Darby Crash (born Jan Paul Beahm) (A.K.A. Bobby Pyn) (September 26, 1958 – December 7, 1980)^[1][2] was an American^[3] punk rock musician who co-founded (with long time friend, Pat Smear) The Germs. is the 269th day of the year (270th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 341st day of the year (342nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. ... The Germs are a punk rock band from Los Angeles formed in the late 1970s. ... is the 269th day of the year (270th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 341st day of the year (342nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ... 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. ... Pat Smear (born Georg Rottenberg on August 5, 1959), is a U.S. rock guitarist who has been a regular member of several well-known bands, albeit of different subgenres: The Germs, Nirvana and Foo Fighters. ... The Germs are a punk rock band from Los Angeles formed in the late 1970s. ...

Early life

Crash had a troubled childhood: The man he grew up believing to be his biological father left the family and his older brother died of a drug overdose. When in his teens, his sister revealed in an argument that his biological father was really a Swedish sailor named William Bjorklund. Crash attended IPS, a school within University High School in Los Angeles, California. The IPS program was a notoriously free form academic program which combined elements of EST and Scientology.^[4] Father with child For other uses, see Father (disambiguation). ... University High School, commonly known as Uni is a secondary school located in West Los Angeles, a district in Los Angeles, California near the border of Santa Monica. ... d Los Angeles and L.A. redirect here. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city 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. ...

Before the Germs, he and Pat Smear called themselves "Sophistifuck and the Revlon Spam Queens", but had to shorten their name as they didn't have enough money to put the full name on a t-shirt.^[5] After a short stint under the name Bobby Pyn, he changed his name to Darby Crash. The Germs became an important Los Angeles-area punk band, known for their chaotic live shows. The Germs soon dominated the L.A. punk scene. They can be seen in the 1981 film The Decline of Western Civilization, directed by Penelope Spheeris. Pat Smear (born Georg Rottenberg on August 5, 1959), is a U.S. rock guitarist who has been a regular member of several well-known bands, albeit of different subgenres: The Germs, Nirvana and Foo Fighters. ... 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. ... The Decline of Western Civilization is a rockumentary film directed by Penelope Spheeris about the Los Angeles punk rock scene in 1979 and 1980. ... Penelope Spheeris (born December 2, 1945) is an American director, producer, and screenwriter. ...

Later life and suicide

After Crash broke up the Germs, he moved to England briefly. In England, Crash became close friends with Adam Ant of Adam & the Ants and also found his way to the now popular hairstyle, "the Mohican" (Aka the Mohawk). Crash hated calling this hairstyle a "Mohawk" as labeling it degrading to the tribal hair of the Native Americans. He brought this style to the U.S. and upon his return formed the short-lived Darby Crash Band. Shortly after a celebrated live reunion with the Germs, Crash committed suicide with an intentional heroin overdose on December 7, 1980, the day before John Lennon was murdered. His legacy has carried on past the release of The Germs (MIA): The Complete Anthology in 1993. Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem - the United Kingdom anthem God Save the Queen is commonly used England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto)1 Unified  -  by Athelstan 927 AD  Area  -  Total... Adam Ant (born Stuart Leslie Goddard) is an English pop star, lead singer of 1980s New Wave/post-punk group Adam & the Ants and later a solo artist. ... Adam and the Ants were a new wave band during the late 1970s and early 1980s. ... Mohawk is: A tribe of American Indians: see Mohawk nation The Mohawk language spoken by the Mohawk people. ... Rather than surrender to US soldiers, the Mayor (Bürgermeister) of Leipzig Germany, committed suicide along with his wife and daughter on April 20, 1945. ... Heroin (INN: diacetylmorphine, BAN: diamorphine) is an opioid synthesized directly from the extracts of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum. ... A drug overdose occurs when a chemical substance (i. ... is the 341st day of the year (342nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ... John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980), (born John Winston Lennon, known as John Ono Lennon) was an iconic English 20th century rock and roll songwriter and singer, best known as the founding member of The Beatles. ...

