Operation Ivy Blog and Journals

Weezer will be adding some extra bandmembers to their fold when they head out for the Hootenanny Tour in June. And those people are ... you! Wha?

Jesse Michaels, former Operation Ivy singer and arguably the king of ska punk, will be performing again this summer. Buzznet has the date and location of one of his upcoming gigs, and more are on the way. Where!?

Operation Ivy were the most influential ska punk band of our time -- and they were only together for two years! Click to read more...

924 Gilman Street held it's first show on New Years Eve, December 31, 1986, with Christ On Parade, A.M.Q.A (Apple Maggot Quarantine Area), Silkworms, Soup & Impulse Manslaughter

Some of the most influential bands that have played at Gilman include: AFI, Bad Religion, Blatz, Crimpshrine, Dead Kennedys, Filth, Green Day, Isocracy, Jawbreaker, Link 80, The Mr. T Experience, Neurosis, The Offspring, Operation Ivy, The Ramones, Rancid, Samiam, Screeching Weasel, Screw 32, Sweet Baby, Tiger Army, and Tilt.

Operation Ivy (Jesse Michaels, Tim "Lint" Armstrong, Matt Freeman, Dave Mello, Pat Mello) formed in May of 1987, playing their first show in Dave Mello's garage on May 16th. The following night was what would become the first of many performances at The Gilman Street Project...



See these and more East Bay punk videos @ EAST BAY PUNX on Buzznet

(The day before my birthday! ~Misery)

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From:  HELLCAT RECORDS
Date:     Oct 31, 2007 10:31 AM
Subject:     OPERATION IVY album out Nov. 6th! Stream it on Rhapsody now!

Hellcat Records will release a remastered self-titled album from iconic ska-punk group Operation Ivy on November 6th. Originally distributed by Lookout! Records as a compilation in 1991, which sold in excess of 500,000 copies, Operation Ivy features the group's only LP (Energy) as well as their 7" EP (Hectic) and two songs from the 7" EP compilation Turn It Around. Remastered by Gene Grimaldi (Tiger Army, Transplants, Pennywise, NOFX), the album will released as a digipak with original artwork and will also be available digitally for the first time from all major download services.

Go to:  Rhapsody - right now and check out their featured streaming of the album, one week prior to streetdate!

List of (most) of the 700 live performance music videos in my Buzznet archive. This is to make it easier for my friends to find and enjoy them.

This is not your shopping list.  Please don't steal this index. It took a lot of time to track all this down and research/identify it (in some cases rip and edit it from full concert footage). Watch it, enjoy it, don't loot and repost it.

My collection of AFI's live performances is now listed at miseryXchord's AFI Video Archive on Buzznet



Tons of photos and other goodies in the Buzznet Classic SF/East Bay Punk Community

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Rancid

• Rancid "Roots Radicals"  Live on SNL 1995

Rancid performing at the Bizarre Festival, Germany 1998

• Rancid "Avenues and Alleyways" 1/13
• Rancid "Maxwell Murder" 2/13
• Rancid "Nihilism" 3/13
• Rancid "Time Bomb" 4/13
• Rancid "Hooligans" 5/13
• Rancid "The Brothels" 6/13
• Rancid "Tenderloin" 7/13
• Rancid "Old Friend" 9/13
• Rancid "Old Friend" 9/13
• Rancid "Journey to the End of the East Bay" 10/13
• Rancid "St. Mary" 11/13
• Rancid "Ruby Soho" 12/13
• Rancid "Radio" 13/13

