Big Rig was a punk band from the San Francisco Bay Area fronted by singer/songwriter Jesse Michaels. The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, or the Bay, is a geographically and ethnically diverse metropolitan region that surrounds the Jesse Michaels (born April 2, 1969) is a Songwriter, Guitarist and Artist from Berkeley California 's East Bay Michaels performed with the group after the break up of his previous project, Operation Ivy, and before forming the band Common Rider. Operation Ivy was an influential Ska punk and Hardcore punk band formed in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. Common Rider were a Ska punk band formed in 1999 by Jesse Michaels (guitar vocals Mass Giorgini (bass and Dan Lumley (drums
Big Rig released one 4-song, 9-minute EP entitled Expansive Heart in 1994 on Lookout! Records. Expansive Heart is the only piece ever released by punk band Big Rig, it was released on the Lookout! Records label Lookout! Records is an Independent record label based in Berkeley California.