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Jay Bentley Reflects on Bad Religion’s First-Ever Live Show – ‘I Remember Throwing Up’

"We have 17 studio albums and every year there's an anniversary, birthday, something and it all kind of seems just like a blur, like it was yesterday."

Jay Bentley , bassist and founding member of Bad Religion , hung out with Chuck Armstrong on Tuesday night's edition of Loudwire Nights (April 2). Bentley admitted that it's hard to believe all the band has accomplished since they formed in 1980.

"It doesn't seem to me like we've done all the things that we've done until I really sit down and start thinking about how long it's really been," he explained.

Bentley said he doesn't sit back and reflect often, but when he does, he enjoys it.

"I'll go back and relive the Suffer tour or the first time we went to Europe or even the first show we played with Social Distortion ," Bentley said.

"That was our first-ever live show. I can remember the feeling, I remember throwing up because I was so nervous."

As Chuck dug into Bentley's memory to find out more about Bad Religion's debut live performance, the bassist was happy to continue reliving it.

"We were a four-piece and it was a warehouse," he recalled. "There was no stage. Everything was just on the ground. There may have been 50-100 people there, but in my mind, it was 1,000. I think we had seven or eight songs and we played them all."

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Bentley said the crowd loved it. In fact, they loved it so much that they screamed, "Do it again!"

So, Bad Religion did it again.

"We just played the songs once again and it was great," he said. "Everybody liked it ... I remember the second time through was much better. I played better. I wasn't as nervous anymore."

What Else Did Bad Religion's Jay Bentley Discuss on Loudwire Nights ?

• Why it took so long for Bad Religion and Social Distortion to finally tour together in the states
• How he and the band learned to stand up for themselves — and their worth — in the music industry
• Why fans can expect to hear new music from Bad Religion relatively soon: "There are songs being written ... Things are happening."

Listen to the Full Interview in the Podcast Player Below

Jay Bentley joined  Loudwire Nights on Tuesday, April 2; the show replays online here , and you can tune in live every weeknight at 7PM ET or on the Loudwire app ; you can also see if the show is available on your local radio station  and listen to interviews on-demand .

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Social Distortion Plot 2024 Tour After Mike Ness’ Positive Cancer Update

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Social Distortion will return to the road in 2024 after frontman Mike Ness offered a positive update on his battle with tonsil cancer. 

The SoCal punk band will kick off a co-headlining run with Epitaph peers Bad Religion — and additional support from the Lovebombs — April 9 in Bakersfield, California. The tour will wrap May 19 in Columbus, Ohio. Artist pre-sale tickets are available starting today, Dec. 12, while a general on-sale is slated for Dec. 15th at 10 a.m. local time. Full info is available on Social Distortion’s website . 

In a statement, Ness revealed that Social Distortion would be playing Mommy’s Little Monster — their 1983 debut which celebrated its 40th anniversary this year — in its entirety. “This should be a very special tour and we are all looking forward to it,” he said.

Ness revealed his tonsil cancer diagnosis in June, and shared an update on Instagram in September. The frontman said he underwent surgery as a form of treatment, and detailed the six weeks of mild chemotherapy he was about to start. 

The musician thanked fans and friends for their support, saying, “It meant so much, and I listened to the [as-yet-unreleased new] album every day for inspiration and I read those posts, the comments, and I really feel like my extended family of fans is also helping me through this.”

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Olympia in sao paulo, brazil on wed, 10 mar 1999.

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Eu estava lá ! (I was there! )

Kulturbolaget in Malmö, Sweden on Sat, 15 Aug 2015

Bowery ballroom in new york (nyc), us on fri, 12 jun 2015.

The band was perfect. The staff at the venue were polite and professional. Great environment.

OC Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa, US on Sat, 21 Mar 2015

VIP section sucked balls! Other than the free beer, we had "side stage" view and wasn't even able to see the bands perform, all I saw was fucken speakers, security, and photographers. I feel ripped off! Never again will I do VIP for Musink.

Eagles Ballroom in Milwaukee, US on Tue, 09 Sep 2014

Bucklist band down. Thank you bad religion for the awesome show.

Terminal 5 in New York, US on Tue, 05 Aug 2014

I have seen Bad Religion several times throughout the years (first time in 1997!) and they just keep getting better & better. Last night was my birthday - Greg and Jay wished me a Happy Birthday & then sang NEW DARK AGES (which is the song I requested to hear!) I'm surprised my brain didn't explode right then and there. I sang my heart out and rocked out on the rail the whole set. I only wish they had played longer! LOVE Bad Religion.

Les Docks in Lausanne, Switzerland on Tue, 24 Jun 2014

Best show I've been to in a long time. Merci/Thank you etc

Sala Razzmatazz in Barcelona, Spain on Wed, 18 Jun 2014

Great set list. Almost all of your best songs were played in Barcelona. I missed suffer, but you played almost all the songs which anyone want to hear in a BR show. Even slow songs were perfect to recover energy to be ready for the following great song! ;D Just one comment: please, the slow version of Generator is amazing. It's exciting when you start to sing "it's the generaaaaaator" loud, with guitars, after the public singing slow "like a plaaneeet, like the f.. atomb bomb".

