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Media Blitz - The Germs Story

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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) :(

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

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.

it dont really matter how much your in to the germs,the thing is that they gave it a go...all those years back...very raw and limited talent but hey....it was punk rock