- Greg Graffin
Gregory Walter Graffin, Ph.D. (born November 6, 1964 in Racine, Wisconsin) is the vocalist and co-founder of the punk rock band Bad Religion. In 1980, at the age of 15, Graffin and a few high school classmates formed Bad Religion in Southern California's San Fernando Valley. After making a name for themselves in the Los Angeles punk scene, releasing three EPs and two full-length albums, they disbanded in 1984. - Brett Gurewitz
Brett Gurewitz (born May 12, 1962, Los Angeles, CA), also known as Mr. Brett, is the guitarist and songwriter for Bad Religion. He is also the owner of the record label Epitaph Records. Brett is from the town of Woodland Hills, California, a suburb of L.A.'s San Fernando Valley. Bad Religion was founded in Woodland Hills, CA in 1980 with Greg Graffin, Jay Ziskrout and Jay Bentley. All four attended El Camino Real High School. - Greg Hetson
Greg Hetson (born June 29 1961) is a guitarist in two veteran punk rock bands, Bad Religion and The Circle Jerks. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and has lived in Los Angeles, California since he was 2 years old. While he declares Bad Religion as his main occupation, he has alternated between both Bad Religion and The Circle Jerks since 1994. He recently formed a new band called Black President. - Jay Bentley
Jay Dee Bentley was born on June 6, 1964 in Wichita, Kansas. He is the bassist and co-founding member of the legendary punk rock group Bad Religion. Jay played in the band from 1980 to 1982, until quitting before the release of the band's 2nd album, "Into the Unknown", in 1983. Jay was also a onetime member of such notable L.A. groups as Wasted Youth, T.S.O.L, The Circle Jerks and Cathedral Of Tears. - Brian Baker
Brian Baker was one of the founding members of the hardcore punk rock band Minor Threat. He first played bass, but in 1982 moved to guitar when Steve Hansgen joined the band, then back to bass after Hansgen's departure. He later formed Dag Nasty in 1985, had stints in: Doggy Style, The Meatmen (with fellow Minor Threat member Lyle Preslar), Government Issue, and Junkyard (a hard rock band). In 1994, he was offered a touring spot with R.E.M. but declined, … - Brooks Wackerman
Brooks Wackerman (born Tuesday, February 15, 1977) is the newest drummer for Bad Religion and the younger brother of Chad Wackerman (a session drummer who once played with Frank Zappa). He played under the direction of his father Chuck Wackerman in the Los Alamitos High School Jazz Band from 1991 to 1995 and also in middle school. He learned how to play at a very young age and demonstrated his skill in early bands, … - Frederic
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Skater for life,but right now it's when I can find a babysitter. Can't wait for him to get a little older so we can both hit up the sk8 parks. - Jim Lindberg
James William Lindberg (born July 26, 1965), better known as Jim Lindberg, is the singer-songwriter for the California punk band Pennywise. He formed it in 1988 with Fletcher Dragge (guitars), Jason Thirsk (bass, died in 1996) and Byron McMackin (drums), who were previously alums from two South Bay High Schools, Redondo Union High School and Mira Costa where Lindberg graduated in 1983. Lindberg graduated from UCLA in 1989. - Bobby Schayer
Bobby Schayer was born on December 23,1966 in Los Angeles, California. He was the drummer for Bad Religion from 1991 to 2001. He was raised in the town of Encino. (a suburb of L.A.'s San Fernando Valley). It's been said that his interest in drumming began in 1976 at age 10 but it wasn't until 1980 that he became a student of original Circle Jerks drummer Lucky Lehrer. Bobby joined Bad Religion in April of 1991 after previous drummer, Peter Finestone, … - Keith Morris
Keith Morris (born September 17, 1952) is the co-founder and former lead singer of the punk rock band Black Flag along with guitarist Greg Ginn. He left after the "Nervous Breakdown" EP (on which he was credited as "Johnny 'Bob' Goldstein") and formed The Circle Jerks. After their short-lived breakup he led the band Midget Handjob. He did background vocals on "Operation Rescue", from Bad Religion's 1990 album "Against the Grain". - Pete Finestone
Peter "Pete" Finestone (born June 11, 1964) was the second drummer of the punk rock band Bad Religion. He played in the band in 1981-1982 and rejoined for the late 1980s re-incarnation until 1991. He left the band, due to his role in drumming for The Fishermen. He was replaced by Bobby Schayer. In a 2003 show in Las Vegas, Finestone reunited with Bad Religion to play the drums for Fuck Armageddon This Is Hell with the band live on stage. - Jay Ziskrout
