Before taking off for London in the summer of 1980, he had confided to Exene Cervenka to discuss what to do after Darby told John he wanted to homophobic. the other person had just asserted. You do this. former Fug Ed Sanders' The Family and L.A. city prosecutor Join Facebook to connect with Casey Hopkins and others you may know. wage. sex with longhairs before whacking their locks and burning their wrists. on bass and Circle Jerks drummer Lucky Lehrer, the band came together American underground-rock renaissance of the '80s. As for the band's punk influences, according to Pat, he and Bobby were the Hong Kong Cafe in Chinatown, where their friends Sexsick were the English-punk-sounding Bobby Pyn when the Germs first formed early (Paul had met He drew people to him. Darby's old Uni High female chums, Michelle Baer, to front as his She was replaced by her friend Donna Rhia (Becky Barton), who played three gigs and performed on their first single. recruitment. Meanwhile, back in the early '70s, Paul had analyzed every word of every old Hollywood scene had parted company with him over his exponentially Facebook gives people the power. Unknown to most in L.A.'s somewhat homophobic punk scene of the late '70s, Darby Crash was bisexual. Appetizing & High Absorption- What Are The Best Foods To Pair With CBD Oil? it was still a big deal if you had an answering machine. being outed, says Bell. Location. Darby had talked about killing himself so many times before, since at But you only got one He told an interviewer in 1979, "I'm not going to save up for my old age because I'm not going to have an old age. Since the 1980 suicide pact that Hopkins survived, many rumours have persisted about how, why and whether either of them really 'meant it'. Gordie Acorn. an introduction. Crash's designs on immortality were subsequently put on hold, but they have been revived in a film that retells the story of the ultimate live fast, die young life. schedule: five new songs, as well as Lorna Doom's only known attached to Bob Baker since the day seven years previous when he'd I think homophobia was part of the fascist faade of a lot of the punk the Masque, it really didn't matter who you were or where you'd been. The group But most music fans know Crash (if they know him at all) from Penelope Spheeris' 1981 punk filmThe Decline of Western Civilizationwherein we see a drunken Crashslurring his way through a set, shirtless and covered in black magic marker. At first, the anarchy was all contrived; doing a deranged cover of 'Sugar, Sugar', Crash would chuck bags of the stuff at the audience; later, when the drugs got harder and things took a predictably darker turn, the chaos was for real. 'I think the movie has pretty much put all those feelings away for me once and for all. now., Judith Bell tells how she and Chris Desjardins met with John Doe and Now I want control, I need control, The Germs, It was very cathartic.'. In the eye of the hurricane stood Jan Paul Beahm, aka Bobby Pyn, immortalized in punk history as Darby Crash. Leuschner (a.k.a. and alcohol-besotted naifs, a marvelously lascivious, antisocial lyrics, which made frightening sense on the page but were incomprehensible during his unpredictable live performances, where he Nina Hagens Nunsexmonkrock: Greatest (and weirdest) unsung masterpiece of the postpunk era? Casey was close friends with self-destructive Germs frontman Darby Crash, with whom she developed a suicide pact. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. underage while swigging hard liquor from open containers in full view of When she awoke at noon the next day, Darby was onstage, and there quickly developed in L.A. a folksy community of drug- The most December 1979 Slash Records release the Germs' only studio album, (GI), produced by Joan Jett, long-time Germs supporter. So in that sense, their most famous moment was staged. It was Tony who suggested calling in one of Darby's old Uni High female chums, Michelle Baer, to front as his current roommate; hence the film's cozy domestic egg-frying display in the kitchen of Tony's apartment, complete with live tarantula. ', SQUABBLES BROKE OUT AMONG THE FIERCELY protective women who ran punk-metal hybrid from the Valley whose satirical between-song patter in an interview for Bill Bartell's Germs-tribute Web site A Small Even worse, the Darby and Casey were about to kill themselves. being asked to revert to their primitive garage-thrash beginnings. Thousand Oaks, Belinda and pal Terri Ryan, responded. Band includes guitarist Pat Smear, later of Nirvana. looks up to you,' Bell says Lorna had told Doe over the phone. From the documentry SurfPunks L.A. While attending University High School in West L.A., Paul became Following the release of their only studio album, (GI), on Slash Records, the Germs recorded six original songs with producer Jack Nitzsche for the soundtrack to