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The Offspring tickets Dexter Holland - rhythm guitar, lead vocals

Greg K. - bass, backing vocals

In 2003, The Offspring released their seventh album Splinter. The Offspring recruited Josh Freese to record the drums for Splinter, and later announced that Atom Willard would be the official replacement for Ron Welty. The Offspring album's original title was to be Chinese Democracy, the name of the long-delayed album by Guns N' Roses. As a result, Axl Rose filed a cease and desist order against The Offspring , and to avoid delaying the release, The Offspring chose to simply rename the album. The Offspring first single "Hit That" enjoyed moderate success on MTV. "Hit That" used a variety of electronic samples, different from what The Offspring have done in the past.

Greg Kriesel



On April 9, 2008, Dexter announced on The Offspring The Offspring's official website that The Offspring had finished recording the new album. He also announced that the album would be called Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace and would be released on June 17th. The Offspring album's first single, "Hammerhead", went to radio on May 6th. Additionally, The Offspring official site provided an MP3 download of the song to the general public on May 5, 2008.



Greg K. - bass, backing vocals

Line-ups

James Lilja- drums, backing vocals



During the summer of 2005, The Offspring played the Vans Warped Tour for the first time, and followed that with a tour of Europe and Japan. After the "Greatest Hits" world tour The Offspring took a break from writing, recording and touring. During the hiatus, Willard was recruited by Tom DeLonge for The Offspring's band Angels & Airwaves and released an album, We Don't Need to Whisper, in 2006.

When asked on Christmas Eve 2007 what the current status of the new album was, Dexter replied:

Dexter Holland - lead & rhythm guitars, lead vocals

Josh Freese - drums



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The band cites their musical influences as, The Offspring Adolescents, Channel 3, Dead Kennedys, Descendents, The Offspring Dickies, Ramones, Sex Pistols, Social Distortion, TSOL, and The Offspring Vandals.

Kevin 'Noodles' Wasserman - lead & rhythm guitars, backing vocals

Nearly three years after the release of Conspiracy of One, long-time drummer Ron Welty left The Offspring in 2003 to start Steady Ground, a band in which The Offspring plays the drums and co-produces. Neither Welty or the remaining members have elaborated on the departure.

Dexter Holland - rhythm guitar, lead vocals

2000 saw The Offspring release a new album called Conspiracy of One. The Offspring band intended to release the entire album online through their official website, to show their support for downloading music on the internet. However, under threat of legal action by Columbia through their parent company Sony, only the first single "Original Prankster" was released on their official website . The Offspring band also sold T-shirts on their website with the Napster logo on it and donated money to Napster creator Shawn Fanning with the profits.



Splinter

When The Offspring returned to the studio to work on their third album in 1993, The Offspring's relations with producer Thom Wilson had begun to strain. The Offspring band released what would become their biggest selling CD, titled Smash . Fueled by the hit singles "Come Out and Play," "Self Esteem," and "Gotta Get Away," this album set the all-time record for most units sold by an independent label band at 16 million records.

In 2005, The Offspring released a Greatest Hits album with a DualDisc. The Offspring Greatest Hits album contains 14 of The Offspring's hits between Smash and Splinter, and two previously never released songs "Can't Repeat" and "Next to You" . The Offspring compilation does not contain any material from the first album and Ignition. The Offspring DualDisc contains video of Dexter and Noodles discussing The Offspring's history and a bonus acoustic version of the song "Dirty Magic." About a month later, The Offspring released a video DVD with all of their music videos, and some videos from a live show.

Epitaph Records recently announced that the label would be re-issuing Ignition and Smash; both albums will be remastered and Smash will have a new 24 page booklet. The Offspring re-issues are due out on June 17.

Pete Parada - drums

Josh Freese - drums

While The Offspring are primarily considered an alternative rock, skate punk or punk rock group, their music contains strong elements of grunge, metal and occasionally ska. Many of their songs contain refrains of "whoas" in either their verses or choruses , which are a sort of hallmark of the band's. Their lyrics are typically sardonic and sarcastic and discuss wide-ranging issues from personal relationships to the degradation of United States .



Dexter Holland - rhythm guitar, lead vocals

Early years

In 2005, The Offspring released a Greatest Hits album with a DualDisc. The Offspring Greatest Hits album contains 14 of The Offspring's hits between Smash and Splinter, and two previously never released songs "Can't Repeat" and "Next to You" . The Offspring compilation does not contain any material from the first album and Ignition. The Offspring DualDisc contains video of Dexter and Noodles discussing The Offspring's history and a bonus acoustic version of the song "Dirty Magic." About a month later, The Offspring released a video DVD with all of their music videos, and some videos from a live show.

