Hard to believe that as well known as they are, they are one of, if not the MOST underrated bands of the past forty years (holy shit! Has it really been FORTY YEARS?!)
Yes it has 😩👵🏼 I’m 48 and first heard them and Social D when I was 12 and they played them on KROQ down in So Cal. I’m going to go see them in April and my 19 y/o daughter asked to go so she’s coming. She wants to go in the pit. What’s a parent to do when their kid is an adult? 🤷🏼♀️ Push her in there 🤫
@@SoCalRegisteredNurse Your daughter must be cool as hell! The music today SUCKS. I thought that I only felt that way because I'm old now, but when I said that to my own daughter, she said: "No Dad, you're right. The music today DOES suck." So we have to support and encourage the young who recognize great music. And it's really gnarly that your daughter is going to shows with you!
“Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man ... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money.” George Carlin
Of course religion is evil, its man made system designed to twist and exploit something that many people believe to be special and unique (the spirit and its journey). That doesn't necessarily mean that God doesn't exist. The Bible is a collection of ancient texts and scriptures which span over multiple centuries. MEN decided what goes in and what doesn't. Men have even changed scriptures to suit whatever denomination it is there are part of. This is all religion.
holy fuck greg is 16 years old on this video o____O and they sound so fucking good and play so well together. it's amazing to see them so young as just guys playing together, what is to become the greatest fucking punk band on the planet. and it's touching in a way, and almost cute to see greg still behaving and expressing himself like any ad/hd teen, while gurewitz already appears expressive and sophisticated. i couldn't be happier that i one random day in my teen years got The New America from my cousin who was still a kid and didn't like their sound so he gave the album to me.
@@DaveBill-te6we their music was very raw sounding at that time, but the way they spoke was very sophisticated and complex considering how young they were
The interviewer is named peter ivers, he was the host of a 1980s television show called new wave theater, it was a pretty strange show. But it did play a lot of good new wave bands like bad religion and legal weapon. There are very few videos on UA-cam of the show but check them out, its interesting to say the least
SOADhasarrived I'm pretty sure since he was young AND in their first appearance, he probably was a little nervous. Otherwise, Guretwitz wouldn't have handled the rest of the interview.
I was raised by my kids on this music and this band. Punk is not a look it is a pulse deep in your chest and head. Love these guy's. My youngest son just saw them in pilly 2014. I got to here all about it wish I didn't live in the mid west would have been there. By the way I am 57 years old.
I'm mid 40's and yes. So now you are 63....wow 1980 when these people came on tv I was between 4-8 years old. Time keeps marching I guess. Yes this comment is 6 years later. So there.
My dad was a gym teacher and his students introduced him to Bad Religion in the mid-90s. He'd play the All Ages tape during after-school team practices, which is where I first heard it. That was my first exposure to punk music; I was 6 or 7 years old and immediately fell in love with the band and their style. When I asked my dad for more, he played me his old Clash and Ramones records, which blew my young mind. Not long after, he took me to my first concert for my tenth birthday: Bad Religion and the Casualties. Man, was that ever a blast. Over the next few years, I began researching and reading as much as I could about punk rock and the genre's history, and - thanks to then-nascent platforms like Napster and Audiogalaxy - fell in love with bands like the Minutemen, Hüsker Dü, the Subhumans, D.R.I., and Rites of Spring. Soon, I was the one playing my new discoveries for my dad, and many of those groups are still favorites of his to this day. Now, 20-25 years later, music still forms a pivotal aspect of our relationship. And if I ever have kids, I'm gonna do my best to expose them to the same bands and songs that my dad and I bonded over during those foundational years of my own childhood.
I'd say from Suffer onward. his voice remained consistent. Here, he sounds more street or even hardcore punk. Oh, I guess you mean the way he talks sounds similar?
not being disrespectful but I have to laugh at this video. It's amusing to see how far they've come from this to now it's just astonishing. Greg went from flipping off cameras and being incoherent to teaching at a university about evolution and biology. I wonder what they would think of this interview today.
wow @ this. i was just a tiny little baby and here they are rocking out. 30 years later... theyre still at it and have managed to stay relevant. Kudos to them.
This video is awesome, though kinda strange how different they were back then. They all were very shy compared to today, and Brett kept talking about "we" as if they are have the same beliefs. Most of the band members now have said specifically that they are all individuals and they don't all adopt beliefs as a band. Always love to see old BR videos like this
Sorry if it's too late and you already know the answer but that's Jay Ziskrout. Jay left the band in '82 for "no apparent reason" when they were recording HCHBAW and Pete (who was Ziskrout's friend and the band's roadie) became the new drummer since he knew all the drum's parts of the songs.