So f*cking great!!!!

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• Les Docks in Lausanne, Switzerland Tue, 24 Jun 2014 100% from 1 rating
• Bowery Ballroom in New York (NYC), US Fri, 12 Jun 2015 100% from 1 rating
• 9:30 Club in Washington, US Wed, 22 Jul 1992 100% from 1 rating
• The Regency Ballroom in San Francisco, US Wed, 10 Sep 2008 100% from 1 rating
• Eagles Ballroom in Milwaukee, US Tue, 09 Sep 2014 100% from 1 rating
• Terminal 5 in New York, US Tue, 05 Aug 2014 100% from 1 rating
• Sala Razzmatazz in Barcelona, Spain Wed, 18 Jun 2014 95% from 2 ratings
• Batschkapp in Frankfurt, Germany Thu, 29 May 2014 90% from 1 rating
• Hollywood Palladium in Hollywood, US Thu, 18 Apr 2013 90% from 1 rating
• Docks in Hamburg, Germany Tue, 11 Oct 1994 90% from 1 rating

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• great: 2 13%
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• should've stayed at home: 1 7%

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BAD RELIGION Announces Spring 2022 U.S. Tour

Punk rock veterans BAD RELIGION will embark on a U.S. tour this spring. The 10-date trek will kick off on March 26 in Tucson, Arizona and conclude on April 9 in San Diego, California. Support on the tour will come from SLAUGHTERHOUSE . Tickets go on sale today (Tuesday, February 1) at 10:00 a.m. PST except for Salt Lake City, Portland and Seattle, which are already on sale.

Tour dates:

Mar. 26 - Tucson, AZ @ The Rialto Theatre Mar. 28 - Salt Lake City, UT @ The Union Mar. 30 - Spokane, WA @ Knitting Factory Concert Hall Apr. 01 - Portland, OR @ Roseland Theatre Apr. 02 - Bend, OR @ Midtown Ballroom Apr. 03 - Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo Apr. 05 - Monterey, CA @ Golden State Theatre Apr. 06 - Ventura, CA @ Majestic Ventura Theatre Apr. 08 - Anaheim, CA @ House of Blues Anaheim Apr. 09 - San Diego, CA @ House of Blues San Diego

Having celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2020, BAD RELIGION formed in 1980 in the suburbs of Los Angeles. The band has become synonymous with intelligent and provocative West Coast punk rock and are considered one of the most influential and important bands in the genre. BAD RELIGION has continually pushed social boundaries and questioned authority and beliefs armed only with propulsive guitars, charging drumbeats, thoughtful lyrics and an undying will to inspire and provoke anyone who will listen.

The band released its 17th studio album, "Age Of Unreason" , in 2019. The critically acclaimed record offers a fiery and intensely relevant musical response to the times, with songs that address a myriad of socio-political maladies, including conspiracy theories, racist rallies, Trump 's election, the erosion of the middle class, alternative facts and more. There is a stylistic consistency to the band's iconic and influential sound — hard fast beats, big hooks and rousing choruses, yet each new song remains distinctive, utilizing composition, melody and lyrics to deliver a unique narrative consistent with the band's longstanding humanist worldview.

In December 2020, BAD RELIGION celebrated its 40 years of making music with "Decades" , a four-episode online streaming event captured live at The Roxy Theatre in Hollywood, California. The band felt it important to commemorate the conclusion of 2020 as a strange moment in history when they reached that 40-year milestone. The celebratory episodes included live performance footage, exclusive interviews, and a peek at their rehearsals leading up to the taping of "Decades" .

In August 2020, BAD RELIGION released its autobiography, "Do What You Want: The Story Of Bad Religion" , written with the group's full cooperation and support. It reveals the ups and downs of the band's 40-year career, from their beginnings as teenagers experimenting in a San Fernando Valley garage dubbed "The Hell Hole" to headlining major music festivals around the world. The book predominantly features the four principal voices of BAD RELIGION in a hybrid oral history/narrative format: Greg Graffin , Brett Gurewitz , Jay Bentley and Brian Baker . It also includes rare photos and never-before-seen material from their archives.

In September 2020, Graffin spoke to "The Five Count" radio show about what keeps him inspired to make new music four decades into the veteran punk band's career.

"That's the thing that's unique about BAD RELIGION , is our long catalog, our extensive catalog of songs and albums," he said. "Even though a lot of bands are 40 years old, most of them are playing songs or hits from 30 years ago, because they don't put out new music.

"When BAD RELIGION decides to put out new music, it's not just because the world is in turmoil; I don't think that's very inspiring as a songwriter," he explained.

"We write music that we hope speaks to some kind of a sentiment of optimism, even though our music is rather pessimistic. [ Laughs ]"

He added: "It's funny, 'cause a lot of fans say, 'Your music is about such serious stuff. A lot of it is tragic stuff about the human condition. But it always makes me feel so good.' [ Laughs ] And these are not dark people — they're not negative, nihilistic people.

