When: Sunday, 7:30 p.m.Of all the the bands associated with mainstream punk rock during the 1990s, The Offspring were arguably the most unlikely to succeed.
Green Day and Blink-182 seemed destined for success, whereas The Offspring — whose members were up to 10 years older than their aforementioned peers, in some cases — played a competent but unspectacular brand of pop-punk. Dexter Holland, singer-guitarist for the group, was also big-time booksmart, which seemed like something of a hindrance in the world of punk rock during the ’90s.
The Offspring, which also features original guitarist Kevin Wasserman, was a slow burn with audiences at first, Holland said. In fact, his future was so uncertain, at one pre-fame point he even considered quitting music and going into science, having earned his master’s degree in molecular biology from the University of Southern California. It wasn’t until Smash, their third album, that Holland felt his hitmaking abilities could stand on their own outside of the band’s native California.
Holland said the band has expanded its show to include cover songs and other video-related content, to justify the scope of the tour. “We were going into some of the bigger [arenas in Canada], so it made us feel like we really had to step this up. We really put a lot more thought into making more of a show out of it, and not just run through 17 songs in a row. This is the first time anywhere in the world we’ve done a proper arena tour of a whole country.
“You don’t want to play the second-best setlist, you gravitate towards what works the best. We’re not avoiding our best known songs, we want to have the best show we can.”
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