The Lookouts

Everybody in rock & roll has to start somewhere, and though the short-lived California punk band the Lookouts didn't make much of a dent in their day, they turned out to be the launching pad for two important figures in American punk. In 1985, Larry Livermore (born Lawrence Hayes) was a guy in his late twenties who had developed a strong interest in punk rock and played guitar, but had a hard time putting together a band; he was living in a remote community in Northern California that didn't even have telephone service, and the few people in the area with an interest in music ...