Ep235: 40 Years of Bad Religion w/ Jay Bentley
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Bad Religion marks their 40th year with a new book: "Do What You Want - The Story of Bad Religion". Today we talk to Jay Bentley about the early days, rare vinyl and creative processes of one of music's most enduring bands.
If you like records, just starting a collection or are an uber-nerd with a house-full of vinyl, this is the podcast for you. Nate Goyer is The Vinyl Guide and discusses all things music and record-related.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Jay Bentley. Check out my Instagram page. It's called Jay Bentley's, because why not? |
| 0:05.4 | You're listening to The Vinyl Guide with Nate Goyer. Listen harder. |
| 0:09.9 | Well, thanks, Jay. And to everyone listening, check out Bad Religion's new book, Do What You Want, |
| 0:16.0 | The Story of Bad Religion. It's on sale now, and it's fucking great. It's a story of bad religion, |
| 0:22.8 | written by bad religion, and available in all the usual book spots this week. It's on |
| 0:28.2 | Kindle so you can be downloading and reading within moments. Get the new bad religion book, |
| 0:33.5 | do what you want, the story of bad religion, available now. |
| 0:38.2 | And with that, let's begin this week's episode of The Vinyl Guide. |
| 0:43.1 | Do you listen to and collect vinyl records? |
| 0:45.9 | Well, you're in luck. |
| 0:47.4 | Welcome to the Vinyl Guide, the podcast made for record nerds like yourself. |
| 0:51.7 | Here's your host, the biggest record nerd of them all, Nate Goyer. |
| 0:55.4 | Well, hey, everyone, it's Nate. Thanks for tuning in. Thanks for downloading. Thanks for |
| 1:01.5 | checking out this episode of The Vinyl Guide. I'm going to cut right into it. This week is a |
| 1:07.5 | huge episode for me personally. I'll be speaking to Mr. Jay Bentley of bad religion, |
| 1:13.8 | one of my favorite bands, really of my entire life. I am so proud to be bringing you this |
| 1:20.1 | conversation because quite honestly, bad religion has just been central to my life for |
| 1:27.0 | going on 30 years. They're one of these |
| 1:29.9 | bands that is just a lifelong passion of mine. I even remember the first time I heard the |
| 1:36.4 | band. This is back in, I think, 1992, maybe 93. I was in the back of my friend Derek DeLong's |
| 1:42.7 | car. We were driving from San Jose to Reno, which is about a four-hour trip the way Derek drives. |
| 1:49.8 | And he popped in a, probably a tape or a CD of Bad Religion Suffer. |
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