— Malcolm Harrisparticipants credit him with passing out the baseball bats the first time Bay Area punks bashed back against skinhead Nazis determined to infiltrate their safe space.27 Besides Green Day—banned at first (under the name Sweet Children) by Tim Yo for being insufficiently punk—the milieu produced bands like Operation Ivy, Jawbreakers, Rancid, NOFX, AFI, and Pansy Division.
Replicated under Fair Use from Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris.