Darby said his pre-show drug regimen was speed to get up, get nervous and take a bunch of downs, become wasted and start drinking tons of beer. The heroin was probably a more private thing, you have to share less.
Instead of anti-drug films in school, they should show this and say "If this guy had gotten off drugs, the Germs could have become bigger than the Sex Pistols. Instead the singer sold himself sexually to Paul Lynde and eventually died by overdose in a suicide pact"
@GhostManBrandonDDpre Thats what i just told my friend. It's like if one needs a really good example of why doing drugs is bad.....Paul Beahm/Bobby Pin/ Darby Crash is a really good one. Granted its funny to watch but he's not around to reinact the show either.
@toot1231 right, thats kinda what i meant, their studio stuff, while crudely recorded, is some seriously great punk rock. The live stuff is not as enjoyable with crash too blasted to preform correctly... although considering this is hardcore punk rock, what constitutes preforming correctly is open to debate...
people just dont understand that this band is better than zeppelin--sabbath--the stones --beatles etc--people just are not sophisticated enough to understand the intricate stylings of the GERMS.
Oh. PLEASE believe me? PLEASE? I won't be able to sleep tonight knowing a fucking little prick on the Internet doesn't believe me. God Damn. That's it...I can't handle it. No note.
2/2 To make you even doubt the story more...during that JFA show I was sitting on the side, and Brian said something to the fact of a kid making "this song possible" and motioned me on stage...then he walked off. They started playing "Beach Blanket Bong out" leaving me to sing it (or scream it really). Believe it if you want--I don't give a rat's ass. Just telling you what happened.
I saw the germs and many others at the Whisky, Roxy, Hong Kong Cafe, etc... Truth is I thought the germs were horrible. I recall going outside with alot of others to wait for their set to be over. They let all of us back into the Whisky when Darby was finished. He usually just writhed around on the floor and made noise. Anyone could do it but nobody else did because it was so lame.
@Thirdgen83 seriously stop hating,they weren't good ya that stuff is actually true,that doesn't change the fact that Darby is a fucking legend and a good front man and intelligent,if you actually listen to the lyrics and like his interviews he is smart as hell,he is true punk;getting loaded and not giving a fuck about people like you
This really cheered me up - to think I have been that high in public kills me. Love those vox don't ya? It sucks getting old and telling kids they are fucked....give the idiots a break.
He seems totally different than the way he was portrayed in the movie what we do is secret.Im ot a big fan of park,although i do like the anger and screaming and rage ,its just not something that can affect me deeply.its more like a release of emotions.something that id listen to if i worked out.
what a fuckin" idiot! who is this faggot pretending to sing? and do any of these idiots know how to play their instruments? what a joke! long live Foreigner!!
@arilouxx Dude, get a life. what do these a-holes even have to offer to rock-n-roll? i'll answer that for you, nothing! put on some real music, put on some Pet Shop Boys, something with substance!!
@craismith Man it's not "Rock-n-roll" wake up to your self and put another Metalica album in your cd player then fuck of. If u cant understand this music and the ideals behind it fuck of. RIP DARBY
@craismith nah dumass it was punk, the street kids that didnt know anything just picked up their instruments booked shows and then learned how to play...and thats what punks about! just doin it
@cameroncameroncamero i do admit their stage perfomance isnt theyre best work, but i blame darby, he was too doped out and couldnt keep a beat hahaha but its all good, i like their live stuff, it shows how raw they really were
to this day, i believe that darby was a fan of both the tubes and phantom of the paradise, and created a character that was a mix of quay lewd and beef
thing is, he took that shit seriously....his mistake
I don't know how old all of you are, but I was 15 punk rock & a teenager in the center of the punk scene over 25 years ago. It was such an incredible feeling back then
In the old days the LA scene was mostly kids from suburban areas of LA. We kids came to LA for 2 things. Punk shows & clothes. Clothes were the number one reason to come to LA. If U wanted a pair of Doc Martins or some bondage pants or cool leather jackets, you bought that stuff in LA on Melrose. I was the type of punk who wore regular combat boots, old jeans a red T-shirt with a black Communist hammer & sickle a leather jacket & my hair. Our hair could take anywhere from one to 4 hours.
I guess these were times... I´m not from this time but i lived my teens into early nineties death metal/grindcore tape trading/home made fanzines much better than this internet sceneright now... yet i enjoy the facilities of listening to some music right now than having to wait weeks or months to a band demo/album arriving in your mail box!
@MrDarkmarius I was 15 but into Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, you know the whole Hard Rock Scene and then I met goth girl Amy and was exposed to the so called 'Alternative scene(KROQ really put the punk and new wave scene out their for people to hear) and I can remember the first time I heard U2' "I will follow" man that was some powerful shit and Siouxsie was good as well along with the psychedelic furs, etc
first i hear this, think oh holy shit this is beyond horrible music but the lyrics, as people say here, really brilliant!! and the impact of the lyrics is more better because of the shit music and horrible singing but the words are very powerful.....so many many many talented young people lost to drugs...
What stood out to me was how "femine" Darby was. I was a bit taken aback as to how "girly" he seemed (of course I found out later he was gay). I also remember thinking how I actually felt sorry for the band. They were obviously people who had given up on society and I knew they were going down a different path than I. Nonetheless, he was pretty cool to me, but I took it all with a "I don't want to turn out like you" attitude. In the end, he simply punked out and I was dissapointed he died.
Ha! I sure hope not--but I doubt it, at least in my case. He really didn't even talk to me at all after that--no one from their group did, really. It was more just like me standing and watching everything.
