Operation Ivy This Band made Tim Armstrong Frustrated and Didn't Want to Be in a Band Anymore!

Operation Ivy was an American punk rock band from Berkeley California, formed in May 1987. The band was stylistically important, as one of the first bands to mix the elements of hardcore punk and ska into a new amalgam called ska punk. The band was critical to the emergence of Lookout Records and the so called East Bay Sound. The band's name was derived from the Operation Ivy series of nuclear tests in 1952, Although the band released just one full length album before breaking up in May 1989, Operation Ivy is well remembered as the direct antecedent of popular band Rancid and for wielding a lasting stylistic influence over numerous other bands in what became the third wave ska movement. Operation Ivy was formed in May 1987 and was named after the code name of a 1952 American nuclear weapons testing program, The name had previously been the original name of the contemporary Berkeley punk band Isocracy. The band consisted of Jesse Michaels on lead vocals, Tim Lint Armstrong on guitar vocals, Matt McCall Freeman on bass vocals, and Dave Mello on drums. Prior to the formation of Operation Ivy, Armstrong and Freeman had played together in the Berkeley ska punk band Basic Radio. Operation Ivy's first live performance was on May 1987 in Dave Mello's garage. The next day began a tradition of performances at the Berkeley punk collective center 924 Gilman Street, Operation Ivy began playing a number of performances which led to its almost immediate cult following. After witnessing a live show in Southern California, Joy Aoki of Flipside Magazine described the energetic new band as a swell bunch of guys who mix hard edged ska with the intensity of young thrash.
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