BRETT GUREWITZ

'Brett Gurewitz' (born May 12, 1962, Los Angeles, California), nicknamed 'Mr. Brett', is the guitarist and songwriter for Bad Religion. He is also the owner of the music label Epitaph Records. Brett grew up in the town of Woodland Hills, California, a suburb of L.A.'s San Fernando Valley.
Bad Religion was founded in Woodland Hills in 1980 with Greg Graffin, Jay Ziskrout and Jay Bentley. All four attended El Camino Real High School. They released their first album in 1981. He has produced albums for Bad Religion as well as Epitaph Records labelmates NOFX, Rancid, and Pennywise, among others. He was replaced by Brian Baker in 1994 during the ''Stranger Than Fiction'' tour and started a new band, Daredevils, but rejoined Bad Religion in 2001 before they recorded their 2002 comeback album ''The Process of Belief''.
During 2003, Gurewitz started a new band called Error together with Atticus Ross, Leopold Ross, and Greg Puciato, but remained with Bad Religion for two more albums ''The Empire Strikes First'' (2004) and ''New Maps of Hell'' (2007).
Brett now lives in Hollywood Hills, California, with his wife Gina and two kids, Max and Frida.

Contents

Selected discography

External links

Selected discography

'Year'	'Artist/Band'	'Album'	'Role'
1981	Bad Religion	''Bad Religion''	Producer and guitars
1982	Bad Religion	''How Could Hell Be Any Worse?''	Producer and guitars
1983	Bad Religion	''Into the Unknown''	Producer and guitars
1984	Bad Religion	''Back to the Known''	Producer
1988	Bad Religion	''Suffer''	Producer, guitars and background vocals
1988	L7	''L7''	Producer
1988	NOFX	''Liberal Animation''	Producer
1989	Bad Religion	''No Control''	Producer, guitars and background vocals
1989	NOFX	''S&M Airlines''	Producer
1990	Bad Religion	''Against the Grain''	Producer, guitars and background vocals
1990	No Use for a Name	''Incognito''	Producer, guitars and background vocals
1991	Bad Religion	''80-85''	Producer, guitars and background vocals
1991	Down by Law	''Down by Law''	Producer, guitars and background vocals
1991	NOFX	''Ribbed''	Producer
1991	Samiam	''Soar''	Producer
1992	Bad Religion	''Generator''	Producer, guitars and background vocals
1992	Chemical People	''Chemical People''	Background vocals
1992	Down by Law	''Blue''	Producer and engineer
1993	Bad Religion	''Recipe for Hate''	Producer, guitars and background vocals
1993	Rancid	''Rancid''	Background vocals
1994	Bad Religion	''Stranger Than Fiction''	Producer, guitars and background vocals
1994	Rancid	''Let's Go''	Producer and engineer
1995	Bad Religion	''All Ages''	Producer, guitars and background vocals
1995	Pennywise	''About Time''	Producer
1995	Rancid	''...And Out Come the Wolves''	Engineer
1996	Daredevils	''Hate You''	Guitars and vocals
1997	Pennywise	''Full Circle''	Mixer
1997	The Pietasters	''Willis''	Producer and engineer
1999	H2O	''F.T.T.W.''	Producer
1999	The Pietasters	''Awesome Mix Tape vol. 6''	Backing vocals, additional percussion, producer and engineer
2000	Bad Religion	''The New America''	Co-wrote and played guitar on the song "Believe It".
2000	Millencolin	''Pennybridge Pioneers''	Producer and Acoustic Guitar on "The Ballad".
2001	Pennywise	''Land of the Free?''	Co-wrote "Who's on Your Side"
2002	Bad Religion	''The Process of Belief''	Producer, guitars and background vocals
2002	The Distillers	''Sing Sing Death House''	Engineer and mixing
2003	Matchbook Romance	''West For Wishing''	Producer, engineer and mixer
2003	Rancid	''Indestructible''	Vocals, producer, engineer and mixing
2004	Bad Religion	''The Empire Strikes First''	Producer, guitars and background vocals
2005	The Unseen	''State of Discontent''	Mixer
2006	The Matches	''Decomposer''	Producer
2006	Greg Graffin	''Cold as the Clay''	Producer and background vocals
2007	Bad Religion	''New Maps of Hell''	Guitars and background vocals

External links

★ Bad Religion tribute site

★ Gurewitz's MySpace page