I saw the Germs when I was 13. I had a cousin who was friends with Nicole Panter--their manager. At the show, I was remember being somewhat scared shitless, but drunk off my ass. After the show, my cousin took me back stage and I was able to hang out in the "scene" that took place. I remember Darby saw me and made a comment about my mohawk, and said "Is this young punk allowed in here? Get him another beer, NOW!" Everyone started laughing. At this point I was as wasted as Darby.
@GeddyRules2112 whoa really? I can't believe you actually seen them!? That's amazing! Seeing them live was probably better than hearing it on youtube. more exciting! =)
Why would you doubt that story? The musicians in the punk movement were accessable, it wasn't the same exclusive "celebrity" that we see today.
There was a time when a lonely Michael Jackson of the Jackson 5 could wander the streets looking for someone to talk to without being molested. Music only became "celebrated" when it became visual, before MTV we heard about Keith Moon's antics but could have walked past the man without recognition.
@lesterclaypool1 Because at 13, no one was getting into places like The Whiskey, Hong Kong, Club 88, et al. Yes - people were there, but not anyone who was under age without a really good fake ID. I know because I was 12 and wanting to go to these places, but guess what? No go. Yes - people were there but not you. That I know for a fact.
If you had read the comment properly you would see that connections got the underage poster into A SHOW, they said nothing about a club. In the late 70's when the laws weren't as stringently enforced there were many fly by night clubs that didn't bother with a liquor licence.
The majority of the LA club scene in the 60's and 70's were underage. Go and read any biography from that time if you don't believe my first hand, or the other posters, first hand experience.
@lesterclaypool1 "when the laws weren't as stringently enforced". BAHAHAHAHA! What a bunch of crap. You have no idea what you are talking about, and even less of a clue as to what L.A. was like in the 70's and 80's during th punk peak. Go read a book or something - I've stepped on things more honest than you!
1/2 I actually got in to quite a few shows back then (and not just in LA)---with NO fake ID. Once Greg Ginn let me in to a Black Flag show stating I was with the band. Bam Bam of JFA did the same for me once. I ended up talking to he and Brian Bohanan out back before a show. I asked if they were going to play 'Beach Blanket Bong-out.' Brian said, "We don't play that unless we're officially bonged out". I broke out a bag of weed and we fired it up.
@GeddyRules2112 Yeah - And I use to get stoned with with Robo from Black Flagg when they lived at the church. Really - it must be nice to live in such a fantasy world. Double down on your dosage dude - you're so full of it that it's coming out of your mouth instead of your butt.
@lesterclaypool1 I never had problems getting into shows were say at Cerritos College or at CSUF and others, but at the height of these bands and their gigs (1980), they were playing at places like the ones I mentioned before. The Germs didn't play places that were general admission, open age arenas. You wanna know how I know that? Because I tried. The fact that you are too dense to get that is complete indication of your inability to lie very well on this topic. You fail miserably! LOL!
I can think of three advertised Germs shows that weren't in licenced clubs off of the top of my head, and there's likely more listed on the website. Even the famous Decline footage wasn't filmed in a club.
I'm not saying that you weren't turned away, disagreeable cunt that you are, I'm saying that the original poster makes no mention of the gig that he attended being in a club.
@lesterclaypool1 Cherrywoods Studios was done for both Black Flag and The Germs in the filming of the Decline. It was the only time that the Germs didn't play in a booked club, but that is besides the point. You are part of the reason why people can come out here on the net and make wild, ridiculous claims that just go unchecked. Are you that retarded that you believe anything any posts? It's not about disagreeing - it's about what's true and real (not that you seem to know the difference).
If the poster had made claim of having hung out with a hard to access personality I would have questioned it. The Germs, and specifically Darby, were not hard to access back in the day. Also, having worked in entertainment for many years I see perrformers for the people that they are, not some unattainable individual to be hero worshipped. It's your misplaced admiration of a scene and the people that were in it, it seems, that makes you doubt the other poster's comment.
As opposed to the details that he gives of a very probable scenerio.
For as non entertainment related as your life may be there are people who, like myself, by the virtue of their employ, or like my wife who, by the virtue of her birth, interract with people in entertainment on a regular basis. As the other poster concluded, whether you believe him or not is irrelevant, he is sharing a bit of urban lore about the subject of the video that he happened to be a party to.
And the hurt feelings of some underaged suburban shitheel with a bad attitude that didn't get invited to the party isn't going to change the fact that he was there and has a couple of pretty cool annecdotes to contribute to the aural history of the punk movement to combat your lame story of getting turned away at the door.
@lesterclaypool1 It's laughable that you attempt to so vehemently defend this bullshit story, yet the OP has had little to say. Gee - could it be that you are one in the same, and you know your story is so full of shit that it makes a barracks latrine look clean? You have no idea of what the scene was even like back then (that much is obvious enough from you lack of understanding as to how things worked in the clubs back then), so do you really care to comment further? It's funny, but old.
Although you couldn't have paid me to attend a Germs show at the time I, too, was underage and getting into clubs both as a performer and a patron with no problem. I also have many friiends and contemporaries who were getting into clubs underage. To this day nightclub attendance is about who you know more than how old you are. That you didn't, or don't, have the connections to get you into your club of choice does not negate the validity of the annecdote that was shared.
@lesterclaypool1 I love it - an "annecdote"? Do you even know what an "anecdote" is today? It's not the classic short tale of a truth, but a tale of FICTION often left as "too good to be true". LMFAO!!! And as for your supposed good ol' days of getting into and playing in clubs, that's even more far fetched than this supposed 13 year old hanging out with one of the original hardcore bands of punk, but please - we're all ears. Please do tell! LOL!!!
And you have no idea how stupid you sound using a word like "poser".
You have no concept of how many local bands are on the LA scene or how many performers have come and gone through the doors of the clubs that your teen aged mind, present tense, has mythologized.
