The book spends a fair amount of time discussing violence in the California punk community during the 80s, but you guys tried to stay away from it. (Photo by Gary Leonard/Corbis via Getty Images) Corbis via Getty Images Greg Graffin, Jay Ziskrout and Jay Bentley. Band members are left to right: Brett Gurewitz. It’s a sad reflection of humankind.īad Religion performing live at a USC frat party.
Now, there are people who are like that: the people who believe in science and then flaunt their arrogance and say, “I told you so.” That’s just as disheartening to me as people who are science deniers. It doesn’t give me any sense of joy to say, “I told you so.” Even if they’re on the wrong side of the political or belief spectrum, you still have to extend your humanity to them and help them out. That’s ultimately where your ethics have to kick in. Then how do you feel? It’s a complicated time in humanity… Is it angering to see people willfully ignoring science? “I see these facts, I see the sources and I refuse to believe it.” Many of those same people get sick from the virus. The richest country in the world should have a better system of taking care of you than we do. It has nothing to do with politics or religion, if you’ve got an infection that you can’t fight, then you deserve better than this. I feel the worst for the people who are suffering. It’s very difficult to live in a world like that.īut I must say, a pandemic, it brings it to the forefront, because you can live in a world of faith and you can ignore science for a long time until you can’t ignore it anymore when you’re confronted with something like this. This idea that we don’t have to listen to science and we don’t have to pay any attention to fact, that everything is some kind of a political strategy or conspiracy theory… this is very disconcerting. The words and ideas for that song are more relevant today than ever. We just released a song called “Faith Alone 2020” and it’s based on a song from our catalog called “Faith Alone” (1990), so we did a new version of it. There seems to be a current in today’s world that thinks that blind faith is going to get us through this thing. We’ve kind of been writing the primer for a world that we wish we didn’t have to live in right now, but it seems to have come true. One thing is for sure, if you look at the Bad Religion catalog, my co-writer Brett Gurewitz and myself have been writing songs about anti-science people for 30 years plus. (Photo by Scott Dudelson/WireImage) WireImageĪs a man of science, how frustrating has this year been? Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, have you been going crazy with the anti-science, conspiracy theory people and anti-maskers? Musicians Jay Bentley, Greg Graffin, Brett Gurewitz and Brian Baker of Bad Religion perform at The. Below, singer Greg Graffin discusses the current climate of anti-science in America, the band’s inner turmoil and the legacy of Bad Religion.
In a new book, Do What You Want: The Story of Bad Religion, out now, the band’s history is detailed by various members and co-author Jim Ruland. And the band’s iconic Crossbuster logo is known around the world. Their discography touts 17 full-length albums. In 2020, the guys are still releasing new music. Despite their independent endeavors, they always found home in Bad Religion. Graffin would go on to pursue a career in academia as an evolutionary biologist, receiving his Ph.D. Over the years, Gurewitz would take the label he launched to jumpstart Bad Religion - Epitaph Records - and turn it into one of the largest independent record labels in music. Those sweaty garage sessions were the foundation for an over 40 year career in punk music, as founding members Graffin, guitarist/songwriter Brett Gurewitz, and bassist Jay Bentley, secured Bad Religion’s status as trailblazers of modern punk music. That’s why we ended up painting ‘Welcome to the Hell Hole’ on the mattresses.” Now, that also made it all the hotter inside, so it didn’t improve any of the airflow. “But the truth is, those medical grade foams are great for insulation. “It was really kind of morbid,” Graffin says.
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