Along the Way

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name = Along the Way


caption = DVD cover of "Along the Way"
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starring = Greg Graffin
Brett Gurewitz
Jay Bentley
Greg Hetson
Pete Finestone
music = Bad Religion
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released = 1992
runtime = 90 min.
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followed_by = "Live at the Palladium" (2006)
amg_id = 1:3745
imdb_id = 0298727

"Along the Way" is the first live concert DVD from punk band Bad Religion. The concert footage was taken from fourteen different European stops on their 1989 tour for the album, Suffer.

The format of the video consists of live concert performances interspersed with short interview clips of the band members. The live footage is mixed from fourteen different shows, and jumps between them for each different cut and camera angle. Although the video remains synchronized with the audio track, it is not uncommon for the band members shirts to appear to change many times during the same song.

Brett Gurewitz on his drug habit

One of the interview portions of the video poses a question to guitarist Brett Gurewitz concerning his addiction to crack cocaine and other hard drugs.

Interviewer: Brett, you have been an addict to crack. How do you think about hard drugs today?

Brett Gurewitz: Well, I don't do it anymore. I think crack is probably the worst poison that has ever been introduced to human beings. I mean, I think personally it's worse than heroin because I experimented with heroin quite a bit, and alcohol, and um, although I guess it depends on the individual.

I will say that I'm not, I don't want to sound that like I'm anti-drug, because I'm not anti-drug. I happen to be a drug addict. And when I take a drug, I can't stop. And um, or if I have a drink, I continue drinking until I black out. So, I had to stop. But, I think that part of that has to do with my, perhaps my environment, but I think a great deal of it has to do with genetic physical causes.

I think the central nervous system of a drug addict and an alcoholic is different from the central nervous system of a non-drug addict/alcoholic. And, in fact, medical studies have been done, they've done research on the spinal cord of drug addicts and alcoholics and they find genetic differences between them so there is some kind of inherited trait. So what I think is that if you can handle it and you can use it, drugs can be good. They can be good to relax the atmosphere at a party, LSD can be very good to expand your mind, you know?

I love LSD, I just don't, I just... And I don't think that LSD is an addictive drug personally, but, I had tried to stop taking crack in the past and I tried to stop drinking in the past and say, "OK, I won't drink, I'll just smoke pot" or "I won't take crack, I'll just drink" and whatever the one thing that I decided I would do, I did so much of it to compensate for not doing anything else because that's how I was. I had to stop everything, you know?

But, I think that there are people who can handle it, and I think that for the people who can handle it, it's OK. I don't think there's anything wrong with it. I just think that, um, when it comes to the point where the pain of using the things are too great than the pain of not using them, then you have to stop.

Track listing

# "Suffer"
# "Land of Competition"
# "1000 More Fools"
# "Doing Time"
# "Damned to Be Free"
# "Latch Key Kids"
# "Part II (The Numbers Game)"
# "How Much Is Enough?"
# "Along the Way"
# "Do What You Want"
# "Faith in God"
# "We're Only Gonna Die"
# "Part III"
# "Drastic Actions"
# "Delirium of Disorder"
# "You Are (the Government)"
# "Yesterday"
# "Forbidden Beat"
# "Voice of God Is Government"
# "Frogger"
# "When?"
# "Fuck Armageddon... This Is Hell"
# "Give You Nothing"
# "Pessimistic Lines"
# "Best for You"
# "Bad Religion"
# "Politics"
# "World War III"

Personnel

*Greg Graffin - Vocals
*Brett Gurewitz - Guitar
*Jay Bentley - Bass
*Greg Hetson - Guitar
*Pete Finestone - Drums