Rancid at Summer Sonic in Japan 2001

• Rancid "Gunshot" 2001 (1/15)
• Rancid "Time Bomb" 2001 Rancid "Time Bomb" 2001 (2/15)
• Rancid "Roots Radicals" 2001 (3/15)
• Rancid "Dead Bodies" 2001 (4/15)
• Rancid "Nihilism" 2001 (5/15)
• Rancid "Maxwell Murder" 2001 (6/15)
• Rancid "The War End" 2001 (7/15)
• Rancid "Black & Blue" 2001 (8/15)
• Rancid "Lock Step Gone" 2001 (9/15)
• Rancid "Sidekick" 2001 (10/15)
• Rancid "Loki" & "It´s Quite Alright" 2001 Rancid "Loki" & "It´s Quite Alright" 2001 (11/15)
• Rancid "She´s Automatic" 2001 (12/15)
• Rancid "You Don't Care Nothing" 2001 (13/15)
• Rancid "Old Friend" 2001 (14/15)
• Rancid "Ruby Soho" 2001 (15/15)

• Rancid "Roots Radicals" at Summer Sonic in Japan 2001 (alternate view)

• Rancid "Radio", "Ruby Soho" & "Red Hot Moon" at Vans Warped Tour San Diego 2003

• Operation Ivy - First performance
Operation Ivy's debut performance in drummer Dave Mello's garage on May 16, 1987; the night before thier first public show

• Operation Ivy - First Public Show 
Operation Ivy''s first public show on May 17, 1987 at Berkeley's 924 Gilman Street. The band performs "Hedgecore"

Operation Ivy live in Sacramento, CA December 26, 1988 at the Turn It Around Concert - Battle of the Bands

• Operation Ivy "Knowledge" (1/16)
• Operation Ivy "Yellin' In My Ear" (2/16)
• Operation Ivy "Hoboken" (3/16)
• Operation Ivy "The Crowd" (4/16)
• Operation Ivy "Healthy Body" (5/16)
• Operation Ivy "Gonna Find You" (6/16)
• Operation Ivy "Officer" (7/16)
• Operation Ivy "Sound System" (8/16)
• Operation Ivy "Missionary" (9/16)
• Operation Ivy "Here We Go Again" (10/16)
• Operation Ivy "Sleep Long" (11/16)
• Operation Ivy "Take Warning" (12/16)
• Operation Ivy "Caution" (13/16)
• Operation Ivy "Big City" (14/16)
• Operation Ivy "Unity" (15/16)
• Operation Ivy "I Got No" (16/16)

• Operation Ivy "Big City" at 924 Gilman St. in 1989
• Operation Ivy "One of These Days" 1988
• Operation Ivy "Yellin' in My Ear" 1988
• Operation Ivy "Junkies Running Dry" 1988
• Operation Ivy "Bombshell" 1989

Basic Radio

• Basic Radio "My Song" in Dave's garage 2/7/87 Basic Radio was one of Lint and Matt's bands before Operation Ivy

Downfall

• Downfall "The Storm" 1990? audio only
• Downfall "Blank Generation" 1990? audio only

Schlong

• Schlong live at WFMU radio in 1991
• Schlong "Shattered Life"

The Nerve Agents

• The Nerve Agents "Fall Of The All American" at 924 Gilman St. 8/26/00
• The Nerve Agents "What Then?" at The Pound in San Francisco on 12/30/01
• The Nerve Agents "Carpe Diem" at The Garage in New Jersey 2001

Redemption 87

• Redemption 87 at 924 Gilman St. in 1997, playing "Rumor Mill" and "Break Down The Walls."

Unit Pride

• Unit Pride performing at the Aaron Straw Benefit Show, held at The Anthrax in Norfolk CT on 7/09/89

Dystopia

Dystopia at 924 Gilman St. on 04.16.1999

• Dystopia - live at 924 Gilman St 1999 (1/4)
• Dystopia - live at 924 Gilman St. 1999 (2/4)
• Dystopia - live at 924 Gilman St. 1999 (3/4)
• Dystopia - live at 924 Gilman St. 1999 (4/4)

Dystopia at 924 Gilman St. on 11.02.2002

• Dystopia "Hands That Mold" 2002 (1/2)
• Dystopia "Anger Brought By Disease" 2002 (2/2)

Night of Rage (Filth)

• Night of Rage at the Chaos In Tejas afterparty 423 Tillery Austin, TX 2006
• Night of Rage at 423 Tillery in Austin, TX 2006

