Tim Yohannan (spell it right!) was Maximum Rocknroll’s founder. He died on April 3, 1998, at the age of 52. Read more about Tim in the links and comments below. If you have any more photos of Tim or links we can share, please send them to
Young Timmy (photo courtesy of Tim’s brother, Tom Yohannan)
Tim Yo mural by Ariel Awesome and Julia Booze at Gilman, 2006
Article from Another Room magazine ca. 1981
Tim at MRR HQ, 1987 (courtesy of David Hayes)
Tim with Gilman punx 1987
“How to get into MRR” Tim with Grant Hart 1983 (photo by Murray Bowles)
Tim and Martin at MRR house 1987
Tim Yo (from 924 Gilman’s website)
Tim Yo (taken from Mike Lavella’s website)
Tim and Jeff — MRR Radio on the air at KPFA, Berkeley 1982 (photo by Dale Stewart)
“How to get into MRR” Tim with Grant Hart 1983 (photo by Murray Bowles)
Tim Yo (from DocPatcheko on flickr)
Tim Yohannan at Epicenter SF, 1992 (photo by Helge Schreiber)
from Another Room magazine ca. 1981
Jeff and Tim at Eastern Front, Berkeley 1981 (photo by Erik Meade)
“How to get into MRR” Tim Yo with Grant Hart, 1983 (photo by Murray Bowles)
“Tim and the Gang” of MRR Radio at KPFA 1979 (photo by Mark Berlin)
Tim on MRR Radio, ca. 1981
(photo by Murray Bowles, taken from Lawrence Livermore’s website)
Tim with members of Adrenaline OD at MRR house in Berkeley, 1984
Tim and Martin as skinheads, at Gilman (photo by Murray Bowles)
Picture of Tim on 924 Gilman’s basketball backstop, 2006
Tim Yohannan at Epicenter, 1992 (photo by Helge Schreiber)
Tim and Martin at Gilman, ca. 1993 (courtesy of David Hayes)
Tim Yo, Murray Bowles, and hella Gilman punx (photo by Murray, somehow)
Martin interviewing Tim for Leading Edge zine at the MRR house in Oakland
(photo by Tom Yohannan)
Video!
George Tabb’s IRON PROSTATE playing “Bring Me the Head of Jerry Garcia” live at CBGB. Special introduction by the late, great Tim Yohannan…
Links: Tim Yo’s Wikipedia page
Our Tim Yohannan Facebook page A nice piece about a Fresno punk’s times with Tim and MRR, by Dale Stewart. A reminiscence from Mike Lavella of Gearhead zine Obituary by Aaron Cometbus, from Slingshot magazine
And another, from Salon.com (yeah, another one with his name spelled wrong)
An interview with Tim from Tilt! zine (thanks Brob!)
A memorial site/message board type thing, set up on the day Tim passed away. Lots to read and laugh and cry about.
And (WTF?) an obit in Rolling Stone!
[And again, for the record, it’s spelled Tim Yohannan, not Tim Yohannon!]
5 responses to “Tim Yo”
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Rotten Ron (16:50:38) :
It took years for me to warm up to Tim Yo. You know there was that whole fuck MRR and there pc nazi hunting bullshit. Dogging the Fuck Ups, FUs!!?? But I did tape that radio show alot and got turned on to some trippy shit. Who did that song “you’re just a tool used by the klan” Anyway he put my shitty super un pc band on his top ten which got a good review?!!!? Later I met one of my most bested friend Marian Anderson(RIP XXX000) who we started a crazy band together. Tim and Marian had a long sorted thingy and he came to all are shows and was an awesome dude. Remember I was at a show at Paradise Lounge Tim Yo and Wendy O were both dead. Me and my friends cried and got shitfaced and smashed it up. I cherish my brief talks with him like when I ate french onion soup with him and Jon Von and others. Marian had a little shrine with his hat and cigar up at her place in LA that I and my girl then lived with at the time. When she died I think her evil mom threw out his things like trash. HATE HER. Well blah blah blah….MISS YOU TIM!
i did not say\holy shnikes!mrr online?write me if anything happens\,on the mrr comment board.its some fraudelent hacker person,and has nothing whatsoever to do with me,the real bobby madness,who would say something more like\so fucking what,i dont give a shit if mrr is on the roof blowing hookers\
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Katy Odell (15:26:46) :
My God, watching that video made me choke up. I don’t know when that was taken, but it’s exactly how I remember Tim. I didn’t think I’d ever hear his voice and see him talk, again.
Also, I can totally smell his cigarettes, again, just watching that. Love it. Thank you.
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It took years for me to warm up to Tim Yo. You know there was that whole fuck MRR and there pc nazi hunting bullshit. Dogging the Fuck Ups, FUs!!?? But I did tape that radio show alot and got turned on to some trippy shit. Who did that song “you’re just a tool used by the klan” Anyway he put my shitty super un pc band on his top ten which got a good review?!!!? Later I met one of my most bested friend Marian Anderson(RIP XXX000) who we started a crazy band together. Tim and Marian had a long sorted thingy and he came to all are shows and was an awesome dude. Remember I was at a show at Paradise Lounge Tim Yo and Wendy O were both dead. Me and my friends cried and got shitfaced and smashed it up. I cherish my brief talks with him like when I ate french onion soup with him and Jon Von and others. Marian had a little shrine with his hat and cigar up at her place in LA that I and my girl then lived with at the time. When she died I think her evil mom threw out his things like trash. HATE HER. Well blah blah blah….MISS YOU TIM!
holy shnikes!mrr online!?i dont believe it!do me a favor and call me if anything interesting happens
i did not say\holy shnikes!mrr online?write me if anything happens\,on the mrr comment board.its some fraudelent hacker person,and has nothing whatsoever to do with me,the real bobby madness,who would say something more like\so fucking what,i dont give a shit if mrr is on the roof blowing hookers\
My God, watching that video made me choke up. I don’t know when that was taken, but it’s exactly how I remember Tim. I didn’t think I’d ever hear his voice and see him talk, again.
Also, I can totally smell his cigarettes, again, just watching that. Love it. Thank you.
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