![]() Dexter Holland, from the Offspring, owned our label. I had quit my job as a network television executive to concentrate full-time on all this. Well, we had just released a bunch of records, like you said. Going into the recording process for Hitler Bad, Vandals Good, what was the band’s mindset? You were coming off three albums from 19. To mark the 25th-anniversary reissue of their influential album, Escalante discusses his pivot from corporate America as a network TV executive to punk rock stardom, opening for Pearl Jam and Hitler Bad, Vandals Good 25 years later. The album became their most successful to date, which bassist Joe Escalante attributed to Vandals member Warren Fitzgerald’s increased production chops, bigger studios, a larger label budget, and an increased focus on songwriting. Released in 1998, Hitler Bad, Vandals Good, became an inflection point for the band and an opportunity to assert themselves as an influential act in the scene. While those groups were headlining stadiums, The Vandals were still opening shows and grinding on the tour circuit. The band signed to Nitro Records, founded by Dexter Holland of The Offspring, and as such, were thrust into the burgeoning Orange County and Inland Empire scene as mainstay stars alongside The Offspring, No Doubt, Social Distortion, and more. In 19, they released three albums – Live Fast, Diarrhea, The Quickening, and Oi to the World! – an impressive run by any stretch, but the band was left craving more. ![]() When legendary California punk band The Vandals began recording Hitler Bad, Vandals Good in 1997, the group was coming off a wildly productive and exhausting run. ![]()
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