Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk explores Northern California’s pivotal role in evolution of punk rock - the loud, intense and anti-authoritarian philosophy of music and politics that arose in the late 1970s. Early San Francisco Bay Area punk pioneers like Dead Kennedys, Avengers, and Flipper, as well as the MaximumRocknRoll fanzine, helped take the punk underground global.

As the once-vibrant local scene became wrought with violence, corruption and racism, punks over the bridge in the East Bay responded by creating a fun and inclusive style of punk that also carried on the region’s tradition of radical thought. Banding together around Berkeley’s all-volunteer 924 Gilman club, this diverse collective of misfits created a do-it-yourself, no-spectators petri dish for art & music that changed the Bay Area punk scene… and the world at large.

Today, we know about some of the bands who emerged from this scene, like Green Day and Rancid, but their success is just the tip of the iceberg; the roots of this inspiring story go deep into the underground. Drawing from over 180 interviews, footage from 100s of live shows, and over 35,000 archival photos and flyers, Turn It Around: The Story Of East Bay Punk is told by the people who were there; it’s unlikely beginnings, its struggles and triumphs, and how it continues to be influential today.

Produced & Directed by Corbett Redford

Narrated by Iggy Pop

Written by Corbett Redford & Anthony Marchitiello

Cinematographer/Editor: Greg Schneider

Executive Producers: Pat Magnarella & Green Day

 

Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk includes interviews with past and current members of: The 924 Gilman Street Project, Maximumrocknroll, Lookout Records, White Trash Debutantes, Operation Ivy, Crimpshrine, Yeastie Girlz, Stikky, Samiam, Jawbreaker, Isocracy, Kamala and the Karnivores, Soup, Sweet Baby, Special Forces, Deadly Reign, Christ On Parade, Corrupted Morals, Mr. T Experience, Victims Family, The Lookouts, Monsula, Cringer, Spitboy, Blatz, Filth,
Econochrist, Fifteen, Pinhead Gunpowder, Tilt, Pansy Division, Nuisance, Screeching Weasel, Engage, Boo Hss Pfft, Verbal Abuse, The Vagrants, Schlong, The Gr'ups, The Tourettes, Tribe 8, Kwik Way, Social Unrest, The Tourettes, Insaints, The Contractions, Outpunk, DMR, Psycotic Pineapple, Black Fork, Sawhorse, The Skinflutes, The List, Sacrilege BC, No Dogs, Gag Order and more.

Featuring:

• Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, & Tre Cool (Green Day)
• Tim Armstrong, Matt Freeman & Lars Fredricksen (Rancid)
• Dave Edwardson, Scott Kelly, & Noah Landis (Neurosis)
• Michael Franti (Spearhead, The Beatnigs)
• Miranda July (Film Director, Author, Performer)
• Kevin “Noodles” Wasserman (Offspring)
• Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill, The Julie Ruin)
• Brett Gurewitz & Jay Bentley (Bad Religion)
• Fat Mike (NOFX)
• Silas Howard (Tribe 8, Film and Television Director)
• Kirk Hammett (Metallica)
• Duff McKagan (Guns N' Roses)
• Davey Havok (AFI)
• Larry Lalonde (Primus)
• Ginger Coyote (White Trash Debutantes, Punk Globe Magazine)
• Jim Thiebaud (REAL Skateboards, Bones Brigade)
• Jello Biafra & East Bay Ray (Dead Kennedys)
• Penelope Houston (Avengers)
• Ian Mackaye (Fugazi, Minor Threat)
• Ted Falconi & Stephen DePace (Flipper)
• Winston Smith (Influential SF collage artist)
• Kevin Seconds (7 Seconds)
• Sammytown & Tom Flynn (Fang)
• Metal Mike (Angry Samoans)
• Dave Dictor (MDC)
• Gary Floyd (The Dicks)
• Dick Lucas (Subhumans
• Prairie Prince, Rog Prairie Prince, Roger Steen & Rick Anderson (The Tubes)er Steen & Rick Anderson (The Tubes)