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L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland

Contributed by David5345. Posted on Monday, June 16, 2008 at 6:00 PM (EDT)

The LA Times has a lengthy interview with Dexter Holland of The Offspring.

The piece discusses Holland's hobbies which include three planes, a hot sauce factory and developing BlackBerry software as well as talking about Green Day's American Idiot. Both the Offspring and Green Day hit almost simultaneously a decade ago, so the article suggests that the Offspring need to deliver a "Sgt.Pepper" rebuttal to Green Day's Pet Sounds.

You can check out the interview here.

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Re: L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland
by scientistrock on 2008-06-16 18:04:11
http://last.fm/user/johndbarrett/

Finally, some news on the Offspring.

Re: L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland by Pricey123 on Monday, June 16, 2008 at 6:00 PM (EDT)
Re: L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland by GlamBalam on Monday, June 16, 2008 at 6:00 PM (EDT)

Re: L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland
by Wentz_Equals_Death on 2008-06-16 18:07:10
http://baskauskas.uber.com/blog

^ lol

and, awesome photo ...

Re: L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland
by Hey_ska on 2008-06-16 18:07:28

I thought it said they had an interview with the legendary Dexter Holland and i was like WHAAAAAA?!

Re: L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland
by BlackStud8InchesRealGirth on 2008-06-16 18:07:53

so scandulus

Re: L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland
by wigginz on 2008-06-16 18:22:55
http://pandora.com/people/wigginz

Dude looks exactly like my neighbor. Minus the shades, lame shirt and fugly guitar.

Re: L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland
by Wentz_Equals_Death on 2008-06-16 18:24:30
http://baskauskas.uber.com/blog

"the desperation was never there"

Re: L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland
by Canucker on 2008-06-16 18:29:28

Smash > Dookie
American Idiot > Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace

Re: L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland
by Dante3000 on 2008-06-16 18:37:28
http://ShutUpDante.com/

The difference is, love or hate Green Day they changed with each album. They evolved. No one can say Warning sounded like Dookie or any of their other material. Sure it was all Green Day but it was a very different sound than their other work.

Offspring have been attempting to churn out the same album since Smash (or maybe Americana). A few heavy skate songs, some song about someone dying and way too many joke songs. That isn't to say they haven't turned out some good (maybe even great) songs in that time but none of it has seemed to diverse. Thus the likelihood of them releasing something as different and expansive as American Idiot is very slim.
-Dante

Re: L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland by TheOneTrueBill on Monday, June 16, 2008 at 6:00 PM (EDT)
Re: L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland by billnye on Monday, June 16, 2008 at 6:00 PM (EDT)
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Re: L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland by David5345 on Monday, June 16, 2008 at 6:00 PM (EDT)
Re: L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland by jacknife737 on Monday, June 16, 2008 at 6:00 PM (EDT)
- Re: L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland by Dante3000 on Monday, June 16, 2008 at 6:00 PM (EDT)
Re: L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland by Cos on Monday, June 16, 2008 at 6:00 PM (EDT)
Re: L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland by VictorIkpeba24 on Monday, June 16, 2008 at 6:00 PM (EDT)
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Re: L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland
by dev on 2008-06-16 18:37:56

I love how Holland's hobbies include talking about Green Day's American Idiot.

Re: L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland
by lostandclowned on 2008-06-16 18:39:40
http://recordnerd.com/lists/lostandclowned

in terms of corresponding records, Ignition beats Kerplunk. Ixnay is good but i've always been iffy on it being great.

Re: L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland by dev on Monday, June 16, 2008 at 6:00 PM (EDT)
Re: L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland by David5345 on Monday, June 16, 2008 at 6:00 PM (EDT)
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Re: L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland
by canaandrumzz on 2008-06-16 18:42:36
http://www.last.fm/user/canaandrumzz

My dad is a pilot, maybe I could convince him to paint an anarchy symbol on his plane. Up the Cessna's!

