Summers played guitar on Sting’s album …Nothing Like the Sun (1987)
Headon recorded a solo album Waking Up but was imprisoned in 1987 for drug-related offences.
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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Burke, who briefly replaced Richie in the Ramones in 1987
They were featured on Channel 4 TV show The Tube in 1987, although they were largely ignored by the British music weeklies, and played with Joe Strummer on the Rock Against Rich UK tour in 1988.
Aside from the concept of “All”, other songs on the album such as “Coolidge”, “Pep Talk”, and “Clean Sheets” dealt with themes of broken relationships, while “Iceman” was loosely based on the play The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O’Neill . The album was released through SST Records , who had…
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In early 1987, Cobain and Novoselic recruited drummer Aaron Burckhard .
In January 1987, Sears returned to Dag Nasty and was replaced by Brendan Canty, formerly of Rites of Spring . One day, Picciotto, Canty’s Rites of Spring bandmate, dropped by during a practice session to see how his friend was getting along; he later admitted he secretly harbored the idea…
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Operation Ivy’s first live performance was on May 27, 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.
The original lineup splintered after a period of touring, and singer and core member Shatter died on December 9, 1987, of a drug overdose after forming A3I. Subterranean packaged the band’s singles and rarities as the 1988 collection Sex Bomb Baby . The cassette edition and later CD re-releases featured…
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