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Operation Ivy – Energy (Staff Pick!)
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Title: Operation Ivy – Energy
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1989, Punk, Ska Punk, Berkeley, CA
Condition: New
Cultural Facts:
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Family Ties: Jesse Michaels and Tim Armstrong grew up in the same East Bay orbit; that pre-band friendship is why the lyrics read like internal scene letters, not “punk slogans.”
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Band Drama: They broke up at their peak partly because they wouldn’t compromise on DIY control—better to end it than become the thing Gilman warned about.
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Scene Ecology: Gilman’s rulebook (all-ages, anti-racist, anti-sexist, no major-label creep) wasn’t a vibe—it was enforcement, and Op Ivy were one of the bands that proved it could scale.
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