Hey everyone. Fender asked me to do a video for their Artist Check-In series. For every one of these Fender donates to MusiCares for the COVID-19 relief fund. Here’s “Journey to the End of the East Bay.” Thanks for watching. Please stay safe. - Matt | Rancid

A little throwback to early 2000’s @vanswarpedtour . Playing “Journey to the End of the East Bay” with @rancid Coolest part for me, was getting to sing the verse about Operation Ivy. Definitely a cool and surreal moment. @tim_armstrong @larsfrederiksen @mattfreeman and company were always the kindest humans and was an honor to share a summer and the stage with them. *Pardon the tape quality. Phone screen grab of an old VHS of mine. I have over 200 tapes full of shows from our bands inception til

“This song was written about growing up in the East Bay. Writing about the bay area always came easy to us.” -@rancid 📹 “East Bay Night” performed on the shoreline of the San Francisco Bay for @fender | Epitaph Records

402K views · 10K reactions | Via 23punk: This Rancid song is about Operation Ivy, band that two of its members, Tim Armstrong and Matt Freeman, formed in 1987 with Jesse Michaels and Dave Mello. Operation Ivy (1987-1989) actually disbanded because they were becoming too popular, hence the lyric, “Too much attention unavoidably destroyed us.” / Rancid - “Journey to the End of the East Bay” (Warped Tour 03) / #rancid #operationivy #punkrock #skapunk #punk | Punk Press | Facebook