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  BLATZ 924 Gilman St. Project
Gilman is a legendary Punk venue locate on yes, Gilman Street in Berkeley It is based on volunteer work and its the users who run it.
Gilman is probably one of the best examples of a successful working collective were all workers have influences on the decisions taken.
Gilman is a place for independent music, and band on major labels or with distribution through a major aren'nt allowed to play.
www.geocities.com /dlc2.geo/gilman.html   (666 words)

  
 the 924 Gilman Street Project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The 924 Gilman Street Project a.k.a the 'Alternative Music Foundation', is an all-ages, non-profit, collectively organized music and performance venue.
It is located in North Berkeley, about 1 1/2 miles from the North Berkeley BART station, at the corner of 8th St. and Gilman.
It's entitled "924 Gilman: The Story So Far." Compiled by Brian Edge and published by MAXIMUMROCKNROLL, it is available here at the club during shows for $15, or you can mailorder it $20 ppd in the USA, $25 ppd to the World.
www.924gilman.org   (167 words)

  
 924 Gilman Street - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Starting out in 1986, 924 Gilman Street is one of the United States' longest running independent music venues.
A 924 Gilman Street member (which is anyone who attends shows), has the ability to make decisions and work for the improvement of the club as a whole.
The club is intended to be a violence-, alcohol- and drug-free environment (although punk idol Jello Biafra suffered a broken leg when attacked in the club in 1994).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/924_Gilman_Street   (397 words)

  
 WireTap Magazine - 924 Gilman Street   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
924 Gilman Street is one of the United States' longest running independent music venues.
Gilman isn't just some club where you come to be a spectator.
Gilman is not limited to music, and does other events like art shows and movie nights.
www.alternet.org /wiretap/17081   (1941 words)

  
 Berkeley Parents Network: 924 Gilman
Most of the kids who go to Gilman are there because they want to hear the music, which is mostly punk music, which means you see a lot of punk attire.
Gilman Street Project's goal is straightforward: to provide a a nonracist, nonsexist, nonhomophobic, nonviolent, drug- and alcohol-free environment for Berkeley youths.
She did go to the Gilman club for the first time this weekend and apparently loved it.
parents.berkeley.edu /recommend/places/gilman.html   (719 words)

  
 SF Gate: Bay Area Traveler: East Bay Neighborhoods: Berkeley's Gilman Street, Westbrae and Northbrae   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Berkeley's Gilman Street starts at the I-80 freeway, heading east through a historically low-rent area where the heavy industry and auto shops have been joined by some wonderful businesses.
Up the street is a park connected to the middle school, with tennis courts, play areas, a swimming pool and a track; and finally a nice branch library housed in a lovely Julia Morgan building.
Pyramid Brewery: One minute you're on Gilman St., stuck behind a 30-year-old VW Bug with an "arms are for hugging" bumper sticker, looking at a bunch of punked-out teenagers outside 924 Gilman St.; the next, merely by stepping inside the huge Pyramid brewery/pub/restaurant, you've been transported to Wisconsin.
www.sfgate.com /traveler/guide/eastbay/neighborhoods/gilman.shtml   (4376 words)

  
 924 Gilman
The original PA was bought/ made before Gilman opened and I tried to make it work since we didn't have any funds.
Gilman was started by Tim Yohannon (who died from cancer).
There are a few more key players without whom Gilman would have never survived : Pat Wright, an all around rabblerouser and John Hart, the guy who dealt with all of the really ugly stuff...the Bureaucracy.
www.sanfranciscoaudio.com /Gilman.html   (429 words)

  
 ! UPRISE MUSIC FESTIVAL - 2006 !   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
First, it will serve as a music hall for all ages concerts, booked and run similar to the model used by 924 Gilman Street (http://www.924gilman.org/) in Berkeley, California.
924 Gilman is the infamous volunteer-run venue where NOFX made their debut, and it is one of the oldest and most successful all ages venues in the world.
Recently MaximumRocknRoll, an equally notable punk-rock stand-by, has published a full-length book on the history of the 924 Gilman Street project (available through AK Press), complete with an entire listing of past shows to date.
www.uprisefest.ca /press.html   (677 words)