"There's something hopeful and uplifting about our music, and that's something that I do feel a great sense of artistic satisfaction about."

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Bad Religion 'Feel That Same Outrage We Felt As 15-Year-Olds When You See A Moral Decline'

"I mean, we know our place - we'll do this for as long as it's fun. For the most part, we do feel like those same anxiety-driven teenagers we were when we started the band; we just have a lot more knowledge, I hope."

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Bad Religion - vocalist Greg Graffin , lead guitarist Brett Gurewitz , bassist and backing vocalist Jay Bentley , drummer Jamie Miller and guitarists Brian Baker and Mike Dimkich  are punk rock legends. 

You could assume that from their name - it's a brilliant name for a punk rock band, let's be honest - but with timeless staples Generator, Suffer, American Jesus , 21st Century Digital Boy, You, I Want To Conquer The World, Infected, Do What You Want  and countless more, Bad Religion have defied the odds and expectations of an ever-changing industry, remaining as innovative, influential and important as ever. They've earned a high status in the ranks of rock stars alongside Green Day and The Offspring. 

Let's be honest, though: are Bad Religion a little bit underrated? How often do you hear someone talk about them with the same fervour of conversations around blink-182? They may not feature the same jokes about body parts, but the music is awesome and pulls from influences as distinctive as The Stooges and The Beatles.

Over the last 43 years, Bad Religion have become synonymous with the sound, spirit and enduring legacy of Californian punk rock. Retaining their underground credibility while building a staggering punk empire, the band's storied career includes 17 studio albums and the status as one of the best-selling punk bands of all time. 

Tonight, fans will watch the band at the Powerstation in Auckland. On Friday, the band begin their Australian tour alongside Social Distortion - the first Social Distortion headline tour of Australia in their history, travelling through Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. 

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The tour with Social Distortion marks Bad Religion's first headlining tour of Australia in over a decade.  

Bassist Jay Bentley has been babysitting baby Dragon with his wife, Natalia Fabia. It was a difficult birth; Dragon was "born with a rare heart defect known as an interrupted aortic arch and needed surgery on august 1 to repair the anomaly and save his life. The operation was successful, and he is recovering. We are recovering," Bentley wrote on Instagram in August last year. Since then, he's posted gorgeous photos of a healthy Dragon alongside the family dog, Salad . A family man first, the Bad Religion muso prepares his itinerary from home.

"I am super excited to get down there [to Australia], especially like you talked about with this touring package because I don't think we've played a show with Social Distortion since 1982," Bentley says from his home study. The two bands are good mates and see each other all the time, but their schedules haven't lined up together until now in Australia and New Zealand, which shows how lucky we are to score these shows.

"Whether Mike has a solo project, or Greg has a book, or we have an album, or we don't have an album, our schedules have always not lined up. This was the first time where it was like, yeah, we can do that together. It's kind of a miracle. I don't know if it will ever happen again," Bentley admits. "I think that's what makes this magic. Conceptually, we're bringing Southern California in 1980 right to your front door."

Bad Religion celebrated their 40th year as a band in 2020 and released their 17th album, Age Of Unreason , in 2019. Of course, the band's plans to celebrate the anniversary and an excellent new record were unceremoniously halted by the Covid-19 pandemic, so Bentley feels like the band is making up lost time now. Although, he does acknowledge that it's challenging to put together a Bad Religion setlist when you have 17 albums and 300+ songs.

"I think there's always a handful of songs that we're going to play because Greg will say, 'hey, how many people are seeing Bad Religion for the first time ever?' And so many people raise their hands that, you know, a song like American Jesus or Digital Boy has to stay in the setlist," Bentley shares. "Maybe that's how someone even found us. So, you know, if I'm going to get somewhere between 25 and 30 songs into a setlist, I pretty much know that between six and nine of them are going to be the standards that I already know."

After being in a band for 40 years, does Bentley feel like Bad Religion have become a legacy act, or do the guys still feel like a bunch of kids playing punk rock music? "Yeah, a bunch of dudes hanging out making music. I mean, we know our place - we'll do this for as long as it's fun. For the most part, we do feel like those same anxiety-driven teenagers we were when we started the band; we just have a lot more knowledge, I hope," he laughs, and that same anxious energy reverberates throughout Age Of Unreason .

"A very popular person's opinion, because they're popular, can actually be more important than a fact. Those concepts are what sort of drove this album in the sense of our inability; maybe it's our inability to deal with the fact that we have all of the information available to us at our fingertips and we're being led around by opinions.

"This is a fairly new dilemma for humankind because things are travelling so quickly," he continues. "Misinformation travels at the speed of light. And once it's out there, it's hard to put that back in the bottle and say, 'well, that wasn't true.' It doesn't matter anymore." And that's why Bad Religion still raging against the status quo is so important and why we still need punk music.

