Lexicon Devil: The Fast Times and Short Life of Darby Crash and the Germs

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"Lexicon Devil is, pure and simple, the finest volume on punk to have seen the light of print. (Yes, folks: that includes Please Kill Me.) Great book!"--Richard Meltzer

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Contents

THE BOY WITH BLUE HAIR
1
VILE BABIES
5
est Scientology and IPS
13
RICHIE DAGGERS CRIME
23
LEXICON DEVIL
25
FIVE YEARS
29
WHAT WE DO IS SECRET
33
RAW POWER
35
TOOTH AND NAIL
153
SOUTH BAY
155
THE HB PSYCHO SKINHEAD SCENE
159
GI
163
CRITICS ASTOUNDED
177
STAGGERINGLY RECKLESS
179
AMERICAN LEATHER
185
OKI DOGS
189

SOPHISTIFUCK THE REVLON SPAM QUEEN SAT THE DAWN OF PUNK
37
FORMINGTHE GERMS BEGIN
43
HANGING OUT WITH THE RUNAWAYS
49
GERMS WORLD DEBUT
53
SEX BOY
59
KIM FOWLEY PRESENTS
63
THE MASQUEOUT OF THE WOODWORK AND INTO THE BASEMENT
69
STREET DREAMS
79
WE MUST BLEED
87
THE GERMS SPREAD
93
CHELSEA HOTELWEST
95
GERMS BURNS AND THE CULT THAT RULED THE WORLD
103
THE COMING OF CACTUS HEAD
111
GIMME GIMME THIS GIMME GIMME THAT
115
RIFT AMONG THE RIFFS
125
DARBY SPENGLER
127
ART DAMAGE
131
FWORD
133
DO DAMAGE
137
THE RIVERSIDE CONTINGENT
145
TROUBLE AT THE CUP
149
THE OTHER NEWEST ONE
191
TONY THE HUSTLER
195
THE DECLINE
197
THE SKATE CONNECTION
203
CRUISING
207
BIRTH OF THE SLAM PIT
211
BOLLES GETS BOOTED
217
FIRST OF THE MOHICANS
221
I COULD FEEL IT THROUGH HIS JEANS
227
THE DARBY CRASH BAND
229
SKINHEAD MANOR
233
DRAGON LADY
239
CRYING WOLF
243
THE REUNION
247
SHUT DOWN
251
AFTERMATH
257
CAST OF CHARACTERS
269
LYRICS OF THE GERMS RECORDED AND UNRECORDED OUTPUT
275
GERMS DISCOGRAPHY
285
GERMS GIG LIST AND KEY EVENTS
289
ENDNOTES
294

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About the author (2002)

Adam Parfrey was born in Los Angeles, California on April 12, 1957. He co-founded Amok Press with Kenneth Swezey in 1986. Parfrey was also the founder and publisher of Feral House Press. He was the author or editor of several books including It's a Man's World: Men's Adventure Magazines, The Postwar Pulps; Citizen Keane: The Big Lies Behind the Big Eyes; Ritual America: Secret Brotherhoods and Their Influence on American Society; and Cult Rapture: Revelations of the Apocalyptic Mind. He was the co-editor of Exit magazine and appeared in and co-wrote Crispin Glover's controversial What Is It? Parfrey and his band, the Tards, recorded two CDs. He died on May 10, 2018 at the age of 61.

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