VIA PRESS RELEASE | “Greaser, hippie, glam rocker, punk… Larry tells some amazing stories. And I’m stoked he’s my friend.” —Billie Joe Armstrong
Don Giovanni Records has announced the second edition of Spy Rock Memories by Larry Livermore, out March 2, 2027. The new edition features words from Aaron Cometbus, an interview with Tre Cool about growing up on Spy Rock, reflections from the author, and 22 added photos.
In 1982, Larry Livermore, an ex-greaser, post-hippie, burnt out and disillusioned by the Bay Area punk scene, journeyed north into an off-the-map, off-the-grid mountain wilderness at the heart of California’s Emerald Triangle, in search of something “real.”
Things got way more real than he’d bargained for. He confronted blizzards, droughts, floods, fires, marauding bears, skunks, rattlesnakes, and a posse of ornery pot growers, all while launching a magazine, a solar-powered punk rock band, and the DIY record label that introduced the world to Green Day, Operation Ivy, and Screeching Weasel.
Along the way, he learned self-sufficiency, responsibility, and how to avoid (for the most part, but not always) getting punched in the face by irate hippies, and found his place in the far-flung, eccentric community that begins where Highway 101’s tattered tarmac dissolves into the dust of Spy Rock Road.
Larry Livermore was the co-founder of Lookout Records, the editor and publisher of Lookout magazine, and a longtime columnist for Maximum Rocknroll and Punk Planet. He lives in Brooklyn.
PHOTO: LAUREN BANJO