Punk, to Bentley, is the antithesis of whatever you think it is. "Punk to me is just it's obviously rebelling against whatever is expected. But it's also rebelling against whatever is expected of you as a punk," he says, not going into the musical side of things - it's an attitude, not just picking up a guitar and shredding, after all.

Fans still approach the guys in Bed Religion to tell them that they found the music through  T ony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (You), Tony Hawk's Underground (Big Bang)  and Tony Hawk's American Wasteland (We're Only Gonna Die) . "It's cyclical; it kind of comes in waves," Bentley comments about the resurgence in popularity of early-2000s video games and pop-punk. "Something that we talked about in the very early 80s was we felt that our style of music wasn't respected as a true art form. People would call it 'punk crap, three chords and screaming', and we kept saying, 'there's more to it than that.' 

"Punk got much bigger with that presentation of a Southern Californian sort of lifestyle. And that's what keeps cycling around is this whole skateboarding and video games punk rock life. To us in Southern California, and I'm sure you feel the same way in Australia - we live to surf and skate and listen to music."

Bad Religion are touring with Social Distortion across Australia. Age Of Unreason is out now; listen to it here .

SOCIAL DISTORTION & BAD RELIGION 

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WEDNESDAY 15 FEBRUARY 2023 – TRUSTS ARENA, AUCKLAND

FRIDAY 17 FEBRUARY 2023 – RIVERSTAGE, BRISBANE

SATURDAY 18 FEBRUARY 2023 – HORDERN PAVILION, SYDNEY

SUNDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2023 – MARGARET COURT ARENA, MELBOURNE

WEDNESDAY 22 FEBRUARY 2023 – RED HILL AUDITORIUM, PERTH

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BAD RELIGION & SOCIAL DISTORTION Announce 2024 U.S. Tour

Southern California punk legends Social Distortion and Bad Religion are joining forces for an epic co-headlining tour across the U.S., kicking off April 9, 2024 in Bakersfield, California!

The Lovebombs will join the two legendary bands, bringing their distinctive sounds and well-loved catalogs to venues all over the continent. Fans can expect this tour to be a unique experience that highlights the lasting impact and legacy of Social Distortion and Bad Religion on the punk rock scene.

Social Distortion frontman Mike Ness expressed his excitement for the tour: “It gives me great pleasure to announce that in April we will be going on a nationwide co-headlining tour with our friends in Bad Religion . Yes, we are back in action and can’t wait for this tour!! We did this with them in Australia in 2022 and the shows were amazing!”

Ness also shared exciting news for fans of Social Distortion ‘s classic album “Mommy’s Little Monster” : “We have also decided in celebration of the 40-year anniversary and re-release of “Mommy’s Little Monster” that we will be playing the album in its entirety. This should be a very special tour and we are all looking forward to it.”

Bad Religion singer Greg Graffin shared his thoughts on the tour: “ Bad Religion and Social Distortion first played together in 1980. Though we evolved in different directions, we both carried the torch of Southern California punk all along the way. Now we’re so excited to be on the same stage again.”

In addition to the co-headlining tour, Social Distortion also announced rescheduled dates for their previously postponed tour with The Bellrays . The tour will now take place in September and October 2024.

Tickets for both tours go on sale soon. Artist pre-sale tickets are live today at 12 noon local time with codes BALLANDCHAIN or SUFFER . General on-sale begins December 15 at 10 a.m. local time.

SOCIAL DISTORTION tour dates with BAD RELIGION:

April 09 – Bakersfield, CA – Mechanics Bank Theater April 10 – Santa Barbara, CA – Santa Barbara Bowl April 11 – San Diego, CA – PETCO Park April 13 – Las Vegas, NV – Virgin Hotels Las Vegas – The Theater April 14 – Mesa, AZ – Mesa Amphitheater April 16 – Lubbock, TX – Lonestar Amphitheater April 18 – Irving, TX – The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory April 19 – San Antonio, TX – Boeing Center at Tech Port April 20 – Austin, TX – Moody Amphitheater at Waterloo Greenway April 22 – Houston, TX – Bayou Music Center April 23 – New Orleans, LA – The Filmore Harrah’s New Orleans April 26 – St. Augustine, FL – The Saint Augustine Amphitheatre April 27 – Fort Lauderdale, FL – Revolution Live April 28 – Clearwater, FL – Coachman Park – The Sound April 30 – Atlanta, GA – Coca-Cola Roxy Theatre May 01 – North Charleston, SC – Firefly Distillery Lawn May 03 – Oxon Hill, MD – The Theater at MGM National Harbor May 04 – New York, NY – Pier 17 The Rooftop May 05 – Philadelphia, PA – The Filmore Philadelphia May 07 – Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall at Fenway May 10 – Pittsburgh, PA – Stage AE May 11 – Detroit, MI – The Masonic Temple Theatre May 12 – Cincinnati, OH – The Andrew J Brady Music Center May 14 – Milwaukee, WI – The Rave/Eagles Club – Eagles Ballroom May 15 – West Des Moines, IA – Val Air Ballroom May 17 – Indianapolis, IN – Everwise Amphitheater May 18 – Chicago, IL – Salt Shed – Indoors May 19 – Columbus, OH – Historic Crew Stadium

