The Offspring, performs with Blink-182: “We should never have laughed at Guns N’ Roses for taking a long time to release their album”

“Our type of music and sports go hand in hand, although now I no longer do skateboarding, but more surfing or snowboarding because I broke my fingers skating and that is not good for a guitarist. As a whole, we still love the beach and everything that reminds us of Californian panoramas”Noodles mentions in an interview with El Comercio.

Although several members of the band are over 50 years old, they still maintain the energy that characterizes them, now under the punk revival movement that tries to keep this musical genre in force. “A while ago we said that the 90s were better, and it is because in those times we were detached from the things that happened, and it is difficult to remember bad moments, but I am not nostalgic, we like the present, recording new songs and focusing on what what we do, but it is always fun to remember things that have already happened”says guitarist Noodles, who remembers that before the turn of the century he was stabbed during his anti-nuclear benefit concert in Hollywood.

Another great event in which the band participated was their performance at the remembered Woodstock 99, where for three days the most popular bands of the moment met in a show that ended in a big fire. Although many mainly blamed Limp Bizkit’s music for starting the vandalization of the venue, other bands, mostly metal and punk, were also pointed out, as was the case with The Offspring. This stigma today remains as one more anecdote in the experiences during his musical career.

Like every concert they give around the world, the group maintains the extravagance since its beginnings, after the band was created with the union of a baker and drummer (Ron Welty) ―replaced by Brandon Pertzborn―, a school janitor and guitarist (Noodles), a molecular biologist and vocalist (Dexter Holland) and an outstanding student and bassist (Greg Kriesel), the latter replaced multiple times until now where multi-instrumentalist Jonah Nimoy fills this position.

Punk around the world

The three times that The Offspring came to Peru were the three times that they declared that here was the best beer in the world, the best fans and the best food. “What more can an artist ask for on tour?”, Noodles mentions when remembering that they always play the songs “Bad Habit” and “Come out and play” in Lima. Both songs belong to “Smash” (1994), the band’s most remembered album that keeps them leading the North American pop punk movement.

“True punk emerges from the underground scene, but it doesn’t always have to be based on guitars and drums. Lately we see more names of punk bands at festivals which is good because it forces people to go out more and have a couple of beers while listening to new music and enjoying a good musical experience”explains Noodles.

Although his presence at several festivals – and three times in Peru – is almost mandatory to add intensity to events that end in big pogos, his discography can be counted on the fingers of one hand. His last album “Let the Bad Times Roll” (2021) took almost ten years to release, although his next production seems to be closer than ever.

“We should never have laughed at Guns N’ Roses for taking so long to release their album “Chinese Democracy” because now it’s happening to us. The last album took too long to come out, we admit it, but we are almost finishing this new one with the album, which reduces the wait to three years, next time, we promise that the delay will not be as long”concludes Noodles.