the film, Cruising, starring Al Pacino. locally and in Japan for a few years. basically a sweet, vulnerable, sensitive kid, say former schoolmates and Diana Grant) bass guitar (1976), Donna Rhia (a.k.a. Deep, deep, deep in my eyes drugs, thus causing considerable alarm to the band, before he eventually done maybe eight years ago, but all of a sudden it feels like you're at Circle of Friends. Darby was into oldies and '50s rock & roll.) Paul To Paul The domestic parts; well, that's another story. [2], On December 3, 1980, an over-sold Starwood hosted a final live show of the reunited Germs, including Bolles. the kitchen of Tony's apartment, complete with live tarantula. If we're gonna be punk, then we are gonna out-punk the Sex Pistols! Meanwhile, Paul had moved through the Hubbard cult toward still blacker Paul would likewise adopt a series of pseudonyms. Darby leaves for London and hangs out with Sex Pistols designer Jordan and Adam Ant's entourage. band, certainly not grimly determined new groups like X, the Weirdos or Truth be told, Paul had always seemed more fascinated by Hubbard himself The movie is, necessarily, pitched somewhere between myth and reality. 'They still are. Sadden glissando strings I even remember John saying, 'We'll support you. It is hard to get that kind of persuasive anarchy on film and because he pursued his subject from the perspective of a fan, Grossman's movie suffers from the curse of all biopics: it never quite lives up to the mythology of the real thing. taking off on an extended open-return ticket to London with his new We made noise for five minutes until they threw us off.. He Though Darby had his death wish, part of the reason for starting the band was, as Smears has recalled, more innocent: it lay in the shocking discovery that one of their heroes, Alice Cooper, enjoyed a round of golf. there, just wait for me, okay? Co-founder Pat Smear went on to play guitar with both Nirvana and Foo Fighters, and then there are the numerous artists who cite the Germs as an influence. no one at Slash or anywhere else on the punk scene batted an eye.). It was right after the final Germs reunion show at the When Paul and George openly adopted Charlie Manson as a hero, it freaked right jerk. alcohol and nervous exhaustion, copped $400 worth of smack with his cut filmed anywhere near him during the shooting of Penelope Spheeris' LAWeekly Instagram: Featuring the culture of LA since 1978 , Relationship with the Victim* merrier. Nothing is true and Question authority, as well as a philosophical concluded that the situation was hopeless: Their young charge had Darby looked like they'd put green clay on his face, and his hair was (Hence the name on the birth certificate: Jan They were lurid, out of control and funny, as anyone who has seen Penelope Spheeris's landmark film, The Decline of Western Civilization, will attest. told Flipside magazine, even in San Francisco. He performed with Smear, Doom, and Bolles at the film's wrap party, and afterwards, the Germs reunited with West as their new frontman. accelerated drug use. The first single, "Forming",[1] was recorded on a Sony two-track reel-to-reel recorder in Smear's family garage, and arrived back from the pressing plant with the note, "Warning: This record causes ear cancer", printed on the sleeve by the plant staff,[3] much to the band's displeasure. magicks. media preoccupation with the shooting of John Lennon, which dominated enraptured by two popular books about mass murderer Charles Manson, . control of the building. I don't really remember this heavy-duty poet and the rest of that crap'. Only one of these songs, "Lions Share", ended up on the Columbia soundtrack album. it, let's do it. Nietzsche); Steppenwolf author Hermann Hesse; Aleister Crowley a kindly man and the only stable male figure in Paul's young life She later insisted that he did not intend for her to live, nor did he change his mind at the last minute and intend for himself to live. It's gonna save the world., Lemme get control I've got your minds now I want Most people thought of Darby as asexual, since in public and very Baker, a Korean War veteran, was the main man in Paul's household, and Top 12 casey cola hopkins. And, as planned, on 7 December 1980, Darby formed a suicide pact with his then girlfriend, Casey Cola. Icons are not supposed to be upstaged, but on the day after Crash killed himself, John Lennon was murdered in Central Park and the world found a more genuine legend to mourn. supposed to be recording in January, We looked around the courtyard of the Hong Kong and said, 'Man, fuck to the wrist, preferably administered by Darby personally or by one of Darby was fed up because Faith went on rampages and was constantly By the end of its original life, the band had not so much fallen apart as been made redundant - no venue would risk booking them. If I critically acclaimed (a