I commend you, you were doing really well at first making it sound as though you were alive at the time but these last couple of comments have revealed you as the teen aged fanboy that you are.
@lesterclaypool1 BAHA! You are such a fucking, full of shit, lying sack of shit. Not only do you prove that you know NOTHING about what went on from 77 to 80 in Southern CA Punk, but it's even disregarded by you in your own plot to confuse things. This isn't about me, nor where I was or was not! It's supposedly about you believe a tall tale of shit, and having some distinguished background to back it up. And BTW, Poser is a word that was used in '80 for fags like you who "posed" the scene.
Poser is a word used by children who think that there is some sort of prerequisite, be it dress, music, what have you, to fitting into certain social groups. When you grow up you realize that being your own person with your own morals and beliefs will allow you to fit in in any social situation.
I have to go now but you keep talking: You've already shoved your foot in your mouth and it can only get more entertaining as everyone reading this watches you choke on it.
@lesterclaypool1 BAHA! What's funny is to see you describe your own perception out here by others, and try to put my position to it. Nice try, but you sound like a fucking pussy who has about as much knowledge of the scene from back then as someone who lives in Africa does. Too bad you'll never fess up to it, but you are not at all unlike those who have tried forever to say there were there when they in fact - were not (at least not from 1977-80). Nighty night, Johnny come lately! LOL!!!
My story is quite simple, I was a session musician working for a local recording studio. When bands needed an extra guitar they would call the angency that I was signed to and the agency would take a 20 percent cut of my fee for setting me up with work. I made enough money this way to set up my own sound production company in less than a decade, quite a few years short of my original goal, and made a lot of connections that kept me busty until my early retirement.
@lesterclaypool1 Dude please - you are just as full of shit as the OP of the supposedly, famous "anecdotal" hanging out with Darby and company. You know better than that, yet you show just how full of shit you truly are. Studio musician you say? At what age? Playing in half wit clubs that couldn't pay shit to it's performers, and yet for a 20% cut to an agency? LMFAO!!! Yeah - you're 100% authentic alright, and about a real a a 3 dollar bill. Go away - POSER! BAHA!
I'm less inclined to believe your story about being turned away at the door as your understanding of entertainers and the clubs that they played at in Hollywood being exclusive is a very modern one better suited to someone who has only lived in the velvet rope era of LA nightlife.
Jimmy Hendrix used to drive around and make friends because he liked people, he didn't become a major personality until his death because of the worship of people who weren't there, like you.
@lesterclaypool1 It just funny than shit that someone would actually think they could go ahead and say "Hey when I was 13 I hung out with Darby and The Germs!" Yeah - sure you did. When punks weren't busy slamming each other, they were busy slamming drugs, and not with 13 year olds. BTW - you show just how full of shit you are by trying to sling around comparisons about generations other than Punk, so please - go spin your fairy tales to someone who might actually believe your bullshit. LOL!
You have no idea how stupid this comment makes you sound, do you?
It's fine, keep your juvenile Sid and Nancy impression of the punk scene. It's sad that you'll never have any real understanding of what was happening at the time but that can't be expected when all that you know about it is what you've read in a book or seen in a movie.
Darby Crash was a genius, his lyrics aren't the blatant type of whining that punk usually does (it rocks, but this is better), they were intelligent and deep and motivated. The music was low-grade amateur at first but the lyrics were always brilliant, actually they'd fit nicely with a protopunk band, Velvet Underground style.
The Germs were the first (as far as anyone knows) to have a lyrics sheet sold with a single. Because they rule (and you can't understand what he's saying otherwise).
mostly Johnny Rotten. His vocals...wow... Also, the Ramones, but not vocally, just lyrically, about social situations and adolescence (even though they must've been in their 20s so what gives them the right?). I don't mind it, it's just they're, you know, WHINING.
and Johnny Thunder's vocals, if you listen to his like third album, first song, un-fucking-believeable. Of course it wasn't even punk anymore. Still, it kills me. He sounds like a girl.
And Richard Hell! Youth Brigade (the Full Force guys)! they're kind of nasal...I think that's it...
idiotic noise for idiots... wow you're really smart fosbury68. the funny thing is you probably wasted "your" time listening to this "idiotic noise" go get fucked in your mouth you baby boomer piece of shit
This is real punk. No gimmicks. No poseurs.
ProgHead93 3 weeks ago
darby was such a fucking wreck. awesome. not quite wasted enough... =]
bryanPANDEMICb 1 month ago
It's a personal choice. Sorry.
passiveMenis 2 months ago
"You guys are not having fun... do damage."
b00mhauer 2 months ago
Darby said his pre-show drug regimen was speed to get up, get nervous and take a bunch of downs, become wasted and start drinking tons of beer. The heroin was probably a more private thing, you have to share less.
Instead of anti-drug films in school, they should show this and say "If this guy had gotten off drugs, the Germs could have become bigger than the Sex Pistols. Instead the singer sold himself sexually to Paul Lynde and eventually died by overdose in a suicide pact"
That I'd remember
GhostManBrandonDDpre 3 months ago 2
@GhostManBrandonDDpre Thats what i just told my friend. It's like if one needs a really good example of why doing drugs is bad.....Paul Beahm/Bobby Pin/ Darby Crash is a really good one. Granted its funny to watch but he's not around to reinact the show either.
deathbypowerglove 2 months ago in playlist The Germs
Darby<3
wadeinthefire 3 months ago
these guys' story and concepts they shared is about 30476093476097346907340967 times better than their music ..
IamLukeSilz92 3 months ago
@IamLukeSilz92 Im not gonna lie, I hate their live shows but their studio recordings kick ass.
toot1231 1 month ago
@toot1231 right, thats kinda what i meant, their studio stuff, while crudely recorded, is some seriously great punk rock. The live stuff is not as enjoyable with crash too blasted to preform correctly... although considering this is hardcore punk rock, what constitutes preforming correctly is open to debate...
