THE OFFSPRING COME OUT AND PLAY FULL

'We've told a hundred times he's not getting paid. But we don't feel there's any merit to it.' Randall Wixen, the Offspring's music publisher, stated that a musicologist hired by Epitaph determined the two guitar parts were not identical, despite being based in the same Middle Eastern scale. If he feels he has something, he'll sue, and if we've done something that is proven wrong we should be sued. They're both in the same scale, there's no doubt there's an influence, it doesn't mean that it's stolen. The Offspring's manager Jim Guerinot called Fields' claim baseless, saying the two guitar parts were 'not even close to identical. But I feel I have a fiduciary duty to represent Mike Palm's interests.' Palm declined to give an opinion on the matter, later noting that he was not involved in filing the claim but did not disagree with it, and invited listeners to compare the two songs, saying 'Anyone who listens will know what the issue is.' A lawsuit was not filed, as Fields said 'Nobody wants to pillory anybody. Fields contended that the similarity between the two guitar parts amounted to the Offspring sampling Agent Orange, and requested that Epitaph pay a licensing fee of US$0.01 for each copy of Smash sold-equating to $60,000 or more at the time-which he would split evenly with Agent Orange frontman and 'Bloodstains' writer Mike Palm. I've written a lot of stuff like that', and the Offspring's public admiration had brought Agent Orange increased attention.

Offspring lead vocalist and primary songwriter Dexter Holland had cited 'Bloodstains' as one of the songs that sparked his interest in punk rock, saying it 'really influenced me, especially that Arabian-sounding lead. In 1994, Posh Boy Records owner Robbie Fields submitted a written claim to Epitaph Records via the Harry Fox Agency, alleging that the two-bar Arabian guitar phrase repeated throughout 'Come Out and Play' copied the guitar solo from 'Bloodstains', a song by the Fullerton, California punk rock band Agent Orange written in 1979 to which Fields, as the song's publisher, owned the copyright. The song is a nod to the Twisted Sister 1985 album Come Out and Play. There is also footage involving dogs fighting over a chew toy with a crowd watching, a horse race, a sword fight and some clips of several snakes and snake charmers, as well as some fencing scenes. The video is almost entirely in black-and-white with sepia tone segments, and features the band performing the song in the garage of a house with tinfoil covering the walls. The music video, directed by Darren Lavett, was shot in May 1994 and debuted on MTV in the summer of that year. 'Come Out and Play' was the first Offspring song for which a music video was created.

THE OFFSPRING COME OUT AND PLAY FULL

Inspiration for this line came from Dexter Holland's experience in a laboratory cooling Erlenmeyer flasks full of hot liquids. So I was very aware of that part of the world, and a lot of that gun stuff came out in songs like 'Come Out and Play'.' The line 'you gotta keep 'em separated' was sung by Jason 'Blackball' McLean, a friend and a fan of the band. 6.1 Cassette, CD single, 7' black vinyl and 10' picture discДexter Holland said most songs on Smash 'were just about whatever was happening in front of me.' In the case of 'Come Out And Play', it was about gang and school violence: 'Back then I was a grad student and I was commuting to school everyday in a shitty car, driving through East L.A.The song also appears as the second track on their Greatest Hits album (2005).

It is considered the Offspring's breakthrough song, as it received widespread radio play, with first attention brought by Jed the Fish of KROQ-FM, and reached number one on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, bringing both the band and the punk rock genre to widespread attention. Written by frontman Dexter Holland, the song was the second single to be released by the band, after ' I'll Be Waiting' (1986). It is the seventh track on their third album, Smash (1994), and was released as its first single.

' Come Out and Play' (sometimes subtitled ' Keep 'Em Separated') is a 1994 song by the Californian punk rock group the Offspring.

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