Monday, December 18, 2006

UNITY! Rancid & Operation Ivy

So I went to see Rancid last night at the Warfield. I don't think the tour was for anything specific, like a new album, so it was awesome. A lot of time bands that are touring to release a 'new album' tend to ONLY play songs off of that rather than the standards that made them famous. Last night was awesome because I think Rancid played every popular song they had and then some.Even more AMAZING was something else though. I was privelaged to see the closest thing to an Operation Ivy reunion that has ever happened...

They brought Jesse up on Stage to perform 'Unity.' Although, they were missing a drummer, seeing Jesse, Tim, and Matt play unity was fucking awesome.

Operation Ivy was an innovative and great punk-ska band. They helped pave the way for many third wave ska bands. Operation Ivy was together for two years, from 1987- 1989. During that time, it was estimated that they played about 200 shows. Their music fused a blend of ska and punk. During the band's short duration, they released many seven inches and comps, and even a full length album, Energy. In 1989, the band broke up, some citing the increase in popularity and cries of sell out. However, to this day the true reason of the break-up is unknown. Operation Ivy played their last show on May 25, 1989 at their legendary club 924 Gilman Street.

Although the band is gone, people are still finding out about Operation Ivy. Records sales of Energy double every year, with estimates of about 500,000. In fact, Energy is #43 on the list of the top 50 albums to come out of California.

Since then, they have NEVER played another show - that is until last night.

I'm sure there will be some news of this somewhere. Anyways, between that and the energy of the crowd, I'd have to say that it was one of the best shows that I have seen in a long time.

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THE LAST studio album released by the legendary East Bay punk band Rancid was 2003's "Indestructible."
It was a fitting title, given that the succeeding years would test the strength of the ties that bind this group together.

In 2004, the band members went on hiatus and worked on side projects. Vocalist Tim Armstrong continued with his second band, the Transplants, and lead guitarist Lars Frederiksen spent time fronting Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards. Bassist Matt Freeman joined Social Distortion for a spell, and drummer Brett Reed busied himself with a variety of projects.

There were also some health scares, notably an incorrect diagnosis that Freeman had lung cancer, and the band's first lineup change in 13 years, as Reed was replaced by former Used drummer Branden Steineckert.

Despite the lengthy layoff, and everything else that's happened during the past three years, Rancid seemed stronger than ever during its show Sunday at the Warfield in San Francisco.

The quartet opened with a solid blast from the past, "Radio" from 1994's "Let's Go," and kept the mosh pit swirling through much of the night. The punkers were obviously glad to be back home, having just completed a lengthy North American tour, and they let it show during the second half of a two-night stand at the venue.

The two opening acts, the South Bay's the Forgotten and the Slackers from New York City, did a great job priming the crowd for the headliner. The Slackers, in particular, proved popular with its peppy, horn-fueled mix of reggae, soul and ska.
Yet this was Rancid's night and the band had the audience in its corner from the start.

The foursome followed "Radio" by tuning into one of its best-known songs, "Time Bomb" from 1995's "And Out Come the Wolves." The number was an explosive piece of accessible punk rock, one of the band's many tunes that strongly recall the Clash.

Armstrong was in fine form, singing in that inexplicable British-by-way-of-Berkeley accent of his, and Frederiksen made his leads twist in cobra-like fashion.

Armstrong also provided some highlights on rhythm guitar, notably on the local punker anthem "Journey to the End of the East Bay," and Steineckert made a good first impression on the home crowd with his steady work on "You Don't Care Nothin'" and numerous other offerings.

Of course, no musician came up bigger on this night than Freeman.

Frederiksen called Freeman "the greatest (expletive) bassist on the planet Earth" — and that's not stretching it as far as one might think. Still, a more accurate label would be "the greatest (expletive) bassist in punk rock."

Freeman once again made jaws drop by playing the type of bass leads that you otherwise don't hear from punk bands. They're heard in prog rock, yes, and in jazz fusion — but the only time they happen in punk is when Freeman is on stage.

The bassist made even the slam dancers stop and pay attention with his stand-out lead on "Maxwell Murder," the lead track from "Wolves." Mostly, however, he worked within the structure of the songs and provided the gas needed to keep Rancid's engine running at such high speeds.

Before there was Rancid, there was Operation Ivy. Both Freeman and Armstrong were members of that highly influential East Bay punk band, which broke up in 1989.

That fact isn't offered as a history lesson — it sets the stage for this show's highlight.

The fans couldn't believe their good fortune when former Operation Ivy frontman Jesse Michaels joined Rancid for a raucous version of the old Ivy number "Unity."

We haven't heard much from Michaels in recent years, at least not since his band Common Rider broke up in 2003. That's a shame. In the course of one single song, Michaels made a convincing case that he's still one of the most engaging vocalists in all of punk rock.

The rest of the set was hardly a letdown.

Rancid kept right on firing away with such stellar selections as the title track to 1998's "Life Won't Wait," which closed the main set.

The band returned with a mighty encore that featured a surprisingly enjoyable acoustic version of the "Indestructible" hit "Fall Back Down" and a barroom-style sing-along of the "Wolves" number "Ruby Soho."

When all was said and done, Rancid was only onstage for roughly one hour.

A band doesn't need length when it has depth. And this concert was deep with great punk rock songs.



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