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About This Page: This is a discussion on Media, Movies and Music within the LetsGoKings.com forums, at Los Angeles Kings Hockey Fan Forum. Jan Paul Beahm grows up in a ****ed up family, goes to some ****ed up school run by ****ed up people, plays some ****ed up music in some ****ed up
Jan Paul Beahm grows up in a ****ed up family, goes to some ****ed up school run by ****ed up people, plays some ****ed up music in some ****ed up bands while going by increasingly dumber aliases then kills himself at 22.
And this makes him awesome.......
how?
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grew up a punk rocker in the LA area and never really cared about the Germs. they were second (third, fourth...fifth) fiddle to Black Flag, Circle Jerks, and X for me. I got into English stuff early too, which put the entire LA scene in the backseat.
he and the Germs were popular for their live presence. what makes him cool? i don't really know. we can ask that about a bunch of different performers.
he DOES have the room immediately next door to John Lennon in the Tower of Song though. so there's that.
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All in all it shows Darby Crash as a messiah with clay feet , loved and hated with equal intensity. Somebody that could be upheld by the critics as a `Poetic genius' for his recorded work, while being loathed and avoided by scene members who did not fall for his role as Fuehrer of the Hollywood punks. Most of his enemies saw him as a panhandling control freak who had won the trust of the Los Angeles rock intelligentsia only to confront that system with drug abuse and poor rock n roll. An American Sid Vicious clone who had not read enough and not original enough to invent himself without the trappings of laughable rock fashion [characters] like Bowie.
The GERMS music is still pure, it still has some of the best lyrical content in the punk genre and is, arguably, the first true incarnation of the genuinely American hardcore punk sub -genre. Those lyrics, astonishingly diverse and unlike the crashing idiocy of their live performance are all reproduced here and will inform the completely un aware of why this group had a darker and more sinister agenda than many of their more credible contemporaries like `X'.
Perhaps this subject does not deserve a coffee table book? Heaven knows many truly worthless artefacts of mass culture like the `Nu Metal' bands of today have far more words expended in their honour, but if you love it or hate it, its here, and the editors should be congratulated for approaching a cultish subject who's chief character died nearly a quarter of a Century ago as a form of `Historical primary source', they do not fail entirely, and are infused with at least an abiding love and belief in their subject.
This perhaps perpetuates some myths about Darby while blowing others forever. Perhaps he would have loved to still be controlling history after so long? You could have worse cult leaders. Right?
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The charm and allure of this book is that it is not a one-sided biography of Darby. Lexicon Devil is not presented as a "this is how it was" history. Instead, the three co-authors Adam Parfrey(Feral House founder), Brendan Mullen(founder of the Masque) and Don Bolles(drummer for the Germs, Vox Pop, 45 Grave and Celebrity Skin) compile a huge number of recollections and piece them together in chronological order. Lexicon Devil shows how a young man transformed himself from Paul Beahm to Bobby Pyn to Darby Crash and finally to death. This approach bears spectacular results. It allows the reader to see the same occurrences through multiple eyes and perspectives. And while this approach may not be the norm in the world of biographies, it is a style that works in this case; Darby Crash didn't live a life that can be pinned down in a one-dimensional conventional biography.
So was Darby a Manson like cult of personality? Was he a David Bowie glam rock wannabe? Was he a troubled genius? Was he a drunk? Was he a junkie? Was he gay? Was he a suicidal mess? Was he a hustler looking for a handout? Did he create his own myth? All these questions and more are asked during the course of this book. And they are all answered, sometimes by more than one person and sometimes in contradictory terms. So where does the truth lie in regard to the life of Darby Crash? I have no doubt that the real Darby can be found in the pages of this book. Lexicon Devil provides the reader with a few versions of "the truth" and then leaves it up to them to define their version of the real life of Paul/Bobby/Darby.
So, there you go.
He went through an awful lot in his life to become who he was but that was coupled with a lot of angst and personal demons. Now, we can judge all we want but I've always have sympathy for those who grew up under poor conditions like Darby did. It's hard to think of how we would have reacted in those situations because we weren't the ones in his mind or under his skin. But he inspired a lot of people with his music, with his message and with his lyrics.
So, to sum up - he was a poet of a musician who wanted to leave a lasting impression during his time alive... he had a clear plan and he followed through. Whether you agree or not is up to you but the music he left definitely helped create a musical revolution.
Just saw the Germs yesterday at Sunset Junction. Awful and not a good fit for the festival.
The singer of !!! (they also sucked donkey ****) said "If I die, don't let them replace me with a singer with a goatee" (or something like that, again, they sucked, was trying not too hard to listen).
I never liked the germs. We caught Darby stealing records once at the Capitol Swap Meet and my brother kicked him right in the ass hard as ****. Darby never really had a clue what punk was about till he went to London and then came back as a Sid Vicious clone complete with the lock around the neck. The dude was a poser as far as I'm concerned and their "music" pretty much sucked ass.
I never liked the germs. We caught Darby stealing records once at the Capitol Swap Meet and my brother kicked him right in the ass hard as ****. Darby never really had a clue what punk was about till he went to London and then came back as a Sud Vicious clone complete with the lock around the neck. The dude was a poser as far as I'm concerned and their "music" pretty much sucked ass.
More Adam Ant than Sid Vicious I'd say.
As for why people like him, I really always liked The Germs and can understand the love for Darby. His lyrics are great and he falls under the tortured artist category.
Dr. Naysay
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