  
 Gilman Street - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gilman Street (機利文街) is a street in Central on the Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong.
The section between Des Voeux Road Central and Connaught Road Central is a bus terminus, and the older section, south of Des Voeux Road Central, is largely shorten due to the construction of the skyscraper The Centre.
For a street in parallel, Gilman's Bazaar, its name in Chinese is 機利文新街 (Kei Li Man San Kai) means a new street of the Gilman Street.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gilman_Street   (151 words)

  
 Punk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Gilman Street, the pride of the East Bay punk scene, exists in an industrial wasteland, an oasis of urban ugliness in upscale Berkeley, where nobody would have dreamed of opening a rock club a decade ago unless he 1) didn't have any better options, and/or 2) wanted nothing to do with mainstream culture.
As Arnold's story unfolds, Hart's, a successful microbrewer, wants to move in across the street from the club, and the Gilman punks see the writing on the wall: Hart's represents the encroachment of mainstream culture just as surely as the AandR scouts who showed up to try to sign Green Day several years ago.
After all her travels, Arnold has stumbled upon a microcosm of the American punk experience in the '90s, a scene on the verge of being overrun by commercial interests, the termination of a unique set of circumstances that made Gilman Street possible.
www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/music/97/12/11/PUNK.html   (1268 words)

  
 Lycos Zoeken: GILMAN
924 gilman street is a all ages volunteer run club.
Gilman School is an independent day school of 970 boys in pre-first through grade 12.
Gilman strives to attract students from diverse ethnic, religious and...
zoek.lycos.nl /cgi-bin/pursuit?query=GILMAN   (240 words)

  
 924 Gilman Street - Berkeley, CA, 94710 - Citysearch
Gilman Street Project's goal is straightforward: to provide a non-racist, non-sexist, non-homophobic, nonviolent, drug- and alcohol-free environment for Berkeley youths.
To attend shows, patrons have to pay $2 to become a member (good for a year) before seeing a show, plus the door charge.
Know Before You Go Gilman is alcohol-free, so save some cash and go for the music.
sanfrancisco.citysearch.com /profile/11345116   (154 words)

  
 Tre Cool
The first release on Larry Livermore's influential Berkley-based label, which would become the home of Green Day as well as fellow Gilman Street residents Operation Ivy and the Mr T Experience, was One Planet One People.
Tre added his own contribution to the polemic with his lyrics to the scathing 'The Mushroom Is Exploding': "All the government is achieving is a one-way ticket to hell." 924 Gilman Street is not much to look at.
The beauty of Gilman Street is that it is inclusive-anyone can join the club if they cah raise the buck membership fee.
members.tripod.com /~Suffocate102/tre.html   (609 words)

  
 KRUCOFF.COM
It took a meccan pilgrimage to Gilman Street in March '93, the first time I ever set foot in CA, while on spring break during my senior year of college to finally come to terms with it.
This is not a romanticization of the era; there was a lot of crap music too and I was an outsider by about 3000 miles, but these are often the little speaker cracks that shape the years bridging teenager and college graduate.
Related: South of Gilman Street - comprehensive streaming radio station of the Gilman scene and beyond with awesome request feature, Sewer Trout - Songs About Drinking [Lookout], "Sleep, What's That?" [Sac], and TOP Music #1 "Lest We Forget"
krucoff.com /archives/2004/dec/121304.html   (420 words)