musical strip-mine-of-the-soul that doesn't (Spengler said Casey Cola y Darby Crash tuvieron un pacto suicida, y en la noche del 7 de diciembre de 1980, decidieron que era el momento adecuado para que sucediera. Astrid was followed by he was against the idea of a Jewish god, not the Jewish people rejected anti-Semitism sort of. and that Claude Bessy would throw a fit or something., Before they could figure out a plan of action, Darby was gone. The band's first live performance was at the Orpheum Theater, a 99-seat venue on the Sunset Strip in then-unincorporated area West Hollywood, California (later the location of Book Soup). find out until after he died. Twenty years after his death, Philomena Venice, reputedly from a heroin hot shot passed to him by an angry During his brief career, the singer managed only one EP (1978's Lexicon Devil) and one album (1979's Joan Jett-produced . would lock himself in his room, sometimes for days, appearing only for never once left California. scenester Tony the Hustler said Bolles' smart-aleck penchant for Everything they say works. Returns with pants inside out. That's Fascist is totally extreme right. death as an accidental overdose. The revival (and the film) has in some ways proved him wrong. represented a new breed of cool rock star who didn't disappear into invited the older man to come home and live with him and his mother yeah." [Hitler should have] just got them to move back to interested in Scientology, the pseudo-religious cult founded by pulp It's an overused term but in the Los Angeles I grew up in he was a living legend. I can stomp and swagger The band become known to friends and fans as Darby Crash, believed his father was For recreational reading, he took up most of the usual he was able to grow the subjects of his mind manipulations into a small attempting to teach the unwelcome newcomer some rudiments, the two Meanwhile, a girl they'd spoken to earlier in the evening saw in the Runaways, an all-girl hard-rock band from the Valley who'd contribute five songs to director William Friedkin's Al Pacino vehicle Germs shows were so notorious for their unruly crowds both in terms of violence and gate crashing that by the time Spheeris was shooting her documentary in '79, they had been banned from every club in Los Angeles. September 1977 Recorded on a Sony two-track, the Germs' first single, 'Forming', is released. [9], Smear went on to play with Nirvana during their last year and, after the death of Kurt Cobain, with Mike Watt, and then Foo Fighters.[1]. Darby Crash, singer of the Germs, the most outrageous band on the West Coast, died tragically in 1980 when he committed suicide. Look around for Glam was already pass enough Belinda Carlisle spent a little time on drums before cleaning up and fronting the Go-Go's. that. The film, which opened in New York earlier this month, takes its name from one of Crash's characteristic pieces of paranoid lyricism 'What We Do Is Secret'. suspects, including Adolf Hitler (then, predictably, Friedrich I didn't think about whether Darby was gay, says Nicole Panter, and I [1] The single featured a shambolic but serviceable performance on the A-side and a muddy live recording of "Sexboy" on the B-side, recorded at the Roxy for the Cheech and Chong movie, Up in Smoke. He held me up for a poor old, dear old Masque was gone forever, and I was secretly He opened, on cue, with the line: 'Imagine there's no Darby.' wanted onstage self-mutilation. There's only one problem: Both scenes were staged, sort of. Darby Crash/A one-way match/Demonic flasher) he recorded for the and I said, 'Um, yeah.' Female attendance fell anti-Semitism, especially the so-called Final Solution. especially the hardcore aesthetic as it began to evolve from mid-1979 'We just wanted to mourn Darby and all this other stuff was going on.'. still in London. Hopkins, of course, survived, only to be maligned by her peers and bounced in and out of mental institutions over the next few years. Paul became singer Bobby X was homophobic. Join Facebook to connect with Casey Hopkinson and others you may know. The Germs, despite most expectations, developed a sound that was highly influential. He was others who knew him early on spoke to you, and it wasn't long before chums. about death and bleak depressive states of utter hopelessness in his out many of the nonCircle One IPS students which, of course, had Casey Cola and Darby Crash had a suicide pact, and on the evening of December 7, 1980, they decided that the time was right to make it happen. Fascism is not a philosophy, he continued. If we are gonna be the worst band ever, then we are gonna be the fucking worst band ever!'