Re: L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland by jamespastepunk on Monday, June 16, 2008 at 6:00 PM (EDT)

Re: L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland
by douglas_is_rad on 2008-06-16 19:20:13

Does anyone else think the show Dexter is fucking awesome?

Re: L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland by willowrain on Monday, June 16, 2008 at 6:00 PM (EDT)
Re: L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland by Holy_Balls on Monday, June 16, 2008 at 6:00 PM (EDT)
Re: L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland by GlamBalam on Monday, June 16, 2008 at 6:00 PM (EDT)

Re: L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland
by Cos on 2008-06-16 19:44:17

That was a fucking boring article. Well done, LA Times.

Re: L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland
by DrGunn on 2008-06-16 20:41:56
http://www.last.fm/user/DrGunn/

my god that was a badly written article.

Re: L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland
by thomas7155 on 2008-06-16 20:50:16
http://myspace.com/nothingmorenothinglesstj

Of course I WOULD happen to be listening to the Offspring, eating a burrito, and wondering what I would look like with dreads. how weird.

Re: L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland
by popquizkid27 on 2008-06-16 20:58:36

The Offspring make music for children.

Re: L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland
by Cyanotic on 2008-06-16 21:02:51

*insert relevant to punk joke here*

Re: L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland
by David_Arquette on 2008-06-16 21:12:44
http://www.myspace.com/streetsideprophet

I hope the words "Green Day" and "Pet Sounds" never appear in the same sentence again. Green Day could never orchestrate an album even 1/100th as brilliant as Pet Sounds. And I don't even mind Green Day that much...

Re: L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland
by BarleyPat on 2008-06-16 21:29:37

He looks like John Mellencamp in that pic. Offspring at their best are much better than Green Day. Offspring at their worst are very, very bad.

Re: L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland by YasserBossin on Monday, June 16, 2008 at 6:00 PM (EDT)
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Re: L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland
by finkXkid on 2008-06-16 22:02:44

i think it's totally pathetic how jealous dexter is about Green Days success..
and i'm with Dante.. Offspring are to bothered about there 'punk' credentials..thats why they write boring stuff these days,
where as green day never ever gave a fuck, and did what they wanted throughout.. thats why there as successful as they are, and thats why every record is completely different..
offspring fuckin blow.. done with there poor green day rip offs on the bag of shite new album..

Re: L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland by jacknife737 on Monday, June 16, 2008 at 6:00 PM (EDT)
Re: L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland by ProdigalSon75 on Monday, June 16, 2008 at 6:00 PM (EDT)

Re: L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland
by saladxdays on 2008-06-16 22:55:00

the idea of even putting these guys in the same musical league as green day is fucking retarded.

offspring suck.
offspring have always sucked.
offspring will always suck.

only a moron would conjure up the idea that they have any chance of writing anything comparable to a green day record.

Re: L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland by ProdigalSon75 on Monday, June 16, 2008 at 6:00 PM (EDT)
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Re: L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland
by Holy_Balls on 2008-06-17 01:48:33
http://www.punknews.org/logout

Damn that article was bad. I could write that with my dick, and it only has one eye.

Re: L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland
by boobrobot on 2008-06-17 02:03:20

Pet Sounds was a rebuttal to Sgt. Peppers. Also, American Idiot was a bloated, bombastic piece of garbage and the Offspring have been irrelevant since 1993.

Re: L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland by DrGunn on Monday, June 16, 2008 at 6:00 PM (EDT)
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Re: L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland
by Torgo on 2008-06-17 05:26:20
http://www.last.fm/user/PayToCum/

Green Day = Good
The Beatles = Good
The Beach Boys = Good (usually)
The Offspring = Bad (all the time)

I win.

Re: L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland
by wonton on 2008-06-17 10:48:58

Hot Sauce?

Re: L.A. Times interview with Dexter Holland
by GlamBalam on 2008-06-17 15:37:02

Dexter is so not funny. He thinks he his, but he's definitely not!