The day she heard the news, Lorna Doom recalls that she was about to board a plane to New York to start a new life. Casey Cola and Darby Crash had a suicide pact, and on the evening of December 7, 1980, they decided that the time was right to make it happen. . looks up to you,' Bell says Lorna had told Doe over the phone. Casey Cola y Darby Crash tuvieron un pacto suicida, y en la noche del 7 de diciembre de 1980, decidieron que era el momento adecuado para que sucediera. To the meaning-hungry, secrecy-loving, symbol-embracing punks, the Germs's enigmatic blue circle came to represent both the band's simplicity and complexity. So in that sense, their most famous moment was staged. now., Judith Bell tells how she and Chris Desjardins met with John Doe and Its difficult to figure out whos reliable in a cultish environment of young drug addicts, but from the footage, one thing seems certain: Caseys a depressed, lonely young woman, and its hard not to have some sympathy for her. wage. What happened to Casey Cola Hopkins? And, as planned, on 7 December 1980, Darby formed a suicide pact with his then girlfriend, Casey Cola. could. L.A. Weekly interview, December 1980. dope man. dealer.) It was Tony who suggested calling in one of Darby's old Uni High female chums, Michelle Baer, to front as his current roommate; hence the film's cozy domestic egg-frying display in the kitchen of Tony's apartment, complete with live tarantula. following of World War Iera English decadents); and Greek-Armenian They were lurid, out of control and funny, as anyone who has seen Penelope Spheeris's landmark film, The Decline of Western Civilization, will attest. They Still, following more gigs at the Masque (the illegal club, reading and writing, scrimping to buy him expensive dictionaries, there, just wait for me, okay? abused his followers for being so servile while doing everything in his In short, the Germs weren't just a band they are one of the true roots of indie. The voice at the other Gordie Acorn. mom's house anymore, for several reasons. gone at the time. The band, described by Smear as "like the Germs, but with worse players", played only a few gigs to lukewarm reaction before splitting up. Who will love Aladdin Sane? fucking up with our plan for this great house we were living in. He put his hand at the small of my back and he said, 'Just hold it, just stay there, just wait for me, okay? Publications Matching search results: The chaos quickly mastered him, however. You know, like, something you've Really, though, the Germs were less a band than a black hole around which sticky chaos could orbit. . Casey Cola and Darby Crash had a suicide pact, and on the evening of December 7, 1980, they decided that the time was right to make it happen. Belinda Carlisle spent a little time on drums before cleaning up and fronting the Go-Go's. Faith, a single working woman, had Becky Barton) drums (1977), Live at the Starwood 12/3/80 (double LP), (2019 Rhino Entertainment Company, Run Out Groove) ROGV-080, This page was last edited on 4 February 2023, at 20:52. West by Oswald Spengler, a neo-Hegelian German social theorist with (Over 200 people have them, Darby than by the militia he founded. Books, tribute albums, and posthumous releases have kept the band in the public eye for over three decades, and a 2008 biopicWhat We Do Is Secret, even led to an ongoing band reunion. ", Whether the singer's sexuality contributed to his depression and substance abuse is a matter of conjecture, but one thing we know for certain is this: Darby Crash drank a lot, did a lot of drugs and talked about killing himself a lot. punk single from L.A.'s Class of '77. Throughout this time, Darby kept up his compulsive manipulation and Circle Jerks drummer Lucky Lehrer joined the band on the eve of their first (sold-out) live performance, when during soundcheck, Darby kicked out the drummer they had rehearsed with. Shortly thereafter, Paul Fuck, basically we were all homophobic., Untrue, says former scenester Judith Bell: I clearly remember John Doe posters all the memorabilia he could bag from the monthly parking-lot song titled, ironically enough, Lion's Share.). . ever-expanding audience of snarling, speed-bugged, sexually frustrated Just wait for me.' the moon. power to keep them from making a break for it. Pyn; George became guitarist Pat Smear; and Terri Ryan, who took up No The kids got together in the garage, chose punk names and presto! sidekick-lyricist Kari Krome, who threw countless rocked-out, booze- and other fanzines, which were starved for anything remotely punk and would would snarl or drool, as often as not off-mike, such peppy, asked Baker to marry his mom and be his new dad. during an argument that his father was really a Swedish sailor named Darby called Pat in at the last He'd said that so many times I just said, "Oh, right" and didn't think about it any more. posturing to the contrary by dreams of the Big-Buck Multiple-Record phoned somebody else in the Germs' inner circle to say she was convinced shunted to the side when Slash invested the profits from the sales of That misses the point of what a great guy he was. No one cared more than the surviving members of the Germs, who had been rechristened by Crash: bass player Lorna Doom, guitarist Pat Smear (who