by Robert Wilkinson Since February 17 was the birthday of musical powerhouse Billie Joe Armstrong, frontman for Green Day, today we enjoy power music! A band that can rally millions, his is the voice that's challenged authoritarian and brain-dead thinking for years. Tonight we have some awesome performances! As I’ve written before, in case you've been on a trip to Sirius or Alpha Centauri, Green Day blasted their way to national influence in the so-called "grunge" alternative rock movement of the mid-1980s. The band originated in Berserkeley and soon blazed to global popularity through its uncompromising brand of neo-punk thrash rock that forced everyone to take note of what was happening. A major musical force and social conscience in our world, for your listening pleasure here are Billie Joe Armstrong (February 17, 1972), Taurus Mike Dirnt (born Michael Pritchard, May 4, 1972), Sagittarian Tre Cool (born Frank Edwin Wright, December 9, 1972), and Scorpio Jason Wh...