''Along the Way'' is the first

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from punk band

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. The concert footage was taken from fourteen different

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an stops on their 1989 tour for the album, '' Suffer''. It was originally released on VHS in Germany in 1990 (with a different cover) and in the United States in the following year, and on

for the first time in 2004, coinciding with the reissues of the band's pre-'' Recipe for Hate'' albums. Both the VHS and DVD have the same cover shown on the right, which depicts

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with his bass, while the European VHS depicts guitarist Brett Gurewitz and singer

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singing along with each other. 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. The concert featured no songs from the band's 1983 album '' Into the Unknown'' or '' No Control'', although the latter album was released shortly after the European tour. Title of the release is taken from the band's song of the same name, which appears on their 1985 long-out of print EP ''

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''. This song was also played live at the concert.

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

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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

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because I experimented with heroin quite a bit, and

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, 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

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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

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of drug addicts and alcoholics and they find genetic differences between them so there is some kind of

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. 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.

Tour

The following are the tour dates of the European Suffer Tour of 1989, where the footage was filmed. Audio from the show in

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was used for the live footage.08/25/1989 - Bremen , Tours & shows , The Bad Religion Page - Since 1995
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Track listing

Personnel

- Vocals * Brett Gurewitz - Guitar *

- Bass *

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- Guitar *

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- Drums * Karat Faye - Engineer / F.O.H.

References

External links

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