went on to play with Nirvana and currently plays with the Foo Fighters) and the crazed drummer Don Bolles. alcohol and nervous exhaustion, copped $400 worth of smack with his cut Everything is gonna be fine.. the bass, became Lorna Doom. look at his feathered Boy of London outfit and told him he looked a no one at Slash or anywhere else on the punk scene batted an eye.). Initiation into Circle One was by cigarette burn death as an accidental overdose. She later insisted that he did not intend for her to live, nor did he change his mind at the last minute and intend for himself to live. guest lists in packs, breaking windows and chairs, stealing liquor, an introduction. Cruising, Bob Biggs, president of Slash, said, I was over supposed to be recording in January, We looked around the courtyard of the Hong Kong and said, 'Man, fuck Darby Crash/A one-way match/Demonic flasher) he recorded for the [26] Crash is interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City . The filmmaker had to rent a sound stage in order to shoot the band. Everything was Crash often arrived onstage nearly incoherent from drugs, singing everywhere but into the microphone and taunting the audience between songs, yet nevertheless, delivered intense theatrical and increasingly musical performances. He was only 22 years old. Fourth Way guru G.I. Crash was happy to borrow any punk cliche he could import from London or New York and give it a personal twist. Join Facebook to connect with Casey Hopkinson and others you may know. It's all hearsay, but I also once went to a record store in San . Their following had trash it. 'Wait a minute.' persuasive that he could, as Paul saw it, order his followers around lyrics, which made frightening sense on the page but were (formerly Hopkins), a devotee of the band's predominantly female Circle With the kids who frequented the Orpheum and Bolles who [25] Casey was supposed to have died with him in the coach house (which was a converted garage) that night as part of a supposed death pact, but ended up surviving. (I was into the New York Dolls, the Stooges, the Ziggy Stardust Returns with pants inside out. (Later, Takes him away to war don't fake it themselves.) Advertising disclosure: We may receive compensation for some of the links in our stories. (including X's Don Bonebrake and the Weirdos' Nicky Beat). pull something worthwhile together. Everything they say works. I'm young and I'm haggard He hit me up first and said, 'Are you okay?' never once left California. [10], Crash committed suicide on December 7, 1980, at age 22. Fans saw this as part of the show, and indeed, the band presented it as such, even when breaking bottles and rolling in the glass, with the music coming and going. four or five times over. her house. Here was the perfect way to ease Darby back into creative work return. had $10,000, I'd go back and do it [i.e., undergo 'advanced icky-goop-laden performance presentations cheered on by their Uni High ', SQUABBLES BROKE OUT AMONG THE FIERCELY protective women who ran Germs shows were so notorious for their unruly crowds both in terms of violence and gate crashing that by the time Spheeris was shooting her documentary in '79, they had been banned from every club in Los Angeles. The two walked around campus like some oh-so-Spenglerian documentary The Decline of Western . I'm not going to save up for my old age because I'm not going to have Crash is interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City. The other band members prided themselves on similar problems, with many contemporary reviews citing collapses, incoherence and drunken vomiting onstage. dyed black. The autopsy identified the cause of death as acute and told the past to fuck off. He made a noise that stirred our souls The Germs were an American punk rock band from Los Angeles, California, originally active from 1976 to 1980. As far as Paul and his clique were concerned, the timing of L.A.'s '77 She insists that he did not intend for her to live, nor did he change his mind at the last minute and intend for himself to live. They lay down together in her mother's back room and injected themselves with the $400-worth of heroin they had bought with the last of their rent money. Exene Cervenka to discuss what to do after Darby told John he wanted to and counted among their members future Go-Go Belinda Carlisle. least 1977, that nobody took it seriously anymore. The chaos quickly mastered him, however. Diana Grant) bass guitar (1976), Donna Rhia (a.k.a. Like he'd order one girl to take off a bracelet and give it to chums. That she lived to tell Ella Black the tale two years later is either a miracle or a last minute act of friendship, depending on who is telling the story. Aside from footage of well-known bands like (a very young) Suicidal Tendencies, theres deeper cuts, like a bit on little-known experimental family band, Unit 3 with Venus (their shrieking eight-year-old daughter on vocals). In the fall of '79, the band followed Lexicon Devil with the fanzine, he said that [Scientology's] philosophy is unbelievable. The Germs were featured in Spheeris's documentary film The Decline of Western Civilization along with X, Black Flag, Fear, Circle Jerks, Alice Bag Band, and Catholic Discipline. That's exactly what Crash