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Four Dead In Ohio

May 4, 2020May 15, 2020 Larry Livermore 1 Comment 1970, Akron, and Young, Berkeley, Crosby, Detroit, Kent State, Nash, Ohio, Stills, Telegraph Avenue, townhouse explosion

Wait, they’re shooting white kids now? It might not have been phrased exactly that way, but that was the subliminal

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Aaron Cometbus: Pen Pals

February 11, 2013June 12, 2018 Larry Livermore 5 Comments Aaron Cometbus, Berkeley, Coffee, Crimpshrine, Double Duce, East Bay, Gilman Street, House-O-Toast, In China With Green Day, John K. Samson, Pen Pals, The Weakerthans

Home is where the heart is, at least as long as you can pay the rent.  But I always preferred

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Scene Of The Crime

March 15, 2012 Larry Livermore 10 Comments Adeline, And Out Come The Wolves, Berkeley, Brett Gurewitz, Dance Hall Crashers, Dave Mello, Downfall, Epitaph Records, Generator, Gilman, Green Day, Jason Hammon, Lint, Lookout Records, Madonna, Matt Freeman, Offspring, Operation Ivy, Pat Mello, Tim Armstrong

Between the time when Operation Ivy broke up in 1989 and Rancid formed in 1991, Tim Armstrong and Matt Freeman

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We Need A Gathering Instead

February 4, 2012 Larry Livermore 6 Comments Asian Man Records, Berkeley, Big Rig, Classics Of Love, Common Rider, Dave Mello, David Hayes, Downfall, East Bay, Generator, Gilman Street, Green Day, Jesse Michaels, Lookout Records, Matt Freeman, Mike Park, Operation Ivy, Rancid, Tim Armstrong

Classics Of Love at Barfly, London, 2009. Photo by Imelda Michalczyk When Lookout Records, the label I co-founded and ran

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1989: The Anarchists Riot In Berkeley

August 19, 2011 Larry Livermore 5 Comments Anarchists, Anarchy, Anderson Valley Advertiser, Berkeley, Caffe Mediterraneum, Riot, Telegraph Avenue

This story originally appeared in the August 2, 1989 issue of the Anderson Valley Advertiser. I was hanging around passing

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Eating Food And Getting Fat

February 16, 2011 Larry Livermore 4 Comments Addiction, Alcoholism, Berkeley, Compulsive, Compulsive Overeating, Dan Savage, Eating, Eating Disorder, Fat, Food, Foodies, McDonald's, Obesity, Overeating, Overweight, Sex, Slow Food

Last time I was out west, my nephew Jackson cracked me up by telling me about the Solano Stroll, an

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Aaron Cometbus: In China With Green Day

February 4, 2011 Larry Livermore 12 Comments Aaron Cometbus, Asia, Berkeley, China, Cometbus, East Bay, Gilman Street, Green Day, Pinhead Gunpowder

It shouldn’t be surprising that a certain mystique has grown up around Aaron Cometbus.  As a writer who seldom subjects

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Old Friends

January 19, 2011 Larry Livermore 8 Comments 1990s, Berkeley, Brooklyn, Friendship, Gilman Street, Williamsburg

My nephew just turned 15, and I’m pretty sure that even if I weren’t related to him, I’d be telling

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On The Avenue

October 18, 2009June 12, 2018 Larry Livermore 3 Comments Berkeley, Caffe Mediterraneum, Telegraph Avenue, The Potatomen

I have a habit of writing songs that go with stories or stories that go with songs, and this is

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California Was A Golden Dream

October 14, 2009 Larry Livermore 4 Comments BART, Berkeley, California, East Bay, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Marianne Faithfull, Muni, San Francisco

I started writing this song about 30 years ago. Maybe longer. I honestly don’t even remember when the idea first

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