Friendly People is the second album by the Huntington Beach, California

Huntington Beach, California

Huntington Beach is a seaside city in Orange County in Southern California. According to the 2010 census, the city population was 189,992; making it the largest beach city in Orange County in terms of population...

 punk rock

Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

 band Guttermouth

Guttermouth

Guttermouth is an American punk rock band formed in 1988 in Huntington Beach, California and currently recording for Hopeless Records. They have released nine full-length studio albums and two live albums and have toured extensively, including performances on the Vans Warped Tour...

, released in 1994 by Nitro Records

Nitro Records

Nitro Records is an independent record label created and owned by Dexter Holland and Greg Kriesel . They started the label in 1994. The label is famous for being an incubator for punk rock artists who have subsequently become successful, most notably AFI...

. It was the first release for the label, which was founded by Dexter Holland

Dexter Holland

Bryan Keith "Dexter" Holland is the singer and rhythm guitarist for the California punk rock band The Offspring...

 of The Offspring

The Offspring

The Offspring is an American punk rock band from Huntington Beach, California, formed in 1984. Known as Manic Subsidal until 1986, the band consists of lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Dexter Holland, lead guitarist Kevin "Noodles" Wasserman, bassist Greg K. and drummer Pete Parada...

. The album continued the band's style of fast, abrasive punk rock with tongue-in-cheek humor and sarcastic lyrics.

The release of Friendly People gained Guttermouth supporting slots on national and world tours with bands such as The Offspring. During these tours the band developed a reputation for chaos and outrageous behavior, resulting in their being banned and blacklisted from several tours and venues. The most famous of these incidents included the band being banned for several years from performing in Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 on charges of public indecency

Public indecency

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 due to onstage nudity in Saskatoon

Saskatoon

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, and singer Mark Adkins' arrest for "assault with a deadly weapon" after using his onstage microphone to incite a near-riot during a show in San Bernardino

San Bernardino, California

San Bernardino is a city located in the Riverside-San Bernardino metropolitan area , and serves as the county seat of San Bernardino County, California, United States...

.

Some early versions of the CD copy of the album contain technical errors. The songs are tracked out of order from their original listing, and the overall speed is slower making the recording sound like a slower mix. These inconsistencies are due to technical errors at the plant where the CDs were produced.

Track listing

All songs written by Guttermouth

Guttermouth

Guttermouth is an American punk rock band formed in 1988 in Huntington Beach, California and currently recording for Hopeless Records. They have released nine full-length studio albums and two live albums and have toured extensively, including performances on the Vans Warped Tour...

 except where noted

1. "End on 9"
2. "Derek"
3. "Jamie's Petting Zoo"
4. "Bullshit" (Davis)
5. "P.C."
6. "Disneyland"
7. "Cant We All Just Get Along (At the Dinner Table)"
8. "Veggicide"
9. "Chaps My Hide"
10. "What's Gone Wrong" (Davis)
11. "You're Late"
12. "Summer's Over"
13. "Asshole"

• Some early pressings of the CD have an incorrect playing order and a slower speed. On these versions the playing order is as follows:

1. "Disneyland"
2. "Jamie's Petting Zoo"
3. "Bullshit"
4. "Can't We All Just Get Along (At the Dinner Table)"
5. "Veggicide"
6. "Chaps My Hide"
7. "End on 9"
8. "What's Gone Wrong"
9. "P.C."
10. "Summer's Over"
11. "You're Late"
12. "Asshole"
13. "Derek"

Performers

• Mark Adkins - vocals
  Singing
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• Scott Sheldon - guitar
  Guitar
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• Eric "Derek" Davis - guitar
• Clint "Cliff" Weinrich - bass
  Bass guitar
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• James Nunn (aka Captain James T. Nunn) - drums
  Drum kit
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• Joey Hernandez (Voodoo Glow Skulls
  Voodoo Glow Skulls
  Voodoo Glow Skulls are an American ska punk band formed in 1988 in Riverside, California by brothers Frank, Eddie and Jorge Casillas and their longtime friend Jerry O'Neill...
  
  ) - saxophone
  Saxophone
  The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
  
  
• Joe McNally (Voodoo Glow Skulls) - trombone
  Trombone
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• D.I.
  D.I.
  D.I. is a Southern California punk band featuring ex-Adolescents and Social Distortion drummer Casey Royer on vocals. Royer formed the group after he and former Social Distortion original member Rikk Agnew , left the original Mike Ness crew.Since forming in 1982, D.I. has had many line-up changes...
  
  , Shawn Stern, Arancha, Steve Kravac, Joe Peccorillo, and Louis Posen - backing vocals

Album information

• Record label: Nitro Records
  Nitro Records
  Nitro Records is an independent record label created and owned by Dexter Holland and Greg Kriesel . They started the label in 1994. The label is famous for being an incubator for punk rock artists who have subsequently become successful, most notably AFI...
  
  
• Recorded February-April 1994 at Westbeach Recorders
  Westbeach Recorders
  Westbeach Recorders is a recording studio in Hollywood, California famous for recording punk rock groups, such as Bad Religion, NOFX, Rancid, The Offspring and Pennywise. It was established in 1985 by Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz and re-located to Hollywood, California in February 1987 and...
  
  
• Engineered by Joe Peccorillo
• Additional engineering and mixing by Steve Kravac
• Mastered by John Golden
• Art direction and packaging by Fred Hidalgo and Guttermouth