did, though, blowing $400 on smack to shoot both Casey Cola and himself up. Meanwhile, the ripple effect of London punk had opened the sluice gates lyricist and front man for L.A. punk pioneers the Germs, and Casey Cola (formerly Hopkins), a devotee of the band's predominantly female Circle One cult, had been unable to crash a party in. X was homophobic. Paul and George also were create a permanent circular scar. what he'd go through in his writing the lexicon thing. Female attendance fell You do it for Darby, the women were overheard saying. The two intentionally overdosed on heroin which led to Casey surviving the pact and finding Darby dead in her arms. uncools off-campus. When she awoke at noon the next day, Darby was dyin' in a hurry Street in Hollywood and, after injecting his companion with a nonlethal have complete control . I thought, it, let's do it. It was almost like he forgot what we were doing, and he goes, 'Wait a minute.' gonna get better. Sadden glissando strings 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[4] were similar to the sound achieved on later Germs recordings. the funeral, and there were lots of sour grapes among those who weren't word along the Hollywood-to-O.C. AND death. The same search, but substituting the name Darby Crash, Carlisle remained a friend and helper of the band (she can be heard introducing the band on the Germicide: Live at the Whiskey recording, produced by Kim Fowley), only leaving because her new band, the Go-Go's, were becoming popular and, as she put it, "I was really disturbed by the heroin that was going on". She was replaced by her friend Donna Rhia (Becky Barton), who played three gigs and performed on their first single. Icons are not supposed to be upstaged, but on the day after Crash killed himself, John Lennon was murdered in Central Park and the world found a more genuine legend to mourn. Records. the little girls wearing Crash T-shirts.. Casey "Cola" Hopkins was the last person to see Germs' front man Darby Crash alive. Now, at 16, Donnie was developing bisexual After he won a children's writing contest for a weekly Venice newspaper, still in London. In 2005, actor Shane West was cast to play Crash in the biographical film What We Do Is Secret. moved in with the daughter of a pharmacist, now slumming on the edge A virus is the simplest of germsit is nothing but genetic material encased in protein . lyric Bowie ever wrote. ", Whether it was depression, nihilism, substance abuse or sexuality, Pat Smear said Crash told him: "'The only reason Im doing this is get money to get enough heroin to kill myself with.' It's a way of life. Shut Down (Annihilation Man). underage while swigging hard liquor from open containers in full view of trained to relay his orders in exactly his tone of voice. Unreported at the time, Crash had overdosed on heroin in a suicide pact with close friend Casey "Cola" Hopkins, who ended up surviving. One cult, had been unable to crash a party in Bel Air. those Jews, he said, speaking as Darby Crash in the 1979 interview for The Germs, despite most expectations, developed a sound that was highly influential. Returning to LA sporting a mohican he forms the Darby Crash Band, described by Pat Smear as 'like the Germs, but worse'. Meanwhile, a girl they'd spoken to earlier in the evening if he hit me up it would be murder I can't do myself, because I have basis for his Circle One symbology. While Darby privately disapproved of the rise in violence, he never His female friend Casey Cola Hopkins was with him that night, at her mother's main house. He vowed to put that omission right. Neither the London nor the oppressively provincial New York Back in 2001, Brendan Mullen wrote in an L.A. Weekly article that the singer "didn't want to be seen with anyone looking so unambiguously homo. Paul soon discovered that he could attract attention at school and, to What had The Canterbury us. Punk gave them a new by his latest sugar mama. Even so, enough of Crash's unhinged charisma survives in the performance of Shane West, last seen playing Dr Ray Barnett in ER, to have allowed the actor to be paid the ultimate compliment by the survivors of the band: West is now touring - as 'Shane Wreck' - with the re-formed Germs as a replacement for Crash. 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Deal. being asked to revert to their primitive garage-thrash beginnings. After the release of Lexicon Devil, the Germs hooked up with As for the band's punk influences, according to Pat, he and Bobby were In 1969, older brother Bobby was found dead in a station wagon in The Germs disbanded following Crash's suicide in 1980. The kids wanted the Germs. ', Despite our repeated assurances, Darby told John he was petrified of magicks. There's a round, round, round circle of lives She'd also once run a restaurant, and no one ever went hungry in If you were bright, sex with longhairs before whacking their locks and burning their wrists. another girl, or he'd say, 'Gimme that button,' 'Gimme that shirt,' album and Alice Cooper's 'School's Out,' said George, as Pat Smear, 'It was like seeing this intense portion of my life rerun up there - lots of happy memories, some bad ones. alcohol-soaked LSD-guru-cum-glitter-rock-wraith while picking up his tab The main reason for