Crash's vocals had begun to mold themselves around the style of The Screamers ' vocalist Tomata DuPlenty ( The Screamers, a huge LA live attraction at the time, never released a record, but covered the Germs song, ' Sex Boy ,' at live shows, recordings of which are now widely available on bootleg.

Crash and Smear were enthusiastic fans of the band from the pre-Germs days, and the fast tempos and raw guitar tone of ( the historically pre-punk ) Zolar X are very similar to the sound achieved on later Germs recordings.

The Germs are featured in Penelope Spheeris's documentary film The Decline of Western Civilization along with X, Black Flag, Fear, Circle Jerks, Alice Bag Band, and Catholic Discipline.

Crash and the Germs are the subject of the 2007 biopic What We Do Is Secret which stars Shane West as Crash, Bijou Phillips as Lorna Doom, Rick Gonzalez as Pat Smear, and Noah Segan as Bolles.

Germs are useful in determining the properties of dynamical systems near chosen points of their phase space: they are one of the main tools in singularity theory and catastrophe theory.

Bands included are Black Flag, Germs, X, Alice Bag Band, Circle Jerks, Catholic Discipline, and Fear.

This approach has been attributed to American environmental historians Webb and Turner and, more recently to Jared Diamond in his book " Guns, Germs and Steel ", where the presence or absence of disease vectors and resources such as plants and animals that are amenable to domestication that may not only stimulate the development of human culture but even determine, to some extent, the direction of that development.

From chapter 9 of Guns, Germs and Steel, six groups of reasons for failed domestication of animals are:

Zinner has also remixed Single Frame's song, " People are Germs ," in addition to appearing in the music video.

Other Feral House titles have had their film rights optioned, and are currently in development: Lexicon Devil: The Fast Times and Short Life of Darby Crash and the Germs by Brendan Mullen ( released as What We Do Is Secret ); Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons by John Carter, introduction by Robert Anton Wilson ; Shit Magnet by Jim Goad ; 15 to Life: How I Painted My Way to Freedom by Anthony Papa with Jennifer Wynn ; Big Dead Place: Inside the Strange and Menacing World of Antarctica by Nicholas Johnson.

* Germs ( band ), an American punk rock band ( 1976-1980, 2005 — present )

The band's major influences stemmed from late 1970s punk acts like The Ramones, The Germs, Sex Pistols and The Clash, along with such early 1980s American hardcore bands as Black Flag, Circle Jerks and Minor Threat.

Darby Crash ( born Jan Paul Beahm ) ( September 26, 1958 – December 7, 1980 ) was an American punk musician who, along with long-time friend Pat Smear ( born Georg Ruthenberg ), co-founded The Germs.

The introduction of disease can also play a role and has worked to the advantages of both lesser technologically advanced and more technologically advanced societies, e. g. negatively for indigenous American civilizations and positively for Africans and some others < ref > See, for example, Jared Diamond's < i > Guns, Germs, and Steel </ i >.

Though the feeling and vitality of the early scene was based on the excitement of punk, the spectrum of music played in clubs and on radio featured Roxy Music, David Bowie, Ultravox, Skids, Slits, much English stuff, and lots of new American bands such as Avant Gardener, Tina Peel, The B-52's, the Nuns, Germs, Trenchmouth, The Cramps, Slickees, X, and the garage and punk bands out of New York.

* Ep 647 ( 2010-02-28 ) The Complete History of Alt-Rock 8: The A-Word --" Alternative " ( 1980 – 84 )-featuring: Eagles ( band ) & The Trammps & The Romantics & Ramones & Toto ( band ) & The Buggles & Duran Duran & Talking Heads & Germs ( band ) & X ( American band ) & Black Flag ( band ) & Bad Religion & Sonic Youth & Hüsker Dü & The Replacements ( band ) & R. E. M.

The 2007 bio drama What we do is secret, about the punk band The Germs, is done in a partial documentary style, with cast members addressing the camera as if being interviewed.

The first major scene of what came to be known as hardcore punk developed in Southern California in 1978 – 79, initially around such punk bands as The Germs and Fear.

Penelope Spheeris ' first installment of the three-part documentary " The Decline of Western Civilization " ( 1981 ) details extensive footage of the early Los Angeles punk scene through interviews and early concert footage from Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Germs, Fear, and Catholic Discipline, among others.