Making assumptions about what I know or do not know, typical for people like you that for some reason are focused on what is in your defenition "real"? Instead of just listening with your ears of what is good music, simple as that. Im raised on good old Ramones and Sex Pistols so dont you say I know nothing bout old punk rock.
I love Bad Religion to death, but theese early songs are just HORRID in my opinion. I mean cmon, listen to "Sorrow" or "New dark ages" and then come back and listen to this crap hah... but very interesting nonetheless to see this :)
they were like 15. i can excuse the immaturity. i'm more impressed that a bunch of kids can put together "how could hell be any worse?" that really is a pretty good record.
@Serpo71 people are like it needs to sound perfect. its ok to sound raw listen to this its not the greatest thing ever and thats for sure. but its so raw i love it. and you like hardcore too? sick of it all all the way man agnostic front. you like social distortion? i love them theyre always my chill music especially gimme the sweet and lowdown off their new album hard times and nursery rhymes
@Serpo71 people are like it needs to sound perfect. its ok to sound raw listen to this its not the greatest thing ever and thats for sure. but its so raw i love it. and you like hardcore too? sick of it all all the way man agnostic front. you like social distortion? i love them theyre always my chill music especially gimme the sweet and lowdown off their new album hard times and nursery rhymes
I know! Gregg acted like a 30something at 15 without peers in 1980 and "just wrote the words." I can't fit this awesome video in my iPad. My rulers allow Ramen. Your life is just.
I always thought they'd gotten their name from the line in the Subway Sect song "Nobody's Scared": Everyone is a prostitute Singing a song in prison Moral standards, the wallpaper The wall is a bad religion
Fat Mike sent me here cuz hes the Punk Rawk King! Bad Religionz is also the Punk kings ya mofos. Also @5waystilsaturday u need to carry the future Punk torch for us old fucks! Long live the Punx! PuNk TiL I DiE mahfuckas!
@Serpo71 You're wrong. They're out there. Consider that the reason you don't hear about them is because they make music like this, and don't pine for labels or corporate tours.
@punkrocker555142 Play what you like, don't think about the genre or selling out or anything. People are focused too much on everything else but the music. Fuck em all.
Wow, went from being anarchists (No Government) to being very liberal (Unlimited Government). That's quite a turnaround. Cool video. Funny to see them play when they were so young.
GorillaRadio88 the whole point of punk is to express yourself as an individual and be your own person, greg was a young kid having fun on stage just like all young punks, just like the sex pistols did.
I have been looking for the full version of this for some time. Thank you for uploading it. This was shot out at USC back in November of 80', and I think it was their attempt to get into the original Decline Of Western Civilization documentary.
Been a big fan for over 10 years now, only just stumbled upon this video, and to me, the interview at the end is the perfect in-a-nutshell representation of the differences between Greg and Brett's songwriting personalities.
Hard to believe that as well known as they are, they are one of, if not the MOST underrated bands of the past forty years (holy shit! Has it really been FORTY YEARS?!)
Yes it has 😩👵🏼 I’m 48 and first heard them and Social D when I was 12 and they played them on KROQ down in So Cal. I’m going to go see them in April and my 19 y/o daughter asked to go so she’s coming. She wants to go in the pit. What’s a parent to do when their kid is an adult? 🤷🏼♀️ Push her in there 🤫
@@SoCalRegisteredNurse Your daughter must be cool as hell! The music today SUCKS. I thought that I only felt that way because I'm old now, but when I said that to my own daughter, she said: "No Dad, you're right. The music today DOES suck." So we have to support and encourage the young who recognize great music. And it's really gnarly that your daughter is going to shows with you!
@@slugcult1973 there's lots of good underground bands out there.
This "shit" is fucking awesome. 'How Could Hell Be Any Worse?' is my all time favorite album of theirs.
“Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man ... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money.” George Carlin
MrDjdave1 Buddy, you've got it wrong. Do your own research by actively reading a KJV Bible
Of course religion is evil, its man made system designed to twist and exploit something that many people believe to be special and unique (the spirit and its journey). That doesn't necessarily mean that God doesn't exist. The Bible is a collection of ancient texts and scriptures which span over multiple centuries. MEN decided what goes in and what doesn't. Men have even changed scriptures to suit whatever denomination it is there are part of. This is all religion.
