[5][6] The record also became the blueprint for the nascent pop punk genre, with a legion of bands and fans alike citing it as influential.

[7] After the pressing plant they got to press their split EP with local band The Ozzfish Experience filed for bankruptcy and kept the master tapes, the group scrapped the EP and tensions grew between bassist Vinnie Bovine and the other members.

[8] Vocalist Ben Weasel later said that Bovine and his personal problems "made the band a living hell" and the other members fired him in early 1988.

[8] The Ozzfish Experience broke up around the same time, so Bovine was replaced by their guitarist/vocalist Warren Fischer (renamed simply "Fish").

However, they then met Dave Best, a man who was starting his own record label and wanted Weasel and guitarist Jughead to help him run it.

While in Berkeley, the band made friends with many of the people from the Gilman Street Project, including the members of Operation Ivy, Crimpshrine and Lookout Records owner Larry Livermore.

at Solid Sound Studio in October with Weasel and Jughead handling production duties.