Jay Ziskrout was the first drummer for Bad Religion, forming the group with schoolmate Brett Gurewitz in 1980. He performed on the Bad Religion EP and eight tracks on their debut full-length album How Could Hell Be Any Worse?. He decided to leave the band with only half of the songs recorded due to a misunderstanding regarding the band's new press photos. Bad Religion found another drummer in Jay Ziskrout's drum roadie, Pete Finestone, … - Joe Barresi
Joe Barresi is an American record engineer and producer who has worked with bands such as Kyuss, The Melvins, Queens of the Stone Age, Tomahawk, L7 and The Jesus Lizard. In August 2005 he started working with Tool on recording their new album, after being recommended to them by Buzz Osborne of the Melvins. He also produced Bad Religion's most recent album, released in July 2007. - Lucky Lehrer
Lucky Lehrer is a drummer from Los Angeles, California, voted the best punk drummer of all-time by US-magazine, Flipside. He was originally trained in jazz but most famously played in LA punk rock bands; the Circle Jerks, Bad Religion, Darby Crash Band and LA's Wasted Youth, among others. He also appeared in three notable documentary films charting the punk rock music scene. - Paul Dedona
Paul Dedona was a bass player of the California punk pioneers Bad Religion. He stayed in the band between late 1982 and early 1984 and his only appearance was on their second album "Into the Unknown". He was ejected from the band before the recording of their second and last EP "Back to the Known" and was replaced by their next bass player Tim Gallegos. - Tim Gallegos
Tim Gallegos was a bassist for Wasted Youth and after that Bad Religion. He played with Bad Religion from 1984 to 1986 and recorded one EP with them - Back to the Known. He Currently lives in Hermosa Beach, California - Andy Wallace
Andy Wallace is a Grammy Award-winning music studio engineer with a long track record of successful productions, beginning with the early 1980s production of the Run-DMC/Aerosmith collaboration on Walk This Way. Following this breakout success, Wallace went on to work with Prince, Bruce Springsteen, Slayer, Sepultura, Nirvana, White Zombie, Jeff Buckley, Faith No More, Rollins Band, Rush (band), Alice Cooper, Bernard Butler, Bad Religion, Rage Against the Machine, … - Gore Verbinski
Gregor Verbinski (b. March 16, 1964), is an American film director and writer. - Chris Wollard
Chris Wollard was a singer and guitarist in the now-defunct band Hot Water Music from Gainesville, Florida. Wollard is now a member of The Draft. Other Gainesville-based projects in which Wollard has participated include The Blacktop Cadence, The Cro(w)s (aka The Sheryl Cro(w) Mags) and Rumbleseat. He is also given two co-writing credits on the Bad Religion album "The Empire Strikes First" for the songs "The Quickening" and "Beyond Electric Dreams". - Macgyver
Etudiant en ecole d'ingenieur a Toulouse, je suis breton de souche et voyageur de coeur. Ma promo s'accorde a dire que je suis le plus fou de et je fais rien pour arranger les choses ! A l'affut de la moindre connerie a faire entre amis, j'adore deconner autant que possible. - Vlad
- Chris Lord-Alge
Chris Lord-Alge is a mixer who has worked on various albums including Bad Religion's "No Substance", Darren Hayes' "Spin" and Underoath's "Define the Great Line", My Chemical Romance's "The Black Parade", Rise Against's "The Sufferer and the Witness", The Used's "Lies for the Liars". He has also mixed most of Green Day's albums, including "Nimrod" and "American Idiot". He is currently mixing the next Sum 41 album, … - Greg Leisz
Greg Leisz (pronounced "Lees") is an American multi-instrumentalist, playing lap and pedal steel guitars, guitar, mandolin, and bass. Little known by his own name, his highly respected playing has appeared on recordings by Bill Frisell, Dave Alvin, Tracy Chapman, the Smashing Pumpkins, Matthew Sweet, the Jayhawks, Beck, Me'shell Ndegeocello, Bruce Cockburn, Wilco, Shawn Colvin, Lucinda Williams, Peter Case, Joni Mitchell, Whiskeytown, Girish, Bad Religion and Sheryl Crow, … - John D. Luerssen
John D. Luerssen -- born July 12, 1968 -- is a national music writer who broke into journalism in 1985, when he reviewed The Smiths' "Meat Is Murder" for his high school newspaper. In 1991, after forays into journalism, broadcasting and record company employment -- as well as a brief turn as an independent radio promoter -- Luerssen took a job with a New Jersey utility and didn't write a CD Review or an artist feature for eight years. - Alex Perialas
