The Offspring is tagged as: punk rock, punk, rock, alternative, alternative rock
Born in the mid 80’s through high school friends Bryan ‘Dexter’ Holland, and Greg Kriesel, alongside their friend and school custodian Kevin ‘Noodles’ Wasserman, the Offspring have been a dominant force in the punk rock world for over a decade. After their high school band ‘Manic Subcidal’ gained a drummer in Ron Welty, only 16 at the time, the band decided on a name change and began recording songs in 1987 under the name ‘the Offspring’. | |Earning a deal with small time punk label ‘Nemesis’ in 1989, the Offspring began recording in a professional studio. Their first LP was titled ‘Baghdad’, featuring the title song (later reworded to Tehran to fit in with the gulf war, and rerecorded for the self titled album) also featured a punk version of Jimi Hendrix’ ‘Hey Joe’ and ‘Get It Right’ - a song to later be re-recorded and released for 1992 album ‘Ignition’.
The band later released their first album on the label, and despite it’s low quality recording it proved a hit. The cutting edge lyrics and varied style began to shape a new style of music the Ramones had made pioneered years before. The album is now available under Dexter’s label Nitro Recor...
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