God doesn't send people to Hell. The people who don't Love God or believe in The God. Basically send them selves there.
@@MoeJama2015 A K
@@MoeJama2015 KJV is Man made Bible.
holy fuck greg is 16 years old on this video o____O and they sound so fucking good and play so well together. it's amazing to see them so young as just guys playing together, what is to become the greatest fucking punk band on the planet. and it's touching in a way, and almost cute to see greg still behaving and expressing himself like any ad/hd teen, while gurewitz already appears expressive and sophisticated.
i couldn't be happier that i one random day in my teen years got The New America from my cousin who was still a kid and didn't like their sound so he gave the album to me.
I can’t even imagine being this sophisticated at such a young age as these guys were. Just crazy.
Sophisticated? Lol pretty raw isn't it?
@@DaveBill-te6we their music was very raw sounding at that time, but the way they spoke was very sophisticated and complex considering how young they were
The perfect package....Punk & a PhD.
The interviewer is named peter ivers, he was the host of a 1980s television show called new wave theater, it was a pretty strange show. But it did play a lot of good new wave bands like bad religion and legal weapon. There are very few videos on UA-cam of the show but check them out, its interesting to say the least
The same dude that was beaten to death only three years after this?
01 Bad Religion
02 Slaves
03 Oligarchy
"Bad Religion!"
"What?!"
LMAO.
To think that their current drummer was 3 years old when this video was made....
+Patxy270180 ha ! yea i was too.
Make that their former drummer now lol
+Patxy270180 I wasn't born yet...
to think that greg graffin was only 15 here. 15 year olds nowadays are regarded as children equal to newborn babies
Patxy López Chacaliaza I was only 2 years old
back when greg couldnt sing lol
I actually love the energy in his vocals here
@@olarrist4273 same . raw as fuck
Great raw vocals!
They've come a long fucking way that's for sure, and still rock with every album!
Lmao! Greg: Whats Next?
Creepy Guy: SLAVES
Greg: Oh Yeah Thanks!
"I just write the words, see..." Ha this was before Graffin was smart😅
+SOADhasarrived He was being sarcastic.
+SOADhasarrived He was being sarcastic.
I know I'm just messing. He's my favorite punk frontman!
SOADhasarrived I'm pretty sure since he was young AND in their first appearance, he probably was a little nervous. Otherwise, Guretwitz wouldn't have handled the rest of the interview.
no one is smart at 16
They don't look like tough guys to me.
But whatever, this is some rad shit
Brett is so angry
It's his facade, like he said. Well probably not at that time though.
They sure did have Intelligent, Philsophical lyrics for being in their mid teens. I wish my peers thought like this (im 14)
You enjoying 28?
I was raised by my kids on this music and this band. Punk is not a look it is a pulse deep in your chest and head. Love these guy's. My youngest son just saw them in pilly 2014. I got to here all about it wish I didn't live in the mid west would have been there. By the way I am 57 years old.
Good music is for ANY age.
You were raised by your kids? that's weird
@@josephsousa5552 I'm sure he meant that his kids introduced him to Bad Religion or something .
I'm mid 40's and yes. So now you are 63....wow 1980 when these people came on tv I was between 4-8 years old. Time keeps marching I guess. Yes this comment is 6 years later. So there.
My dad was a gym teacher and his students introduced him to Bad Religion in the mid-90s. He'd play the All Ages tape during after-school team practices, which is where I first heard it. That was my first exposure to punk music; I was 6 or 7 years old and immediately fell in love with the band and their style. When I asked my dad for more, he played me his old Clash and Ramones records, which blew my young mind. Not long after, he took me to my first concert for my tenth birthday: Bad Religion and the Casualties. Man, was that ever a blast. Over the next few years, I began researching and reading as much as I could about punk rock and the genre's history, and - thanks to then-nascent platforms like Napster and Audiogalaxy - fell in love with bands like the Minutemen, Hüsker Dü, the Subhumans, D.R.I., and Rites of Spring. Soon, I was the one playing my new discoveries for my dad, and many of those groups are still favorites of his to this day. Now, 20-25 years later, music still forms a pivotal aspect of our relationship. And if I ever have kids, I'm gonna do my best to expose them to the same bands and songs that my dad and I bonded over during those foundational years of my own childhood.
Crazy to see Brett so young here now hes not only an icon but a successful business man with his own label to think this little kid accomplished that
I'm so glad I wasn't on TV when I was a teenager.
