Germs
| Germs | |
|---|---|
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| General information | |
| origin | Los Angeles , United States |
| Genre (s) | Punk , hardcore punk |
| founding | 1977 as Sophistifuck and the Revlon Spam Queens , 2005 |
| resolution | 1980 |
| Founding members | |
| Darby Crash († 1980) | |
| Pat Smear | |
| Dinky (Diana Grant) | |
| Michelle Baer | |
| Current occupation | |
singing |
Shane West (since 2005) |
guitar |
Pat Smear |
Drums |
Don Bolles (1978–1980, since 2005) |
| former members | |
singing |
Darby Crash (1977-1980) |
Drums |
Michelle Baer (1977) |
Drums |
Dottie Danger (1977) |
Drums |
Donna Rhia (1977) |
Drums |
David Winogrond (1977) |
Drums |
Cliff Hanger (1977-1978) |
Drums |
Don Bonebrake (1978) |
Drums |
Nickey Beat (1978) |
Drums |
Rob Henley (1980) |
bass |
Dinky (Diana Grant) (1977) |
bass |
Lorna Doom († 2019) (1977–1980, 2005–2019) |
The Germs are an early American punk band .
history
The band was formed in April 1977 by Darby Crash (Jan Paul Beahm), Pat Smear (Georg Ruthenberg), Michelle Baer and Diana Grant in Los Angeles . Baer's position on drums took over shortly after the founding of Dottie Danger alias Belinda Carlisle , who had to leave the band after only a few weeks due to illness (she later became a member of the punk band Go-Go’s ) and was replaced by DJ Bonebreak (Don Bolles) has been. In 1978 the band signed a recording deal with Slash and released their debut album (GI) in December 1979 , which became a milestone in American punk / hardcore . On December 7, 1980, Darby Crash died of a heroin overdose at the age of 22. Shortly afterwards, the Germs disbanded.
In 2007 the film What We Do Is Secret was released , which deals with the history of the band. Actor Shane West portrayed the late Darby Crash so convincingly that Pat Smear offered to join the band in real life, which West accepted. Since then the Germs have been giving concerts again and were among other things in the line-up of the Warped Tour in 2006 and 2008. The Germs were also on tour in their new formation in Europe, where they were accompanied by the German old-school hardcore band Hammerhead .
Discography
- September 1977: Germicide (Live LP)
- November 1977: Forming / Sex Boy (live) (7 ")
- May 1978: Lexicon Devil / Circle One / No God (7 ")
- December 1979: (GI) (LP; Slash Records)
- tribute
On the tribute album A Small Circle of Friends , released in 1996, well-known colleagues such as NOFX , Flea , The Melvins , Meat Puppets and L7 also featured Germs guitarist Pat Smear. Smear accompanies Courtney Love with their band Hole , which operates under the name The Holez for this purpose .
- August 1996: A Small Circle of Friends (compilation; Grass Records)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ A Small Circle Of Friends on Discogs