Greg Graffin

... it's, it's, it's too much thinking on that, I think.

It's the kinda stuff that keeps Greg Graffin from Bad Religion up at night.

[laughs]

You know?

I think Nick Leviera is on this one.

He does a couple of songs, I think he did, with Mondo Generator that he's re... re-recorded with them um so there is more shouty ones to be honest it's mainly written by blag dala who's the singer and i think he's the only original member left now But they're always good fun.

I kind of enjoy their stuff.

I've seen them live a few times.

Biohazard did a cover of it on their Urban Discipline album.

Sublime have covered it a few times.

Quite a few people have done other songs and incorporated a little bit in it because it's got quite a famous... refrain in it so we've been like a little tribute to them it's also got part three which is another one the big one fuck arm again and this is how there's some really massive massive songs on it but there's also quite a lot of them which i think from your point of view if you'd listen to it i think you would say that they're the songs which you know like you've said before that sometimes you hear some of these punk and hardcore bands it just sounds like a generic song it's not anything particularly great just that straight through and all that sort of stuff there's quite a few ones on that which I think because this album was recorded at two different times and I think the singer Greg Graffin was the main songwriter at this point and then Brett who's the other guitarist who's the guitarist was trying to learn as well and compete with him their songwriting wasn't great at this point so there's the the obvious songs and the rest of them were just kind of filler oh look we've got another quick hardcore song we'll put that one here and stuff so and and it is as i said it was recorded at two different times with about three or four months gap so it's got two different lineups on it so like the drums were recorded by one person so there's like four or five tracks with one drummer four or five tracks with another drummer I just don't think it's the most consistent one.

I can see why at the time.

You have to picture the Los Angeles suburbs, where punk had always been underground, and suddenly someone writes a contract on a stack of 78 RPM records and tells the band they can go national.

But before that Atlantic handshake, Brett Gurewitz, Mr. Brett, as we all know him, was juggling his own label, Epitaph, while still playing lead on stage with Greg and Jay.

Gurewitz was a straight-edge genius who kept the band’s politics sharp, but in ’94, he stepped away to focus on the label, which had just launched The Offspring’s breakout smash.

That was a brutal pivot for everyone.

That shift meant more touring money, but it also introduced logistical headaches, larger crews, complex travel schedules, and higher performance fees that could eat up the band’s creative control.

And on top of all that, Gurewitz’s departure left a hole in the band’s songwriting core.

Brian Baker was a great guitarist but didn’t write with Greg the way Brett did.

So some tracks felt less introspective.