Lawrence Hayes (born October 28, 1947), better known by his stage name Larry Livermore, is an American singer, musician, record producer, and author, best known as the co-founder of

Lookout Records Lookout Records (stylized as Lookout! Records) was an independent record label, initially based in Laytonville, California and later in Berkeley, California, Berkeley, focusing on punk rock. Established in 1987, the label is best known for having ...

Biography

In 1977, Hayes began to attend punk rock shows in the San Francisco bay area. He soon adopted the "punk rock name" Larry Livermore, an allusion to the

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, a nuclear research and development facility in

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, run by the

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. In 1984, he founded '' Lookout'' magazine, based in Laytonville, California, and continued to publish it until 1995. In 1985, he formed the Lookouts, a punk-rock band whose 12-year-old drummer, Tre Cool, later went on to play for

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. The Lookouts recorded two LPs, ''

One Planet One People ''One Planet One People'' is the debut studio album by the American punk rock band The Lookouts. It was released in 1987 through Lookout! Records and was the first ever release on the label. ''One Planet One People'' is the first recording featuri ...

'' and '' Spy Rock Road'', and two EPs, '' Mendocino Homeland'' and ''IV'', between 1985 and 1990, with Livermore playing guitar and singing. In 1987, with his friend David Hayes (no relation), he co-founded

, which released gold and platinum-selling albums by

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and

, as well as scores of releases from other artists. Many of the bands on Lookout were associated with

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, a nonprofit, volunteer-run punk-rock club based in Berkeley, California. David Hayes left the label at the end of 1989 to establish a label of his own,

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. Larry Livermore continued as president and principal owner of Lookout Records until he retired in 1997. In 1992, Livermore,

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, and Patrick Hynes formed the Potatomen, a pop band that has released two albums, ''Now'' and ''Iceland'', two EPs, ''On the Avenue'' and ''All My Yesterdays'', and a split EP, ''The Beautiful and Damned/The Day I Said Goodbye'', with the Canadian band Cub. From 1987 until 1994, Livermore was a columnist for ''

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'' magazine, and from 1994 to 2007 wrote a monthly column for ''

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'' magazine. Livermore had a scene report column on East Bay's punk zine

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. He was also a contributor to the ''

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'', Janelle Hessig's zine ''Tales of Blarg'', and the seminal

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zine ''Homocore''. In 2008, quarterly periodical ''Verbicide Magazine'' began publishing his column, titled "Beneath the BQE". Livermore's first column for Verbicide appears in issue 23. Livermore released his first book, ''Spy Rock Memories'', on Don Giovanni Records in 2013. He released his second book, ''How to Ru(i)n a Record Label: The Story of Lookout Records'', in 2015.

Discography

With The Lookouts

* ''One Planet One People'' (LP, Lookout Records, 1987) * ''Spy Rock Roads'' (LP, Lookout Records, 1989) * ''Mendocino Homeland'' (EP, Lookout Records, 1989) * ''IV'' (EP, Lookout Records, 1989) * ''Spy Rock Roads and Other Stories'' (Don Giovanni Records, Lookout Records, 2015)

With The Potatomen

* ''On the Avenue'' (EP, Lookout Records, 1989) * ''Now'' (LP, Lookout Records, 1995) * ''The Beautiful and Damned/The Day I Said Goodbye'' (Split EP with Cub, Lookout Records, 1995) * ''All My Yesterdays'' (EP, Lookout Records, 1996) * ''Iceland'' (LP, Lookout Records, 1997)

Footnotes

External links

Larry Livermore's BlogLarry Livermore at DiscogsReview of Larry Livermore's book "Spy Rock Memories" – Rocker Magazine 2013
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