r/greenday • u/Ryuodo ¡UNO! • 3d ago

Discussion Cinder Block

I miss when Cinder Block made merchandise for the other bands from that time including Green Day. I hate how they went out of business..

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u/blacbloc77 3d ago

The T-shirts were really good quality as I remember. They weren't ever "in business" I don't think. Cinder told me it was a volunteer run co-op. Don't think they ever made any $$.

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u/Ryuodo ¡UNO! 2d ago

Wait what? Tell me more please

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u/blacbloc77 2d ago

Cinder ran it during the height of the Tilt days. When Tilt was on tour (which was all the time) it was run by volunteers. A lot of stuff in Berkeley was run like that back then. I interviewed her at some point in the late 90s for my zine. She talked a lot about the screen pressing operation.

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u/Ryuodo ¡UNO! 19h ago

What did she say about the screen press operation?

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u/blacbloc77 19h ago

That is was all volunteer run by the Berkeley squatter kids. They did all the shirts and stickers for most of the Gilman bands, and I they worked with Larry from Lookout Records as well I think, Tilt was signed to Lookout at that time, so that made sense.

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u/Ryuodo ¡UNO! 7h ago

I never knew this even was a thing.. wow. Do you know what their symbol symbolizes?