IamLukeSilz92 1 month ago
people just dont understand that this band is better than zeppelin--sabbath--the stones --beatles etc--people just are not sophisticated enough to understand the intricate stylings of the GERMS.
gkooooz 4 months ago
@gkooooz you shut yer mouth when talkin about sabbath
666ROTT666 3 months ago
@gkooooz uhm.... they were good... but i really wouldn't go that far...
IamLukeSilz92 1 month ago
thats when punk rock was dangerous
livefastdierrhea 4 months ago 2
It's the ludes, maaan.
voltairinedecleyre66 5 months ago
Darby crash
BlueCheer4Me 7 months ago
Man these guys suck.
BlueCheer4Me 7 months ago
@BlueCheer4Me wat ur tripping they r dope man just that darby would get wasted on drugs or alcohol wen they would play
LOSxTOMADOS 5 months ago
He's So On Acid..I felt The Same Way Beforee!!
beedee61111 7 months ago
@beedee61111 No, probably speed or something more hardcore.
dylanew5 6 months ago
@beedee61111 He's definitely either drunk or on heroin not on acid, acid doesn't make you slurr your words and fall around and shit.
lepricon989 5 months ago
Fact: Darby eats donkey shit live.
xcoibyx 7 months ago
Nah that was GG Allin
MrAnarchojoe 7 months ago
Oh. PLEASE believe me? PLEASE? I won't be able to sleep tonight knowing a fucking little prick on the Internet doesn't believe me. God Damn. That's it...I can't handle it. No note.
GeddyRules2112 8 months ago
@GeddyRules2112
Idiot boy thinks that his inability to read has some bearing on your honesty.
What a useless cunt.
lesterclaypool1 8 months ago
2/2 To make you even doubt the story more...during that JFA show I was sitting on the side, and Brian said something to the fact of a kid making "this song possible" and motioned me on stage...then he walked off. They started playing "Beach Blanket Bong out" leaving me to sing it (or scream it really). Believe it if you want--I don't give a rat's ass. Just telling you what happened.
GeddyRules2112 8 months ago
I saw the germs and many others at the Whisky, Roxy, Hong Kong Cafe, etc... Truth is I thought the germs were horrible. I recall going outside with alot of others to wait for their set to be over. They let all of us back into the Whisky when Darby was finished. He usually just writhed around on the floor and made noise. Anyone could do it but nobody else did because it was so lame.
kelif73 8 months ago
This is REAL Punk
manhuntruler2 8 months ago
LISTEN TO THE SONG - LABEL ME INSANO - BY THE STUPID STUPID HENCHMEN
67Troutmaster 9 months ago
can't suck more than this!
loudonrebel 9 months ago
fuck yeah germs rule
gkooooz 9 months ago
There is nothing more both raw and brutal AND mythical, majesterial, and mysterious as The Germs! ART!
SKOTP69 9 months ago
4:07 Darby eats the flame!
waynemartable 10 months ago
DARBY CRASH - R.I.P
stonerguy19666 10 months ago
@Thirdgen83 seriously stop hating,they weren't good ya that stuff is actually true,that doesn't change the fact that Darby is a fucking legend and a good front man and intelligent,if you actually listen to the lyrics and like his interviews he is smart as hell,he is true punk;getting loaded and not giving a fuck about people like you
DjDustBunny17 10 months ago
fuck god
Jack2daBeat 10 months ago
I can't believe this over 30 years ago.
JamesTKirkCobain 11 months ago
This really cheered me up - to think I have been that high in public kills me. Love those vox don't ya? It sucks getting old and telling kids they are fucked....give the idiots a break.
BionicSam 11 months ago
What was the date of this show?
felicis2 1 year ago
@felicis2 poop
DontEatEggs666 1 year ago
fucking lol @:59
seakingkingking 1 year ago
people that don't get it should shut the fuck up and go look up sum nickleback videos!!!!!!!
jakpackage 1 year ago
yeah no musical talent at all dumb ass, Pat Smear only went on to play in one of the greatest bands of all time (Nirvana) and the Foo Fighters.
jakpackage 1 year ago
there is an art to being terrible.this is rebellion,this is awful.thats whats cool about it.
bluefukingreene 1 year ago
'Bunch of HACKS with NO musical talent whatsoever...
Thirdgen83 1 year ago
@Thirdgen83
stop hating on the germs.
go listen to some gay ass band that'll satisfy you like
my chemical romance or some shit.
Damnitall69 10 months ago
@Damnitall69 Sure, just as soon as you stop smoking Crack and Chrystal-Meth...
Thirdgen83 10 months ago
wait i dont know if i got it right, at the end does he say "You guys who not having fun do damage" ?
smiwytube 1 year ago
@smiwytube You guys, you're not having fun. Do damage!
Hupsibasse 1 year ago
@Hupsibasse ohh haha awesome!!!!
smiwytube 1 year ago
Definition of true punk: The Germs
Definition of orgasmic noise: The Germs
Definition of organized: Everything but the Germs
Definition of having sex with the ear vaginas: The Germs
smiwytube 1 year ago
Its good stuff You had to be thier we pissed off alot of people and got are ass's kicked, but we did are part.
You can have the brain dead modern music seen!
I'll live in the past, and hope for something fresh!