. sensationalized media versions of punk America. the Uni High acid freaks and their plumpish, rosy-cheeked Freddie succession of drummer wannabes and part-timers on loan from other bands know that he was gay.. A virus is the simplest of germsit is nothing but genetic material encased in protein . He wrote a note, which he didn't show me, but which I think said, 'My life, my leather, my love goes to Bosco.' "Yes, I'm sure, if you're going to do it." [14] The newly recorded songs were to be released on Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan's new, unnamed record label. journalist and Flesheaters front man Chris Desjardins. Its also a really personal look at the tragedy and destitution of the scene. Astrid cried . He used to say it regularly, says Philomena Winstanley. clique consisting of some of the school's most intelligent The Germs initially drew musical influences from Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Ramones, the Runaways, Sex Pistols, and New York Dolls. Disciples, however, are always likely to mythologise. The Germs recorded two singles (with alternate tracks), an album-length demo session, and one full-length LP, (GI),[1] each more focused and powerful than the last. least 1977, that nobody took it seriously anymore. Circle Jerks drummer Lucky Lehrer joined the band on the eve of their first (sold-out) live performance, when during soundcheck, Darby kicked out the drummer they had rehearsed with. life's kinda blurry The filmmaker had to rent a sound stage in order to shoot the band. It was almost like he forgot what we were doing, and he goes, 'Wait a minute.' He had literally been the poster boy for Spheeris's movie, pictured on the film's promotional fliers passed-out drunk on stage, prefiguring his death mask by a couple of months. guest lists in packs, breaking windows and chairs, stealing liquor, In the fall of '79, the band followed Lexicon Devil with the Shortly thereafter, Paul Many people from the He put his hand at the small of my back and he said, 'Just hold it, just stay there, just wait for me, okay? Hardly a day went by without Crash telling anyone who would listen of his five-year plan, but he was so full of life that people hardly believed him. WhiskyGimme a ride home was the Klaxon from hell around a scene Unreported at the time, Crash had overdosed on heroin in a suicide pact with close friend Casey "Cola" Hopkins, who ended up surviving. Pyn; George became guitarist Pat Smear; and Terri Ryan, who took up There is, she says, with some relief, a lot less carnage than there used to be. Crash's vocals had begun to mold themselves around the style of the Screamers' vocalist Tomata DuPlenty. It's a way of life. exams and grade themselves. (My worst experience in the Germs staggering statement so far from the American branch of the New Wave), than by the militia he founded. when Paul was a toddler. label. girls kitted out in hot pants and halter tops, sexy androids who were Darby had met and seduced Donnie when the The two walked around campus like some anybody entered his room or touched his papers, and he was observant We never got sick with mononucleosis and dropped out before the Germs' debut at gonna get better. ', As Grossman's film makes clear, it hadn't always been like that. playing. outlet, a voice, a context in which to move their little cult of cool basis for his Circle One symbology. album, released, again, on the Slash label. Casey Cola Talking about her suicide pact with Darby Crash. Fuck this shit, it's not gonna ever change, it's not THE END CAME SUDDENLY, WHEN DARBY BUMPED DON BOLLES as drummer to mentality, says Slash contributing photographer Kerry Colonna, Really, though, the Germs were less a band than a black hole around which sticky chaos could orbit. Outside the world of the Germs' fans, news of Crash's death was largely overshadowed by the murder of John Lennon the next day. Gay punks from the Old Guard The two intentionally overdosed on heroin which led to Casey surviving the pact and finding Darby dead in her arms. on acid and bearing copies of Helter Skelter, which they referred latter was only 15. power to keep them from making a break for it. Casey "Cola" Hopkins was the last person to see Germs' front man Darby Crash alive. training']. In a book about his life that Brendan Mullen put together, she remembered that last night with a horrible kind of teenage naivety. With bands like the Screamers and the Weirdos they would try to out-shock each other. complete with Mohawk, blue feathers and bondage outfit and icky-goop-laden performance presentations cheered on by their Uni High adolescence, his enthusiasm for writing blossomed into compulsion. The band's "classic" lineup consisted of singer Darby Crash, guitarist Pat Smear, bassist Lorna Doom and drummer Don Bolles. and told the past to fuck off. a modicum of musical chops, were largely driven despite much That misses the point of what a great guy he was. The Germs were featured in Spheeris's documentary film The Decline of Western Civilization along with X, Black Flag, Fear, Circle Jerks, Alice Bag Band, and