Why? 'Cos you was a sissy?
Oh my god, my dad looks like so young and like a dork.
Damn Greg 16 and you already got your deep ass voice I can really say that about your singing but at least it got deeper down the line.
At this time how could people guess Greg has an angelike voice?
A reminder that we were (or will be) 15 once.
Holy fuck Brett looks both stoned and pissed.
Fat Mike is my dad and sent me here! Long live the PunX! PuNk TiL I DiE mahfuckas!
The way Greg says fuck yeah after playing bad religion is priceless
You can tell they watched alot of sex pistols footage
Not to pick on a teen, but thank GOD ;) that Greg learned how to sing.
This Is a treasure!
Thanks for sharing.
Greg basically has the same exact voice he had 33 years ago.
No you
After watching this, I must say no, he had tendences to scream and yell much more here than now.
I HEARD THAT. BR.
☺
40 years ago actually
I'd say from Suffer onward. his voice remained consistent. Here, he sounds more street or even hardcore punk. Oh, I guess you mean the way he talks sounds similar?
fucking raw!
they had another appearance on NWT where Greg plinked a little piano on 'We're Only Gona Die'. this is wicked cool. thanks for posting.
This is like watching an old home movie that your mom brings out at Thanksgiving 😆
not being disrespectful but I have to laugh at this video. It's amusing to see how far they've come from this to now it's just astonishing. Greg went from flipping off cameras and being incoherent to teaching at a university about evolution and biology. I wonder what they would think of this interview today.
wow @ this. i was just a tiny little baby and here they are rocking out. 30 years later... theyre still at it and have managed to stay relevant. Kudos to them.
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@@Bunch-of-numbers 44
BAD RELIGION! IS THE BEST BAND EVER!
FROM BRASIL!
el locutor tiene un estilazo q no veas.Q GRANDES BAD RELIGION AUN SIENDO NIÑOS,ESTO ES UNA JOYA
its hard to get popular because kids these days listen to mainstream crap.
Saw them last year, these guys are still bad ass.
Saw them two days ago, they are still badass.
I don't think the label "Tough guy" could ever be put on Greg
he can verbally destroy anyone that challenges him!
nice MTH profile pic btw
Maybe not Tough Guy, but Bad Religion is quite the high speed band.
Their music was though, and still is, kinda, lol
it just hit me greg's early mannerisms remind me of Magnus Carlsen. greatness knows greatness.
"Bad Religion!"
"What?"
I laughed.
He was 15 here, on TV only a year after the band formed, that's insane! seriously!
His voice was alot harsher here!
its crazy how his voice indeed became mature? and sounds good! this is great early stuff..........................
wow, they've really come a long way
This video is awesome, though kinda strange how different they were back then. They all were very shy compared to today, and Brett kept talking about "we" as if they are have the same beliefs. Most of the band members now have said specifically that they are all individuals and they don't all adopt beliefs as a band.
Always love to see old BR videos like this
WOW!! Such youngsters, Is that Pete on the drums?? Thanks for this upload, fucking Classic...
Sorry if it's too late and you already know the answer but that's Jay Ziskrout. Jay left the band in '82 for "no apparent reason" when they were recording HCHBAW and Pete (who was Ziskrout's friend and the band's roadie) became the new drummer since he knew all the drum's parts of the songs.
haha high speed tough guys
True punkrock attitude!
Making assumptions about what I know or do not know, typical for people like you that for some reason are focused on what is in your defenition "real"? Instead of just listening with your ears of what is good music, simple as that. Im raised on good old Ramones and Sex Pistols so dont you say I know nothing bout old punk rock.
I love Bad Religion to death, but theese early songs are just HORRID in my opinion. I mean cmon, listen to "Sorrow" or "New dark ages" and then come back and listen to this crap hah...
but very interesting nonetheless to see this :)
they were like 15. i can excuse the immaturity. i'm more impressed that a bunch of kids can put together "how could hell be any worse?" that really is a pretty good record.
@Serpo71 people are like it needs to sound perfect. its ok to sound raw listen to this its not the greatest thing ever and thats for sure. but its so raw i love it. and you like hardcore too? sick of it all all the way man agnostic front. you like social distortion? i love them theyre always my chill music especially gimme the sweet and lowdown off their new album hard times and nursery rhymes
@Serpo71 people are like it needs to sound perfect. its ok to sound raw listen to this its not the greatest thing ever and thats for sure. but its so raw i love it. and you like hardcore too? sick of it all all the way man agnostic front. you like social distortion? i love them theyre always my chill music especially gimme the sweet and lowdown off their new album hard times and nursery rhymes
Thats the best John Rotten impression I've seen
I was sitting there like "what the fuck is this guy" The band and presenter seemed to hate each other LMAO
I know! Gregg acted like a 30something at 15 without peers in 1980 and "just wrote the words." I can't fit this awesome video in my iPad. My rulers allow Ramen.