HotScotts 1 year ago
@HotScotts Got "are" asses kicked.....We did "are" part...hahahahaha.....hahahahha
Shootmedia 1 year ago
Back when punk was still raw street mu-sick. A live primal force before the suits got hold of it and turned it into fast food for the masses.
jmx1900 1 year ago
this is prob y he killed himself
Jeremyk138 1 year ago
@Jeremyk138 i think you should go hop back on peggle bro
zosothedestroyer 1 year ago
whiskey a go go is great haha
zjunior 1 year ago
listenn to splifff!! on my videos
RickyASIlvaxMusic 1 year ago
'get up on stage where u belong'..' you guys come up too'.. so kool.
sideshowbuzz1984 1 year ago
Darby never liked singing into the mic... He sang more in this gig than he usually did.
KoivuTheHab 1 year ago
you guys are not having fun, do damage!! haha
TexasRebel281 1 year ago
now thats some hella punk shit.
why don't we have bands like this anymore?
goatinstein 1 year ago
would have been so fucking awesome to be there..
lepricon989 1 year ago
@lepricon989 it was great, words can't explain it. LA Punk Rock from 77 to 80 was so much radical weird fun.
TheRhythmBlade 1 year ago
Secret, right?
SolidSnack16 1 year ago
He seems totally different than the way he was portrayed in the movie what we do is secret.Im ot a big fan of park,although i do like the anger and screaming and rage ,its just not something that can affect me deeply.its more like a release of emotions.something that id listen to if i worked out.
slicknicknirvana 1 year ago
i knew the germs when i see a movie about them
panchomanygonzoman 1 year ago
Yup that's the brain on drugs n he died. Just sad!
DrBeverlyCrusherDF 1 year ago
Any idiot can get up on stage and make retarded music!
zoso1234 1 year ago
These guys suck! Siouxisie was way better!
zoso1234 1 year ago
Art.
mondocaneman 1 year ago
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oh thats were sid got it!!
MrJasondvoyles 1 year ago
oh thats were sid got it!!
MrJasondvoyles 1 year ago
As much as I love the germs..I wouldnt want to see them live.
Godlessism 1 year ago
RIP Darby .....live free...die young..... do what u want.... IT'S PUNK RIP
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GREGG426 1 year ago
@GREGG426 RIP Jan Paul Beahm
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GREGG426 1 year ago
It only goes to show you how for you can only go with the whole live fast die young mind set,rip Darby.
LOST11B 1 year ago
makes me smile....RIP Darby
rupertps 1 year ago
seriously these bands where AMAZING bands like Black Fang and Dead Kennedys
where the shit this is pure music
MeMoRyUzAki 1 year ago
@MeMoRyUzAki
Please don't lump the Dead Kennedys in with the fucking Germs, they're miles apart.
OlReagan 1 year ago
@kcyclean1 *heroin
AJRCxB 1 year ago
what a fuckin" idiot! who is this faggot pretending to sing? and do any of these idiots know how to play their instruments? what a joke! long live Foreigner!!
craismith 1 year ago
@craismith Then youd be a bigger idiot for watching this by your own terms
arilouxx 1 year ago
@arilouxx Dude, get a life. what do these a-holes even have to offer to rock-n-roll? i'll answer that for you, nothing! put on some real music, put on some Pet Shop Boys, something with substance!!
craismith 1 year ago
@craismith By now you should have already realize that tastes in music are completely subjective from person to person
arilouxx 1 year ago
@craismith this fucker did not just type the Pet Shop Boys
RollBlazeInhale 1 year ago
@RollBlazeInhale the pet shop boys were the best that rock had to offer in their day. get with it dude!
craismith 1 year ago
@craismith Man it's not "Rock-n-roll" wake up to your self and put another Metalica album in your cd player then fuck of. If u cant understand this music and the ideals behind it fuck of. RIP DARBY
Peterwthompson123 1 year ago
@craismith nah dumass it was punk, the street kids that didnt know anything just picked up their instruments booked shows and then learned how to play...and thats what punks about! just doin it
TexasRebel281 1 year ago
i adore this band. they actually had fun and all the music ment somthing. this is real music.
hltrskelter 1 year ago 2
germs are too terrible live. it's not good. stop pretending it is
cameroncameroncamero 1 year ago
@cameroncameroncamero so its fucking funny to watch them make okay noise and dance around on stage this shit is awsome.
crushedandcured 1 year ago
@cameroncameroncamero i do admit their stage perfomance isnt theyre best work, but i blame darby, he was too doped out and couldnt keep a beat hahaha but its all good, i like their live stuff, it shows how raw they really were
TexasRebel281 1 year ago
a whole new kind of music
iden02 1 year ago
Wow, the Germs were fucking lame, seriously, lame, just saying. Not even a good
rant feel to this shit. SssSs
ucsteve 1 year ago
God they suck so bad live... its awesome!!!! love this band!!!
soysaucefool 1 year ago
It's like a train that just keeps crashing.
iutri 1 year ago
@iutri Its beautiful isnt it?
soysaucefool 1 year ago
sounds like he s, shouting blehhhhhh into the mike constantly
rrrorkk 1 year ago
I enjoy the nonsense of it all...he wanted to be a fascist, but plagiarizing Nietzsche and Bowie wasn't enough.
aupsychobilly 1 year ago
crash always had a hard time hold the mic to his mouth during live shows
classicrock7530 1 year ago
I love how he reads the lyrics to the song right before "caught in my eye" starts and then he lights it on fire. Classic Darby.
