Pete Finestone (born June 11, 1964) was the second drummer of the punk rock band Bad Religion. He played in the band in 1981-1982 and again from 1984 to 1991.
Pete attended Chaminade College Preparatory Middle School, but was expelled in the middle of his 8th grade year. He then attended Taft High School, where he met the rest of Bad Religion.
Pete recorded some of the tracks on Bad Religion's 1981 debut How Could Hell Be Any Worse?. After the re...
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Pete Finestone (born June 11, 1964) was the second drummer of the punk rock band Bad Religion. He played in the band in 1981-1982 and again from 1984 to 1991.
Pete attended Chaminade College Preparatory Middle School, but was expelled in the middle of his 8th grade year. He then attended Taft High School, where he met the rest of Bad Religion.
Pete recorded some of the tracks on Bad Religion's 1981 debut How Could Hell Be Any Worse?. After the release of that album, he departed, then returned two years later to record the EP Back to the Known (1985). When Bad Religion brought the How Could Hell Be Any Worse? line-up back together in 1986, Pete recorded the band's first three reunion albums, Suffer (1988), No Control (1989) and Against the Grain (1990), which are widely considered to be among Bad Religion's most important works.
Pete left Bad Religion again in the spring of 1991, due to his role in drumming for The Fishermen and to raise his family. It seems to have been an amicable...
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