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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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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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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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Lookout Magazine Stories 

San Francisco 1994

October 16, 2009 Larry Livermore 1 Comment Chinatown, East Bay, Herb Caen, North Beach, San Francisco, Tenderloin

Back in the days of Lookout magazine, nearly every issue carried a column known as San Francisco Beat, which gave

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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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That Damned Exclamation Point

September 14, 2009 Larry Livermore 3 Comments East Bay, Gilman Street, Jack Boulware, Lookout Records, Punk rock, San Francisco, Silke Tudor

Got my advance copy of Gimme Something Better by Jack Boulware and Silke Tudor. It’s a magnificent compendium of information and

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