1980s High School Yearbook w TIM ARMSTRONG & MATT FREEMAN ~RANCID ~ "Time Bomb"

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1980's High School annual
with great photographs and text showing the students and faculty, activities and sports, candids and graphics, pictures of school and surrounding. And including graduating seniors and future punk rock band Rancid originators, singer guitarist Tim Armstrong and bass player Matt Freeman. Great pictures and period design, from a small school.
Tim Armstrong
is an American musician, singer, and songwriter,
best known as the front man and guitarist for the punk rock band
Rancid
and hip hop
/punk rock group the
Transplants
. Prior to forming Rancid, Armstrong was in the influential ska punk band
Operation Ivy
. In 1997, he helped
found Hellcat Records
. In 2012, through his website, Armstrong started releasing music that influenced him, along with stripped-down cover songs of his own work under the name
Tim Timebomb.
He has released at least one song per week since late  2012. Armstrong is also a songwriter for other artists. Armstrong won a Grammy Award for his work with Jimmy Cliff and Pink
, and has also worked with Joe Walsh
.
Matt Freeman
is an
A
merican
musician, bass-player, singer and songwriter, best known for his bass
work with the punk rock bands Operation Ivy and Rancid
and as the frontman of
Devil's Brigade
.
Rancid
is credited as one of the bands which revived mainstream interest in punk rock in the
U.S.
during the 1990's.
Over their
28-year career, Rancid remained signed to an
independent record label
and retained much of its original fan-base, most of which was connected to its
underground musical roots.
The band was formed by Tim Armstrong, Matt Freeman (the only constant members) and drummer
Brett Reed
.
To date, Rancid has released nine studio albums, rising to
fame in 1994 with its second studio album,
Let's Go
, featuring the single "Salvation."
Then it released its highly successful album
... And Out Come the Wolves
, which produced its best-known songs "Roots Radicals," "Ruby Soho," and "Time Bomb," which was certified gold and platinum
. Its next five albums –
Life Won't Wait
(1998),
Rancid
(2000),
Indestructible
(2003),
Let the Dominoes Fall
(2009) and
Honor is All We Know
(
2014) – were also critically acclaimed, though not as successful as
...And Out Come the Wolves
. Their most recent studio album,
Trouble Maker
, was released in 2017.
Very Good condition
hardback with tight binding and text and clean pages; with no must or mildew or missing pieces. Clean and Solid.
Great rarity giving a great look at the early life and times of one of the great Rock n Roll originals.
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