The Offspring frontman explains delay of new album 2008-08-03 by Alex101 | 11 Comments | Rocky Mountain News writer Mark Brown recently sat down with Offspring frontman Dexter Holland to discuss the release of band's latest album, Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace, which came out a couple weeks ago.
When asked why the follow-up to Splinter took 5 years for the band to make, Holland replied:
"You get off tour, spend six months writing a record, six months recording it, then you tour for a year. It's this two-year cycle that goes by before you know it. It's hard to do anything much quicker. We did do the greatest hits in between, recorded a few songs for that, did a little touring, and all of a sudden a year and a half had passed. This was our eighth album and you have to make sure it's special and unique. Sometimes you have to dig around a little bit more to get to that point. It's natural in a band to go back to the same thing you did before."
On the band's decision to tap Bob Rock (known for his work with Metallica) as the producer for the album:
I didn't watch [the Metallica documentary Some Kind of Monster] until after I started working with him... so I had a little different perspective. Working with Bob was great. He was not the person I initially thought of just because his pedigree is something I'm not familiar with. I didn't realize till later he was in the Payolas and was part of the old Vancouver punk scene. Once we actually sat down and talked about music and playing songs it worked out great. A really great producer to work with."
The band is currently on tour supporting Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace. This tour marks the band's first full scale tour in three years since the Warped Tour, as well as their first world tour with new drummer Pete Parada (formerly of Face to Face).
There are rumors that The Offspring will be playing a number of other "festival" shows in Europe and the United States, and will be embarking on a full-scale North American tour in late 2008/early 2009 following their Japanese tour, which kicks off in October.
Source: http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/upcoming_releases/dexter_holland_talks_on_new_offspring_album.html
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Makes sense. And well it did ending up sounding different then there past work while still sounding like the same old Offspring. I rather liked it and believe it gets more hate then it deserves but oh well. I just hope it doesnt take them another 5 years to release the next album.
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I'm sorry, but the album is horrible.
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He should of explained why it is so average.
Probably relates to the "Each release after Smash shall be worse than the previous effort" theory
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as a 15 year old, i demand an explanation for why these albums SUCK BALLS
>=(
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Smash doesnt suck balls  you upset my eyes
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Well I really can't wait until the north american tour. Since I couldn't see them at the 05 Warped Tour. Too bad it'll be so far away.
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Its delayed because theyre old.
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Album is great.
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To be honest, they probably did try their best and I think it came out sounding alright but I think they tried way too hard to make it sound different.
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FenderUsa, he said each release AFTER Smash. The new album is pretty damn average though :/
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The Offspring are way past their prime. I don't expect anything too big.
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