Look Back And Laugh

• Look Back and Laugh "Step Forward" at 924 Gilman St. 04.23.2006

California Love

• California Love at Annie's Social Lounge, SF CA 02.03.2006

California Love at the Hemlock Tavern SF CA on 12.29.2006

• California Love "Total Bummer Forever" 2006
• California Love  2006

Antischism

• Antischism - Live In Peterborough, Ontario Canada (1/2)
• Antischism - Live In Peterborough, Ontario Canada (2/2)

From Ashes Rise

• From Ashes Rise at EKH in Vienna Austria 03.09.2002
• From Ashes Rise in Gothenburg, Sweden 2004
• From Ashes Rise at Valentine's in Albany, NY 04.27.2004
• From Ashes Rise "Reaction" at 924 Gilman St. 05.01.2005
• From Ashes Rise at Che Cafe in San Diego CA

Tragedy

• Tragedy at Ernst Kirchweger Haus (EKH)Vienna Austria 01.20.2001

Tragedy at 924 Gilman St 05.07.2006

• Tragedy "Plan Of Execution" 2006 (1/2)
• Tragedy "The Intolerable Weight" 2006 (2/2)

Tragedy at Chaos In Tejas 05.20.2006

• Tragedy "The Ending Fight" 2006 (1/4)
• Tragedy "The Waiting" 2006 (2/4)
• Tragedy "The Day After" 2006 (3/4)
• Tragedy "Rowdy Crowd" 2006 (4/4)

Social Distortion

• Social Distortion "The Creeps"," It's The Law" & "Moral Threat" at practice 1983
• Social Distortion "Don't Drag Me Down"in Dusseldorf, Germany 03.20.1997
• Social Distortion performing "When The Angels Sing" at KROQ 12/12/04
• Social Distortion "Ball and Chain" at Street Scene in San Diego CA 08.2006
• Social Distortion "Don't Take me For Granted"
• Social Distortion "Born To Lose"

Social Distortion at KROQ 12.12.2004

• Social Distortion "Reach For The Sky" 2004
• Social Distortion "Badluck" 2004
• Social Distortion "Mommy's Little Monster" 2004
• Social Distortion "Under My Thumb" 2004
• Social Distortion "Highway 101" 2004
• Social Distortion "Ring Of Fire" 2004

Social Distortion at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre

• Social Distortion "Mommies Little Monster"
• Social Distortion "Sick Boys"
• Social Distortion "Ball And Chain"
• Social Distortion "Story Of My Life"
• Social Distortion "Ring Of Fire"
• Social Distortion "Bakersfield"

Social Distortion at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre on 07.15.2006

• Social Distortion "Angels Wings" 2006
• Social Distortion "Bad Luck" 2006

Sick Of It All

• Sick Of It All - Live at Dynamo Festival 1994

The Gr'ups

• The Gr'ups "Lil' Lost"

The Fleshies

The Fleshies at 924 Gilman St. 03.15.2003

• The Fleshies - live at 924 Gilman St. 2003 (1/4)
• The Fleshies - live at 924 Gilman St. 2003 (2/4)
• The Fleshies - live at 924 Gilman St. 2003 (3/4)
• The Fleshies - live at 924 Gilman St. 2003 (4/4)

Econochrist

• Econochrist
• Econochrist

Crimpshrine

• Crimpshrine "In My Mind"
• Crimpshrine "My Friend"
• Crimpshrine "Sleep, What's That?"