SOCIAL DISTORTION tour dates with THE BELLRAYS:

Sept. 13 – Seattle, WA – The Showbox Sept. 14 – Seattle, WA – The Showbox Sept. 15 – Seattle, WA – The Showbox Sept. 18 – Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom Sept. 19 – Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom Sept. 21 – Edmonton, AB – Midway Music Hall Sept. 22 – Edmonton, AB – Midway Music Hall Sept. 23 – Calgary, AB – Macewan Hall Sept. 25 – Winnipeg, MB – Buron Cummings Theatre Oct. 01 – Buffalo, NY – Town Ballroom Oct. 02 – Buffalo, NY – Town Ballroom Oct. 04 – Guelph, ON – Guelph Concert Theatre Oct. 05 – Toronto, ON – History Oct. 06 – Montreal, QC – M Telus Oct. 08 – New Haven, CT – College Street Music Hall Oct. 09 – Hampton Beach, NH – Casino Ballroom Oct. 11 – Huntington, NY – The Paramount Oct. 12 – Stroudsburg, PA – Sherman Theater Oct. 13 – Sayreville, NJ – Starland Ballroom Oct. 15 – Norfolk, VA – The Norva Oct. 16 – Charlotte, NC – The Fillmore Charlotte Oct. 17 – Raleigh, NC – The Ritz Oct. 19 – Memphis, TN – Minglewood Hall Oct. 20 – Tulsa, OK – Cain’s Ballroom Oct. 22 – Albuquerque, NM – Rio Rancho Event Center Oct. 23 – Tucson, AZ – Rialto Theatre

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Southern California punk legends Social Distortion and Bad Religion are set to embark on an epic co-headlining tour across America Spring 2024. The two iconic bands will join forces to bring their signature sounds and beloved catalogs to stages across the continent, showcasing their enduring legacy and influence on the punk rock movement. Bad Religion singer Greg Graffin says " Bad Religion and Social Distortion played together in 1980. Though we evolved in different directions, we both carried the torch of Southern California punk all along the way. Now we're so excited to be on the same stage again." Jay Bentley, Bad Religion bassist, continues, “43 years after playing our first ever live show with Social Distortion , we’re finally going to tour together! That we’re both still making music and touring the world is a testament to the staying power of SoCal punk rock!” In 2022, the two bands shared a short tour of Australia together, where plans were hatched to bring the comradery to America. Brian Baker , Bad Religion guitarist, states, “I loved Social Distortion as a kid, and I love ‘em even more now. I am thrilled and honored to be sharing stages with them this fall. This is one for the history books, folks.”

Social Distortion frontman Mike Ness comments, “ It gives me great pleasure to announce that in April we will be going on a nationwide co-headlining tour with our friends in Bad Religion . Yes, we are back in action and can’t wait for this tour!! We did this with them in Australia in 2022 and the shows were amazing! ” He continues, “ We have also decided in celebration of the 40 year anniversary and re-release of ‘Mommy’s Little Monster’ that we will be playing the album in its entirety. This should be a very special tour and we are all looking forward to it .”

The tour will kick off in Bakersfield, California at Mechanics Bank Theater on April 9, 2024. Fans can expect an unforgettable experience as these two powerhouses share the stage, delivering raw, unapologetic performances night after night.

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Bad Religion is in an almost singular position in the history of punk. Having formed right on the heels of the original explosion, they led the west coast arm of hardcore’s birth, adding their melodic riffs, zooming harmonies, and viciously verbose lyrical punch to the basic bash of hardcore. The band has long settled into the current lineup who have arguably enacted to most muscular Bad Religion to ever grace a stage: Greg Graffin (vocals) and Jay Bentley (bass) join Brian Baker (guitarist since ’94), guitarist Mike Dimkich, and drummer Jamie Miller.

Social Distortion’s patented mix of punk, bluesy rock n’ roll and outlaw country — while also stretching the boundaries of their signature sound is a blend of potent power that appeals to all ages. For many years, Social Distortion have all but trademarked their sound, a brand of hard rockabilly/punk that's cut with the melodic, road-tested lyrics of frontman Mike Ness. Their searing guitars and a locomotive rhythm section sound as alive today as they did in '82, as do Ness' hard-luck tales of love, loss and lessons learned. Now in their fifth decade, Ness and Social Distortion have officially achieved one of the most non- punk things possible: They've failed to burn out and a release of new music is forthcoming in 2024.

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Review | Patented Punk Bands of the ‘80s and ‘90s Bring Out the Mosh Pit in Bowl’s Season Opener

Bad Religion & Social Distortion at Santa Barbara Bowl, April 10, 2024

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I chatted with a delightful phlebotomist in the beer line for Bad Religion / Social Distortion at the Santa Barbara Bowl last Wednesday. She was from Santa Maria, was reasonably tatted, and maybe had a nobel prize or something, but I stopped listening and started marveling after I heard she was a phlebotomist. I don’t even know what a phlebotomist does (I assume something with either phlegm or bottoms), but it’s a spectacular word, and now I’d finally met one. There are moments in your life when it’s a good time to die, and that would have been one of them, but it didn’t happen, so I got my beer and sat back down.