watching, however, is a brutally naked interview with Casey "Cola" Hopkins, who offers extensive details of her suicide pact gone awry with Darby Crash. Gimme gimme your hands Flipside, Generation X, Panic, Lobotomy and The songs were to be recorded with West providing vocals. One of Paul's techniques for driving people into submission was to ask, Its speed and sense of mission would influence the next generation of hardcore punks and its visuals almost singlehandedly kicked off the revolution in punk graphics away from London's ransom-note template. Three days before he died, Crash had ended their last show, itself a desperate reunion effort, with the words: 'You will not see this again.' The movie is, necessarily, pitched somewhere between myth and reality. was finding out how shocked and furious Darby was when he saw me playing I'm gonna do it at a time when it takes everybody by surprise, and I want a statue erected of me for people to go to. 'I think the movie has pretty much put all those feelings away for me once and for all. during sound check, for the first time for a run-through of a few new suspects, including Adolf Hitler (then, predictably, Friedrich He had literally been the poster boy for Spheeris's movie, pictured on the film's promotional fliers passed-out drunk on stage, prefiguring his death mask by a couple of months. money we had, Casey said in an interview with a former roommate, Kari A local news station mistakenly reported that Crash had died from taking too many sleeping pills. Smear recalled: "We made noise. You can find instructions here as to how. Upon his return to L.A., newly reinvented Ant person Darby found and I said, 'Um, yeah.' One of these was Casey 'Cola' Hopkins. incomprehensible during his unpredictable live performances, where he We're not extreme right. get it for him.). It was almost like he forgot what we were doing, and he goes, armbands.. Rimbaudian version of Columbine trench-coat death angels Eric Harris and Darby Crash, apartment and a steady supply of free drugs. story's kinda lurid . It was right after the final Germs reunion show at the composition, Now I Hear the Laughter. (Darby himself certainly heard the establishment. heroin-morphine and ethanol intoxication.. Astrid was followed by himself ridiculed by fans, friends and other supporters, who took one single-parent family or an outsider of any sort, Paul Beahm still During his brief career, the singer managed only one EP (1978's Lexicon Devil) and one album (1979's Joan Jett-produced . spinoff of the fanzine of the same name that summer. Facebook gives people the power. everybody by surprise, and I want a statue erected of me for people to He committed suicide by way of an intentional heroin overdose. Back in 1978, Darby had been disconsolate when Donnie Rose, the boy he career-minded college-music radio interns. Unreported at the time, Crash had overdosed on heroin in a suicide pact with close friend Casey "Cola" Hopkins, who ended up surviving. 'Whatever we were going to be, we were going to be the most. girlfriend and would-be manager, Amber, who picked up the tab. Darby Crash (born Jan Paul Beahm) (September 26, 1958 December 7, 1980) was an American punk rock vocalist and songwriter who, along with longtime friend Pat Smear (born Georg Ruthenberg), cofounded Germs. The Germs became a resident band at the Masque, the hippest of all LA's underground clubs, run by a Scottish expat called Brendan Mullen. At some point that night, Darby, his mind beaten to shit on drugs, So did X's drummer, DJ Bonebrake. In 1996, a tribute album titled A Small Circle of Friends was released,[1] that featured tracks by Watt, Free Kitten, Melvins, Meat Puppets, that dog., L7, the Posies, NOFX, Flea, Gumball and others, along with a version of "Circle One" performed by Smear with Hole under the name "the Holez". He got the Germs back together for a reunion show on December 3, 1980. Crash, he suggests, was not only the most extreme but also the most romantic figure of that time and place. We'll stand by you Everything was cool, both of us were in agreement and we were happy with what we were doing.'. As he entered December 1979 Slash Records release the Germs' only studio album, (GI), produced by Joan Jett, long-time Germs supporter. The album was produced by Joan Jett of the Runaways. She insists that he did not intend for her to live, nor did he change his mind at the last minute and intend for himself to live. No MTV. cover his expenses and provide a rent-free crib. serve Darby, guru supreme. If we run out of money, I can always kill myself." Shortly after the Germs split, Crash and Smear formed the short-lived Darby Crash Band. After She later insisted that he did not intend for her to live, nor did he change his mind at the last minute and intend for himself to live. Darby had talked about killing himself so many times before, since at The government's been suppressing them. from their antics, and while George grew tall and sinewy and learned Darby stuck the mic in a jar of peanut butter. Drinks. But not everyone was willing to buy into or shy away so unambiguously homo. The domestic parts; well, that's another story. Cat has nine lives They were 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. end of its cycle, was so far gone it was too late for anybody to do 'What old wino?' Lorna wore her pants inside out, and Darby covered himself in red licorice we made noise for five minutes until they threw us off".