Larry Livermore

Larry Livermore
Associated acts	The Lookouts, The Potatomen, Green Day

Lawrence "Larry" Hayes (born October 28, 1947 in Detroit, Michigan), best known by the pseudonym Larry Livermore, is an American musician, record producer, music journalist, and author. He is best known as the co-founder of Lookout Records.

In 1977 Hayes began to attend punk rock shows in the San Francisco bay area. He soon adopted the "punk rock name" "Larry Livermore," an allusion to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a nuclear research and development facility in Livermore, California, run by the University of California.

He founded Lookout magazine, based in Laytonville, California, and continued to publish it until 1995. In 1985 he formed the Lookouts, a punk-rock band whose 12-year-old drummer, Tre Cool, later went on to play for Green Day. The Lookouts recorded two LPs, One Planet One People and Spy Rock Road, and two EPs, Mendocino Homeland and IV, between 1985 and 1990, with Livermore playing guitar and singing.

In 1987, with his friend David Hayes (no relation), he cofounded Lookout Records, which has released records by Operation Ivy, Green Day, Screeching Weasel, The Queers, and scores of other artists. Many of the bands on Lookout were associated with 924 Gilman Street, a nonprofit, volunteer-run punk-rock club based in Berkeley, California. David Hayes left the label at the end of 1989 to establish a label of his own, Very Small Records. Larry Livermore continued as president and principal owner of Lookout Records until he retired in 1997.

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