I'm guessing of all the people who read my blogs regularly, if 4 people know who the Germs are, I'll be amazed.
The Germs were Darby Crash/Bobby Pynz, Pat Smear, Lorna Doom, and various others thru their two years. They were one of the first punk bands on the West Coast scene, forging the sound.
Live at the Whiskey musically wise is not a good cd. In fact, musically...its bad. but the live energy that was caught, the imagery that you get...t me makes it great.
Ther Germs played The Whiskey once. Introduced by Belinda Carlisle, of the Go Go fame, and once a drummer from them, it turns chaotic soon after. The first thing you hear is someone yelling for Pat Smear to put on underwear, because the back of his pants are ripped out.
After that, musical mayhem. The sound is great for back then. Pat Smear later went on to play for Nirvana, Foo Fighters, and Courtney Love. You can tell hes early into his guitar playing.
Darby Crash, who in two years would be dead from a suicide, was a brilliant lyricist, and a shit singer. Between songs, he challenges people to fight, calls them pussies, and encourages the audiences to throw food at each other.
I could pick up a guitar right now and cover the Archie's "Sugar Sugar" right now, but then, I wasn't being covered in sugar while I played it.
Musically, it gets 1 star, but energy and nostalgia, a 10 in my book.
