Four years later Lookout was generating $10 million in annual sales, but a public battle with band Screeching Weasel created a financial strain that left the label unable to pay its royalties. Operation Ivy’s Energy sold 500,000 copies over two Lookout releases in 1989 and then 1991, the same year Green Day dropped their debut record Kerplunk! on Lookout. “What had excited me about Operation Ivy and Green Day in the first place was that they didn’t really sound like anyone else - there were echoes of the Clash and The Specials and The Beatles, but when you dropped the needle on an Operation Ivy record, you weren’t going to confuse them with any other band in the world,” writes Lookout Records founder Larry Livermore in a 2020 blogpost titled “ The End of Lookout“.
The bulk of Operation Ivy’s commercial and critical success would come after the band’s breakup, fueled by the mystery surrounding the Reagan-era punk band whose lyrics called for both unity and permanent youth rebellion. Armstrong and Freeman would go on to form Rancid with guitarist and singer Lars Frederiksen in the 1990s and play a pivotal role in the creation of a West Coast sound and aesthetic for the underground genre along with bands like Green Day, Pennywise, NOFX, Sublime and AFI that would expand the genre internationally and create a global community of tens of millions of fans. Michaels, only 18 when Operation Ivy formed, graduated from UCLA in 1996 and today works as music and visual artist. The band experienced a meteoric rise in popularity and were known for their high live shows at the all-ages DIY venue 924 Gilman in Berkeley and recorded only one album, Energy, for Berkeley-based Lookout Records in 1989, splitting up shortly after the album’s launch party. by Armstrong, Michaels, bassist Matt Freeman and drummer Dave Mellow. Operation Ivy was formed two year earlier in Berkeley, Calif. Saturday’s performance marked only the second time in 33 years that the founding members of the East Bay ska punk group have performed together since their break up in 1989. I was already in disbelief that The Specials were coming and when I got the text from Tim, I knew the show was going to be amazing.” I got a shiver when I he told me,” Cary recalls. “Four hours later, Tim texted me and said that Jesse was probably going to play a song.
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Pennywise's Fletcher Dragge and Rancid's Tim Armstrong Unite 'The Crew' for Punk Anthem 'One Voice'Ĭary, an Emmy-winning TV writer and producer with Late Night with David Letterman and The Simpsons, tells Billboard he reached out to Armstrong to give him a heads up, and says Armstrong was excited to hear Michaels was coming.
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