Shortly after that, Crash contacted Smear about a Germs " reunion " show, claiming it was necessary to " put punk into perspective " for the punks on the scene.

By 1979, Black Flag were joined by other Los Angeles-area bands playing hardcore punk, including X, Fear, The Germs and the Circle Jerks ( featuring Black Flag's original singer, Keith Morris ).

Both Love and Erlandson were fans of the notorious LA punk band The Germs.

In a 1996 interview for a Germs tribute documentary, Erlandson said: " I think every band is based on one song, and our band was based on " Forming "... Courtney brought it into rehearsal, and she knew, like, three chords and it was the only punk rock song we could play.

They were formed as a punk band and had roots in the L. A. punk community ; they shared a rehearsal space with X, and Carlisle ( under the name " Dottie Danger ") had briefly been a member of punk-rock band The Germs.

Los Angeles ' original late 1970s punk scene received less press attention than their counterparts in New York or London, but it included cult bands The Screamers, The Germs, The Weirdos, The Dils, The Bags, 45 Grave ( founded by Paul B. Cutler ) and X.

Early on, the band began by playing the Consumers songs that Cutler had written, with lyrics changed to fit Cancer's singing style, before concentrating on composing new material like " Black Cross " ( issued as their first single, featuring Pat Smear of The Germs on guitar ) and a fast-paced punk song called " Party Time " ( which was later slowed down and reworked on their 1983 debut album and sole studio release, Sleep in Safety.

The Teen Idles were strongly influenced by punk bands in Washington and California, such as Bad Brains, Black Flag and The Germs.

The documentary features interviews performances by Southern California punk bands Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Catholic Discipline, Circle Jerks, Fear, The Germs, and X.

Some prominent members of the punk rock community such as Fat Mike and Jello Biafra have been critical of The Germs ' decision to replace Darby Crash with an actor.

In 1980 the group, minus Pat Bag, was filmed by Penelope Spheeris for the seminal punk rock documentary film, The Decline of Western Civilization, which also featured The Germs, Black Flag, The Go-Go's, Catholic Discipline, X and other prominent L. A. punk bands.

After the success of those gigs, the Secondmen were scheduled to play two more Los Angeles-area shows, including a December 3 opening slot with reunited punk legends and longtime heroes of Watt's, The Germs.

This movie represents the only film soundtrack work by the seminal Los Angeles punk rock band The Germs.

Rob Ritter also joined The Gun Club, and appears on their first LP Fire Of Love, but left to change his name to Rob Graves and form the seminal death rock band 45 Grave, with Dinah Cancer, Don Bolles, previously of The Germs and Nervous Gender, Paul Roessler of The Screamers and Nervous Gender and Paul Cutler.

In addition, there was a widespread perception that punk rock was dying, as movements such as post-punk, hardcore, and deathrock were emerging while many of the original Los Angeles punk bands ( such as The Germs and The Weirdos ) were breaking up, and in such a changing environment Slash had essentially served its purpose.

The first-wave Los Angeles punk rock band the Germs included a version of " Sugar, Sugar " on their album Germicide, as taken from their first live concert in 1977.

The song was not used in the movie, nor was the band, the only band not to receive a call-back to perform live for the film's " Battle of the Bands " sequence, perhaps due to the fact that the Germs ' chaotic Roxy performance had featured an unscripted, full-on food fight.

The Germs, despite most expectations, developed a sound that was highly influential: throughout their career, they would have a reputation as a chaotic live band.

The band, described by Smear as " like the Germs, but with worse players ," played only a few gigs to lukewarm reaction before splitting up.

), with band members Dave Grohl and Pat Smear being recruited from Scream and The Germs, and singer Kurt Cobain listing hardcore albums among his top 50 favorites.

The band, described by Smear as " like the Germs, but with worse players ", played only a few gigs before splitting up.

More recently, the Circle Jerks were featured on a television commercial for XM Satellite Radio ( they were the first band played in the commercial, which included " Operation " from the album Group Sex ), and the band also posted a cover of Germs song " The Slave " on their Myspace page.

* Ep 383 ( 2002-03-24 ) 25 Years of Punk 3-featuring: Sex Pistols & The Clash & The Adverts & Generation X ( band ) & The Undertones & Stiff Little Fingers & The Heartbreakers & The Voidoids & Patti Smith & The Viletones & The Diodes & The Dead Boys & Germs ( band )