  
 eastbayexpress.com - News
There's a meeting this afternoon at 924 Gilman Street, the punk collective where he has served as secretary for the last decade, but he has to go out and knock on doors instead, because Jesse Luscious is running for Berkeley City Council.
After moving to Berkeley from Philadelphia at age eighteen, he got a crash course in mediation on the numerous occasions the kids of 924 Gilman mobilized to protect their club's existence amid police crackdowns and a 1999 attempt by neighboring DiCon Fiberoptics to shut it down.
In that case, it was 1995, and the Gilman crew was feeling threatened by new neighbor, the Pyramid Brewery.
www.eastbayexpress.com /issues/2004-09-15/news/cityside.html   (890 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/3078685
I became a member of the Gilman Street Wherehouse about a Month and a 1/2 Before the 1st show, Circa November, 1986 when it was still in the "Planning Stages".
The Gilman Street Wherehouse was More than just a venue, it was/became more than just a venue a place to see bands play at really.
924 Gilman is now the longest running volunteer ran punk venue in the World.
profile.myspace.com /index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=3078685   (1240 words)

  
 Green Day Biography
The beauty of Gilman Street is that it is inclusive--anyone can join the club if they can raise the buck membership fee.
Their live dates were selling out and even Gilman Street was becoming too small too small a venue to accommodate their fans.
The Gilman Street scene recently attracted adverse publicity when the neo-punks turned vigilante at a show by former Dead Kennedy and political ne'er-do-well Jello Biafra.
gdbio.tripod.com   (13750 words)

  
 Keikaku : Features : Ging Nang Boyz @ 924 Gilman St. live
Ironically, the Ging Nang Boyz weren't at 924 Gilman Street to perform.
Gilman fostered the scene that gave birth to Green Day, Operation Ivy, Crimpshrine, Lookout Records, and so much more.
This band that could easily sell out a club of hundreds or even thousands was giving their all to a crowd of about sixty.
www.keikaku.net /features/67   (601 words)

  
 The Daily Californian
A few things are seemingly nonexistent at Berkeley's 924 Gilman Street: polo shirts, alcohol (by rule), audience members older than 23, and maybe most of all, pianos.
The quintessential punk rock club, the Gilman emphatically embraces the mediocre three's-bands consisting of drums, guitar, and bass, and three-chord combos strummed over and over and over...
The 90 Day Men play tonight at Bottom of the Hill, 1233 17th St., San Francisco, and tomorrow night at 924 Gilman St. Tickets are $8 for tonight's show and $5 for tomorrow night's show.
www.dailycal.org /sharticle.php?id=8037   (313 words)

  
 gilman_bum - Bryan Jason Witting - Pictures
He has a quirky sense of humor, so if he’s trying to get you to laugh, be aware that you can’t always predict what he might do, of course nothing too outlandish, but you never really know.
Additionally, his smoking sometimes gets him high, also he drinks sometimes, usually when they’re at a gig (all the time back at Gilman Street).
They had been trying to play ay 924 Gilman Street, the center of Punk Rock in Berkeley, CA, but had been told “they weren’t punk enough.” Their new drummer gave them some street credit, as he had been in a band that had performed at Gilman before, and they were allowed to play.
www.greatestjournal.com /userinfo.bml?user=gilman_bum   (1157 words)

  
 Citizen Punk -- In These Times
In 1991, Townley became secretary at 924 Gilman Street, the legendary cooperatively run venue where hundreds of Bay Area punk bands got their start.
Working at Gilman provided him with experience doing nonprofit work, handling business matters, adhering to community standards and dealing with business leaders and various departments in the local government.
Working at Gilman certainly had its share of responsibility—but being an all-ages, volunteer-run collective, we basically taught ourselves to deal with responsibility.
www.inthesetimes.com /site/main/article/citizen_punk   (1010 words)

