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Drug use, vomiting and passing out on stage, a live presence that ranged from clownish theatrics to the menacingly sublime, an appearance in the punk film, The Decline of Western Civilization, and a near appearance in Cheech and Chong’s battle of the bands scene in Up in Smoke—what’s not epic about seminal Los Angeles punk band, The Germs?

The zygote of The Germs was formed in early 1977 by two misfits named George Ruthenberg (later known as Pat Smear) and Jan Paul Beahm (who went at first by Bobby Pyn, and later for the name attached to his legend, Darby Crash). Both adolescents had recently been booted from their local high school. Their original name for the band was “Sophistifuck & the Revlon Spam Queens,”... Read More

Genre:

Rock, Punk

City Of Origin:

Los Angeles, ,California United States

Formed Date:

1977