{"id":253,"date":"2016-07-01T20:57:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T20:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mediablitzrecords.com\/lanceblitz\/?p=253"},"modified":"2017-03-25T03:24:13","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T03:24:13","slug":"dave-jerden-discusses-working-offspring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediablitzrecords.com\/lanceblitz\/dave-jerden-discusses-working-offspring\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Jerden discusses working with The Offspring"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI was down in the Bahamas, recording at Compass Point, and I got a call from my manager telling me that Dexter from The Offspring wanted to meet with me. Dexter flew down the next day and told me that his band and Rancid had just been offered $10 million apiece to move from Epitaph to Sony. Rancid said no \u2013 they didn\u2019t want to lose their audience \u2013 and Dexter was afraid of the same thing. But he knew that I could work with alternative bands and bring them to the mainstream.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did Ixnay On the Hombre, which was pretty satisfying \u2013 it was kind of a crossover from their old production sound to their new sound. After that, we did Americana, which kind of picked up where Ixnay left off. But see, I never made a record for the money before, and this time I couldn\u2019t say that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI made a ton of dough, but I was now making corporate-like records. I didn\u2019t like that feeling. It threw me into a spin and off-balance. I always tried to do something different, but now I wasn\u2019t. I was going for what everybody else would have. This has nothing to do with Offspring, and it\u2019s nothing against any of them. They\u2019re great guys, and they were fun to work with. But when I finished the record, I didn\u2019t have the same kind of satisfaction that I once had. All of a sudden, I said, \u2018Who am I? Am I the guy who\u2019s expected to feed the radio system and make these big records?\u2019 I kind of lost my bearings after this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n