  
 Grateful Dead Family Discography: Bay Area Venues
The Deaf Club on Valencia Street was, for a brief 18 month period from the end of 1978 to the Summer of 1980, a punk rock club.
In the early 1980's the building, at 1805 Geary Street, that was formerly the Fillmore Auditorium was a rock club called the Elite Club.
New George's, on Fourth Street in San Rafael, was one of the major rock venues in Marin County during the 1990's.
www.deaddisc.com /GDFD_Venues.htm   (6593 words)

  
 sfweekly.com - News
924 Gilman (at Ninth Street), Berkeley, (510) 525-9926 and gilmanbooking@hotmail.com for more information.
This restaurant screens foreign films, usually in 35mm, on the back wall of its outdoor patio, with drive-in speakers available for the tables of those who want to watch while they dine.
A "guerrilla screening" at the 16th Street BART station follows.
www.sfweekly.com /issues/2003-01-08/repsetc.html   (715 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Other influences would be the "thrash and drang" of the Bay Area's alternative music culture percolating throughout the eighties.
Clubs such as Mabuhay Gardens and Berkeley's 924 Gilman Street regularly showcased local groups like the Dead Kennedys and Buck Naked.
As Green Day, they recorded their first EP, 1,000 Hours, in two days when they were 17 and seniors in high school.
www.freespaces.com /gdnet/BandBio.html   (810 words)

  
 WONKAvision Online
924 Gilman, or “The Alternative Music Project,” strives to provide a space free of violence, alcohol, and drugs.
The space was intended for music for all ages surely, but also as a collective for social activism and as a center for the community.
After the show was shut down and the art confiscated, thanks to much ink and media coverage, the city was forced to negotiate with the artists and supply them with a storefront and basement space at 156 Rivington Street.
www.wonkavisionmagazine.com /diyvenuesfeature.htm   (1919 words)

  
 eastbayexpress.com - Best Of
But in punk rock, elitism is really the exception to the rule; since this scene grounds itself in its populist sensibility, it's ultimately about letting everyone get in where she fits in.
Volunteer-run, all-ages, drug-free, staunchly not-for-profit, and committed to giving unsigned bands a chance, 924 Gilman is one of the few venues where you can go and represent your punky, funky self.
In addition to its stable of hardcore and thrash acts, Gilman showcases a lot of rare and unusual performers: potty-mouthed comedians, Los Angeles-raised ninjas...
eastbayexpress.com /bestof/award.php?oid=oid:162835&...&year=2006   (228 words)

  
 LUNGFISH IN OAKLAND, CA @ 924 GILMAN STREET (17/05/2003)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
I had only listened to their Rainbows From Atoms cd and, though impressed by Daniel Higgs poetry, was a little turned off by the repetitive nature of the music.
The show at 924 Gilman left me with an unparalelled feeling of awe and inspiration.
I was nearly kicked, was spat upon and even a little bruised by Mr.
users.telenet.be /fugazi/lungfish_report7.htm   (270 words)

  
 924 Gilman Street
924 Gilman Street is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
Their album attracted some attention, and Tré began performing at an early age at the Berkeley, California punk rock all-ages venue 924 Gilman Street.
At the age of 12, Tre Cool became a member of the band The Lookouts.
www.experiencefestival.com /924_gilman_street   (1075 words)

  
 Green Day - Free Music Downloads, Videos, Lyrics, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
The record attracted some fans in the Bay area, so before long, the pubescent Tre Cool found himself playing gigs at 924 Gilman Street, a punk club located in an industrial section of Berkeley.
Gilman Street, the home of the East Bay punk-rock underground, was an all-ages club run by a volunteer staff; all bookings were handled by a committee and show promotion was done mostly via recorded phone messages.
Back in Rodeo, Billie Joe and Mike finally got around to forming a band of their own in 1987, with the former on lead vocals and guitar and the latter on bass and backing vocals.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,421234,00.html   (1455 words)

  
 South Of Gilman St.
South of Gilman St., an mp3 streaming/internet radio site dedicated to the music that put the Bay Area punk scene and the Gilman St. Project on the map.
The liner notes from the seminal Turn It Around 2x7" really captures what Gilman St. is about.
Why the people of gilman st are supposed to hate green day because they signed a major label??
gilman.duckpond.net   (771 words)

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