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Punk Paradox

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(To hear our conversation with Greg Graffin on DO WHAT YOU WANT: THE STORY OF BAD RELIGION, click HERE)

Bad Religion frontman Greg Graffin chats with Trey Elling about PUNK PARADOX: A MEMOIR. Topics include:

  • Goal with the book (0:00)
  • His first taste of live music (2:40)
  • Trauma in rural Kansas in 1976 (4:18)
  • The initial appeal of punk (7:57)
  • A love for The Jackson 5 (10:25)
  • The ugly reality of punk in 1984 (12:11)
  • How lizards are like lead singers (13:41)
  • A change in Bad Religion’s crowd in the late ‘80s (16:22)
  • Bad Religion’s Christmas Songs album (17:21)
  • The concept of “selling out” (18:35)
  • Putting his academic career on hold for the band (21:31)
  • Recovering from a string of traumas in the mid-1990s (23:04)
  • Fostering his children’s love for music (25:35)
  • Brett Gurewitz’s break from the band in the late 1990s (27:29)
  • The one Bible verse he quoted in PUNK PARADOX (29:28)
  • An interesting factoid about ants (33:11)
  • The Milwaukee Bucks’ NBA championship in 2021 (34:28)
  • Rooting for an outspoken Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers (36:30)
  • Whether Greg is still ‘punk’ (40:26)