Fifteen

• Fifteen covering "Inspiration" (Crimpshrine) 1995
• Fifteen "Petroleum Distillation"

Pinhead Gunpowder

• Pinhead Gunpowder "Losers Of The Year" at The Starry Plough in 2001

Angry Samoans

• Angry Samoans "Gas Chamber" & "Not of This Earth"
• Angry Samoans "Right side of my mind"

Tiger Army

• Tiger Army Never Die!!!
• Tiger Army "Moonlight Dreams" at the Wonder Ballroom Portland OR 06.24.2006
• Tiger Army FTW Santa Cruz CA 10.2006
• Tiger Army "Twenty Flight Rock" (Eddie Cochran cover) at Axis
• Tiger Army "Forever Fades Away" Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on 04.06.2007

  Tiger Army at the Hootenanny Festival in Orange County CA 07.01.2006

• Tiger Army (1/6) *file damaged*
• Tiger Army "In The Orchard" (2/6)
• Tiger Army "Luna Tone" 2006 (3/6)
• Tiger Army "20 Flight Rock" 2006 (4/6)
• Tiger Army "The Long Road" 2006 (5/6)
• Tiger Army "Rose in The Devils Garden" 2006 (6/6)

  Tiger Army at the UCI Bren Center Irvine CA 09.2006

• Tiger Army "Ghostfire" 2006 (1/2)
• Tiger Army 2006 (2/2)

 Tiger Army at the Long Beach Arena, Long Beach CA 09.15.2006

• Tiger Army "Ghost Tiger Rise" & "GhostFire" 2006 (1/4)
• Tiger Army "Rose in the Devils Garden" 2006 (2/4)
• Tiger Army "In The Orchard" 2006 (3/4)
• Tiger Army "Atomic" 2006 (4/4)

Green Day

Green Day at The Paint Factory in Tampa Bay FL on 01.01.1989

• Green Day "Don't Leave Me" +2 more songs 1989 (1/5)
• Green Day "Disappearing Boy" & "I Was There" 1989 (2/5)
• Green Day "16" & "Only of You" 1989 (3/5)
• Green Day "Going to Pasalacqua" & "Knowledge" 1989 (4/5)
• Green Day "Road to Acceptance" & "1000 Hours" 1989 (5/5)

Green Day in Davis, CA 06.02.1989

• Green Day "At The Library" & "Why Do You Want Him" 1989 (1/10)
• Green Day "Sweet Children" & "I Was There" 1989 (2/10)
• Green Day "Only of You" & "1000 Hours" 1989 (3/10)
• Green Day "Green Day" 1989 (4/10)
• Green Day "16" & "My Generation" 1989 (5/10)
• Green Day "I Want To Be Alone" 1989 (6/10)
• Green Day "Don't Leave Me" & "Disappearing Boy" 1989 (7/10)
• Green Day "The One I Want" & "Rest" 1989 (8/10)
• Green Day "On The Road Again" 1989 (9/10)
• Green Day "Dry Ice" 1989 (10/10)

Green Day at Pinole Valley High School, Pinole CA on 05.10.1990

• Green Day "Going to Pasalacqua" +2 songs 1990 (1/5)
• Green Day "16" & "The Judge's Daughter" 1990 (2/5)
• Green Day "Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?" 1990 (3/5)
• Green Day "80", "Don't Leave Me",... 1990 (4/5)
• Green Day "Disappearing Boy" 1990 (5/5)

Green Day in a living room in Harrisburg PA on 07.16.1990

• Green Day "Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?", "409 in Your Coffeemaker" & "At the Library" 1990

Green Day in Southampton, England on 12.17.1991

• Green Day "Road to Acceptance" 1991 (1/6)
• Green Day "Going to Pasalacqua" 1991 (2/6)
• Green Day "409 in Your Coffeemaker" 1991 (3/6)
• Green Day "2,000 Light Years Away" 1991 (4/6)
• Green Day "Only Of You" 1991 (5/6)
• Green Day "Don't Leave Me" 1991 (6/6)

