California, the mid-80s: Keith Bryan Dexter Holland and Greg Kriesel attend a concert of “Social Distortion”. You decide on a band called “Maniac Subsidal” to found and the story of “The Offspring” takes its course. A band, the punk in the years before the turn of the millennium palatable to the large mass and thus was somehow socially acceptable.

Without musical knowledge begins Holland, called Dexter, to pluck the strings of a guitar while trying to Greg K. on bass. The goal to make the right notes vocally, sits down temporarily Doug Thompson. Thompson then brings his friend Jim Benton as a drummer in the band. Kevin Wasserman (Noodles) also joins this 1985 group. As Benton left the band, Thompson is rausgeekelt, Dexter grabs the microphone, drummer James Lilja is such that the punk-rock backbone with the name “The Offspring” ready now after a turbulent occupation is drama.

The boys practice and drink despite the lack of base so hard that it necessarily has to come soon to the first publication: The single “Blackball / I’ll Be Waiting” is recorded by hand, and reproduced the self-made Black Label at the man brought over. Following the publication of Stick-Schwinger Lilja says the medical studies because of “Bye!”. All others welcome the new, the only 16-year old Ron Welty, welcome to grab it with the ’88 is a studio contract.
On the recording program is the self-titled debut album “The Offspring”, which is published in the following year in “Nemesis Records. Punk producer Thom Wilson, The Offspring keep warm for the “Baghdad”-EP, but after it slowly comes to tensions between Wilson and band.
Fled in the direction Brett Gurewitz – Guitarist of Bad Religion and owner of “Epithat Records. Here arise “Ignition” (1992) and the absolute-absolute breakthrough, “Smash” (1994). The threshold for the popular punk band is here crossed by them. Criticized by advocates of the sub-culture, they go without regret in an audience of millions. “Why not? But the music stays the same … just simply better known. “, Said since only the music lovers without the box thinking for defense.
The fact remains that “Self Esteem” and “Come Out and Play (Keep’em Separated)” of the “Smash” album and hits Punk History successes are. Maybe The Offspring are also entitled to call himself the first mainstream punk band? Questionable whether they wanted to take this title too.
Where the great success lies in wait, the big money is not far: Holland and Kriesel try with aufgestocktem content as a label owner. Post to “Nitro Records, her debut album again new, now that the audience is present and all rights to the old songs were bought back.
But because it is fun to play with the big kids to sign, The Offspring to other recordings for major label Columbia. Yes, they now also want to have something from Punk slowly from cake after it has been gemainstreamt of “The Offspring”. To summarize, the following developments can be said that the band more and more away from the original style to the usual punk pushes back.

A few albums – “Ixnay on the Hombre” (1997), “Americana” (1998), “Conspiracy of One” (2000), “Splinter” (2003) – and drummer Alessandro Fecke, Josh Freese, Adam Willard later- , 2005 is a Greatest Hits CD out. 2007 Pete Parada new drummer.

In June 2008, “Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace” the latest album The Offspring appears in more than twenty years of band history.