Thanks for the quick response! Much appreciated! There's one more thing that caught my eye: the Lookouts, while much maligned (and often deservedly so), were not exactly "short-lived." We were a band for five and a half years, i.e., more than twice as long as Operation Ivy or Crimpshrine, and put out two full-length…

Oh, looks like Tad beat me to the punch! But I'm serious about the no (!) in Lookout. Please, people, stop doing that. It hurts to look at it.

"By the end of the ’90s, however, Livermore had overextended himself."
By the end of the 90s, I had nothing to do with Lookout, having left the label in April of 1997. I played no part in signing American Steel (a good but derivative band) or the slew of garage-y, artsy, and hipsterish bands that began to characterize…