Greg Graffin

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Greg Graffin
Greg Graffin

Dr. Gregory Walter Graffin III (born Saturday, November 6, 1965 in Racine, Wisconsin), better known as Greg Graffin, is the singer and founder of the punk rock band Bad Religion.

He formed Bad Religion in 1980 at age 15 when he was in high school. The band released a self-titled EP in 1981 and disbanded in 1984, re-forming in 1987. They resigned with Epitaph Records, a record label created originally by them to release their records, and recorded Suffer, releasing it in 1987.

The three more popular records on Epitaph are No Control, Against the Grain, and Generator. He recorded a solo album in 1996, called American Lesion. The band recorded The Process of Belief in 2001 and released it in the end of the year with the first single "Sorrow" released in the United States in winter 2002. In June of 2005, it was reported that Graffin would continue his solo project American Lesion with the release of another album in 2006, also recording a new Bad Religion album, with recording/writing beginning in early 2006.

Graffin double majored in anthropology and geology as an undergraduate at UCLA. He then went on to earn a masters degree in geology from the University of California, Los Angeles and received his Ph.D. in evolutionary paleontology from Cornell University. However, according to a video clip originally from the Bad Religion official website and also available from The Cornell Evolution Project homepage, the PhD thesis was officially a Zoology PhD thesis, supervised by William B. Provine at Cornell University. The thesis was entitled "Monism, Atheism and the Naturalist Worldview: Perspectives from Evolutionary Biology". It is described as being essentially an evolutionary biology PhD but having also relevance to history and philosophy of science.

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Bad Religion
Greg Graffin | Brett Gurewitz | Jay Bentley | Greg Hetson | Jay Ziskrout*
| Pete Finestone* | Bobby Schayer* | Brian Baker | Brooks Wackerman
(* = no longer with the band)
Discography
Studio albums: Bad Religion | Public Service | How Could Hell Be Any Worse? | Into the Unknown | Back to the Known | Suffer | No Control | Against the Grain | Generator | Recipe for Hate | Stranger Than Fiction | The Gray Race | No Substance | The New America | The Process of Belief | The Empire Strikes First
Live and compilation albums: '80-'85 | All Ages | Tested | Punk Rock Songs
Songs
21st Century (Digital Boy)
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