Before the concert started I saw three different men take their shirts off to put on a fresh concert tee. Each of them was cartoonishly muscular, as though every muscle had not just perfect definition, but also part of speech, language of origin, and please use it in a sentence. The fourth guy I saw had flames tattooed across his chest, just in case you wanted to know if he was both swole and on fire. Why, yes — yes he was.

Bad Religion started promptly at 7 p.m., and played 22 songs. And then, at 7:15 …

Punk songs are not long songs, and punk bands don’t jam. I’m completely making this up because I don’t actually know, but I’m guessing that a central ethos of punk was never musicality — you just had to learn three chords, how to smack a drum and duck a thrown beer, and you were golden. It’s energy and attitude, and that sticky man-boy energy was in full swing at the bowl.

The mosh pit started small, with a dozen guys slamming in a circle around a bear troll with an unfavorable face to face-hair ratio bulldozing in the opposite direction. By the time Bad Religion performed “Do What You Want” there were a hundred people swirling in a banging maelstrom of flailing body parts. And by a hundred people, I mean a lot of middle aged guys trying not to slip a disc. Also, there was a weird amount of skipping.

Things were thrown — I saw a t-shirt, some overalls, a couple of people. Once every few minutes a beer cup would be launched from somewhere in the audience towards the mosh pit, end over end confettiing out glittering foam. In an accidentally hilarious bit of advertising, the Bowl is very excited about the r.cup reusable cups on their website. It says (all caps sic), “All you do is order, enjoy, TOSS, and repeat,” and, “So, ‘Toss like a boss’ and help lower your concert impact!”

On the other hand, Santa Barbarians throwing environmentally correct cups on the ground? Now that is punk. Anarchy in the SB!

Bad Religion frontman Greg Graffin was in fine form. He looked like a mid-level manager at an engineering company in his Kirkland polo and Dockers (all black, but you know this guy wears a Hawaiian shirt on Fridays), and somehow he made it work while he gestured along to their impishly titled “Fuck You.” They hit most of their hits — “Infected,” “Los Angeles is Burning,” “New Dark Ages,” and “Sorrow.” I’m still humming “21st Century (Digital Boy).”

The audience loved them, even if they were one of the squirrelliest crowds I’ve been in since we put Mentos in Diet Coke at my son’s ninth birthday. The warm up band Lovecrimes started at 6 and the Bowl shows always end at 10, so it was four hours longer than most of these people liked to sit.

There were identical twin women with blunt bangs wearing mod punk jackets in front of me for Bad Religion, who were replaced by a group of leather clad guys for Social Distortion. The guys were less interesting, because none of them matched. Penny Lane and her friend sat off to the side, but they would disappear with a guy with a backstage pass occasionally, and then return to whatever seats were available. A family of five sat behind me — Mom, Dad, two teen boys and a nephew. She happy-screamed about how much she wanted to be in the pit, or for Social Distortion to play “Sick Boys,” apologized for spilling a little hard kombucha on me, and enthusiastically explained all her enthusiasm as nothing but love. She was awesome.

Social Distortion came on at 8:30, and played 16 songs in the same amount of time as Bad Religion played their 22 (I may be new to reviewing, but I fully understand the importance of counting songs, right?). They’re a little more melodious, although both bands have plenty of hard driving songs as well as catchy earworms. They opened with “Bad Luck,” and also blasted out “Mommy’s Little Monster,” “1945,” and “Ball and Chain.”

Mike Ness was slightly distracted between songs, but this is only his third show after he came back from what seems like a successful bout with tonsil cancer. His voice sounded great and his energy was good, so I never would have guessed until he thanked his fans for all of their support following his diagnosis.

Ness, who sounds like a cross between Norm Macdonald and Johnny Cash, made some heartfelt comments. “I love my cars, and I love my guitars. At the end of the day they don’t mean shit. You got friends, you got family, you got love.” He then brought out his son Julian to play on a new, still unrecorded song with the band: “Warn Me.” His son left the stage after a long hug that made even the bear troll a little teary eyed.

Social Distortion ended the show with their cover of “Ring of Fire,” which is a great song, but the title makes me giggle, because I’m a child. But then, the whole show was kind of a child, filled with joy and violence and love, and so maybe it’s okay that “Ring of Fire” makes me think of the morning after spicy food. Anyone know a good phlebotomist?

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Scene 1: I’m a little kid in the backseat of my dad’s car, and a Bad Religion song comes on the radio. He tells me that they’re kinda like Green Day, if Green Day were “a real punk band.” It will shape my perception of both bands and the genre as a whole well into adulthood.

Scene 2: A friend texts me in the days leading up to the show: “Are you going to the boomer punk gig on Saturday?” I do not need to ask what gig he’s talking about.

