To expand on
VAXGeek's comment,
Operation Ivy's Lint (
Tim Armstrong) and Matt (real name
Matt Freeman) now form the
nucleus of the very much alive
punk band
Rancid. They
reminisce about their
OpIV days with the tune "
Journey to the End of the East Bay" on their 1995 album
And Out Come the Wolves. OpIV's glory days ran from about 1987 to 1989.
On a personal note, I did not encounter OpIV's music until something like 1996. Suffice it to say that I consider my life prior to listening to their music to have been much darker and emptier than it could have been had I been a little more with it in my youth.