TheOffspring.ca
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theoffspring.ca | Dave's Offspring Page
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Excerpted from the website:
- During 1984 in Orange County, California, four young men got together and formed a band, which later became "The Offspring." At Pacifica High School, Bryan (Dexter) Holland met up with Greg Krisel at a track meet at school. Dexter was on the cross-country team, and he also was class valedictorian. At this time, he got his life-long nickname, 'Dexter'. Dexter Holland came up with the idea of forming a punk band from his brother, who gave him a Rodney album. Holland and Krisel's first band, "Manic Subsidal," featured themselves and two other cross country teammates. In 1984, Holland and Krisel did not even own instruments, much less know how to play them. Krisel says, "Bryan and I both learned together, and he wasn't even playing chords at the time, so he'd play on one string, and I tried to do the same thing." Krisel also says, "By the summer Bryan and I would be playing songs. It took a while."
