Matt Freeman

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Let's bring in Matt Freeman, co-founder of Tana Freeman Strategic Communications.

Good morning.

How are you?

He did with Travis Barker.

Matt Freeman was in that band.

So I was just always this big fan and I wasn't worried about like, you know, I was the dude with the Mohawk and shit and they used, so.

I didn't have to change anything about me to join Rancid.

Steve Youth was a fucking great bass player.

Um, of course, any like Tony Lombardo descendants, uh, Carl Alvarez, of course, Matt Freeman, operation Ivy, of course.

Um, but then looking more like heavier stuff, uh, Craig Sitari, when Craig was in Agnostic Front, that red bass and that Sans Am tone, the record live at CBGB's with the combat boots on the cover kicking through the American flag, that record was huge for me because the bass is so mean-sounding on that record.

Because it was a live record, but...

Okay.

It's like fast.

I'll just use Matt Freeman as an example, Matt Freeman influenced intro.

And then the verse is back to like my cord bullshit.

I don't think he's the best by any means.

He's obviously no Matt Freeman or Mike Dern or the dudes from AFI.

But those

guys can never sing and play those lines if they could.

And if you look at the people behind those drums, it’s a lineup that read like a future Rancid Tim Armstrong on vocals and guitar.

Matt Freeman handling the bass, both of whom later carved out huge careers elsewhere.

Tim didn’t stop there.

He’d become the voice of Rancid in nineteen ninety-one, while Matt would join a handful of punk outfits across California, staying true to that DIY ethic they learned with Ivy.

Operation Ivy's frontman Jesse Michaels would later say they never wanted the spotlight so hard that they'd become what it turned out to be, a target.

But for Tim Armstrong and Matt Freeman, the pressure had another flavor.

Their bass lines and guitar hooks were gaining attention from other bands looking to replicate that blend of ska's off-beat bounce with punk's relentless pace.

When Lookout pressed seven inches on Hectic, a single track in two weeks, the label's distributors were already lining up orders across California.

That decision preserved the mythology that they were a band that broke before it could break apart.

Following the breakup, Tim Armstrong quickly began writing new material for a different kind of band.

He and Matt Freeman took what they'd learned from the Energy sessions and started Rancid with drummer Brett Reed in 1990, creating an unmistakable brand of hardcore that had roots deep in their Ivy days.

That was the first real evidence of how one short burst can seed a whole new movement.