Interview with Brian Baker

Mickey Lynch from olympiusaudio.wordpress.com hit up with Brian Baker for an audio interview during the Warped Tour stop in Camden, NJ.

In this interview, Brian talks about his career with Bad Religion, but also shares some memories about his experiences with his former bands such as Minor Threat, Dag Nasty, Junkyard, Doggystyle and Careless. To give a sneak peak here's what you can expect to hear in this interview. Did you...

• know how Brian got involved with Bad Religion and what a Recipe For Hate tape had to do with this?
• know that Brian has some kind of 'separation anxiety for stages'?
• know about his relationship with guitars and how many he currently owns?
• know how he actually feels about living in Los Angeles and Washington D.C.?
• know that he's the "riff master" and plays 90% of the guitars on every Bad Religion record since he got into the band?
• know that the band never rehearses and that he likes noodling around for fun on his guitar right before a show?
• know that he is unfamiliar with modern music and did you ever wonder what his musical preferences are?
• know that Dag Nasty was more or less a 'necessity' and that they're planning to record a new album again with Peter Cortner at some point?!
• know that he is still part of Junkyard and that he is going to tour with them in Spain next November?
• ever wanted to have some advice from Brian about playing guitar in a band?

Well...here's your chance to get the aswers to these questions!

Brian during Warped Tour 2009	Junkyard (1991)	Junkyard (2008)	Dag Nasty

Greg Hetson and hockey

Everyone knows that Bad Religion and ice hockey go hand in hand, so it was no surprise that the band decided to start its own Bad Religion Hockey Club (BRHC) in 1998. It was Edmonton DJ and music promoter Keith Rubuliak (aka Orange County Keith) who convinced them to kick off their No Substance world tour at Edmonton's Convention Centre on Saturday, March 28, 1998. The band not only played a show; they also played their very first charity game in Edmonton in front of 600 Bad Religion fans. Read here an old article about that 1998 show and here a review of the game.

On January 18, 2009, Greg Hetson took part in the second annual Luc Robitaille Celebrity Shoot Out, a charity event to benefit the Echoes of Hope Foundation.
Hetson came out for Team Hope, together with Cuba Gooding Jr., D.B. Sweeny, Jewish rapper Matisyahu, and co-coach Andie MacDowell. A review of this charity event can be found here. Some pictures of the event:

Recently MayorsManor, the 'unofficial Mayor of the LA Kings', hooked up with Greg to talk about his passion: (Kings) hockey. Greg explains how he got into hockey, shares his most memorable hockey moments, talks about DJing and the upcoming Australia tour, and also talks about his craziest (and probably scariest) Bad Religion experience: the 1994 San Sebastian show in Spain (read more about this incident in the Bad Times issue #2).
Read the entire interview with Greg Hetson right here.