Operation Ivy - Energy Toy

Operation Ivy - Energy ToyOperation Ivy "Energy" was the full length album follow up to the "Hectic" EP and features nineteen songs now available again on vinyl for the first time in years. Operation Ivy was a legendary Berkeley, California based 4 piece punk ska band fronted by future Rancid cohorts Tim Armstrong and Matt Freeman who helped create the Gilman street punk scene that also spawned Green Day and AFI.

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which is what gives his music great resonance

The idea was that maybe if there were some recordings of Fred that he could use them to get booked on the nascent college blues-revival circuit

Another technique employed on the album is the heavy use of abrupt endings and segues to a few of the songs

realizing full well that you do have a soul

and the wind moving

arranged and played

to make it more R&B

and Newsom herself — there lies an intimacy seldom achieved

I couldn't help but fall into what might be described as an identity crisis

” and they went on to make a couple of other records before disbanding in the mid-‘70s