Alex Perialas is an American audio engineer, mixer, and record producer, best known for his extensive work during the "golden age" of thrash metal in the mid–1980s to early–1990s. Having worked with many of the genre's top acts, including Overkill, Testament, Anthrax, Nuclear Assault, S.O.D., and Flotsam & Jetsam, Perialas later went on to work with hardcore punk band Bad Religion, groove metal band Pro–Pain and hip–hop/rock band Such A Surge. - Chavo Pederast
Ron Reyes (alias Chavo Pederast) was the second singer for California based punk rock group Black Flag. Reyes, who is of Puerto Rican descent, joined Black Flag after Keith Morris quit to form the Circle Jerks. Black Flag needed a singer to go on a tour to Vancouver, Canada and had asked Reyes to fill in. At the time he was a streetkid who had been following the band since the beginning and already knew all the songs. - Tyler Rebbe
Tyler Rebbe, is a bass guitarist, who has played in a number of different, mainly punk rock, bands since the late 1980's. Tyler's two main bands are Pulley, for which he has been a member since 1997, and Death By Stereo, which he joined in early 2005, to replace original bassist Paul Miner. Tyler is still in both bands, however Pulley has been fairly inactive for 2005. Other bands that Tyler has been in are Crucifer (1989-1991), Floodgoat (1992-1994), Budget (1994-1998), … - James Levesque
James Levesque is best known as the high energy bass player from surf punk legends Agent Orange. Levesque was the bass player for the touring punk band from 1979-1988, along with original members Mike Palm and Scott Miller. Levesque's songwriting and artistic influences on the bands most notable releases ("Living in Darkness", "This is the Voice") helped create the explosive music scene in Orange County, California in the early 1980s. - Mackie Osborne
Mackie Osborne is an artist, responsible for design and illustrations of many music albums since the 1980s. Besides working as a layout designer on the Grammy Award winning album packaging for Tool's "10,000 Days", … - Will Provine
Professor William B. Provine is an American historian of science, particularly of evolutionary biology and population genetics. He is the Charles A. Alexander Professor of Biological Sciences at Cornell University and is a professor in the Department of History. He holds a B.S., M.A. and Ph.D from the University of Chicago. - Ron Handler
Ronald Craig Handler is a music publisher, A & R executive and artist manager, who lives in Los Angeles. He has worked for influential companies such as Arista Music Publishing, BMG, EMI, Dreamworks and Interscope/Geffen. During his career, he has signed numerous artists such as Rhett Lawrence (Mariah Carey), J. D. Souther (The Eagles), DJ Bobcat (2Pac), Presidents of the United States of America, Bad Religion, Filter, R&B writers Tim & Bob, Papa Roach, … - Bad Religion
See my body, it's nothing to get hung about.I'm nobody except genetic runaround.Spiritual era's gone, it ain't comin' back. Bad religion, a cabal, that is all that's left.Hey Mr. Mind, stop wasting my time,With your factory precision. Bad religion, too good to take.Indecision, it's not too late. - Bad Religion
- Ron Kimball
I am happy. I want a boat (actually, I want two, one sail, one that has "Bring, Bring" that is Japanese for... you know Jay Z, slow motion mtv vids with the boats that go boom...) I want to go camping at the Four Seasons in Mexico City. I love chocolate milkshakes and french fries together from my favorite Scottish restaurant, McDonalds. - Frank Burnham
Trying not to laugh when kids in my class make adult jokes that they have no idea of why they are dirty (eg. "Save a tree eat some beaver"). I never realized I came off as gay as my testimonials say I am. Oh well. - Mike Kam
Fools run the goverment, sick foreign policy their words sound vailant but their hands are green unending quest for power taxes that make us slaves don't believe a word of it ignore the fucked up things they say!! Bush will get our planet kill someday! - Tom Armstrong
I LOVE FOOTBALL I LOVE ROCK N ROLL I LOVE ALCHOHOL. - Kristine Sleepblur
i like myspace better than friendster. so there. this is all so boring, this place has really gone down the drain.
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