Greg K. - bass, backing vocals

Dexter Holland

In 1999, The Offspring appeared as themselves in the film Idle Hands. They play "Beheaded" and "I Wanna Be Sedated" at a school dance before Holland's character is killed. They also appeared at the infamous Woodstock 1999, where their performance was broadcast live on pay per view television.

On February 4, 2008, which was to be Noodles' 45th birthday, Download Festival's official website announced that The Offspring would be headlining the Download Festival alongside Lostprophets and Kiss, on June 14th at Donington Park, England. On March 12, 2008, The Offspring also announced on their website that they will headline Greenfield Festival in Interlaken, Switzerland on June 13th , along with Linkin Park and Die Ìãrzte.

Josh Freese - drums

In 1992, Wilson and The Offspring returned to the studio to record their second album Ignition, which was released in October of that year. The Offspring album exceeded all of the label's and band's expectations. The Offspring band went on tour for the next two years with other punk bands such as Pennywise, and ska punk bands like No Doubt and Voodoo Glow Skulls.

The band was formed in 1984 by guitarist Bryan "Dexter" Holland and bassist Greg K., who met on their high school cross-country team, under the name "Manic Subsidal". The Offspring decision to form a band came outside of a Social Distortion concert, when both were refused entry. Doug Thompson was added for vocals, and Kevin 'Noodles' Wasserman, the school janitor, was welcomed into the band, allegedly because The Offspring was old enough to purchase alcohol for Holland and Kriesel, both of whom were under the legal drinking age. The Offspring band used Thompson's friend, Jim Benton, as their drummer. Thompson was eventually forced out of the band, while Benton left. This led to Holland taking over on vocals, and James Lilja joining as the drummer. The Offspring band changed their name to "The Offspring" in 1985.

Ron Welty



Manic Subsidal

James Lilja - drums, backing vocals

On April 9, 2008, Dexter announced on The Offspring The Offspring's official website that The Offspring had finished recording the new album. He also announced that the album would be called Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace and would be released on June 17th. The Offspring album's first single, "Hammerhead", went to radio on May 6th. Additionally, The Offspring official site provided an MP3 download of the song to the general public on May 5, 2008.

Greg K. - bass, backing vocals

When asked on Christmas Eve 2007 what the current status of the new album was, Dexter replied:

Epitaph Records recently announced that the label would be re-issuing Ignition and Smash; both albums will be remastered and Smash will have a new 24 page booklet. The Offspring re-issues are due out on June 17.

Dexter Holland - lead & rhythm guitars, lead vocals

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Nearly three years after the release of Conspiracy of One, long-time drummer Ron Welty left The Offspring in 2003 to start Steady Ground, a band in which The Offspring plays the drums and co-produces. Neither Welty or the remaining members have elaborated on the departure.

Kevin Wasserman

Band history

Atom Willard

In September 2007, The Offspring posted a studio cam on their fan board. It shows the mixing and recording rooms, occasionally with The Offspring members and producers/mixers. The Offspring cam updates every 30 seconds. In November 2007, the The Offspring tickets began posting short 'in the studio' videos on YouTube. The Offspring videos featured short segments of The Offspring recording new material for the upcoming album.

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After two years of touring for Smash, The Offspring left Epitaph and signed with Columbia Records. The Offspring band began writing and recording their fourth album, titled Ixnay on the Hombre, in 1996. The Offspring album came out on February 4, 1997, which happened to be Noodles' 34th birthday. This album was not as successful as Smash, although it did sell 4 million units. The Offspring album saw The Offspring move away from the political-punk themes common to many Epitaph bands, and more into mainstream rock with songs like: "All I Want," "Gone Away," and, "I Choose." The Offspring video for "I Choose" was directed by Holland himself. Dexter commented that Ixnay probably wasn't as well-received as Smash was because it was such a departure, and that many fans probably were expecting "Smash Part Two."

When The Offspring returned to the studio to work on their third album in 1993, The Offspring's relations with producer Thom Wilson had begun to strain. The Offspring band released what would become their biggest selling CD, titled Smash . Fueled by the hit singles "Come Out and Play," "Self Esteem," and "Gotta Get Away," this album set the all-time record for most units sold by an independent label band at 16 million records.

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