Armstrong helped Frederiksen with his band Lars Frederiksen & the Bastards, while also forming the hip-hop-influenced group Transplants with Rob Aston of Expensive Tastes and Travis Barker of blink-182. While Rancid continued to write and record material at their own pace, several of the members began working on solo projects. And Out Come the Wolves and 1998's Life Won't Wait, were both major commercial and critical successes. However, to the surprise of many, Rancid turned down seven-figure offers from several major labels in favor of the free creative atmosphere at Epitaph, and their next two albums, 1995's. While Rancid's 1993 debut album, released by California indie-punk label Epitaph Records, won little notice outside the Bay Area, their second LP, 1994's Let's Go, earned them a massive reputation in punk circles, especially after they were accorded "next big thing" status by A&R men following the commercial breakthrough of their Epitaph labelmates the Offspring. But in 1991, a newly sober Armstrong and his friend Freeman gave launching a band another try, recruiting drummer Brett Reed and later guitarist Lars Frederiksen to form Rancid. Armstrong developed a serious drinking problem, while Freeman started playing bass for veteran anarchist punks MDC. Internal friction caused Operation Ivy to break up in 1989, and an attempt by Armstrong and Freeman to put together a new band, Downfall, fell apart after a mere three shows in late 1989. While the group lasted a bit less than two years and only released one single and one album, their revved-up fusion of punk and Jamaican sounds made them kings at Northern California's fabled all-aged club 924 Gilman Street. Armstrong and Freeman were also deeply influenced by the British ska revival of the '80s, which had a major impact in California, and in 1987 they formed the influential ska punk band Operation Ivy. Armstrong has also found success writing for other artists including P!ink, Joe Walsh, and Jimmy Cliff, with whom he earned a Grammy Award in 2012 for Best Reggae Album.īorn in Oakland, California, in the fall of 1966, Armstrong was friends since childhood with Matt Freeman, and as teenagers the two became converts to punk rock after seeing the Clash open for the Who in Oakland in 1982. He began releasing stripped-down acoustic songs under the moniker Tim Timebomb in 2012. In addition to his work with Rancid, who released their ninth long-player, Trouble Maker, in 2017, Armstrong fronts the hip-hop/punk supergroup Transplants, and in 2007 he issued his debut solo LP, A Poet's Life. Rancid's vintage, Clash-inspired sound entered the mainstream in 1995 with the release of the platinum-selling. He has collaborated with P!nk, the Aggrolites, Gwen Stefani, Buju Banton, Kelly Osbourne and Skye Sweetnam.One of the key figures of American punk rock in the 1990s and onward, Tim Armstrong is best known as the singer and guitarist with the band Rancid, which he formed in 1991 after the dissolution of the influential ska-punk group Operation Ivy. Israel, Agnostic Front, The Lordz, Time Again and Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards, which is a side-project of his Rancid bandmate Lars Frederiksen. He’s contributed vocals, guitar, songwriting to tracks by bands including Box Car Racer, Cypress Hill, Bad Religion, Stubborn All-Stars, Head Automatica, The Specials, The Matches, Left Alone, NOFX, Fruit Cocktail, H2O, Dr. In addition to his projects, Armstrong has also been known to pop up on others’ albums in various roles. blink-182 drummer Travis Barker later came on to replace the drum machine. While still with Rancid, he also has a side-project, Transplants, which started with Armstrong, his friend “Skinhead Rob” Aston and a drum machine. In 1991 Armstrong went on to greater fame with the very successful Rancid. He was also in Downfall with Matt Freeman (Rancid). Soon thereafter, Armstrong helped found the Dance Hall Crashers, but left the band after a brief period of time. After Basic Radio disbanded, he performed in the ska punk band Operation Ivy under the nickname “Lint” from their beginning in 1987, until they disbanded in 1989. One of the first bands that Tim played in was Basic Radio. Timothy Lockwood Armstrong (born November 25 1966) is an American musician best known for his work with punk rock bands Rancid, Operation Ivy, and Transplants, as well as his record label Hellcat Records.
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