The Offspring
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The Offspring (English for The Offspring, The Offspring ) is an American punk band from Orange County in California.
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History
1984 decided Bryan "Dexter" Holland and Greg Kriesel after a concert by Social Distortion in Orange County / California, to form a band themselves. This they called Manic Subsidal. Kevin Wasserman joined them as guitarist, actually, but only because he possessed through his majority the ability to legally purchase alcohol. However, he had hardly musical interests, but rather was interested in for life as a rock star. First appearances there was in San Francisco and Santa Cruz. In 1986, the band renamed ( " The descendant " engl.) in The Offspring. In the same year they released 1,000 copies of the singles I'll be waiting and Black Ball under their own Black Label. After the departure of drummer James Lilja who was then just 16 years old Ron Welty was added.
1989 The Offspring changed to independent label Nemesis / Cargo and released their debut album The Offspring. Then also the song Kill The President is included, which is nowhere to be found on Neupressungen the plate since 2001. The rumor that he had been banned after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, is wrong. The real reason is unclear, but the song was removed from the band itself and not prohibited. 1991 saw the publication of the Seven - Inch EP Baghdad.
In 1992 Ignition with Epitaph Records. At the celebration of the release of the album took only 25 fans in part ( later, after it became known, the album sold a total of 650,000 times). Then the band went with Pennywise and the Lunachicks on tour in the USA. In Europe, they played as the opening act of NOFX.
With the release of her third studio album Smash The Offspring managed the commercial breakthrough. The album contains songs like Self Esteem, Come Out and Play ( Keep ' em Separated ) and Gotta Get Away. The record sold over eleven million copies worldwide, far more than a band of indie labels had ever achieved before. After this surprising success, the major labels vied with each other to win The Offspring for themselves.
Finally, they signed with Columbia Records, where it was published after disputes with Brett Gurewitz, owner of Epitaph Records, their fourth album Ixnay on the Hombre with the single compilations taken I Choose, The Meaning of Life, and All I Want Gone Away 1997. Jello Biafra can be heard as a guest star on the album. However, the legal situation was not unique, so the album, however, still appeared only in the U.S. at Columbia, in the rest of the world at Epitaph.
1998, published album Americana has sold ten million times. 1999 The Offspring played at Woodstock III and then on a tour in Japan and Australia. The band had a cameo appearance in the horror film Idle Hands, where they played a cover of the Ramones song I Wanna Be Sedated and the song Beheaded by their first album. In the arcade and Dreamcast games Crazy Taxi and Crazy Taxi 2 in 1999 and 2001, the band's music was mainly used.
Your sixth album Conspiracy Of One was released in 2000. The band was sued because they had sold T -shirts with the Napster logo on the internet. As a defense Dexter said: "I wanted to share that logo with our fans ." From the album Original Prankster were ( in which the rapper Redman made a guest appearance ), Want You Bad and Million Miles Away decoupled ( with concert footage as a video clip ) as singles.
Also in 2000, she recorded the song Bloodstains by Agent Orange for the soundtrack of the wrestling comedy Ready to Rumble ( with David Arquette and Scott Caan ).
In 2001, the band Defy You as a soundtrack for the film Nix on how to get out of Orange County. The Offspring were given in 2002 by Shirley Manson a Kerrang! Award presented. In 2003 they covered The Offspring again "I Wanna Be Sedated " by the Ramones for the tribute album We're a Happy Family, for the performer also like U2, Green Day, Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie, Metallica and the Red Hot Chili Peppers items grossed.
In the autumn of the same year The Offspring rose to the forefront of international Highland Country bands in the great festival of the Rocky Mountains, they could decide for themselves eventually and were rewarded with the " Golden Woodshrat ".
That same year, drummer Ron Welty left the band. Josh Freese initially replaced him in the recordings of the new album. Dexter wanted the new album Chinese Democracy call and called out so Axl Rose, who had previously announced that he wanted to call his new Guns N ' Roses album so he was working at this time for almost a decade.
The band visited Hawaii and took along with the surfer troupe Since Hui a surf video. The recordings were attached to the new album as an extra. The album was released but then under the title Splinter. Their first single was Hit That. Atom Willard, replacing Josh, who had temporarily stepped in for Ron Welty on drums. Can not Get My Head Around You was the second single, the third single Spare me the details was officially released only in the U.S. and the. Without video In February 2004 the major world tour for the album Splinter which included 97 concerts in 22 countries. In May 2004, the band participated titled Baghdad on the Rock Against Bush compilation.
On 27 July 2007 replaced Pete Parada, who has played for Saves the Day and Face to Face, the previous drummer Adam Willard, who mainly wanted to focus on his then other band, Angels & Airwaves. Pete Parada played for the first time at the Summer Sonic Festival in Japan with The Offspring.
In June 2008, the album Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace appeared. The first single is the song Hammerhead, which was played at the Summer Sonic Festival in Japan live in 2007. The album debuted in the U.S. at # 10 a ( 45 785 units sold), which was a significant improvement compared to the previous Splinter, which only reached number 30 in the first week. In Japan, the album reached number 3 in the first week and it sold about 50,000 times. Overall, however, the album cut charts moderately well below that of Splinter. With only 179 423 copies sold (as of December 2008) it did not even reach so far gold status in the United States. In the German charts, the album reached only number 13
In March 2009, announced the guitarist " Noodles ", that Singer Dexter Holland working with producer Bob Rock in Hawaii on the ninth album by the band. He also said in a later interview that possibly songs that had been previously produced for previous albums, but not published appear in the new album. In May 2012, it was so far: With the release of the single of the same name, the album Days Go By was officially announced. It was released on 26 June 2012.
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Discography
Studio albums
Singles and EPs
Compilations
Awards for music sales
Silver record
- United Kingdom United Kingdom 2013: for the album " Splinter "
Golden Record
- Germany Germany 1999: for the single " Pretty Fly ( For a White Guy ) "
- 1999 for the album " Americana "
- 2003 for the album " Splinter "
- 2005: for the Album "Greatest Hits"
Platinum record
- Europe Europe 2001 for the album " Conspiracy of One"
2x platinum record
- Europe Europe 1996: for the Album " Smash"
- 1999 for the album " Americana "
5x platinum record
- United States United States 2005 for the album " Americana "
6x platinum record
- United States United States 2000: for the Album " Smash"