IV
"Check out where it all began. Danceable powerpop. This, THE LOOKOUTS’ final record, features two future GREEN DAY members. Tré Cool drums and sings. Billie Joe drops in to add lead guitar and backing vocals. One of the greatest (and some say, the worst) legacies of the punk movement was the notion that anyone can be in a band. When THE LOOKOUTS formed, I was playing music (to use the term very loosely) with a 14-year-old bassist who had never played bass before and a 12-year-old drummer who had never laid hands on a drum set. We first played at Gilman Street only a few weeks after it opened, and our next to last show opening for BAD RELIGION in June, 1990 was there as well. Later that year we lost our drummer when Tré was asked to join GREEN DAY. We were no doubt embarrassed ourselves many times while we struggled to figure out what it meant to be in a band, but we were too dumb and too sincere to know it. We just kept bashing away and by the time we were finished, we’d fashioned some of the best days of our lives."...Lawrence Livermore
