I’m going to do that thing again where I insert myself into the story when I do a show review, but I feel like it’s to be expected at this point. Maybe someday I’ll be a “professional” writer, but today is not that day my friends. Some of you may have seen me mention this before, or maybe you heard me say it when I chatted with Jay Bentley a couple years ago, but Bad Religion was my very first punk rock show. It was on the Gray Race tour in April 1996, which seems so late by comparison to have seen Bad Religion for the first time, but it was almost 30 years ago, which just speaks to the band’s longevity and level of importance. Anyway, That show, at what was then the Avalon on Boston’s iconic Lansdowne Street, was my baptism into the world of live punk music, and I guess what has followed ...