Green Day at Jailcell Rock Fest in Wigan, England on 12.21.1991

• Green Day "I Was There" 1991 (1/20)
• Green Day "Don't Leave Me" 1991 (2/20)
• Green Day "Only Of You" 1991 (3/20)
• Green Day "409 in Your Coffee Maker" 1991 (4/20)
• Green Day "At The Library" 1991 (5/20)
• Green Day "Welcome to Paradise" 1991 (6/20)
• Green Day "Christie Road" 1991 (7/20)
• Green Day 1991 (8/20)
• Green Day "Going to Pasalacqua" 1991 (9/20)
• Green Day "80" 1991 (10/20)
• Green Day "16" 1991 (11/20)
• Green Day "Paper Lanterns" 1991 (12/20)
• Green Day "One For The Razorbacks" 1991 (13/20)
• Green Day 1991 (14/20)
• Green Day "2000 Light Years Away" 1991 (15/20)
• Green Day "1000 Hours" 1991 (16/20)
• Green Day "The Judges Daughter" 1991 (17/20)
• Green Day "Road to Acceptance" 1991 (18/20)
• Green Day "Dry Ice" 1991 (19/20)
• Green Day Nativity Scene 1991 (20/20)

Green Day in Tampa Bay FL 1991

• Green Day "I Was There" & "Don't Leave Me" 1991 (1/6)
• Green Day "Disappearing Boy" +2 songs 1991 (2/6)
• Green Day "Christie Road" & "Words I Might Have Ate" 1991 (3/6)
• Green Day "16", "Paper Lanterns" & "Knowledge" 1991 (4/6)
• Green Day "409 in Your Coffee Maker" +2 songs 1991 (5/6)
• Green Day "Road to Acceptance" 1991 (6/6)

Jawbreaker

Jawbreaker performing at McGregor's in Elmhurst, Il on 8/23/92

• Jawbreaker "Chesterfield King" (1/16)
• Jawbreaker "The Boat" (2/16)
• Jawbreaker "Donatello" (3/16)
• Jawbreaker "Fine Day" (4/16)
• Jawbreaker "Friends Back East" (5/16)
• Jawbreaker "Want" (6/16)
• Jawbreaker "Face Down" (7/16)
• Jawbreaker "Kiss The Bottle" (8/16)
• Jawbreaker "Caroline" (9/16)
• Jawbreaker "Parabola" (10/16)
• Jawbreaker "Like A Sercret..." (11/16)
• Jawbreaker "Equalized" (12/16)
• Jawbreaker "Shield your Eyes" (13/16)
• Jawbreaker "You Can't Afford Me" (14/16)
• Jawbreaker "Chasing The Wild Goose" (Bad Religon cover) (15/16)

Good Riddance

Good Riddance in Bielsko-Biala Poland 02.2006

• Good Riddance "Fertile Fields" 2006 (1/8)
• Good Riddance "Libertine" 2006 (2/8)
• Good Riddance "Last Believer" 2006 (3/8)
• Good Riddance "Letters Home" 2006 (4/8)
• Good Riddance "Pisces (Almost Home)" 2006 (5/8)
• Good Riddance "Waste" 2006 (6/8)
• Good Riddance "It's Up To You" 2006 (7/8)
• Good Riddance "All Fall Down" 2006 (8/8)

Good Riddance in Ljubljana Slovenija 03.03.2006

• Good Riddance "A Credit to His Gender" 2006 (1/6)
• Good Riddance "Fertile Fields" 2006 (2/6)
• Good Riddance "Made to Be Broken" 2006 (3/6)
• Good Riddance "Mother Superior" 2006 (4/6)
• Good Riddance "Shadows of Defeat" 2006 (5/6)
• Good Riddance "Waste" 2006 (6/6)

Good Clean Fun

• Good Clean Fun "New Direction" (Gorilla Biscuits)
• Good Clean Fun "Positively Positive"
• Good Clean Fun "On The Streets..."
• Good Clean Fun "Positive Hardcore"
• Good Clean Fun "A Little Bit Emo, A Little Bit Hardcore"
• Good Clean Fun - Big circlepit at Fluff Fest
• Good Clean Fun "The MySpace Song"

Weezer

Weezer at Bizarre festival in Cologne (Köln) Germany 08.17.1996

• Weezer "Undone" 1996 (1/10)
• Weezer "My is Name Jonas" 1996 (2/10)
• Weezer "Pink Triangle" 1996 (3/10)
• Weezer "No One Else" 1996 (4/10)
• Weezer "El Scorcho" 1996 (5/10)
• Weezer "In The Garage" 1996 (6/10)
• Weezer "Why Bother" 1996 (7/10)
• Weezer "Say It Ain't So" 1996 (8/10)
• Weezer "Buddy Holly" 1996 (9/10)
• Weezer "Surf Wax America" 1996 (10/10)

What Happens Next?

