Details
Location:
924 Gilman Street in Berkeley, CA
Date:
November 26, 1988
Other Acts:
Twitch (headliner), Raskul, Alter Ego
Notes:
- Sweet Children's first show at Gilman Street
- Larry Livermore: "I remember when you first wanted to play Gilman in 1988 and Tim Yohannan said, "No, you can't, you're not punk, you're a pop band."
- Green Day, Keeping Their Edge: "In the meantime the band concentrated on playing as many shows as they could. On November 26, 1988, one of their dreams became reality. They played a show at Gilman Street. The audience was impressed with their style which combined the passion and attitude of punk with a more melodic approach than most punk rockers used. They were invited back for another gig a little more than a month later..."
- Ben Myers, Green Day: American Idiots & The New Punk Explosion: "But before they could qualify as seasoned road dogs, the still-green Sweet Children achieved their first major goal when they made the leap from audience members to performers at their first ever show at Gilman Street on November 26, 1988. The place was jammed and the local kids who‘d shown the balls to get up on stage were well received – enough to warrant a return invitation..."
- Frank Portman: "I thought they were pretty cool. They were young kids and they were playing in the right place for being young kids. But they were not, at that time, all that exceptional. It's not like you saw them and your head just spun around, and it was like, 'Whoa, this changes everything!' like some people say when they saw The Sex Pistols. Obviously, as they played more and got better, it became clear that people really liked them and that they had something. But the whole point of that scene was people just like that getting on stage and playing music like that, really. I remember thinking, 'oh, this is another pretty cool band of young kids.' But as they started to play more and get more popular, they became a lot of people's favourite local band pretty quickly, because they were good; they put on a fun show, and they had catchy songs, and all the usual reasons why you like to listen to bands."
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