How Punk Of Them: Offspring Kick Out Drummer For Not Vaxxing

The Offspring will have a new drummer when the band starts a tour August 8 in a post-COVID/vaccine world that has decided it will not accept unvaxxed workers to enter concert venues. In an Instagram post, Offspring drummer Pete Parada explained how he's been dumped by the band because he won't get the COVID vaccine. “Since I am unable to comply with what is increasingly becoming an industry mandate, it has recently been decided that I am unsafe to be around, in the studio, and on tour,” he wrote on Instagram. “I mention this because you won’t be seeing me at these upcoming shows. I also want to share my story so that anyone else experiencing the agony and isolation of getting left behind right now knows they’re not entirely alone.” Parada, who joined the band in 2007, was facing a tough road in a band where the lead singer, Dexter Holland, has a PhD in molecular biology and changed the words to the band's hit