Germs Reunion: ANYBODY?

Is this a rhetorical question?

Cast (in credits order)
Shane West .... Darby Crash
Bijou Phillips .... Lorna Doom
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Noah Abrams .... Audience Member #1
Ozzy Benn .... Captain Sensible
Christopher Boyd .... Dave Vanian
Missy Doty .... Amber
Lauren German .... Belinda
Brian Gleason .... Regi Mental
Rick Gonzalez .... Pat Smear
Amy Halloran .... Becky
Michele Hicks .... Penelope Spheeris
Ashton Holmes .... Rob Henley
Katharine Leonard .... Jena
Tina Majorino .... Michelle
J.P. Manoux .... Rodney Bingenheimer
Howard S. Miller .... Starwood Manager
Randi Newton .... Gerber
Paul Nygro .... Bob Biggs
Keir O'Donnell .... Chris Ashford
Brian Oerly .... Bouncer
Ray Park .... Brendan Mullen
Chris Pontius .... Black Randy
Sara Rivas .... Shannon
Sebastian Roché .... Claude Kickboy Bessy
Rachael Santhon .... Melissa
Noah Segan .... Don Bolles
Azura Skye .... Casey Cola
Richard Wharton .... Whiskey Manager

I did indeed hear that the ER guy did such a good job that Pat thought it would be a good idea to get the band back together. I also heard that Lorna is married and living in the NJ suburbs and that her husband didn't even know she was in a band, but then heard she was married to a Blackheart - so he'd probably have an idea.

To just play "Media Blitz" or "Lexicon Devil" in front of a bunch of applauding, approving people, on the other hand - well, it's so far from the spirit of the Germs that it recontextualizes the music for the worse, I'd think. It kinda does a disservice to history, however inisignifigant both the history and the disservice done to it may be. I'm really not "against" the surviving Germs doing it - if they're having fun and the audience is having fun, more power to everybody - but unless they're writing new songs that convulse as unsurely and unsteadily as the old ones did, which I don't think it'd be possible for them to do, then I'm not interested, and I'm puzzled as to how anybody could be interested in a safe, semi-canonical Germs.

most people only know them as safe and semi-canonical though. most people only know the album, and a big part of what makes the album special is the music. i bought that album in 1985 or 1986, and the germs were already safely canonical to me. still love it though. have no interest in seeing a reunion show however. but i have no interest in most reunion shows. i was excited to see an adolescents reunion in 1986. most of the straightedgers surrounding me were not.

No, they'll just paint a bunch of tattoos on a refrigerator.

What, homework? Life's too short, the stack of unplayed CDs by my stereo is too tall. I'll listen to Claude Coma and the IVs' Art From Sin again, instead - back when I was 13 and just getting introduced to punk by my crazy friend Lowell (who had heisted all the best records out of his older brother's room), that was one of my favorite albums.

iTunes man! you don't gotta accumulate any extra stuff! or not, just sayin', very little counts as "classic" to me but (GI) does

Drew, are you me writing about Gang of Four? If not, please get out of my brain ("overdetermined" indeed). Thanks.

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thought I couldn't be shocked anymore, then I read that.

What we do is get profiled.

I didn't realize who Shane West was until I read that article last week. All I could think was "Oh *that* guy from ER. He is *so* not Darby!" But I guess I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.

Better or worse than the Edie Sedgwick movie, I wonder?

Or as Don Bolles christened me, 'Shane Wreck.'

haha perfect

the Darby movie is finally opening (just NY/LA?) this Fri.

Did Drew ever publish his essay?

The film was profiled today in Salon. They gave it a meh.

slate also gave meh however film threat and variety gave props

however this:

the Mae Shi performed as the Screamers

UH

meh seems the consensus opinion.

I think getting wasted and listening to Germicide in a big room w a bunch of people'd be better than that tour.

Also, man listening to a record ONCE is so dumb! I mean if it's not yr usual thing, anyway. How're you gonna know if it could BECOME yr thing? Listen to it a LOT! Buy records you think you won't like AND LISTEN TO THEM TIL YOU DO! It's way more fun than hearing some boring thing you already know you'll like, and pretty selfilluminating too

Buy records you think you won't like AND LISTEN TO THEM TIL YOU DO! It's way more fun than hearing some boring thing you already know you'll like, and pretty selfilluminating too

most OTM thing said on ILM in ages

it's true - many of the bands I love I didn't like at first listen. I've developed an instinct that says "I'm not digging this but there's something there, I need to listen to it again."

in other news, they should've hired realicide to be the screamers

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQxZ0Vaj6FE

too lazy to c+p? no worries

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQxZ0Vaj6FE

They're playing in London in a couple of weeks.

I'm not sure either way what they'd be like to see live now - I'm usually all for going to see reformed bands and not usually that bothered if it's all original members or not, but I've read Shane West isn't just singing for the Germs, he's still acting the role of Darby Crash from the movie onstage, which I dunno, kinda seems a bit weird.

Kind of a parallel to this is when Henry Rollins sang for the Ruts - another band whose singer OD'd at the beginning of the 80s - but he wasn't onstage in the role of Malcolm Owen, he was just singing the songs, and I have no problem with that (in fact I kinda wish I'd gone to that gig).

wow What We Do Is Secret is shamefully, hilariously bad. possibly the worst "rock biopic" I've ever seen.

haha yeah i made it about 20 minutes

wow What We Do Is Secret is shamefully, hilariously bad. possibly the worst "rock biopic" I've ever seen.

Oh come on, it's certainly better than the Def Leppard biopic that VH-1 put together (the one with Anthony Michael Hall as Mutt Lange).

but both the Chips and Quincy punk rock episodes are far better (and less tedious than What We Do...)

Oh come on, it's certainly better than the Def Leppard biopic that VH-1 put together (the one with Anthony Michael Hall as Mutt Lange).

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haha omg how did i miss that???

That Def Lep movie is awesome! Fuck the haters.

WWDIS is a miracle of poor construction, it doesn't even really have scenes or characters - it follows this weird model of a talking head says something happened > show that thing happening for 10 seconds > brief music interlude > on to next thing.

Agree that the Def Leppard movie is great. There is a lot of subtlety in it, and it's really fun to watch. No, I'm not being sarcastic.

do you think darby ever once said "cut your hair you krautrock hippy" like in the film