FlipperBabies470 1 year ago
to this day, i believe that darby was a fan of both the tubes and phantom of the paradise, and created a character that was a mix of quay lewd and beef
thing is, he took that shit seriously....his mistake
brabon1 1 year ago
communist eyes is so good
bhoussock 1 year ago
about 2:50 in sounds like a good riff
mellifluouschinook 1 year ago
I don't know how old all of you are, but I was 15 punk rock & a teenager in the center of the punk scene over 25 years ago. It was such an incredible feeling back then
MrDarkmarius 1 year ago
Were you part of the L.A. Scene?You very lucky!!!I wish it were like that!!!
arebecause0 1 year ago
In the old days the LA scene was mostly kids from suburban areas of LA. We kids came to LA for 2 things. Punk shows & clothes. Clothes were the number one reason to come to LA. If U wanted a pair of Doc Martins or some bondage pants or cool leather jackets, you bought that stuff in LA on Melrose. I was the type of punk who wore regular combat boots, old jeans a red T-shirt with a black Communist hammer & sickle a leather jacket & my hair. Our hair could take anywhere from one to 4 hours.
MrDarkmarius 1 year ago
I guess these were times... I´m not from this time but i lived my teens into early nineties death metal/grindcore tape trading/home made fanzines much better than this internet sceneright now... yet i enjoy the facilities of listening to some music right now than having to wait weeks or months to a band demo/album arriving in your mail box!
naosounada 1 year ago
@MrDarkmarius I was 15 but into Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, you know the whole Hard Rock Scene and then I met goth girl Amy and was exposed to the so called 'Alternative scene(KROQ really put the punk and new wave scene out their for people to hear) and I can remember the first time I heard U2' "I will follow" man that was some powerful shit and Siouxsie was good as well along with the psychedelic furs, etc
zoso1234 1 year ago
first i hear this, think oh holy shit this is beyond horrible music but the lyrics, as people say here, really brilliant!! and the impact of the lyrics is more better because of the shit music and horrible singing but the words are very powerful.....so many many many talented young people lost to drugs...
nicodagger 1 year ago
jesus i love the germs
MeganDanger517 1 year ago 4
@MeganDanger517
I agree with Megan. The Germs are dope.
gkooz4life 1 year ago
They clearly had a lot of potential. Just pissed it away and shot it up. I want to like this music - but I just don't.
the7bell 1 year ago
2/2
What stood out to me was how "femine" Darby was. I was a bit taken aback as to how "girly" he seemed (of course I found out later he was gay). I also remember thinking how I actually felt sorry for the band. They were obviously people who had given up on society and I knew they were going down a different path than I. Nonetheless, he was pretty cool to me, but I took it all with a "I don't want to turn out like you" attitude. In the end, he simply punked out and I was dissapointed he died.
GeddyRules2112 1 year ago 2
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naosounada 1 year ago
Ha! I sure hope not--but I doubt it, at least in my case. He really didn't even talk to me at all after that--no one from their group did, really. It was more just like me standing and watching everything.
GeddyRules2112 1 year ago
When he was 17 he was.
UnicornFlavors 1 year ago
i didn't knew he was gay, my god he's so hot!
I would have fuck him right there, but i wasn't even born..
loopback69 1 year ago
1/2
I saw the Germs when I was 13. I had a cousin who was friends with Nicole Panter--their manager. At the show, I was remember being somewhat scared shitless, but drunk off my ass. After the show, my cousin took me back stage and I was able to hang out in the "scene" that took place. I remember Darby saw me and made a comment about my mohawk, and said "Is this young punk allowed in here? Get him another beer, NOW!" Everyone started laughing. At this point I was as wasted as Darby.
GeddyRules2112 1 year ago 13
@GeddyRules2112 whoa really? I can't believe you actually seen them!? That's amazing! Seeing them live was probably better than hearing it on youtube. more exciting! =)
Kento617 9 months ago
@GeddyRules2112 I seriously doubt this story.
sly2kusa 8 months ago
@sly2kusa
Why would you doubt that story? The musicians in the punk movement were accessable, it wasn't the same exclusive "celebrity" that we see today.
There was a time when a lonely Michael Jackson of the Jackson 5 could wander the streets looking for someone to talk to without being molested. Music only became "celebrated" when it became visual, before MTV we heard about Keith Moon's antics but could have walked past the man without recognition.
You weren't there, but people were.
lesterclaypool1 8 months ago
@lesterclaypool1 Because at 13, no one was getting into places like The Whiskey, Hong Kong, Club 88, et al. Yes - people were there, but not anyone who was under age without a really good fake ID. I know because I was 12 and wanting to go to these places, but guess what? No go. Yes - people were there but not you. That I know for a fact.
sly2kusa 8 months ago
@sly2kusa
If you had read the comment properly you would see that connections got the underage poster into A SHOW, they said nothing about a club. In the late 70's when the laws weren't as stringently enforced there were many fly by night clubs that didn't bother with a liquor licence.
The majority of the LA club scene in the 60's and 70's were underage. Go and read any biography from that time if you don't believe my first hand, or the other posters, first hand experience.
lesterclaypool1 8 months ago
@lesterclaypool1 "when the laws weren't as stringently enforced". BAHAHAHAHA! What a bunch of crap. You have no idea what you are talking about, and even less of a clue as to what L.A. was like in the 70's and 80's during th punk peak. Go read a book or something - I've stepped on things more honest than you!
sly2kusa 8 months ago
1/2 I actually got in to quite a few shows back then (and not just in LA)---with NO fake ID. Once Greg Ginn let me in to a Black Flag show stating I was with the band. Bam Bam of JFA did the same for me once. I ended up talking to he and Brian Bohanan out back before a show. I asked if they were going to play 'Beach Blanket Bong-out.' Brian said, "We don't play that unless we're officially bonged out". I broke out a bag of weed and we fired it up.
GeddyRules2112 8 months ago
@GeddyRules2112 Yeah - And I use to get stoned with with Robo from Black Flagg when they lived at the church. Really - it must be nice to live in such a fantasy world. Double down on your dosage dude - you're so full of it that it's coming out of your mouth instead of your butt.
sly2kusa 8 months ago
@sly2kusa
Again, maybe your little suburban shit ass didn't get into the clubs underage IN THE 80's but people did.