Your life is just.
I always thought they'd gotten their name from the line in the Subway Sect song "Nobody's Scared":
Everyone is a prostitute
Singing a song in prison
Moral standards, the wallpaper
The wall is a bad religion
I used to prefer his raw vocals from early Bad Religion but now I prefer his voice when he got older
Fat Mike sent me here cuz hes the Punk Rawk King! Bad Religionz is also the Punk kings ya mofos. Also @5waystilsaturday u need to carry the future Punk torch for us old fucks! Long live the Punx! PuNk TiL I DiE mahfuckas!
just for fun
@Serpo71 You're wrong. They're out there. Consider that the reason you don't hear about them is because they make music like this, and don't pine for labels or corporate tours.
@punkrocker555142 Play what you like, don't think about the genre or selling out or anything. People are focused too much on everything else but the music. Fuck em all.
Greg is straight edge, always has been.
Wow, went from being anarchists (No Government) to being very liberal (Unlimited Government). That's quite a turnaround.
Cool video. Funny to see them play when they were so young.
@Serpo71 That's bullshit, there are plenty everywhere, in every country, just get away from your computer screen and go and find them.
@fireblast111 i know excactly what you mean. when i was fourteen everyone was freaking stupid. i was in my own mature world out there...
@Serpo71 Actually there are a lot of kids doing this out there, the world is different, the populous doesn't want to hear this.
@blinkgreen129
please never include blink 182 and green day with true punk. You sound very young and naive. Poseur much?
Greg sounds a little like Jake Burns in this performance. BR is immortal.
Greg was trying so hard to be Johnny rotten
Please don't post irrelevant, and untrue bullshit, I understand that's your opinion, but it is very wrong bro
Ok, so who do you think Greg is emulating in this video BRO? Greg was just a kid here, and kids will imitate their idols, it's not a big deal.
GorillaRadio88 i agree, maybe a bit of Sid Vicious too?
GorillaRadio88 the whole point of punk is to express yourself as an individual and be your own person, greg was a young kid having fun on stage just like all young punks, just like the sex pistols did.
***** Yes, greg may have been influenced by Johnny Rotten, but he was not trying to act like Johnny Rotton, as GorillaRadio88 said.
Mathematics, science, medicine are systems of thought, but they're not religions
This may be the earliest known recording of Greg
To be a teenager. I miss my teenage punk days...sometimes
We will all go back to those years. Reality is cyclical. :)
"Some high speed tough guys" he says with his high neck joker collar.
0:10 Bad Religion
2:19 Slaves
3:42 Olygarchy
real punk rock.....they still kick ass.
OMG
5:30 💎 💿 💿💿💿💿💿💿💿💿💿💿💿💿💿💿💿💿…
Meh I just don't like the sound. I like the chaos of this earlier stuff.
Looking at this compared to looking at them now in 2017...totally different lol.
ThatGuyWithThePlaid yeah, hard to believe they’re the same band
damn, Greg was only 16 an getting on TV.
what the fuck haveYOU done?
The showman or whatever he is, where the hell did he find his skirt??
Am I the only one who finds the announcer to be a little creepy?
That guys are way too stoned to do an interview haha
Omg they're adorable
Just plain Awesome!!!
High speed tough guys. Fucking rofl.
En ese video se le nota lo puberto a Greg
gurewitz's nose is huge. not as big as his atm receipts.
BR peaked at the No Control album.
Did anyone see Greg gave us the finger?
I think he was like 15 here. Did you act any smarter?
@ludeboy26 yeah this is shit,thats why i love it
@SuperJojokelly maybe cause he is a kid here
I have been looking for the full version of this for some time. Thank you for uploading it. This was shot out at USC back in November of 80', and I think it was their attempt to get into the original Decline Of Western Civilization documentary.
Been a big fan for over 10 years now, only just stumbled upon this video, and to me, the interview at the end is the perfect in-a-nutshell representation of the differences between Greg and Brett's songwriting personalities.
Im going to like this over,n over ,n over ---!!
@pbrskater26 Who the hell is Jason Beiber?