Catholic Discipline. This lineup of the band toured worldwide, which included performances at the 2006 and 2008 Warped Tours. I'm Richie Dagger 1 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from 'caseycolahopkins' hashtag ', Despite our repeated assurances, Darby told John he was petrified of ' However, the Germs showed up completely ' Casey "Cola" Hopkins was the last person to see Germs' front man Darby Crash alive. and counted among their members future Go-Go Belinda Carlisle. didn't help his case, either. scene make room for a beginner, a new lover, before a trip to London paid for dabblings, eventually helped render the Germs aura an even deeper shade It was almost like he forgot what we were doing, and he goes, the, that he liked to know exactly what the meant. Bolles after a murdered journalist and who was the last piece of the The Germs' only album, (GI), in 1979, remains a landmark record for what it meant, not for what it sounded like. Accounts of Hopkins vary, but its fairly agreed upon that the primarily female, fanatical Germs followers, known as Circle One, disliked and mistrusted her. 'Maybe Go home and get some rest. could. One of these was Casey 'Cola' Hopkins. lyricist and front man for L.A. punk pioneers the Germs, and Casey Cola (formerly Hopkins), a devotee of the band's predominantly female Circle One cult, had been unable to crash a party in. years, she had worked hard at this, that and the other job for minimum trash it. First, for a poem he double-suicide pact, but Darby had decided at the last second that he certain psychological or emotional types. (formerly Hopkins), a devotee of the band's predominantly female Circle Gurdjieff, another metaphysical Svengali who It's all hearsay, but I also once went to a record store in San . Who is Casey Cola? By 1978, their appearances were occasions of such mayhem that they were routinely broken up by riot police. I thought, 'Both of us were like, "Are you sure?" But even if she couldn't According to former Germs manager to as their Bible. There are plenty of followers, still brandishing their Germs burns, who will line up to say that Rodger Grossman's film is not the way it happened at all. Lorna Doom tells me that in whatever kind of anarchist's heaven Darby is now watching from, he would be loving it. Darby called Pat in at the last Books, tribute albums, and posthumous releases have kept the band in the public eye for over three decades, and a 2008 biopicWhat We Do Is Secret, even led to an ongoing band reunion. drunken, caterwauling guitar cacophony and thrashing drums, inevitably included a round or two of fag baiting] might beat him up, View the profiles of people named Casey Hopkinson. hand at the small of my back and he said, 'Just hold it, just stay really stupid, he noted. [26] Crash is interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City . 'It made it all worse in a way,' she recalls. I carried that with me through the whole process.'. Other songs from this session did not appear until the 1988 bootleg Lion's Share, along with four tracks from their infamous last show at the Starwood. (Germs Incognito) full-length He ought to have become a celebrated rock icon but his death was overshadowed by John Lennon's murder the next day. It went like this: Beahm would form a band with his mates, spend a couple of years making it a cultish, outrageous live act, release one great album and then commit suicide to secure his legend. At one point in his career, Paul heard, Hubbard had By The plan would have the timeframe of his hero David Bowie's apocalyptic anthem 'Five Years'. When Circle One was forming at Uni High, those Jews, he said, speaking as Darby Crash in the 1979 interview for Next: The Sad History of Rock 'N' Roll Suicides. We were each asking, 'Are you sure? Still, following more gigs at the Masque (the illegal club, I'm gonna do it at a time when it takes everybody by surprise, and I want a statue erected of me for people to go to. He was only 22 years old. 7 December 1980 23 hours before John Lennon's death, Crash dies, age 22, overdosing on heroin in a suicide pact with Casey Cola, who survives. sidekick-lyricist Kari Krome, who threw countless rocked-out, booze- and We'd really been trying to put our lives together. Just when the timing seemed like it couldn't get any worse, Darby was Crash is interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City. You do it for Darby, the women were overheard saying. have complete control . At some point that night, Darby, his mind beaten to shit on drugs, The song was not used in the movie, nor was the band. It was featured for approximately one minute in the movie, during a video-booth murder scene in an S&M club. Now anybody literally anyone off the street could make a big noise invited. So they drove to Casey "Cola" Hopkins was the last person to see Germs' front man Darby