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Original Title: Lexicon Devil: The Fast Times and Short Life of Darby Crash and the Germs
ISBN: 0922915709 (ISBN13: 9780922915705)
Edition Language: English
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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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Title:Lexicon Devil: The Fast Times and Short Life of Darby Crash and The Germs
Author:Brendan Mullen
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Special Edition
Pages:Pages: 296 pages
Published:April 1st 2002 by Feral House
Categories:Music. Nonfiction. Biography. Punk. Biography Memoir

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Ratings: 4.05 From 1282 Users | 52 Reviews

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This is an "oral" history of Darby Crash (Jan Paul Beahm) and the Germs. It's really good, and kind of entertaining reading the conflicting versions of what happened when, as it's primarily created from a series of interviews the authors of the book did, and then the sections of the interviews are arranged chronologically so that they follow the timeline of Darby's life. By the time you reach the chapter of his suicide, you're surprised to realize that he crammed so much living and so much

I don't quite agree with Richard Meltzer that this is, "the finest volume on punk to see the light of print," but it's pretty darned good. I guess it's almost impossible for an oral history to be bad, unless you were completely uninterested in the subject matter. The one thing is that the narrative is kind of all over the place at times. Weird interludes are inserted roughly into the Germs story, giving insight into the people and places of the time but oddly distracting all the same. Different

Publisher's NoteThe decision was made not to impede the flow of this oral history with authorial interruptions. Whenever possible, the over 100 speakers within introduce other players and contextualize events.

Though the early L.A. punk scene was a bit before my time, in high school I was into bands who were directly influenced by the Germs, so this was a fascinating read for me. I became aware of this book after I happened across the movie "What We Do Is Secret" one night and ended up watching the whole thing. As I often do, after the movie I searched for more information about Darby Crash and the Germs online, and came across this book title. The authors interviewed lots of people from the L.A.

Although Darby Crash is a fascinating personality to read about, this book is actually a good addendum to We Got the Neutron Bomb. It contains a lot of left over interviews and history from the first book.

this is my favorite all time book ever i think

Here's a story about Darby Crash and the Germs that didn't make it in the book:A band from Phoenix, Arizona moved into town and lived in the Masque. They were Brendan Mullen's staff there for a brief period of time. The band was called the Red Army, and just like the Police with blond hair they all had red hair.They tried to make a name for themselves by threatening all over town to kick Darby's ass. They bragged about it in writing (grafitti at the Masque) and would brag about it verbally to