That being said, the original poster said NOTHING about attending the show at a CLUB.
Your inability to glean the small amount of information contained in a 500 word comment has no bearing on the honesty of the poster.
lesterclaypool1 8 months ago
@lesterclaypool1 I never had problems getting into shows were say at Cerritos College or at CSUF and others, but at the height of these bands and their gigs (1980), they were playing at places like the ones I mentioned before. The Germs didn't play places that were general admission, open age arenas. You wanna know how I know that? Because I tried. The fact that you are too dense to get that is complete indication of your inability to lie very well on this topic. You fail miserably! LOL!
sly2kusa 8 months ago
@sly2kusa
I can think of three advertised Germs shows that weren't in licenced clubs off of the top of my head, and there's likely more listed on the website. Even the famous Decline footage wasn't filmed in a club.
I'm not saying that you weren't turned away, disagreeable cunt that you are, I'm saying that the original poster makes no mention of the gig that he attended being in a club.
lesterclaypool1 8 months ago
@lesterclaypool1 Cherrywoods Studios was done for both Black Flag and The Germs in the filming of the Decline. It was the only time that the Germs didn't play in a booked club, but that is besides the point. You are part of the reason why people can come out here on the net and make wild, ridiculous claims that just go unchecked. Are you that retarded that you believe anything any posts? It's not about disagreeing - it's about what's true and real (not that you seem to know the difference).
sly2kusa 8 months ago
@sly2kusa
If the poster had made claim of having hung out with a hard to access personality I would have questioned it. The Germs, and specifically Darby, were not hard to access back in the day. Also, having worked in entertainment for many years I see perrformers for the people that they are, not some unattainable individual to be hero worshipped. It's your misplaced admiration of a scene and the people that were in it, it seems, that makes you doubt the other poster's comment.
lesterclaypool1 8 months ago
@sly2kusa
Con't
As opposed to the details that he gives of a very probable scenerio.
For as non entertainment related as your life may be there are people who, like myself, by the virtue of their employ, or like my wife who, by the virtue of her birth, interract with people in entertainment on a regular basis. As the other poster concluded, whether you believe him or not is irrelevant, he is sharing a bit of urban lore about the subject of the video that he happened to be a party to.
lesterclaypool1 8 months ago
@sly2kusa
Con't
And the hurt feelings of some underaged suburban shitheel with a bad attitude that didn't get invited to the party isn't going to change the fact that he was there and has a couple of pretty cool annecdotes to contribute to the aural history of the punk movement to combat your lame story of getting turned away at the door.
lesterclaypool1 8 months ago
@lesterclaypool1 It's laughable that you attempt to so vehemently defend this bullshit story, yet the OP has had little to say. Gee - could it be that you are one in the same, and you know your story is so full of shit that it makes a barracks latrine look clean? You have no idea of what the scene was even like back then (that much is obvious enough from you lack of understanding as to how things worked in the clubs back then), so do you really care to comment further? It's funny, but old.
sly2kusa 8 months ago
@sly2kusa
Although you couldn't have paid me to attend a Germs show at the time I, too, was underage and getting into clubs both as a performer and a patron with no problem. I also have many friiends and contemporaries who were getting into clubs underage. To this day nightclub attendance is about who you know more than how old you are. That you didn't, or don't, have the connections to get you into your club of choice does not negate the validity of the annecdote that was shared.
lesterclaypool1 8 months ago
@lesterclaypool1 I love it - an "annecdote"? Do you even know what an "anecdote" is today? It's not the classic short tale of a truth, but a tale of FICTION often left as "too good to be true". LMFAO!!! And as for your supposed good ol' days of getting into and playing in clubs, that's even more far fetched than this supposed 13 year old hanging out with one of the original hardcore bands of punk, but please - we're all ears. Please do tell! LOL!!!
sly2kusa 8 months ago
@sly2kusa
And you have no idea how stupid you sound using a word like "poser".
You have no concept of how many local bands are on the LA scene or how many performers have come and gone through the doors of the clubs that your teen aged mind, present tense, has mythologized.
I commend you, you were doing really well at first making it sound as though you were alive at the time but these last couple of comments have revealed you as the teen aged fanboy that you are.
lesterclaypool1 8 months ago
@lesterclaypool1 BAHA! You are such a fucking, full of shit, lying sack of shit. Not only do you prove that you know NOTHING about what went on from 77 to 80 in Southern CA Punk, but it's even disregarded by you in your own plot to confuse things. This isn't about me, nor where I was or was not! It's supposedly about you believe a tall tale of shit, and having some distinguished background to back it up. And BTW, Poser is a word that was used in '80 for fags like you who "posed" the scene.
sly2kusa 8 months ago
@sly2kusa
Poser is a word used by children who think that there is some sort of prerequisite, be it dress, music, what have you, to fitting into certain social groups. When you grow up you realize that being your own person with your own morals and beliefs will allow you to fit in in any social situation.