• What Happens Next? performing at 924 Gilman St. 8/01
• WHN? performing at their final show at 924 Gilman St, Berkeley, CA on 7/25/03

Stray Cats

Stray Cats live at This Country's Rockin music festival 05.06.1989

• Stray Cats - Interview 1989 (1/7)
• Stray Cats "Baby Blue Eyes" 1989 (2/7)
• Stray Cats "Rumble in Brighton" 1989 (3/7)
• Stray Cats "Nine Lives" 1989 (4/7)
• Stray Cats "Summertime Blues" 1989 (5/7)
• Stray Cats "Stray Cat Strut" 1989 (6/7)
• Stray Cats "Rock This Town" 1989 (7/7)

Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros

Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros at the Bizarre Festival in Cologne, Germany 08.21.1999

• Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros "Straight to Hell" 1999 (1/11)
• Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros "Tony Adams" 1999 (2/11)
• Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros "London Calling" 1999 (3/11)
• Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros "X Ray Style" 1999 (4/11)
• Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros "Rock the Casbah" 1999 (5/11)
• Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros "White Man in Hammersmith Palais" 1999 (6/11)
• Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros "Yalla Yalla" 1999 (7/11)
• Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros "Brand New Cadillac" 1999 (8/11)
• Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros "I Fought the Law" 1999 (9/11)
• Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros "Tommy Gun" 1999 (10/11)
• Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros "Bankrobber" 1999 (11/11)

Muse

Muse at Bizarre festival in Cologne (Köln) Germany 08.21.1999

• Muse "Uno" 1999 (1/7)
• Muse "Cave" 1999 (2/7)
• Muse "Sunburn" 1999 (3/7)
• Muse "Escape" 1999 (4/7)
• Muse "Fillip" 1999 (5/7)
• Muse "Muscle Museum" 1999 (6/7)
• Muse "Showbiz" 1999 (7/7)

Muse at the KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas 2004

• Muse "New Born" KROQ 2004

Muse at Lowlands 2006

• Muse "Supermassive Black Hole" 2006

Operation Ivy's, "Energy" has been re-mastered and is being re-issued May 1st by Rancid Records!!! (that's 2007, as in, next month!),

Skankin' all the way to the pre-order form on Tim Armstrong's Machete Manufacturing website (and get a patch and a button with a pre-order).

Interpunk.com is also taking pre-orders and has unofficially announced a contest they're putting together to give away a copy signed by all the original members.

This is a re-matsered version of the extended 27 track album originally released on Lookout! Records in 1991 and out of print and unavailable after the last few copies of the back stock was sold out of Machete last year.

TRACK LISTING:
1 Knowledge
2 Sound System
3 Jaded
4 Take Warning
5 The Crowd
6 Bombshell
7 Unity
8 Vulnerability
9 Bankshot
10 One Of These Days
11 Gonna Find You
12 Badtown
13 Smiling
14 Caution
15 Freeze Up
16 Artificial Life
17 Room Without A Window
18 Big City
19 Missionary
20 Junkies Running Dry
21 Here We Go Again
22 Hoboken
23 Yellin' In My Ear
24 Sleep Long
25 Healthy Body
26 Officer
27 I Got No

~fairly ecstatic-

~miseryXchord

Damon Albarn has pesky, mocking neighbors. (gigwise)

CBGB Chocolates! (musicslut)

Mike Park covers Op Ivy. (MySpace)

Worst leak in the history of music? You're being melodramatic, right Petey? (NME)

Stream Younglove. (PV)

Panic! soundtracking for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? (superherohype)