Brett Gurewitz: Our whole album is dedicated to getting Bush out of office. I'm not a presidential scholar but I don't think you'll find a worse president in the history of the United States. He's probably one of the worst leaders in the history of world leaders. I just hate the guy.
Sublime once covered "We're Only Gonna Die", for their debut album "40 oz. to Freedom". It was titled "We're Only Gonna Die From Our Own Arrogance".
The band's fourth album, "Back to the Known", was a joking title referring to returning to their original style, after the highly unpopular "Into the Unknown", which was a pop rock album rather than punk.
Hetson originally played in a band named Red Kross.
In their early years, Bad Religion performed the songs "Bad Religion", "Slaves", "Oligarchy," "We're Only Gonna Die", and "Part III" Live on TV from "The New Wave Theater". These videos can now be seen on the live DVD, "Live At the Palladium".
Greg Graffin has released two solo albums, named "American Lesion", and "Cold As The Clay".
Lead singer Greg Graffin has double majors in anthropology and geology from UCLA, a masters in geology, and a Ph.D in evolutionary paleontology.
Although once on Atlantic records, Bad Religion has been on Epitaph records at the beginning, and current parts of their career.
Bad Religion was listed the 15th best punk rock band of all time on digitaldreamdoor.com, and #3 on another list.
Over the 27 years Bad Religion has been around, they have had 12 different people play in the band at one time.
The band is credited with leading the punk revival of the late '80s.
Bad Religion has three members that have been in other punk bands. Brian Baker- Minor Threat Greg Hetson- Circle Jerks Brooks Wackerman- Sucidal Tendencies
Band members include Greg Graffin, Brett Gurewitz, Greg Hetson, Brian Baker, Jay Bentley, and Brooks Wackerman.