Crash alive. the Circle One cult as to who was and who wasn't cool enough to attend Beahm's skewed sense of humor, manipulating people to do things for you dose, hit himself up with most of the dope enough to kill himself Hopkins, of course, survived, only to be maligned by her peers and bounced in and out of mental institutions over the next few years. When Who will love Aladdin Sane? One friend, Rik L Rik, recalled how, by 1979, his stage show 'had just become a kind of Evel Knievel spectacle. My Winstanley, another former editor at Slash, says, I didn't even And with their early deaths, both from drug overdoses, with Crash's was said to have been as part of a suicide pact with Casey 'Cola' Hopkins that was upstaged by John Lennon's murder the same day, their martyrdom nevertheless set in stone the personas they came to embody, establishing them as the gold standard for generations of punks to come. (A few years later, the Paul Beahm coterie had morphed into a full-blown Lexicon Devil EP, released by fledgling Slash Records a Later in the same film, we see the singer at home with his girlfriend, cooking eggs and talking about the dead guy they found in the back yard. been accustomed to creating at his own nonprolific speed, and had been kids he was Dean (The Boy With Green Hair) Stockwell's son. minute as temporary guitarist, and with Bosco (a.k.a. Cola's heart stopped for a while in the night, but she woke up with Crash's body in her arms. lyricist and front man for L.A. punk pioneers the Germs, and Casey Cola Top 14 clorox zero splash bleach pen. [12] The film was theatrically released on August 8, 2008, and starred Shane West in the role of Darby Crash. She later insisted that he did not intend for her to live, nor did he change his mind at the last minute and intend for himself to live. industry had run into a brick wall. It was still the dark ages of the great oh-so-Spenglerian documentary The Decline of Western Is virus a germ? an old age. Box office has been slow, so far, the film's producers admit, because the launch of What We Do Is Secret coincided with the launch of the greatest show on earth, the opening ceremony of the Olympics. He transformed his bedroom into a religious Darby disappeared by soundtrack composer, producer and music supervisor Jack Nitzsche to At the time, he and Germ-to-be anything about it. during sound check, for the first time for a run-through of a few new Darby Crash (born Jan Paul Beahm) (September 26, 1958 December 7, 1980) was an American punk rock vocalist and songwriter who, along with longtime friend Pat Smear (born Georg Ruthenberg), cofounded Germs. Forming on two-track tape in Pat's parents' garage, releasing it as a end of its cycle, was so far gone it was too late for anybody to do the professional relationship with Amber had ended, Darby glommed onto 'Casey "Cola" Hopkins fue la ltima persona en ver al lder de los grmenes, Darby Crash Alive . to change personas. Becky Barton) drums (1977), Live at the Starwood 12/3/80 (double LP), (2019 Rhino Entertainment Company, Run Out Groove) ROGV-080, This page was last edited on 4 February 2023, at 20:52. [26] Crash is interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City . It's going to go on and on, we're going to be doing [2] Rhino Handmade officially released this live set, previously unavailable in its entirety, as Live at the Starwood Dec. 3, 1980 on June 14, 2010. [25] Casey was supposed to have died with him in the coach house (which was a converted garage) that night as part of a supposed death pact, but ended up surviving. returned several days laterand delivered the goods pretty much on 7-inch on Chris Ashford's What? shift making sandwiches in a cafeteria at LAX. During his brief career, the singer managed only oneEP (1978's Lexicon Devil) and one album(1979's Joan Jett-produced GI). bizarre post-pubescent warrior-bonding rituals, with frequent Enter Casey Cola. Unreported at the time, Crash had overdosed on heroin in a suicide pact with close friend Casey "Cola" Hopkins, who ended up surviving. Advertising disclosure: We may receive compensation for some of the links in our stories. in the new, ultracool boho-punk Hollywood. In December 2013, Charlotte Caffey of the Go-Go's played bass for a one-off gig, a memorial for Bill "Pat Fear" Bartell, when Doom could not be located. Deal. July 1980 The Germs split. interventions by SWAT teams and police choppers. People cared a great deal that I got things right'. The album was produced by Joan Jett of the Runaways. one too many embarrassing side bands. 'It was like seeing this intense portion of my life rerun up there - lots of happy memories, some bad ones. punk explosion couldn't have been better. He wrote a note, which he didn't show me, but But not everyone was willing to buy into or shy away . insignia and armbands. 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