My advice for any band is just choose close friends and make the decisions that are best for yourself. Instead of the money decision, go for what you think will be best for you.
Alex: But, there are highlights, right? Brett: With our band doing really well I've been able to help out my family and loved ones, where as I wasn't able to do that before. Coming from a family with no money, I had a tough time growing up. Sure, 99 percent of America has a tough time growing up Alex: Going back to bands being treated badly on independent labels. There was a rumor going around two years ago that Rancid was leaving Epitaph because they didn't like the way they were being treated.
Was there ever any truth to these rumors? Brett: Not really. When the Offspring record blew up, every band on Epitaph got mushroomed under the Offspring cloud.
The label was really small, and they had never had to deal with that type of volume before. Having to ship millions and millions of records kind of took them by storm, so a lot of man power hours went to making that Offspring album happen. Working to get all the records in the stores, and all the label stuff like that, they weren't prepared to do.
It was kind of a drag. This coincided with all these major labels wanting us to sign with them. So, people were making up stories like, "they're getting dicked. They're going to leave. Not being stupid people, we went, "OK, you're interested in us Epitaph still held our best interests, and was still our home. Nobody was imposing on our creativity, and what not, so we stayed. Alex: Do you guys have a band studio, as I know you recorded some stuff at a home studio.
Brett: Tim has a studio in his house, in Los Angeles. It's pretty minimal right now. Just one room, a board or two, and some rack effects.
We recorded a lot of vocals for the record up there, and we recorded a couple of tracks that made it on to the album there. It's really cool, because Hellcat bands that are in town can record there.
They don't have to pay for a fancy studio, or what not. On top of that, it sounds really good in the room he has. Alex: If you could change anything in the band's history, would you? I'm not the kind of guy that dwells on the past. Sure, there was some shitty things that have happened, you could say that for anyone's life. I'm sure there are things everyone would want to change about their life, but if I went back and changed anything back then I might not be sitting in this chair at this exact moment.
Whatever happened, happened for a reason. I just like to go with the flow. Alex: What are the highest and lowest points the band has experienced so far? Brett: The last couple of years when Brett Gurewitz was having problems with drugs and alcohol was really a low point.
That made us very sad. Even though he's a business partner, since he runs Epitaph, he is also a really good friend of ours. It hurt us to see him go out like that. He's doing better now, but that was definitely a bummer to see him like that. Alex: What made you want to be in a band? Brett: I don't really know. I met Tim, and he was looking for someone to play drums. Him and Matt, you know. Fuck, I had just been playing drums for a couple of months, but it looked like fun, so I stuck with them and it grew into what it is.
It wasn't a conscious on my part. I was just going with the flow, like I said, and I had no fucking idea it would turn into this. Alex: You were new to the drums when you hooked up with Tim and Matt? Brett: This is like my first band. I hadn't even played drums for like five months when I ran into Tim. I had just bought a shitty kit off of some junkie kid, and I learned my favorite songs in the basement.
I totally sucked. Everyone hated Rancid for like the first year of the band's existence. We sucked so bad! But those guys stuck with me and taught me. Alex: I've always wondered about this, maybe you can set my mind at ease. Why did Lookout release the Rancid 7" and then never release a full-length? Why did you guys end up with Epitaph over Lookout? Brett: Larry Livermore didn't like Rancid.
He put out that first 7", we always thought, as a favor to Tim and Matt since Operation Ivy did so well. So, after the 7", we made a demo. Since Tim was friends Brett, we sent him the demo. Brett just shit his pants and fell in love with us. He said it was his favorite demo he had heard in ten years. We were like, "Fuck, it ain't that good.
Besides, back then there was a lot of different bands on Lookout. The East Bay scene is really political. If you're not saying the right fucking things in your songs, or you're not hanging out at the cool punk rock clubs, then you're not part of the status quo of the East Bay.
So it's really hard for bands that are independent to be heard if they shy away from the topical bullshit. They get black listed. Still, to this day, it's getting even more political. Like the kids that are running Gilman Street today. That place is just a bunch of rules. It baffles me. They have meetings to decide what bands can and cannot play there, which bands on what labels can't play there, and it seems so fascias to me. It's against what punk rock is all about, which is no fucking rules.
If the bands on Warner Bros. If they're good they're good. So, why the fuck can't they play? I don't understand. That club was great, and opened a lot of kids' minds to a lot of new thoughts and ideas.
The way it's run now, however, I'm just not into it. Alex: What goes into good music making for you? Brett: I don't know. We all get in the studio and read each other's minds. We're all so tight as friends. If we're healthy, that makes for good friends. It sucks to record when you're sick. You've got to squash your ego, because that comes out in the sound. If you put a record out and you all hate each other while you're doing it, the record is going to have a bad taste. Alex: As a band, what inspires you guys musically and lyrically?
Brett: Lyrically, Tim comes up with a lot of the stuff. I don't know where he comes up with it. It's all up in his head. I guess life, like you said. Traveling around the world the last six years has put a lot of input in our brains, and Tim has the ability to put it back into a song.
But, I don't know. We all just get into the studio and throw our two cents in. We just want to make records, so I don't really know. Alex: What do you want the listener to get out of the music? Brett: That's up to the listener. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children. His net worth has been growing significantly in So, how much is Brett Reed worth at the age of 49 years old?
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