Sewer Trout was an influence on Green Day. ST started in Concord, California.  Elmer started in Corvallis, Oregon.

You should've mentioned how David Hayes left after the other founder's love for teenage boys creeped Mr. Hayes out. I remember Jim MacLean (Sewer Trout, Elmer) and I giving that Other Guy a lot of crap before a show (in Olympia I think) which got me kicked out of the house we were staying at. I slept in the van (along…

Don't forget about Harlan Ellison vs. Frank Sinatra. Read "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" by Gay Talese.