Agent Orange
Background information
Origin	California, USA
Genre(s)	Post-punk Punk Rock Surf punk
Years active	1979 – present
Label(s)	Posh Boy Records
Website	Official Website
Members
Mike Palm Perry Giordano Dusty Watson
Former members
Scott Miller James Levesque Brent Liles (deceased) Derek O'Brien Sam Bolle Charlie Quintana Steve Soto Steve Latanation Bruce Taylor

Agent Orange is a punk band from Placentia, California. They were a surf-punk band from the 1980s and first gained attention with their song Bloodstains which they wrote for a local Orange County compilation album. After the compilation album the group's then managers presented KROQ, Pasadena radio station's D.J. Rodney Bingenheimer with a demo tape which soon became one of his show's biggest hits. Image File history File links Agent_orangeband. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Largest metro area Greater Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Post punk generally refers to the particularly fertile and creative period following the initial punk rock explosion. During the first wave of punk, roughly spanning 1976-1983, bands such as The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Ramones and The Damned began to challenge the current styles and conventions of rock... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... Surf punk is a sub-genre of punk rock that fuses surf rock and punk, respectively. ... Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Posh Boy Records was a Hollywood, California based record label owned by Robbie Fields, a sometime high school substitute teacher who took an interest in the emerging punk rock scene in Orange County, California during the early 1980s. ... Dusty Watson is an American drummer, who is a member of the punk rock band Agent Orange. ... James Levesque is best known as the high energy bass player from surf punk legends Agent Orange. ... Brent Liles (born September 7, 1963) was the bassist for Social Distortion from 1981-1984 and later was the bassist for Agent Orange (band). ... Derek OBrien (1962/3-) is a drummer and producer who has been involved with many bands and projects throughout his career. ... Charlie Quintana (a. ... Born August, 1963. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... Location of Placentia within Orange County, California. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Largest metro area Greater Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... The 1980s refers to the years from 1980 to 1989. ... Cities in Orange County Orange County is a county in Southern California, United States. ... KROQ is a commercial rock and roll music radio station in Los Angeles, California, broadcasting on 106. ... Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. ... Rodney Bingenheimer (pronounced ), born December 15 1948, in Mountain View, California, is a renowned Hollywood identity and radio disc jockey on the well-known Los Angeles rock station, KROQ. Often referred to as The Mayor of Sunset Strip he has been a fixture in rock and roll circles since the...

Besides having Mike Palm and Scott Miller as original members, Steve Soto was the power trio’s first bass player, the one who played on the first “Bloodstains”. The darkness version of this song later appeared on Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4. He later left the band to form The Adolescents. With new member James Levesque on bass, (writer of such hits as "Everything Turns Grey" and "Living in Darkness") the group found their way to the famous Living In Darkness sessions at Brian Elliot recording studio (Elliot is most known for having composed Madonna’s hit Papa Don’t Preach). The result of these sessions was their first long player, Living In Darkness (originally released by Posh Boy Records in November 1981), as well as a single and one or two bonus tracks that later surfaced on some E.P.s. Sam Bolle replaced Brent Liles in January of 1991, and remained with the band until May of 2003, when he joined Surf Guitar Legend Dick Dale's band, where he remains to this day- although he occasionally still performs with his old friends Mike and Dusty. Born August, 1963. ... The Adolescents are a punk music group formed in 1980 in Fullerton, California. ... James Levesque is best known as the high energy bass player from surf punk legends Agent Orange. ... Madonna Louise Ciccone Ritchie (born August 16, 1958), better known as simply Madonna, is a six-time Grammy[1] and one-time Golden Globe award winning American pop singer, songwriter, record and film producer, dancer, actress, author and fashion icon. ... Posh Boy Records was a Hollywood, California based record label owned by Robbie Fields, a sometime high school substitute teacher who took an interest in the emerging punk rock scene in Orange County, California during the early 1980s. ...

Agent Orange has had an enormous influence on the punk and hardcore scene^{[citation needed]}, even though band members stated on Living in Darkness that "We don't feel a part of that scene at all." Agent Orange was one of the first bands to pioneer what would later be known as the skate-punk or skate-core scene. They developed a following in Fullerton along with The Adolescents. The band is still together today with few member changes. Their most recent album was in 2003 with Sonic Snake Session. Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Scene may refer to: Scene (fiction), an element of a larger fictional work such as a play Scene (film), a part of action in a single location in a TV or movie Scene (music), a collection of musical acts that play regularly in one location. ...

Discography

• Living In Darkness - 1981
• Bitchin' Summer EP - 1982
• When You Least Expect It... EP - 1983
• This Is The Voice - 1986
• Virtually Indestructible - 1996
• Blood Stained Hitz Greatest and Latest - 2000/2004
• Sonic Snake Session - 2003

Living In Darkness is the 1981 release by the hardcore punk band Agent Orange. ... Agent Orange is a punk band from Fullerton, California. ...

Members

Entire history of band:

• Mike Palm

First two albums:

• Scott Miller
• James Levesque

Other former members: James Levesque is best known as the high energy bass player from surf punk legends Agent Orange. ...

• Brent Liles
• Derek O'Brien
• Sam Bolle (CD "Virtually Indestructible")
• Charlie Quintana (CD "Virtually Indestructible")
• Steve Soto (first "Bloodstains" single)
• Steve Latanation
• Bruce Taylor

Current: Brent Liles (born September 7, 1963) was the bassist for Social Distortion from 1981-1984 and later was the bassist for Agent Orange (band). ... Derek OBrien (1962/3-) is a drummer and producer who has been involved with many bands and projects throughout his career. ... Charlie Quintana (a. ... Born August, 1963. ...

• Perry Giordano
• Dusty Watson
• Shelby Fussell

External links

• AGENT ORANGE BeBAD.us Videos