Bad motherfucken Religion
badbrains
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Saw them again last sat in dirty fucken jersey. You have to catch these guys live if you've never seen them before. Pure in your face punk rock. These guys are the real deal. Been seeing them live since 93 and they still kick ass after 30+ years! Highlight of the show, guy in a wheelchair crowd surfing at the end of the show. Even Greg was impressed :thumbup: :thumbup: 
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Someone at the show next to me said something about him being a professor at Cornell? I thought he was a professor at Berkeley years ago? Idk, his lyrics are sick and bad religion, well, fucken punk legends.
He taught at UCLA.
Graffin attended El Camino Real High School, then double-majored in anthropology and geology as an undergraduate at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He went on to earn a master's degree in geology from UCLA and received his Ph.D. from Cornell University. The Ph.D. dissertation was officially a zoology Ph.D., supervised by William B. Provine at Cornell. The dissertation was entitled "The Cornell Evolution Project."[2][3]
Greg Graffin returned to UCLA where he taught Life Science 1.[2] In a June 2008 interview with Bad Religion bassist Jay Bentley, he mentioned that Graffin would be teaching there from January to March 2009.[4] In April 2011, Graffin revealed that he would return to Cornell University that fall to co-teach a course in evolution for 14 weeks.[5]
Work as an educator of naturalism and evolution
Although Graffin is not religious, he prefers to identify as a naturalist rather than as an atheist. "Naturalism is a belief system. A lot of scientists bristle at that. We all have to believe we can find the truth. Evidence is my guide. I rely on observation, experimentation and verification."[6]
Greg Graffin received the Rushdie Award for Cultural Humanism from the Harvard Humanist Chaplaincy in 2008. [7][8]
Greg Graffin of Bad Religion sings the National Anthem at the Reason Rally. National Mall, Washington, DC, 2012
Throughout 2003, Graffin was engaged in an ongoing email discussion with Preston Jones, a historian at the Christian John Brown University in Arkansas and fan of Bad Religion. The informal philosophical debate that resulted was published as a book titled Is Belief in God Good, Bad or Irrelevant? A Professor and Punk Rocker Discuss Science, Religion, Naturalism & Christianity in 2006.[9][10]
In 2009 Graffin announced that he had co-written a book with American author Steve Olson entitled Anarchy Evolution, released on September 28, 2010 (the same day his band Bad Religion released their 15th album The Dissent of Man).[11][12] As of April 2011, Graffin is writing another book, entitled The Population Wars, which is said to be "a bit more in depth about the process of evolution." No release date has been set.
In 2009, Graffin filmed and co-produced a television pilot called Punk Professor. In 2010, he commented on the project, "It's sitting on someone's shelf waiting to be developed. I'm not actually pursuing it. I said, yeah, I'll shoot the pilot, then it's out of my hands."[13]
On March 24, 2012, Bad Religion headlined the Reason Rally in Washington, D.C., where Graffin performed the national anthem
Many of the lyrics come from Brett Gurewitz as well. He writes as much as Greg.
It was an amazing show, one of the best I've seen, the crowd were going wild.
2003 ~ Toronto
2005 ~ London, Toronto
2006 ~ Toronto
2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
Jealous. Have fun!
The Punk Rock community criticized them for selling out. There were only about 200 people at the show , it was awesome. I never miss a show. 15 years later they continue to delight me.
(now I feel awkward because I've missed some PJ shows.. :oops: )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MOCnZjYoKo