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What
We Do Is Secret -a
movie about Darby Crash and The Germs |
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The first day of shooting that we attended was the re-creation of the Cherrywood Studio scene from the 1980 film “The Decline of The Western Civilization where The Germs perform the song “Manimal”. Our first reaction in seeing the actor Shane West who plays the part of Darby Crash in the movie was “wholly shit!”. |
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He was certainly not a dead ringer for Darby, however how they had him made up with the tattoo, having his teeth messed up like Darby’s by way of some sort of dental procedure, hair and overall attitude he carried made this very believable. This was a complete 180 from what the buzz on the streets was about what this actor would be portraying, after all, how would anyone not connected with the film know what the guy was gonna look like for the movie, yet speak on it like they knew something…seriously lame. On set were original Germs members Pat Smear, Don Bolles and Lorna Doom....they are over seeing the film to make this whole thing as real as possible for that time period. All the extras for the film were made up of Punks from all over southern California and other far away parts in contrasts to using the typically Hollywood extras pool. Before the filming got under way, the production crew planned for a bit of live entertainment before he filming would start with a couple local bands that included The Diffs. They held drawings for stuff as well that included DVDs, CD’s and even a Germs skate deck. |
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Another day that we went they were re-creating a show at The Fleetwood and do the song “Shutdown”. For the people that were around back then, they remember how nuts that place was. An aspect of the scene that was so surreal and very true to the period was when someone threw a bottle at the actor playing Darby. After the bottle hits him in the head, the crowd then surges forward and 2 fights break out. One night of the filming that we could never forget was the filming that took place at SIR on Sunset Blvd in Hollywood on a Friday. When we first got there, we met an old school Punk that had a Mohawk, he was pretty cool and we talked a bit. When the crew started shooting scenes, this dude jumped into unpaid consultant mode and started schooling the crew on what the correct era moves were for 1980. As the night went on, we quickly figured out that "Diet Pepsi" bottle didn't have what was stated on the label, the guy was pretty flammable from all the alcohol in the drink. He was yelling and just having some Punk rock hi-jinx. The next thing we saw was a guy come up and warn the old Punk to chill out. Neither of them was about to back down, so it got a little ugly. The old Punk got dragged out, literally, from the set. So, the filming proceeds and now the actor band members are on stage and we're doing more true to life scene shots. The room's dark except for the stage and the crowd. Then we feel someone brush by us, we look up and couldn't believe our eyes. |
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The dude that got thrown out somehow got back onto the set. This time, he was holding the “Germs Shoot Today” sign that was out front. His blood was smeared on the top of the sign as well. Once the crew realized that he was back, the shooting stopped and the lights came back on. WOW! What a scene! Several huge dudes piled on him and took him down again. Once again, he was drug out. He was pounding hard on the steel door and yelling stuff, it was wild. Later a bunch of cops came and took him away. |
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We were invited to the wrap up party for the
Germs movie that just concluded filming. Pretty much it was cast and crew,
along with assorted people connected to the film....we were glad that we
were considered assorted. Anyhow, after being out at the X-Games all day
we could not wait to split to go to this party. Open bar....yeah haww.....and
the Germs played. It was Pat, Lorna and Don along with Shane West the guy
who plays Darby in the movie. Shane did a GREAT job on vocals....seriously
blown away. We consider ourselves hardened fans/followers of The Germs and
found this performance -EXCELLENT! If they were to take this line up and
play around, we are sure that there would continue to be a large audience
for it. Great set list was put together, Media Blitz, Manimal, My Tunnel,
Shutdown, Lexicon Devil, Sex Boy, and even Forming...holly shit we were
dying....plus a bunch of other songs. We can not wait till this movie
comes out -it will kick ass. Here are the only photos we took....we
totally shinned on taking photos all night...we wanted to fully enjoy this
one....ohh as well as the open bar....heck even we should get a partial
night off every once in a while. |
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