Scene 3: I arrive at the venue on a Saturday night for a double-bill of two of punk music’s most revered legends, and find myself immediately befuddled by the scene spilling out from the venue onto the streets around it.

I’ve attended dozens of shows at Revolution Live (many of which have been documented with reviews on this site), but I’ve never seen anything like the scene at the venerable Fort Lauderdale club this past Saturday night. Billed as taking place at “Revolution Live Outdoors,” I assumed this gig, like so many recent others , would take place behind the venue at the courtyard that connects the club to America’s Backyard. This was not the case. Upon arrival, the street behind the venue was closed, the parking lot to its north had been fully cordoned off, and a temporary outdoor stage had been erected. Thousands of people were milling about. This was not going to be like most other Rev shows.

I’ve never been great at estimating attendance numbers, but I’d guess that the crowd for this gig was somewhere over the 4,000 mark. The whole operation felt more like a small festival than a regular show, albeit one with questionable infrastructure and little-to-no breathing room in the packed crowd. Depending on where one chose to settle in among the masses, the sound from the stage ranged from a warbled mess of mumbles and static distortion to something resembling an actual rock concert, as long as the show was audible over the sound of attendees complaining about how long the bar lines were.

Social Distortion, the pioneering SoCal punk outfit that has been performing for more than 25 years under the tutelage of sole remaining original member Mike Ness, is a touchstone for generations of punks dating back to its first albums in the early 1980s. Bad Religion is a decidedly more hard-nosed version of that same SoCal punk aesthetic, and has been part of the scene for nearly as long behind the leadership of singer and sole constant member Greg Graffin. That this is the first time the two acts have toured together came as something of a shock considering what a no-brainer it seems like—not only do they share geographic and aesthetic bonds, but both bands are signed to Epitaph Records.

It seems the bands have been switching off opener/closer duties on a night-by-night basis, and for this show Bad Religion drew the short straw. The group opened the show with a rousing set that clocked in right around an hour, playing through the last dregs of the late-April sunset and covering nearly all of its touchstone tracks, from “American Jesus” to “21st Century (Digital Boy)” and beyond.

Social Distortion took the stage after a half-hour break and tried valiantly to recapture the energy their predecessors had supplied, with mixed results. In its heyday, the group was prescient in its adoption of disparate styles, helping to launch the “alternative music” tag that critics so eagerly slapped onto acts of the 1980s that didn’t fit neatly into a single genre. But the slower and more melodic facets of its sound felt labored following the barrage that was the opening set. Coupled with banter that was near-indecipherable and the omission of “Story of My Life,” arguably the group’s biggest hit, a set that closed with a duo of Johnny Cash covers failed to resonate in the way I’d hoped it would.

As a fan of the music and ethos of both of these bands, I’m happy to see them on the road together for a successful tour that’s undoubtedly securing them a well-earned payday. But I’m unsure whether the ends justify the means—is this still “punk?” If you love these bands and you had a blast at this show, whether it was your first (or 10th) time seeing them live, who am I to rain on your parade? Feel free to flip me the proverbial bird and close this page. But if you were hoping for something that would capture even a fragment of the electric, subversive spirit of the genre that these two acts helped to pioneer so many years ago? I’d guess you left as disappointed as I did.

Bad Religion:

1000 More Fools

The Defense

New Dark Ages

Recipe for Hate

Come Join Us

Turn on the Light

Do What You Want

Struck a Nerve

I Want to Conquer the World

21st Century (Digital Boy)

Against the Grain

American Jesus

We’re Only Gonna Die

Fuck Armageddon… This Is Hell

Social Distortion:

Through These Eyes

I Wasn’t Born to Follow

Cold Feelings

Mommy’s Little Monster

Hour of Darkness

Reach for the Sky

Ball and Chain

Born to Kill

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‘Demolishing democracy’: how much danger does Christian nationalism pose?

Documentary Bad Faith looks at the history of a group trying to affect and corrupt politics under the guise of religion

B ad Faith, a new documentary on the rise of Christian nationalism in the United States, opens with an obvious, ominous scene – the storming of the Capitol on 6 January 2021 – though trained on details drowned out by the deluge of horror and easily recognizable images of chaos. That Paula White, Donald Trump’s faith adviser, led the Save America rally in a prayer to overturn the results for “a free and fair election”. That mixed among Trump flags, American flags and militia symbols were numerous banners with Christian crosses; on the steps of the Capitol, a “JESUS SAVES” sign blares mere feet from “Lock Them UP!”

The movement to overturn the 2020 election for Donald Trump was, as the documentary underscores, inextricable from a certain strain of belief in America as a fundamentally Christian nation, separation of church and state be damned. In fact, as Bad Faith argues, Christian nationalism – a political movement to shape the United States according a certain interpretation of evangelical Christianity , by vote or, more recently, by coercion – was the “galvanizing force” behind the attempted hijacking of the democratic process three years ago.

