Hey, check out this awesome page I found! So, Pete joined the band when Jay Ziskrout suddenly quit in the middle of recording How Could Hell… It’s crazy because Pete was just a fellow punk kid from the San Fernando Valley, but from a different high school. Greg says he basically forced himself onto the band. He showed up at Greg’s door and was like, “Hey, I heard you need a drummer.” Greg asked if he could play drums, and Pete was like, “Sure.” So Greg didn’t even bother auditioning him; he was just like, “Alright, we’ve got a drummer.” They practiced in this terrible place for a while and then went back to the studio to finish recording the album over a weekend with Pete. His first show was at this legendary punk club called Godzilla’s in the winter of 1982. When BR broke up, Pete went to study Irish and English literature in England. He left for England in June 1986 and came back in July 1987. During that time, BR did a few tours with Lucky. But two months after Pete returned, Greg asked him to rejoin BR for Back To The Known. He kind of pressured the band, especially Lucky, and Lucky ended up leaving. Right after Pete came back, Brett also returned and the next chapter of BR history began. By late 1986, they went on their first East Coast tour, but Pete was back in England so he missed it and Lucky filled in again. In 1989, Pete graduated from school and started working part-time as a teacher while still in BR. But he quit the band again after Against the Grain. He left in a weird way, according to Jay, who still can’t figure out why Pete quit. He just left a long note on Hetson’s door. The official reason was that his other band, “The Fishermen,” got a record deal and the label told him he couldn’t play with Bad Religion live if he wanted to be signed. So he had no choice but to leave. But it’s not that simple because in a bootleg video of a BR show, Greg tells the audience not to ask what happened to Pete because it’s too complicated. Actually, I know the Fishermen story was just an excuse – he quit because of his problems with a certain member of BR whose name starts with BR and ends with ett. After leaving BR, Pete started his own label called Low Blow
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