Band Name: The Offspring
Music Album: I'll Be Waiting / Blackball
Album Release Date: July 1986
Music Genre: Punk Rock
Record Label: Black Label Records (8)
Album Release Country: United States
Music Record Type: 2 Tracks Vinyl 7"
Bryan "Dexter" Holland : Vocals, guitar
Kevin "Noodles" Wasserman : Guitar, vocals
Gregory "Greg K" Kriesel : Bass, vocals
Pete Parada : Drums
Ron Welty : Drums, vocals (1987-2003)
Adam "Atom" Willard: Drums (2003-2007)
Originally calling themselves Manic Subsidal, the Offspring began performing in 1984, composed of Bryan Holland (vocals, guitar), Greg Kriesel (bass, vocals) and James Frederick Lilja (drums).
James Lilja left the band in 1987 and former Clowns of Death guitarist Kevin Wasserman and Ron Welty joined and they changed their name to The Offspring.
In 2003 Ron Welty left the band, leaving them without a drummer for about half the year (and forcing them to use a session drummer, Josh Freese, for their Splinter album) before Atom Willard joined the group toward the end of 2003.
Willard left the band in 2007 and was replaced by former Face To Face drummer Pete Parada. Josh Freese was, again, hired to record the drum tracks for the Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace album.
| A | I'll Be Waiting |
| B | Blackball |
Recorded at South Coast Recording.
The band itself released the single on Black Label Records (which the band named after a brand of beer), as a 7" vinyl record.
Only 1000 copies of this record were made, 500 with a sleeve and 500 without, and it took the band two and a half years to sell them all.
There is a limitied reissue of this record made in 1994, the same year The Offspring released the highly acclaimed Smash. It has the back cover edited so that it only says "1994 LIMITED REISSUE" instead of "Black Label Records 1986" and where you can write to the band.
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