Bad Faith traces the origins of the movement as a savvy, disproportionately powerful political force, from churches to Republican political operatives to donors, either from conviction or convenience. “I think a lot of Americans have a very difficult time accepting and understanding the fact that such treason, such anti-democratic activity, could be carried out by people who basically look like Sunday school teachers,” Stephen Ujlaki, the film’s director, told the Guardian. By looking back on the half-century of Christian nationalist belief, organizing and action, the events of January 6 no longer seemed shocking, but the logical endpoint of anti-democratic ideals. “It was unmistakable, once you looked in the right place and you listened to what people were saying, and you understood how to decode what they were saying,” said Ujlaki. “Little would you know that when they talk about recreating the kingdom of God on earth, they weren’t talking about something spiritual. They were talking about demolishing democracy so that God, ie themselves, could rule. And for that reason, I call it a conspiracy carried out in broad daylight.”

Though Christian nationalists are quick to invoke the founding fathers, whom they claim were directed by a Christian God, the conspiracy has its modern origins in the 1970s, when the Republican political organizer Paul Weyrich began uniting evangelical parishioners and televangelist preachers like Jerry Falwell with Republican party politics opposing desegregation, via a political action group called the Moral Majority. It’s not that evangelical Christians weren’t political – as the film, narrated by Peter Coyote, points out, the idea of America as a white Christian nation undergirded the Ku Klux Klan, which at its peak in 1924 claimed 8 million members, the vast majority of whom were white evangelicals, including 40,000 ministers.

Accordingly, the crucial tie between white evangelicals and the Republican party came not from the 1972 ruling in Roe v Wade, as is often misattributed, but from opposition to a different ruling preventing racially segregated institutions – including schools and churches – from claiming charitable, tax-exempt status. The ruling brought segregated church leaders such as Falwell in alignment with Republican operatives like Weyrich, who cannily realized that emotional arguments against abortion would drive more grassroots support than openly racist talk against desegregation.

Bad Faith highlights Christian nationalism’s “origins in the racism, and the segregation mentality, and you can draw a straight line from that to gerrymandering and voter suppression,” said Anne Nelson, a film participant and author of Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right. Christian nationalist supporters, she added, were “very skillful at ... framing and branding and messaging, that makes something like voter suppression look like electoral integrity. And they do this time after time, on every front”.

The film juxtaposes the decades-long roots of the movement with its evolving principles: that America was founded as a Christian nation, for and by Christians; that maintaining such a state is a divinely sanctioned, righteous fight; that anti-democratic or violent tactics should be employed in the name of God. And in recent years, that Donald Trump – a thrice-married, profligate cheater with too many character scandals to name – is, if not a true “Christian”, a divinely sanctioned “King Cyrus” figure sent to disrupt the secular order. “The divisiveness and the distrust of institutions that we’re seeing today was part of a plan,” said Ujlaki. “It was a result of an actual plan, successfully executed to get to this point. And once the institutions are weakened and people have lost faith in elections, there’s room for the strongman to come in.”

In addition to political experts contextualizing the growth and funding of Christian nationalism, Ujlaki also enlisted several prominent, faithful Christians to dispute another of the movement’s prominent myths: that it’s a true distillation of Christian teachings. “It is absolutely not Christian. It is anti-Christian,” said Ujlaki. He quoted the theologian Russell Moore, who calls the movement “heresy” in the film, as well as the Rev William Barber II, whose faith leads him to advocate for wealth redistribution, racial equality and social justice: “They may have their Trump, but they don’t have their Jesus.”

“They don’t care about the actual Jesus,” said Ujlaki. That’s underscored by the money trail, followed by Nelson and others, which leads to several non-evangelical donors – the Koch brothers and more – who nevertheless benefit from the movement’s weakening of institutions and drive to the far right, as with the Tea Party movement in 2010. “They’re in bed together, based on economic principles, not theology,” said Nelson.

And yet theology continues to drive an anti-democratic movement, for which January 6 was not a disaster but a starting point. Bad Faith ends with a note about Project 2025, announced in December 2023 by the Heritage Foundation. The 900-page document builds on Weyrich’s Conservative Manifesto and recommends, among other things: placing all independent government agencies, including the FBI and Department of Justice, under direct presidential control; purging government employees considered “disloyal” to the president; and deploying the military against American citizens under the Insurrection Act.

Some of the recommendations sound far-fetched and extreme, but if Bad Faith has one point, it is to take Christian nationalism as a serious threat to democracy. “These people are not stupid,” said Nelson. “They’re incredibly strategic. They’re extremely good at organization, and they have a very, very long attention span. If they set out an objective, they will give it 40 years to play out, they will build organizations, they will go into electoral districts not a month before the election, but two years before the election, organizing voters.”

In Nelson’s view, major media organizations misunderstood this in the run-up to January 6. “They look at these events as independent grassroots eruptions, like the Tea Party,” she said. “And they’re actually fully integrated as a strategy with massive coordinated funding and implementation. If you don’t see that, you miss the story.”

Bad Faith is now available to rent digitally in the US with a UK date to be announced

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