I have to go now but you keep talking: You've already shoved your foot in your mouth and it can only get more entertaining as everyone reading this watches you choke on it.
lesterclaypool1 8 months ago
@lesterclaypool1 BAHA! What's funny is to see you describe your own perception out here by others, and try to put my position to it. Nice try, but you sound like a fucking pussy who has about as much knowledge of the scene from back then as someone who lives in Africa does. Too bad you'll never fess up to it, but you are not at all unlike those who have tried forever to say there were there when they in fact - were not (at least not from 1977-80). Nighty night, Johnny come lately! LOL!!!
sly2kusa 8 months ago
@sly2kusa I haven't heard the JCL comment forever lol. Really appropriate :)
deathandroses13 8 months ago
@sly2kusa
My story is quite simple, I was a session musician working for a local recording studio. When bands needed an extra guitar they would call the angency that I was signed to and the agency would take a 20 percent cut of my fee for setting me up with work. I made enough money this way to set up my own sound production company in less than a decade, quite a few years short of my original goal, and made a lot of connections that kept me busty until my early retirement.
lesterclaypool1 8 months ago
@sly2kusa
Perhaps you should rub the stars out of your eyes, maybe people would enjoy having you around if you did?
lesterclaypool1 8 months ago
@lesterclaypool1 Dude please - you are just as full of shit as the OP of the supposedly, famous "anecdotal" hanging out with Darby and company. You know better than that, yet you show just how full of shit you truly are. Studio musician you say? At what age? Playing in half wit clubs that couldn't pay shit to it's performers, and yet for a 20% cut to an agency? LMFAO!!! Yeah - you're 100% authentic alright, and about a real a a 3 dollar bill. Go away - POSER! BAHA!
sly2kusa 8 months ago
@sly2kusa
Con't
I'm less inclined to believe your story about being turned away at the door as your understanding of entertainers and the clubs that they played at in Hollywood being exclusive is a very modern one better suited to someone who has only lived in the velvet rope era of LA nightlife.
Jimmy Hendrix used to drive around and make friends because he liked people, he didn't become a major personality until his death because of the worship of people who weren't there, like you.
lesterclaypool1 8 months ago
@lesterclaypool1 It just funny than shit that someone would actually think they could go ahead and say "Hey when I was 13 I hung out with Darby and The Germs!" Yeah - sure you did. When punks weren't busy slamming each other, they were busy slamming drugs, and not with 13 year olds. BTW - you show just how full of shit you are by trying to sling around comparisons about generations other than Punk, so please - go spin your fairy tales to someone who might actually believe your bullshit. LOL!
sly2kusa 8 months ago
@sly2kusa
You have no idea how stupid this comment makes you sound, do you?
It's fine, keep your juvenile Sid and Nancy impression of the punk scene. It's sad that you'll never have any real understanding of what was happening at the time but that can't be expected when all that you know about it is what you've read in a book or seen in a movie.
lesterclaypool1 8 months ago
@lesterclaypool1 Actually - I'm still waiting to hear all about it, mister "I was there". LMFAO! What a bunch of bullshit. Typical poser.
sly2kusa 8 months ago
Great footage! Thanks for the post.
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RejectedPunkRock 2 years ago
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ABSOLUTE TRASH...GOOD RIDDANCE, OFFAL...
To the ovens with all of them!!!
djfakt 2 years ago
i remember whe Whiskey a go go had talented people performing there. oh well.....
jackslicl100 2 years ago
Darby Crash um dos junkies mais fudido da historia !
XxRxDxPxX 2 years ago
the germs kicks ass!
mondocaneman 2 years ago 2
darby is a little incoherent on this one, but that was part of the germs, brilliant disarray,
rcruzibarra 2 years ago 3
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"darby is a little incoherent on this one, but that was part of the germs, brilliant disarray, "
LOL! BRILLIANCE?!!! What in fuck constitutes BRILLIANCE with this TRASH? Noise? Acting like a juvenile (rather, infant)?!
Peoples are as stupid as ever.
djfakt 2 years ago
Darby Crash was a genius, his lyrics aren't the blatant type of whining that punk usually does (it rocks, but this is better), they were intelligent and deep and motivated. The music was low-grade amateur at first but the lyrics were always brilliant, actually they'd fit nicely with a protopunk band, Velvet Underground style.
The Germs were the first (as far as anyone knows) to have a lyrics sheet sold with a single. Because they rule (and you can't understand what he's saying otherwise).
MolkoxLewd 2 years ago
What "punk" do you think of when you think whining?
theman4455245 2 years ago
mostly Johnny Rotten. His vocals...wow... Also, the Ramones, but not vocally, just lyrically, about social situations and adolescence (even though they must've been in their 20s so what gives them the right?). I don't mind it, it's just they're, you know, WHINING.
MolkoxLewd 2 years ago
and Johnny Thunder's vocals, if you listen to his like third album, first song, un-fucking-believeable. Of course it wasn't even punk anymore. Still, it kills me. He sounds like a girl.
And Richard Hell! Youth Brigade (the Full Force guys)! they're kind of nasal...I think that's it...
MolkoxLewd 2 years ago
See... lyrical content is what I took it for, and and I understand. Rotten's voice was a bit annoying, but at least it was decent lyric-wise.
I see other bands more punk, myself.
theman4455245 2 years ago
I wish I could still see them...
killingthemslowly 2 years ago
DUDE STICK TO ACTING
WILLIEMOJORISIN 2 years ago
Haha...hahaha, dude, you are so confused right now I'm not even going to help you out of this one.
MolkoxLewd 2 years ago
molkoxlewd is right
FrescoAgua 1 year ago
Licensed to drill with the torch
in our lives,
Walking on shallow water
Progressed to the
point of no distinction
Dementia of a higher order
What we do is secret...secret!
pleasureavalanche 2 years ago
Yeah right! Sloppy as fuck, but that is the reason why we morons love it...
gloubloux 2 years ago 2
yOGI Bear
MOROKOU 2 years ago
What we do is secret! Secret!
vanuaturocks 2 years ago
the germs are amazing.
chaotixroz 2 years ago
if the germs make idiotic noise then im a retard because thats all i want to hear
jonesmh123 2 years ago 23
idiotic noise for idiots... wow you're really smart fosbury68. the funny thing is you probably wasted "your" time listening to this "idiotic noise" go get fucked in your mouth you baby boomer piece of shit
jonesmh123 2 years ago 2