Darby Crash is interred in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California. Holy Cross Cemetery is located at 5835 W. Slauson Avenue in Culver City, California. ... Motto: The Heart of Screenland Location of Culver City in California Coordinates: Country United States of America State California County Los Angeles Incorporated (city) 1917-09-07 [2] Government  - City Manager Jerry Fulwood [1] Area  - City  5. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city 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. ...

Posthumous honors

A biography of Darby Crash, called Lexicon Devil after one of the Germs' songs, was published by Feral House and was written by Brendan Mullen, a club booker/ promoter during the early years of punk rock in Los Angeles (ISBN 0-922915-70-9). The book plays a cameo of sorts in the Red Hot Chili Peppers' videos "By the Way" and "Universally Speaking." Lead singer Anthony Kiedis is seen holding, and later losing, a copy of the book in "By the Way," and an attempt is made to return the book to him in "Universally Speaking." Kiedis has stated he and the Peppers are fans of The Germs and Crash; bassist Flea has said the Germs wrote and performed the best punk rock songs of all time, and that Darby Crash is the best lyricist of all time[2]. Additionally, when choosing the license plate of a car in the music video for the song, Californication, Anthony Kiedis had it say "Germs." A movie based on his life is set to be released in 2007. Named after one of the Germs' songs, What We Do Is Secret stars Shane West as "ultra hard-living, bisexual punk rock legend Darby Crash".^[6] Red Hot Chili Peppers are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1983. ... By the Way is the eighth studio album by American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, released on July 9, 2002, on the Warner Bros. ... Universally Speaking is a song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers from their 2002 album By The Way. ... Anthony Kiedis (born November 1, 1962) is the lead singer and a co-founder of the Grammy award winning American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. ... For other uses, see Flea (disambiguation) Michael Peter Balzary (born October 16, 1962 in Melbourne, Australia), better known by his nickname/stage name Flea, is an Australian-American bassist for the alternative rock/funk rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers and a frequent session musician for other music acts. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... What We Do Is Secret is a film based on the life of Germs singer Darby Crash starring Shane West and Bijou Phillips, its scheduled for release in July 2007. ... Shane West (born June 10, 1978) is an American television and film actor. ... In human sexuality, bisexuality describes a man or woman having a sexual orientation to persons of either or both sexes (a man or woman who sexually likes both sexes; people who are sexually and/or romantically attracted to both males and females). ...

In 2006, Matmos dedicated a song to Crash on their album The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast which features samples of screams from Drew Daniel as Don Bolles is extinguishing a cigarette on the inner side of Drew's left wrist. This mark is said to be a "Germs burn" if done by a member of the Germs band, such as Don Bolles, or from someone that has been previously burned by the same, such as Drew Daniel.^[7] Matmos (left to right): Drew Daniel and M.C. Schmidt Matmos is an experimental electronica duo from San Francisco on the Matador Records label. ... The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast is a 2006 album by Matmos. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... Drew Daniel was born Andrew Theodore Daniel on April 28, 1982 in Springfield, Ohio, and is 60 seconds older than his identical twin brother, Ben. ... Don Bolles (July 28, 1928 - June 2, 1976) was a reporter for the Arizona Republic newspaper. ...

References

1. ^ State of California. California Birth Index, 1905-1995. Sacramento, CA, USA: State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics.
2. ^ State of California. California Death Index, 1940-1997. Sacramento, CA, USA: State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics.
3. ^ Duralde, Alonso; Anne Stockwell (2002-07-09). Biographies - Wild reads: waves, winds, and a good book you can take while you bake—isn't that what summer's all about?. The Advocate.
4. ^ Mullen. "Annihilation Man; How Darby Crash lost control. Of the Germs. Of Circle One. Everything", LA Weekly, December 27, 2000. Retrieved on 2007-05-23. 
5. ^ http://mog.com/music/The_Germs
6. ^ Davidson, Telly (2007-06-25). Westwood Goes Kabluey. FilmStew.
7. ^ [1] Track notes for "The Rose Has Teeth In the Mouth of a Beast"

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External links

• Darby Crash's Gravesite
• Darby Crash & the Germs tribute site