Tim Armstrong

A Poet's Life

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Hold On
Wake Up
Into Action (featuring Skye Sweetnam)
Translator (broken link)
Take This City
Inner City Violence
Oh No
Lady Demeter
Among The Dead
Cold Blooded

Videos from the DVD are also available for viewing at Hellcat's Youtube page.

Bio

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Tim Armstrong was born in Oakland, CA November 25 in 1966. He is the youngest of three brothers. As a child, Armstrong met Matt Freeman while playing Little League Baseball in California at age 5. Freeman became one of his best friends and the bass player for Rancid. Armstrong and Freeman grew up together in Albany, California. Embracing punk culture during high school, Armstrong's favorite bands were the Clash and the Ramones. Armstrong was quoted in 'Maximum Rancid - The Unauthorized Biography Of Rancid', that: "If it wasn't for the Ramones, Rancid would have never become a band." After the demise of his first locally (and later internationally) successful band, Operation Ivy, Armstrong suffered from alcoholism, and eventually became homeless.^[1] During this time, Freeman suggested the two start a band together, partially in hopes of curbing Armstrong's alcohol addiction. Armstrong began writing songs that would appear on their first

Born November 25, 1966

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Timothy Lockwood Armstrong (born November 25, 1966) is an influential American musician and songwriter best known for his work with punk rock bands Rancid, Operation Ivy, Dance Hall Crashers, and Transplants. He is also the owner and operator of Hellcat Records.