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Bad Religion : No room for dissent
After 30 years together, there is not much dissent among the men of Bad Religion.
“When we meet, we all very well,” said Brett Gurewitz, a pioneer of punk music in Los Angeles. We all naturally find our role within the group. ”
48 year old guitarist and founder of Bad Religion also believes have the best band, nothing less.
While it is still one of the main songwriters of the band, with vocalist Greg Graffin, it has long since given up the long and exhausting tour.
Instead of boarding the bus, he prefers to do office work.
Thus, he spends his days caring for Epitaph, a music label he created in 1981 for distributing albums from Bad Religion.
Since then, several other labels associated with Epitaph have been added, including Anti-and Hellcat.
Always present on the music scene after 30 year career, Bad Religion has released the album The Dissent of Man, while Gurewitz leads a team of dozens of employees.
The one who has long known as Mr. Brett has made a hole in his schedule to talk business and reflect on 30 years of Bad Religion.
WHAT IS A TYPICAL DAY FOR YOU?
“You’ll laugh. A typical day I get up really early, 5 pm 30. I’m going to train, either by bike (because I try to ride 160 km per week) in any other type of endurance exercise. I start work around 8am or 9am and I spend about eight hours at the offices of Epitaph. I negotiate agreements, listening to music, I put under contract groups and attend meetings. This is the usual paperwork. I then returned home, I bathed my daughter a year, I sup, I put my daughter to bed and if I’m lucky, I watch a TV show with my wife before going to bed. ”
IF YOU REMOVE THE PUNK OF THE EQUATION, YOU ARE A FATHER OF A TYPICAL SUBURBAN MIDDLE
“Yes. And if you take the moments where I write and I produce an album, and that’s only for a few years, you can completely remove the punk rock of the equation. There really punk rock in my life. ”
AFTER 30-YEAR CAREER, YOU FEEL GOOD ON MOMENTUM?
“Well, in terms of my involvement, I can not really be on a roll, because I am involved only an ad hoc basis, period. Every two years or more, the guys say: “It would be nice to have a new album, and I begin to write. I have to relearn almost every time to write, because honestly, aside from playing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star for my daughter, I do not play guitar. So I have to reinvent myself every time. This was the case for the last five records. So I’m not on a roll, but I’m not gloomy. I constantly have to relearn my job. ”
EPITAPH AND YOU HAVE NOT PARTICIPATE IN THE TOUR. THINK YOU KNOW IT HAS AN EFFECT ON YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE GROUP?
“I guess it can create resentment. I have it easy: I record the album and I can stay home, while everyone must do the hard work of the tour. Guys do not however make me comment to that effect. Yet if I were them, I’d be a little annoyed by this. I still think the group is happy to have a label like Epitaph and I’m for something. Many groups in our situation do not support such a label. My position within the group is a double-edged sword. ”
The group will be performing at Metropolis, Oct. 15.
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