The Germs started with Darby Crash born John Paul Beahm on September 28th 1958 and Pat Smear (also known for playing the guitar in the bands Nirvana and Foo Fighters) born Georg Albert Ruthenberg on August 5th 1959 after they were kicked out of University High School for anti-social behavior and allegedly using “mind control” on fellow students the bands original name was “Sophistifuck and the Revlon Spam Queens” but the name was changed because they could not afford that many letters on a t-shirt the first line-up consisted of Crash on vocals (known as Bobby Pyn at the time), Smear on guitar, Diana Grant on bass (known as Dinky), and Michelle Baer on drums however this line-up never played in front of a live audience in April of 1977 the band added Lorna Doom born Teresa Ryan replacing Dinky and Dottie Danger on drums as a transitional member later famous as Belinda Carlisle in The Go-Go’s (although this was the first line-up to play live the final line-up was Crash, Smear, Doom, and Don Bolles) the bands first performance was at the Orpheum Theater Smaer recalled: “We made noise. Darby stuck the mic in a jar of peanut butter. It was a dare, we had no songs or anything! Lorna wore her pants inside out, and Darby covered himself in red licorice…we made noise for five minutes until they threw us off”. the first song the band recorded was Forming recorded with a Sony 2-track reel-to-reel recorder in Smear’s family garage in the record Crash can be heard complaining saying “the drums are too slow the bass is too fast, the chords are wrong making the ending too long ahh I quit” the tape was sent to a pressing print and returned with a note saying “Warning: This record causes ear cancer” The Germs were featured in the film The Decline of Western Civilization along with X, Black Flag, Fear, Circle Jerks, Alice Bag Band and Catholic Discipline on December 3rd 1980 the date of the bands over-sold last show Crash told amazed kids in the audience “We did this show so you new people could see what it was like when we were around. You’re not going to see it again” Crash ended his life in a suicide pact with Casey “Cola” Hopkins where cola survived but Crash did not nor did he intend for her to survive or change his mind at the last minute he did however write “My life, my leather, my love goes to Bosco” referring to David “Bosco” Danford his death was also overshadowed by the assassination of John Lennon and mistakenly reported of taking too many sleeping pills In 1996, a tribute album titled A Small Circle of Friends appeared that featured tracks by Watt, Free Kitten, Melvins, Meat Puppets, that dog., L7, the Posies, NOFX, Flea, Gumball and others, along with a version of “Circle One” performed by Smear with Hole under the name “the Holez”. and recently The Germs went on tour with Shane West who played the role of Darby in the 2007 movie What We Do Is Secret but some prominent members of the punk rock community such as Fat Mike and Jello Biafra were critical of the band’s decision to replace Crash with an actor

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