Larry Livermore

Larry Livermore was born and raised in Detroit. Following a brief and unrewarding career on the assembly lines of several of that city's auto plants, and an equally unsuccessful stint shoveling coal and and smashing slag at a steel mill on Zug Island, he lit out for the coasts, first New York City, then California, where he would spend most of the next 30 years.

Somehow surviving his involvement with several self-destructive subcultures, he went on to found and run the legendary punk rock label, Lookout Records, edit and publish Lookout magazine, and play guitar and sing for a band called, yes, the Lookouts. All three took their name and inspiration from a mountaintop tower overlooking the off-the-grid wilderness in Northern California where he lived for most of the 1980s.

In addition to his own magazine, Livermore's writing has also appeared in Maximum Rocknroll, Flipside, Punk Planet, Hit List, Cometbus, Homocore, Verbicide, and Absolutely Zippo, and the Boonville-based Anderson Valley Advertiser. After leaving California in 1997, he relocated to London, and subsequently to Brooklyn, where he presently resides. Spy Rock Memories is his first book.