Tim Armstrong

Rancid was my gateway band. I got into them at 10 years old, when I swiped my older brother's copy of “...And Out Come the Wolves,” and by the time their self-titled 2000 album came out, this band had already pulled me one step further into hardcore.

This shot of Tim Armstrong lit up against a packed crowd at the Musink Festival, Orange County Fairgrounds, on March 20, 2015, is where that history and my camera finally met.