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OK now i4ve changed my page ,before it was about me ,but I got bored writing ,so now I got a new idea ,that I can write about the best band everTHE OFFSPRING great idea AND DON4T FORGET TO SIGN MY GUESTBOOK AND CHECK OUT MY CHAT PAGE ,U SEE THE LINKS DOWN BELOW The biography is written by Delirium ,i took it from Deliriums Offspring page. View My SlamBook! | Sign My SlamBook! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Offspring biography The offspring are Dexter Holland Lead vocals /guitar -bryan Ron Welty drums Noodles guitar -Kevin wasserman Greg.K Bass -Greg Kriesel OBS I haven4t written this myself. By 1984 when what have become the Offspring formed ,the original Orange punk scene had fractured."we used to this dance club called Circle city ,and there4d be 10 different cliqes ,sad Greg In our highschool there was a rockabilly scene as well as a mod scene and a new wave scene ,as well as a punk scene Dexter adds. But at the Pacificia High a large public school in garden grove ,Calif ,Holland wasn4t a member of any of this groups.The third of 4 children born to a hospital administrator father and a schoolteacher mother,he kept busy bein4 a "good kid" and hoped to be a doctor "sports was a really big thing Holland says "I was in the cross-country team.He also happend to be class valedictorian (thus his nickname Dexter) His senior year ,Dexters brother gave him a Rodney on the ROQ compilation album .Be4 the Dexter was a casual listener.But soon after he was devourin Flipside and Maximumrocknroll,fanzines out of Pasadena ,Calif and Berkely ,Calif. ,respectively that are virtual how to guides to punkdome.His favourite bands were T.S.O.L the adolescents and agent orange county bands that weren4t as hung up on politic as their Bay area counterparts. Dexter4s crosscountry teammate Greg Kriesel discoverd punk even later.His investment-banker father saw law school in his sons future,And for the most of highschool ,Greg was a sports fan and a selfproclaimed jock (he also played baseball) The first punk recorst he ever heard were the ones Dexter played for him. "music wasn4t something that meant a lot to me " he says "But I started listening ti it becouse it was around ,and I got used to it" Dexter and Greg formed their first band Manic Subsidal with 2 other cross-country teammates one night mn 1984 after failng to get in in a Social Distortion show.At the time the 2 didn4t even own instruments ,much less know how to play them "Bryan and I both learned together" says Greg "and he wasn4t even playing chords at the time ,so hed play on one string and I tried to do the same ,By the summer we were actally playing songs ,but it took a while. Gregs house was the first site of the bands fist gigs "its just always a hangout" greg says "on one given weekend night up to 20 people could drop by . I had a big upstairs that was pretty mutch mine ,and my mum was downstairs, but she4s always been really cool about it. That fall ,Dexter began premed studies at USC ( he4s currently a Ph.D. candidate in molecular biology.)Greg was attending Golden West Junior Collegr and later recived a B.A in finance from Long Beach Stste while working part time in a print shop (he4s planning to attend law school)Weekends was the only time the band could rehearse Once Dexter written a handful of songs with self -explanitory titles like "very sarcastic" and "sorority Bitch" the fledgling band headed for a cheap studio .Momentarly waylaid when mts guitarist jumped ship ,the band recruited Kevin Wasserman ,an older pacifica jigh grad who then worked as the school janitor. Pretty soon Wasserman was " not doing a hell of a lot exept practicing at Gregs house and drinking excessively"Being the only member of the band over 21 Kevin was particularly useful when it came to buying beer. I remember that I was amazeb by Dexter ,Kevin says ,I knew that he was a valedictorian and all that ,he was really a geek so I wonderd a bit when I saw him with black hair and plaid bondage pants. But then I thought it was just cool , to go beoynd the societys role for him. It was Ron Weltys sis who interdused him to Dexter ,when Ron came to Garden Gro e in high school ,he was only 16 when he begged Dexter to let him substiute for the bands drummer ,who went to medical school. The Offspring released their first 7inches single in 1987 ,but they didn4t have money enough to pay the cost per copy to paste the front sleeves to the back ,so they bought a case of beer and gluesticks and held a party. It took 2.5 years to get rid of the 1000 copies. Two years later Offspring got a comtract wiyh a small punk label called Nemesis they recorded one more 7 inches singel called Baghdad and an album named The Offspring All punk bands back the wrote about police ,death ,religion and war ,so that was what we did "says Dexter " | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Albums | The Offspring Ignition Smash Ixany on the Hombre Americana 
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