Editing 1,000 Hours (section)

==Signing and recording==
During one house party, Sweet Children were brought to the attention of [[Larry Livermore]], who operated the local [[zine]] ''Lookout''.<ref>Spitz 2010, p. 51</ref> [[Lookout Records]] spun off from the publication, though originally planned to only release material from Livermore's band [[the Lookouts]].<ref name=Spitz52>Spitz 2010, p. 52</ref>{{#tag:ref|The Lookouts' drummer was [[Tré Cool]],<ref>Myers 2006, p. 45</ref> who had been playing with them since he was 12.<ref name=Spitz52/> At age 16, Cool was a regular of the Gilman scene, going to parties and playing with various acts.<ref>Spitz 2010, pp. 55–56</ref> Through this, he became familiar with Armstrong and Dirnt.<ref>Spitz 2010, p. 56</ref> When Kiffmeyer left Green Day to focus on college, Cool joined the band in late 1990.<ref>Myers 2006, pp. 67, 68</ref>|group="nb"}} Sometime later, he signed Sweet Children after they played a show with the Lookouts. Livermore was confident that before they ended the first track of their set that he wanted to make an album with them.<ref name=Spitz63/>

Livermore acknowledged that they were poppier than their contemporaries acts from Gilman: "But I thought the songs and the performances were so good that they deserved to be captured on vinyl ..."<ref name=Spitz63>Spitz 2010, p. 63</ref> Sweet Children recorded their debut EP, ''1,000 Hours'', at the Art of Ears Studio in San Francisco, California, in early 1989. [[Andy Ernst]] co-produced the proceedings with the band; he worked with fellow Lookout act Corrupted Morals prior to the session. Reportedly recorded in seven hours,<ref name=Gaar31>Gaar 2006, p. 31</ref> the songs were done live with a few overdubs added afterwards.<ref name=Myers50>Myers 2006, p. 50</ref>