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Posted by: Jesse | 12/18/2010 at 10:38 | 5417 views

Jason Epstein was kind enough to send us a heads up about an interview that he did for punknews.org. The interview with Jay and Brian took place on October 20th, the first of the three "era-shows" in New York.

They talk about the progression and evolution of their music, the new album, the recent free tribute album, punk rock, Brian's favorite BR record (RFH) and some more.
For example Brian on Into The Unknown: "I've never heard it and I don't own it and I heard it to learn the song. And also 'cuz I'm not the original guy so why would I listen if it wasn't required listening?"
But also about agreeing with the message of songs in terms of religion and about the different beliefs of band members.

They talk about dropping one of Graffin's songs around the No Control or Against The grain timeframe because of disagreement about the content. Jay: "There was a song - and I can't for the life of me remember the name of it - that Graffin wrote and it was very Jesus oriented (...) The lyrics were 'Jesus/why'd you have to go and do that/Jesus/where'd you go and get those strange ideas'...I was like....'OK.' And Hetson was just...'NO. (...) I can't even get behind this at all'."

Check out the entire interview on punknews.org.

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12/31/2010 at 07:53
Haha, yay, that pic was from me!! >.<
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12/22/2010 at 12:20
I THINK ITS A MOMENT TO BE RELIVED FOR ETERNITY
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12/22/2010 at 09:02
i wanna hear that long song ;)
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12/22/2010 at 08:19
Just do a forum search.. I don't think we need to relive the moment over and over again everywhere on this site.
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12/22/2010 at 08:04
retrogamer wrote:

LOL sorry Jersey, yeah it was an inside joke. Brian said that to a guy on the forums a while back.
That's f'ing hilarious. What prompted Brian to say that?
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12/21/2010 at 22:04
LOL sorry Jersey, yeah it was an inside joke. Brian said that to a guy on the forums a while back.
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12/21/2010 at 16:18
OK. What was one of the best Bad Religion shows you can ever remember playing?
Brian: Montreal was really good.

Jay: A couple days ago?

Brian: Yeah.
http://www.thebrpage.net/shows/show.asp?showID=1621
Montreal loves BR!
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12/21/2010 at 08:22
Robo Pilgrim wrote:

It was an inside joke.
Phew!
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12/20/2010 at 17:22
It was an inside joke.
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12/20/2010 at 17:08
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brian baker strikes me as kind of a dick.
Go fuck yourself. Hard.
Um ok. Is this site only for BR worship?
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12/20/2010 at 15:38
OMG WUT IS THAT LOST GRAFFIN SONG OMGOMGGMOGOMG
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12/20/2010 at 09:25
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12/19/2010 at 16:19
Or it could be the other members told him it's not worth listening to and he decided to take their word for it.
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12/19/2010 at 14:56
"I've never heard it and I don't own it and I heard it to learn the song. And also 'cuz I'm not the original guy so why would I listen if it wasn't required listening?"
I don't understand. He doesn't want to listen because it is not 'required'? So then he heard from other people that is was bad and never bothered to check it out?I agree he is a duck!
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12/19/2010 at 11:20
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civalien wrote:

Jay - "...everyone that we've inserted into the band (Brian Baker, Brooks Wackerman) has been better than the previous performer in their talent...
And Brian replaced......................
Mike Ness.
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12/19/2010 at 11:19
Brett Religion wrote:

One of the best BR interviews in the last few years... Finally we got to learn something new. Kudos to Dante3000! ;)
Which part? About not all of them being Atheists? I thought we knew that already. At least I did. Brett has talked about spirituality (which is way different from religion, of course) which is a lot different from being an atheist.
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12/19/2010 at 09:09
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brian baker strikes me as kind of a dick.
You would get stricken by a dick.
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12/19/2010 at 04:23
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brian baker strikes me as kind of a dick.
Funny, he strikes me as kind of a duck
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12/19/2010 at 03:11
best band ever :)
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12/18/2010 at 21:16
One of the best BR interviews in the last few years... Finally we got to learn something new. Kudos to Dante3000! ;)
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12/18/2010 at 18:34
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brian baker strikes me as kind of a dick.
Go fuck yourself. Hard.
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12/18/2010 at 17:00
brian baker strikes me as kind of a dick.
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12/18/2010 at 14:52
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Jay - "...everyone that we've inserted into the band (Brian Baker, Brooks Wackerman) has been better than the previous performer in their talent...
And Brian replaced......................
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12/18/2010 at 13:09
Jay - "...everyone that we've inserted into the band (Brian Baker, Brooks Wackerman) has been better than the previous performer in their talent..."

^this^
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12/18/2010 at 12:17
Jaaha wrote:

Whats the song Jay refering to? Can`t think of anything.
It never made it onto an album and it never was recorded.
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12/18/2010 at 12:13
Hups didn`t read the whole interview.
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12/18/2010 at 12:06
Whats the song Jay refering to? Can`t think of anything.