[2]. 'It all got terribly violent and extremely frightening towards the end when there was this influx of punks from southern California who latched on to our gigs and basically made it impossible for us to play without a riot happening. Join Facebook to connect with Casey Hopkins and others you may know. Virtually no one on the early punk scene took the Germs seriously as a [15] West left the Germs in 2009. the album into signing X rather than developing the Germs. Ella Black), about two years later. artwork contained goofy cartoon drawings of Nazis wearing swastikas, and From Faith's side, there were that they had begun to feel like anachronisms. It was featured for approximately one minute in the movie, during a video-booth murder scene in an S&M club. The song was not used in the movie, nor was the band. Unreported at the time, Crash had overdosed on heroin in a suicide pact with close friend Casey "Cola" Hopkins, who ended up surviving. life-affirming lines as I'm heading for the center of destruction or . Who is Casey Cola? Where you're caught, bought, taught, as it twirls, In early '78, Paul formally dumped Bobby Pyn, and declared himself exactly the same place doing the same thing? he told No Mag, I'm Richie Dagger the Hong Kong Cafe in Chinatown, where their friends Sexsick were Top Cuisine 02/13/2023. converted into a guesthouse at Casey's parents' home on North Fuller girls kitted out in hot pants and halter tops, sexy androids who were Band includes guitarist Pat Smear, later of Nirvana. Bolles after a murdered journalist and who was the last piece of the pressured into forming the Darby Crash Band after Amber, who'd already like so many sheep. People are That she lived to tell Ella Black the tale two years later is either a miracle or a last minute act of friendship, depending on who is telling the story. control of the building. Unknown to most in L.A.'s somewhat homophobic punk scene of the late '70s, Darby Crash was bisexual. Lexis-Nexis news-research engine turned up 580 listings in the database No agent would represent them. Relax. It is considered one of the first hardcore punk[5][6][7][8] records, and has a near-mythic status among punk rock fans. The exhilarating, freewheelin' days ' Casey "Cola" Hopkins was the last person to see Germs' front man Darby Crash alive. Circle of Friends. Darby was into oldies and '50s rock & roll.) Paul he'll listen to you. David Brown, co-founder of the Screamers, the band that had rivalled the Germs for outrageous headlines in LA, sat at a big white piano and John Morris of Black Randy and the Metro Squad took to the stage wearing a hippie wig, little, wire-framed glasses and a Germs armband with the trademark Circle One on it. I remember him as somebody who was fun to sit up all night and take drugs with; he was actually sort of low-key. talking it up everywhere, and by the time original L.A. punk kingpins Some allege that he saw death as a path to career immortality. Following the release of their only studio album, (GI), on Slash Records, the Germs recorded six original songs with producer Jack Nitzsche for the soundtrack to the film, Cruising, starring Al Pacino. Neanderthal jocks. It was Tony who suggested calling in one of Venice, reputedly from a heroin hot shot passed to him by an angry interested in Scientology, the pseudo-religious cult founded by pulp Fuck this shit, it's not gonna ever change, it's not rehearsal hall and homeless shelter off Hollywood Boulevard that I and had sex with each other every night, and spent the next day View the profiles of professionals named "Casey Hopkins" on LinkedIn. Darby's female friend, Casey "Cola" Hopkins, was supposed to have died with him as part of a suicide pact, but ended up surviving. I didn't think about whether Darby was gay, says Nicole Panter, and I His female friend Casey Cola Hopkins was with him that night, at her mother's main house. Though Darby had his death wish, part of the reason for starting the band was, as Smears has recalled, more innocent: it lay in the shocking discovery that one of their heroes, Alice Cooper, enjoyed a round of golf. A search for recent anniversary coverage in the the Orpheum Theater Punk Palace on Sunset, to be replaced by Donna (There was no reason to kill all book them. Fanzine editorials chastised him for being a follower of [12] The film was theatrically released on August 8, 2008, and starred Shane West in the role of Darby Crash. It's a startling, realistic peek behind the scenes of a punk rock legend. Nietzsche); Steppenwolf author Hermann Hesse; Aleister Crowley It was very cathartic.'. But with no agency or After the Germs ended, Bolles played with several other L.A. bands, including Nervous Gender, 45 Grave, Celebrity Skin, and Ariel Pink. died at 39 of a heart attack. View the profiles of people named Casey Hopkins. completely control a number of people's lives, Darby told former An introduction represent them latest sugar mama used in the movie, during video-booth. Those feelings away for me once and for all there were lots of grapes. 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