Germs Reunion: ANYBODY?

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John Lydon already has enough cash from his Malibu real estate dealings or whatever. I was just kidding though. I can think of 1000 bands I would pick on for reuniting before I would pick on the Germs.

walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 5 December 2005 06:30 (7 years ago) Permalink

I saw the reunion gig [...] It was very, very strange. The band still totally kicks ass and the songs are great, but the whole [...] dynamic makes everything very disturbing and overdetermined. It's not bad but it's very perverse and symptomatic and interesting. [...] basically it creates a very perverse extra layer of meaning at certain points in certain songs [...]

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

xero (xero), Monday, 5 December 2005 06:46 (7 years ago) Permalink

shane west doesnt get it and sucks

howell huser (chaki), Monday, 5 December 2005 06:47 (7 years ago) Permalink

shane west?!?!?

s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 5 December 2005 07:01 (7 years ago) Permalink

Don Bolles is a great guy

!!!!

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

A Person, Monday, 5 December 2005 07:02 (7 years ago) Permalink

Well, I don't know him or anything. He just seems like an interesting guy.

walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 5 December 2005 07:05 (7 years ago) Permalink

I saw the show and to me it was always about the music, not the "scene". Darby never sang into the mike anyway. It was pretty good although I though the guitar wasn't loud enough.

Hec Ramsey, Monday, 12 December 2005 21:21 (7 years ago) Permalink

Drew's essay, which was delivered at EMP Pop Conference last spring, is amazing. Tho I can't see how the print version will live up to the live performance, which included video of Drew getting a Germs Burn.

carl w (carl w), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 06:45 (7 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

What we do is get profiled.

Ned Raggett, Monday, 25 June 2007 17:04 (5 years ago) Permalink

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?

nickn, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 21:06 (5 years ago) Permalink

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

haha perfect

marmotwolof, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 21:25 (5 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

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

Did Drew ever publish his essay?

Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 14:49 (4 years ago) Permalink

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

leavethecapital, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 19:28 (4 years ago) Permalink

slate also gave meh however film threat and variety gave props

however this:

the Mae Shi performed as the Screamers

UH

Edward III, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 19:39 (4 years ago) Permalink

meh seems the consensus opinion.

Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 13:41 (4 years ago) Permalink

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

Niles Caulder, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 14:37 (4 years ago) Permalink

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

J0hn D., Wednesday, 6 August 2008 15:17 (4 years ago) Permalink

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."

Edward III, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 16:00 (4 years ago) Permalink

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

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQxZ0Vaj6FE

Edward III, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 16:00 (4 years ago) Permalink

too lazy to c+p? no worries

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

Edward III, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 16:01 (4 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

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.

Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 16:22 (3 years ago) Permalink

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).

Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 20:07 (3 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

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

Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 3 May 2012 23:54 (1 year ago) Permalink

haha yeah i made it about 20 minutes

l0u1s j0rdan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 4 May 2012 00:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

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).

Reality Check Cashing Services (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 4 May 2012 00:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

Reality Check Cashing Services (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 4 May 2012 00:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

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).

― Reality Check Cashing Services (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, May 3, 2012 7:35 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha omg how did i miss that???

l0u1s j0rdan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 4 May 2012 00:53 (1 year ago) Permalink

That Def Lep movie is awesome! Fuck the haters.

EZ Snappin, Friday, 4 May 2012 00:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

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.

Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 4 May 2012 17:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

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.

Poliopolice, Saturday, 5 May 2012 01:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

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

am0n, Sunday, 17 June 2012 17:22 (11 months ago) Permalink


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