The Offspring's drummer was fired for refusing the jab
Pete Parada drummed for The Offspring for 14 years, then got kicked out for refusing the Covid jab. The band blamed travel and every excuse going. Nothing punk rock about that. They were pro-establishment through and through.
The sad thing is The Offspring were my favourite band for the longest time. I saw them live and they were incredible. But when they came back during the Covid years, I couldn't bring myself to give them my money after they sacked their drummer, in 2021, for refusing the jab.
On a related note, my episode with punk pioneer John Joseph is well worth a listen. He tears into the music industry for having no backbone.
Anyway, back to The Offspring booting their drummer.
Pete Parada is the drummer in question.
He came on my podcast back in 2021, or thereabouts, but in the time since, my website changed and I had to re-upload a lot of my older content. His conversation with me is below.
The band made excuses about wanting to travel, but that only makes them look worse.
We’re constantly bombarded with fake news, propaganda, agendas, and outright lies.
It’s an information war.
What is true?
I don’t know either—but I’m trying to find out.
I still can't believe the music industry caved so completely to Covid tyranny. Whatever happened to rock 'n' roll's irreverent "stick it to the man" attitude? Turns out pop icons Right Said Fred were more punk rock than the punks themselves.
As it happens, most people don't know that the World Health Organisation quietly changed the definition of "pandemic" in 2009. Were it not for the definition change, there'd have been no Covid "pandemic". Total coincidence, bro.
The buck stops with the commander in chief, and no amount of blaming Fauci changes the fact that Donald Trump personally signed every major instrument of the Covid response into existence. Was he duped? Sure, but that doesn't absolve him.
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