Article from Topp magazine:

Do you remember The Offspring? The band with the hits Self Esteem and Come Out And Play?

Yes, we know it was only 3 years ago, but Time passes faster in Rock than any other places.

Not that we hesitated when we got an invitation to meet Dexter Holland and bassist Greg K in

Amsterdam. We booked our plane tickets and were very interested in what had happened the last

3 years - And it seemed as they were too.

But... We say, in the middle of all the motor sounds from Dexter's mouth, weren't we

supposed to ask the questions? How are things in Norway now, is it a lot of snow on the

Halvøy? Dexter seems very interested in that thing. Kalvøya, we correct him (The Offspring

played at Kalvøya in Oslo two years ago). Whatever, the oily mouth of Dexter continues. Who

doesn't stop speaking before we, with purpose, spill coffee on his clothes. We apologize and

offer to dry it, but it seems as the beautiful cleaning girl is a lot better at that.

After a short lesson in Norwegian culture for the very interested Dexter, and the bit less

interested Greg, including some names of Hamsun-books, a bad translation of "Peer, du lyver"

(Peer, you are lying) and an attempt to [a Norwegian word I didn't understand] Skriket (a

painting by a Norwegian painter), we can start asking him question. -What happened to your

hair? `Cause its gone. All of it. -I cut it, he answers. Not that we didn't understand that. I went

tired of washing it every day. Not to mention. He laughs loud and heartful. Everything he does

this day is loud and heartful. -Can you give me some more coffee, he shouts to the cleaning girl,

loud and heartful. -Me too, I shout, just as loud and heartful, until their manager puts his elbow

in my chest.

It was the boys third album, Smash, that turned the four academics life up side down. (At least

four of them are university educated). They are thirtysomething all of them (drum player Ron is

25), and should have gotten normal jobs by now. Dexter [A word I cannot translate, which

means something like he didn't like the question]. -We earn a lot of money today, most likely

more than you, he says. I understand I don't have to check my salary. Yes, Dexter, Greg, Ron

and the guitar player with the strange name, Noodles, has money to buy salt to their food. , and

as most rich people he tells that money means nothing.

-The success didn't really turn our lives upside down either, Dexter continues, while he

demonstrates a yoga-position we don't do a lot of - He stands on his head on top of Greg's

pillow.