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 The Song Remains The Same Offspring's Dexter Holland sounds relieved. He and his band were hit with a double-whammy - following up to a multi-platinum album and making the jump from an indie to a major label - and emerged unscathed. Now that all the scruntinyand hype have finally died down, Offspring has been able to work on the as-yet-untitled follow-up to Ixnay On The Hombre in relative peace. And Holland feels that people are finally ready to accept the band for who they are. "When Smash took off there was this big surge," he said. "And when we were making Ixnay, people were watching our every move and placing all these criteria on us. But the whole time we were just trying to be our own band. Now people know what to except from us." Holland says that the Offspring are still the same band that they were before Smash and Ixnay topped the charts. As such, he promises that no big changes or unexcepted surprises will be found on the new album, which is the Offspring's sixth. "The idea wasn't to reinvent the wheel," says Holland. "We expanded our horizons on our last record and that's okay, but I don't feel like you have to be a completely different band on ever record." Dave Jerden (Jane's Addiction, Alice In Chains) returned to produce the album, which was recorded at his private studio. While working with Jerden afforded the Offspring access to the producer's impressive collection of recordings and musical equipment, Holland says that the main attraction to the producer was his boundless enthusiasm. "He goes into a record with all his guns blazing," says Dexter. "That's the way it should be in rock and roll." That reckless abandon carried over to the songs, which Holland notes are mainly fast, hard-hitting rockers. "We've always had to have a bunch of fast stuff on our albums," he says. "But I try to throw in a couple curveballs. This time we're doing a really fast cover of 'Feelings,' but we changed the words so it talks about bad feelings. That's going to get us our Grammy, finally."By Chris Gilll, from Guitar World - November 98 |
