Editing Conspiracy of One (section)

==Background and recording==
The Offspring spent much of 1999 on tour promoting the ''[[Americana (The Offspring album)|Americana]]'' album. They also appeared at the infamous [[Woodstock 1999]], where their performance was broadcast live on [[pay-per-view]] television. After some time off, the members reconvened in early 2000 to begin work on new material, nine songs of which were in the demo phase at the time. Frontman [[Dexter Holland]] told ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' in May 2000 that, "we came home last Christmas and we kind of took a month just trying to recoup and we started thinking, 'Well, do we want to get started on another record right away?'. "We're all pretty excited about the way things have gone so I spent a couple of months trying to come up with some new material and then [started] jamming out these demos."<ref>{{cite news |date=May 1, 2000 |url=http://www.euro.real.com/music/artist/The_Offspring/articles/367507/-related-articles-page-4/ |title=Offspring Prep for Next Album |author=Stephen Thomas Erlewine |author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine |publisher=Euro.Real.com |access-date=2010-08-19 }}{{dead link|date=August 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The Offspring entered the studio to begin recording sessions for ''Conspiracy of One'' in June 2000. For the recording of the album, the band tapped [[Brendan O'Brien (music producer)|Brendan O'Brien]] as its producer and recorded the album at NRG studios in [[North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California|North Hollywood, California]] over a two-month period.