Product Details

• Actors: The Germs
• Directors: The Germs
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Cleopatra
• DVD Release Date: May 31, 2004
• Run Time: 45 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0001MMGGI
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #179,303 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Review

An impressively original, multi-media retrospective of one of punk rock s most controversial and hugely influential bands, The Germs!

DVD 1 contains a live concert performance of The Germs at The Whisky plus 18 phenomenal tracks, live and studio recordings, which showcases the Germs signature harsh, distorted guitars and punishing vocals!

DVD 2 offers a unique re-telling of the Germs legend by drummer Don Bolles plus a special photo slide show!

For those who don t know their rock history, the Germs spawned two of rock s most provocative talents; frontman Darby Crash and guitarist Pat Smear (Nirvana/Foo Fighters)!

This is the story of 4 young punks who sought to out-gun the Sex Pistols, out-pop Iggy and make Live fast, die young their personal mantra. Led by the inimitable frontman Darby Crash, the reckless embodiment of punk rock s lethal passion, The Germs exploded on the Los Angeles scene like a clusterbomb of drilling guitars and pulverizing rhythms and found instant notoriety in the underground. Though they released only one album during Crash s short life (he passed at the tender age of only 22), The Germs have remained a highly influential and crucially important part of rock music history. Germs guitarist Pat Smear even found his way into a nice little band from Seattle called Nirvana while drummer Don Bolles went on to found the goth-punk hybrid 45 Grave. Media Blitz is an impressively original, 2 DVD set retrospective of one of punk rock s most controversial bands that contains not only a stellar, full-length concert performance as well as numerous rare audio tracks but also includes an exclusive re-telling of the Germs legend by Bolles. If you are looking for a more comprehensive Germs package, you aren t going to find it. Media Blitz is the definitive Germs compilation and a necessary addition to any serious music lover s collection who has yet to be infected! --Cleopatra Records

Product Description

DVD 1
Live Concert Performance: The Germs At The Whisky 1979
1. What We Do Is Secret
2. Art
3. Communist Eyes
4. Caught In My Eye
5. Mediaj Blitz
6. Lexicon Devil
7. Manimal
8. Going Down
9. The Other Newest One
10. Our Way

Audio Tracks:
1. Forming (Studio 1977)
2. Round N Round (Studio 1977)
3. Sex Boy (Studio 1977)
4. Strange Notes (Live at The Hong Kong Cafe 1978)
5. Caught In My Eye (Live at The Hong Kong Cafe 1978)
6. Let s Pretend (Live at The Whisky 1979)
7. Lexicon Devil (Live at The Whisky 1979)
8. Manimal (Live at The Whisky 1979)
9. Our Way (Live at The Whisky 1979)
10. Shut Down (Live at The Whisky 1979)
11. What We Do Is Secret (Live at The Whisky 1979)
12. Art (Live at The Whisky 1979)
13. Communist Eyes (Live at The Whisky 1979)
14. Lion s Share (Live at The Whisky 1979)
15. Media Blitz (Live at The Hong Kong Cafe 1978)
16. What We Do Is Secret (Live at The Hong Kong Cafe 1978)
17. Lion s Share (Rehearsal 1979)
18. Throw It Away (Rehearsal 1979)

DVD 2
Germ Warfare - The Germs Story By Don Bolles
Photo Slide Show

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pure Raw Footage - I Love It!, May 11, 2011

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This review is from: Media Blitz - The Germs Story (DVD)

This DVD of The Germs - Media Blitz The Germs Story is awesome footage because, its a rare sight to see The Germs really playing Live at the Whisky in 1979 a few years before Darby Crash Comitted Suicide from an Herion Overdose... Something Darby thought he had to do in order to get redemtion on all the weirdo's that ever saw him play and never took him seriously but other than that stuff; This DVD is great it! it's like a video camera secretly filming The Germs when there playing on stage. Also a bonus dvd of a interview with drummer Don Bolles. Heres the list of songs they play live on the concert at the whisky 1979-

LIVE @ The Whisky (1979)DVD:

1.)What We Do Is Secret
2.)Art
3.)Communist Eyes
4.)Caught In My Eye
5.)Media Blitz
6.)Lexicon Devil
7.)Manimal
8.)Going Down
9.)The Other Newest One
10.)Our Way

Bonus DVD: Interview With Drummer - Don Bolles/Slideshow of The Bands Pictures

(Recommended before all of them go out of print) :(

5.0 out of 5 stars Very cool!, January 10, 2012

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This review is from: Media Blitz - The Germs Story (DVD)

Got this for my 14 year old for Christmas. It is pretty raw but he loves it. He's a huge Pat Smear fan.

8 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Germs Are Infectious, December 6, 2005

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Robert S. Robbins (Williamsport, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Media Blitz - The Germs Story (DVD)

This is a two DVD set but all the material could have fit on one DVD. DVD 1 features an infamous live concert performance at The Whiskey 1979. This is the concert where Pat kicked a bouncer in the head and had to sneak out to avoid being beaten up. DVD 1 also features some audio tracks without any video whatsoever.

DVD 2 features a long reminiscence by Don Bolles. It must have been filmed after he wrote the book "Lexicon Devil" because he holds up the book to show the photos that relate to his story. Like they couldn't just intercut the photos. He shows off his record collection which is endearingly fan-like. DVD 2 also has a slide show of photos from the book.

Seeing Darby Crash sing makes you realize why people called The Germs a joke. He sings like a drunken frat boy! Just dreadful.