Last night was some concert therapy much needed. Bad Religion was a band I got into in my early teens. Since I was doing sober October, I didn’t drink, and being sober at a punk show is uncharted territory for me, but I had fun sober as much as I would if I had been drinking. The first song I heard from them was 2 songs from the album The Grey Race, Them and Us, and Ten In 2010 when I was 14. Back then, the internet was still on dial-up, and it took over an hour just to download ONE SONG! So I went down the rabbit hole of punk rock bands. I started buying all the records at a used record store, and to this day, my favorite is their 1993 release of Recipe for Hate. There are so many good tracks on that record, including American Jesus, Struck a Nerve, and the title track but that’s just the tip of the iceberg of what this band had done in the last 40 years.

By the time I had discovered them, they were already on their 11th album that had been released in 2002, so I had a lot to discover dating as far back as 1982. In the punk scene, Bad Religion was commonly known as skate-punk band because so much of their music was used in skateboarding video games, demos, and videos. Bad Religion was widely known for anit-politics, anti-governmet, and of course anti-religion, which all 3 of course were created by man and man have abused all three for power and greed for their own personal gain. They had the kind of words in their lyrics that new and young fans had to look up these words in the dictionary, no joke. Well, Google now in modern times. So I took a good friend of mine for her birthday weekend and she had a blast! We went to eat at this place called The Lumpia Company before the show that she found on Instagram and the place was fuckin’ delicious! We have a lot of things in common especially when it came to the same tastes in music so both of us had great time. I got some great shots from last night that I posted below. Hopefully they work after this is published but remember in life always do what you enjoy and fuck what everyone thinks. We all need to let loose in someway to keeps us from going insane in this crazy world. Do things that make you happy, life is too short to be a miserable prick all the time. My punk rock attitude speaking that is. This concert is one many things that make me happy.

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