We’d messed around with parts like that for years, such as on Blackball, but this just worked.”
We also got a kick out of the Middle Eastern melodies, which was similar in a way. If you try to fit everyone’s mould, you’ll fall apart.”ĭexter: “The riff… well we both loved the surf guitar thing, especially Dick Dale, and that harks back to Orange County surfing in the 60s.
If it’s a good song, then fuck it! Everyone’s got different ideas about what punk is. Noodles: “Yeah, a lot of people didn’t like it, and we got it again with Pretty Fly…. Similar things must have been said about Smash… You mentioned that sometimes you were criticised for not being ‘punk’. For 10 years it had just been a hobby of jumping into a van during summer vacations.” We turned down performing on Saturday Night Live. It’s the biggest selling independent label album ever. We added something musically memorable to the energy of punk music.” We loved bands that were very punk, but these bands didn’t always have great melodies. It was over-produced rock until Nirvana tore down walls and opened radio to new things.”ĭexter: “They’re catchy riffs. Noodles: “Because they’re fucking brilliant! The timing had a lot to do with it. Why do you think kids gravitated towards those riffs? Making you want to start a band is what the Ramones, Sex Pistols and The Clash do. How do you feel about Smash influencing a generation of kids to take up guitar playing?ĭexter: “It’s flattering, but it makes me feel uncomfortable because I don’t see us in the same categories that I see our idols.
We’d been touring with NOFX and Pennywise and were in the mix of the scene. They were from Orange County, too.”ĭid this album mark your maturity as songwriters?ĭexter: “I see Ignition as the record that first sounded like The Offspring, but we were really excited recording this. TSOL were one of our favourite bands growing up, along with Dead Kennedys and the Ramones. It was a very gradual climb finding decent guitar gear for us.”ĭexter: “People have actually commented that it sounds like True Sounds Of Liberty, and they stole from the old British goths, so maybe it was an indirect influence. I think I played an Aria guitar on this record. His was just distortion – it’s a Peavey, right? So we swapped them around, which made it better. Greg K bought a single-speaker Peavey practice amp for bass. The local store sold me a Hondo guitar, which I’m sure nobody’s heard of, and a Music Man amp. On the record I played a Gibson Sonex… or maybe an Epiphone Les Paul.”ĭexter: “When we started out, none of us knew about instruments. Eventually I got a crappy Marshall Mosfet. My first amp was a Music Man, then a Rickenbacker Road combo. Noodles: “We got whatever we could from thrift stores. I was like, ‘Fuck you, it’s a good song!’” Actually, if you look at Dirty Magic, I remember a friend from Guttermouth going, ‘I don’t know about that song dude, it’s not punk’. Noodles: “I’m not sure about attitudes, but our abilities have slowly improved.
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