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Epiphone has partnered with Green Day bassist Mike Durnatt for a signature edition of his cult classic Grabber G-3 bass.
“I was introduced to bass through playing guitar,” he explained in an interview with Epiphone. “At first, my mom had an old pawn shop bass. It only had a flatwound E and A on it, and I would screw that thing up.
“But our friend Shawn – we were at band practice, he was our old bass player – had a dentist appointment, and he left. I kind of looked at the bass, Billy (Joe Armstrong) looked at me. I’m like, ‘Yeah, I’m going to take it. Let’s play.’
“As soon as I picked it up, I said, ‘Oh, wow, this is fun.’ I look at Billy and Billy’s like, ‘Oh, boy, we got something here.’ And I was like, ‘Do I just become a bass player?'”
The Mike Dirnt Grabber G-3, which comes in Natural and Silverburst finishes, follows Gibson’s reintroduction of the double-cut bass in September 2024.
As one of Grabar’s leading players, Dirnt was an obvious choice for the signature edition. The 34″ build gets a maple body and three-piece maple neck and either a maple or ebony fingerboard. Both iterations come with 20 medium jumbo frets and abalone dot inlays.
Today, a trio of Gibson G-3 pickups are available. Wired in a bizarre “buck-and-a-half” configuration, they are connected to a three-way pickup switch to engage the neck, middle, or all three humbuckers at once. It also has master volume and tone controls.
Hardware options include “historic” clover buttons on the V-style headstock, open-gear tuners with a bone nut and a Leo Cowan Badass II bridge. This is a string-through-body system, further enhancing the G-3’s hearty stability.
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The Epiphone Mic Dirnt G-3 is available for $1,299/£1,199. Natural Finish is available exclusively on the Epiphone website.
Head over to Gibson for more information.
talking with bass player Earlier this year, Dirnt conducted a forensic investigation into Tone and detailed the creation of his massive rock opera, American dumb,
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