In 1988 after a short European Tour, founding member Kim Kane departed to focus on his band Date Bait.
Anti-Flag was originally formed in 1988 by Justin Sane and Pat Thetic. Various guitarists and bassists joined and left the band during the band’s early years, including Sane’s sister, Lucy Fester, who was formerly part of the Chicago band Toothpaste. The band failed to solidify and disbanded after performing in…
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The group’s first live performance took place on October 17, 1987, at Rod’s Hickory Pit in Vallejo, California .
In September, Marky, now clean and sober, returned to the band.
Richie left in August 1987 after financial conflicts with Johnny that centered around him being refused a small percentage of the merchandising money, which had been requested based on his tenure with the band and their use of his name and image.
Richie was replaced by Clem Burke from Blondie , which was disbanded at the time. According to Johnny, the performances with Burke—who adopted the name Elvis Ramone—were a disaster. He was fired after two performances (August 28 and 29, 1987) because his drumming could not keep up with the rest…
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The album was themed around the concept of “All”, which had been invented by Stevenson and friend Pat McCuistion during a fishing trip on Stevenson’s boat Orca in 1980. According to singer Milo Aukerman : “While drinking all this coffee in the midst of catching mackerel they came up with…
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In 1987, guitarist friends Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt, both 15 years old at the time, along with bassist Sean Hughes and drummer Raj Punjabi, a fellow student from Pinole Valley High School , formed the band Desecrated Youth and played together in Punjabi’s house garage in Rodeo, California…
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Burke, who briefly replaced Richie in the Ramones in 1987
One week later, on Stevenson’s birthday of September 10, Stephen Egerton and Karl Alvarez moved from Salt Lake City to fill the vacant guitar and bass positions. All was recorded in January 1987 at Radio Tokyo studios in Venice, California , with recording engineer Richard Andrews and was produced by…
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