I'll Be Waiting/Blackball

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“I'll Be Waiting/Blackball”
Single by The Offspring from the album The Offspring
Released	1986
Format	Vinyl
Recorded	1986
Genre	Punk rock
Length	3:26 (I'll Be Waiting) 3:06 (Blackball)
Label	Black Label
Writer(s)	Dexter Holland
Producer	The Offspring and Jim Dotson
The Offspring singles chronology
"I'll Be Waiting/Blackball" (1986) "Come Out And Play (Keep 'Em Separated)" (1994)

"I'll Be Waiting/Blackball" is the name of the first single released by punk band The Offspring. The single is a double A-Side single, featuring "I'll Be Waiting" and "Blackball". Both tracks can be found on The Offsprings self-titled album released two years later - The Offspring. Both songs were re-recorded for the album, so that The Offspring would not just be a 20+ minute mini-album.

Contents 1 Track Listings 2 Release 3 Personnel 4 In popular culture

[edit] Track Listings

1. "I'll Be Waiting" - 3:12
2. "Blackball" - 3:24

[edit] Release

The band itself released "Blackball" on Black Label Records (which the band named after a brand of beer), as a 7" vinyl record. Only 1000 copies of this record were made, 500 with a sleeve and 500 without, and it took the band two and a half years to sell them all. Ironically, this record is now the most expensive piece of The Offspring's work as it is also the rarest.

[edit] Personnel

The single's back cover credits:

• B. Holland, or Bryan Holland, the real name of Dexter Holland - Vocals
• Child C-2017, presumably Kevin 'Noodles' Wasserman - Guitar
• Greggor, referring to Greg Kriesel - Bass
• James Frederick Lilja - Drums

[edit] In popular culture

• "Blackball" was featured in the videogame Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4.

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