#310 - Greg Graffin on PUNK PARADOX

Bad Religion frontman Greg Graffin chats with Trey Elling about PUNK PARADOX: A MEMOIR. Topics include: Goal with the book (0:00) His first taste of live music (2:40) Trauma in rural Kansas in 1976 (4:18) The initial appeal of punk (7:57) A love for The Jackson 5 (10:25) The ugly reality of punk in 1984 (12:11) How lizards are like lead singers (13:41) A change in Bad Religion’s crowd in the late ‘80s (16:22) Bad Religion’s Christmas Songs album (17:21) The concept of “selling out” (18:35) Putting his academic career on hold for the band (21:31) Recovering from a string of traumas in the mid-1990s (23:04) Fostering his children’s love for music (25:35) Brett Gurewitz’s break from the band in the late 1990s (27:29) The one Bible verse he quoted in PUNK PARADOX (29:28) An interesting factoid about ants (33:11) The Milwaukee Bucks’ NBA championship in 2021 (34:28) Rooting for an outspoken Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers (36:30) Whether Greg is still ‘punk’ (40:26)