothers returned to Maryland, newly inspired and more determined than ever. They left home and moved to Annapolis, played many more shows both electric and acoustic, and worked "all kinds of shitty jobs-I've had over 30 of them," says Benji. "It was a struggling time in our lives, but it was also a great time. It's good to be hungry sometimes."
When Billy joined on second guitar, Good Charlotte was complete. The band won a local contest, and their song "Can't Go On" was included on a sampler of area talent. They attracted the interest of a manager, and Lit offered a support slot on a series of sold-out East Coast dates.
"We had no money, no transportation, and no way to do the gigs. Our mom was living in like a shed on a neighbor's property, and the only thing she really owned was a mini-van. She said, you guys take the mini-van to play the shows and I'll catch rides or walk to work. That just shows you how she's been there for us the whole time."
"By the time we played New York with Lit, in December 1999, all the labels turned out. We signed our deal in May 2000, in the studio where we were recording, and the album Good Charlotte (Epic) came out in September."
By then, the quintet was on the road non-stop. Three months of dates with MXPX segued into the 2001 W.A.R.P. tour, then into more gigs up until Christmas Day (off), followed by still more gigs including a trip to Australia and New Zealand (where their debut went platinum). Through this intensive roadwork, Good Charlotte built an avid fan base-and MTV took notice, giving extensive airplay to the band's videos for "Little Things," "Motivation Proclamation," and "Festival Song." At this writing (August 2002), Benji and Joel are hosting MTV's "All Things Rock," which airs Monday through Thursday after 11 PM (ET).
Honesty is the thread that runs through every song on The Young and The Hopeless and binds Good Charlotte to their devoted fans. "I don't think we're better than any other band," says Benji, "although I do think we're more sincere, more real, than some of them. We want to be judged for what we're really doing, not put in a genre with a bunch of other bands with which we have nothing in common."
"We have a lot more to say than some of the bands we're compared with, and I hope people will hear it on this album. The kids that we were, five years ago-I just want to give those kids something to help them through the day."

THE END

[Val3]

That Joel guy's nickname is sickboy and he likes trainspotting. I think I like the real sickboy from trainspotting! Get yer own nickname.

[*SK8ER Girl*]

Originally Posted by Val3

That Joel guy's nickname is sickboy and he likes trainspotting. I think I like the real sickboy from trainspotting! Get yer own nickname.

Billy .Joe l& Benji thy R lok like sickboys

[Val3]

mm.. Ok. well, great job cutting and pasting!

[lol]

I THINK G.C ARE A GOOD BAND CANT UNDERSTAND Y PPL DNT LIKE THEM?? IM REALLY LIKEIN THE RIVER JUST NOW. CHECK IT OUT

[O Captain My Captain]

Because they're posers and some of their music sucks.

[Jasmina23]

I like them!!! especially their last album my fav are: Misery, Keep Your Hands Of My Girl and Broken Heart Parade

[Val3]

Originally Posted by thnksfrthSTDbtch

Because they're posers and some of their music sucks.

"Yeah. Good Charlotte? How about Bad Green Day." - Chris Rock

Did you know that thier mom bought them plane tickets to Oakland, CA, just so they could play some dingey slimey disgusting bars on Gillman Street just because Green Day used to play there. Slimey disgusting clubs are the same everwhere. Jeez, make your own scene where you come from... Oh wait, yeah I forgot. You guys suck. SO HARD.

"Your mom does not count as a fan." - Guitar Hero II

[St. Jimmy]

...What's wrong with their mom buying plane tickets? it was a graduation present. Dingy clubs are the same, but scenes aren't. The Gillman St. scene is legendary for west coast punk. There... there is no scene in fuckin' Waldorf, Maryland.

I mean... it kind of pains me to actually be sticking up for Good Charlotte right now, but come on... there is a lot to pick on them for, why focus on something that... isn't even a bad thing anyway?