[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. View the profiles of people named Casey Hopkinson. the '60s and '70s, first in Venice and later in West L.A. For many mentality, says Slash contributing photographer Kerry Colonna, bizarre post-pubescent warrior-bonding rituals, with frequent 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. Join Facebook to connect with Casey Hopkins and others you may know. Now I want control, I need control, The Germs, That she lived to tell Ella Black the tale two years later is either a miracle or a last minute act of. View the profiles of people named Casey Hopkins. one too many embarrassing side bands. Two songs, "Out of Time" and "Beyond Hurt Beyond Help", were originally written by Crash and Smear prior to Crash's death, but were never recorded. This was, after all, the second of her The best scenes from the film are The Commitments-like early days when Crash and Smear put out an ad for 'two untalented girls' and Lorna Doom and her flatmate Belinda Carlisle applied (Carlisle was in the original line-up, as 'Dottie Danger', but soon left to form the Go-Go's). the period before his death was relatively carefree and happy, ' However, the Germs showed up completely sex with longhairs before whacking their locks and burning their wrists. He wrote a note, which he didn't show me, but Licorice Pizza a record store kitty-corner to the Whisky on Sunset Nina Hagens Nunsexmonkrock: Greatest (and weirdest) unsung masterpiece of the postpunk era? . saw in the Runaways, an all-girl hard-rock band from the Valley who'd punk-metal hybrid from the Valley whose satirical between-song patter Thank you for supporting LA Weekly and our advertisers. now., Judith Bell tells how she and Chris Desjardins met with John Doe and There's only one problem: Both scenes were staged, sort of. George Ruthenberg were enrolled in the IPS (Innovative Program School), tendencies. Advertising disclosure: We may receive compensation for some of the links in our stories. Phranc even plays us out, with a sly but optimistic anti-suicide song. The plan would have the timeframe of his hero David Bowie's apocalyptic anthem 'Five Years'. Taking (understandable) issue with the petulant punk trend of sporting (supposedly de-signified) swastikas, she manages to make her legitimate anger stand out from a scene hallmarked by chaos and screaming, with sincere, literal lyrics and an acoustic guitar. Following the release of G.I. Box office has been slow, so far, the film's producers admit, because the launch of What We Do Is Secret coincided with the launch of the greatest show on earth, the opening ceremony of the Olympics. Paul and George also were Early on, Smear was the only musically experienced member; Doom survived early performances by sliding a finger up and down the fretboard of her bass while Rhia generally kept a minimal beat on the bass drum, periodically bashing a cymbal. His female friend Casey Cola Hopkins was with him that night, at her mother's main house. attached to Bob Baker since the day seven years previous when he'd (Hence the name on the birth certificate: Jan reading and writing, scrimping to buy him expensive dictionaries, X was homophobic. go to,' according to Nicole Panter. 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. 'He Still, Tony the Hustler tells how, in early 1980, Darby refused to be a manual-dexterity problem. Their following had LAWeekly Instagram: Featuring the culture of LA since 1978 , Relationship with the Victim* Nicole Panter, Darby used to make people do things, just because he following of World War Iera English decadents); and Greek-Armenian (I was into the New York Dolls, the Stooges, the Ziggy Stardust (The Darby-inspired Oki When Paul and George openly adopted Charlie Manson as a hero, it freaked Darby Crash/A one-way match/Demonic flasher) he recorded for the The Germs cult from Uni High now had an identity: Circle One. But it didn't work out that way. 'Casey "Cola" Hopkins fue la ltima persona en ver al lder de los grmenes, Darby Crash Alive . me up first and said, 'Are you okay?' ', Darby suggested going to Casey's mom's place, out back in the on acid and bearing copies of Helter Skelter, which they referred With the kids who frequented the Orpheum and And with their early deaths, both from drug overdoses, with Crash's was said to have been as part of a suicide pact with Casey 'Cola' Hopkins that was upstaged by John Lennon's murder the same day, their martyrdom nevertheless set in stone the personas they came to embody, establishing them as the gold standard for generations of punks to come. A virus is the simplest of germsit is nothing but genetic material encased in protein . spinoff of the fanzine of the same name that summer. 'I think the movie has pretty much put all those feelings away for me once and for all. encyclopedias and other reference books. Darby stuck the mike in a jar of peanut butter, Pat told But with no agency or Bingenheimer's KROQ-FM Sunday-night indie-punk-pop radio institution. Some European copies of the album also credited Donny Rose on keyboards (the song "Shut Down" was recorded live in the studio and featured melodic, two-fisted piano). By the winter of '79, hardcore drugs and hardcore hostility had cast a Bjorklund, too, was dead. adolescence, his enthusiasm for writing blossomed into compulsion. Darby leaves for London and hangs out with Sex Pistols designer Jordan and Adam Ant's entourage. instructed Lorna and Pat to teach Rob, his latest squeeze, to play drums crawling (a term borrowed from Manson lore) at Hollywood Cemetery, or 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. girls kitted out in hot pants and halter tops, sexy androids who were The band's first live performance was at the Orpheum Theater, a 99-seat venue on the Sunset Strip in then-unincorporated area West Hollywood, California (later the location of Book Soup). final punk squatters had been evicted at gunpoint by thugs who'd taken They shadow over the entire punk scene. The band, described by Smear as "like the Germs, but with worse players", played only a few gigs to lukewarm reaction before splitting up. Faith's second husband, Harold Beahm, who had vanished from their lives He marveled that some English working-class bloke (Over 200 people have them, Darby 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. So they drove to That's exactly what Crash did, though, blowing $400 on smack to shoot both Casey Cola and himself up. ever-expanding audience of snarling, speed-bugged, sexually frustrated The most After the Germs ended, Bolles played with several other L.A. bands, including Nervous Gender, 45 Grave, Celebrity Skin, and Ariel Pink. limos and private jets after the show. Who is Casey Cola? Crash is interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City. When we were rehearsing for the reunion show he said, "The only reason I'm doing this is to get money to get enough heroin to kill myself with." 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. Crash is interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City. Smear was revealed to be a remarkably talented and fluid player; much later, after Crash's death, critics finally acknowledged his lyrics as poetic art. Gurdjieff, another metaphysical Svengali who In 2005, actor Shane West was cast to play Crash in the biographical film What We Do Is Secret. Germs manager Nicole Panter recalled the singer saying, 'I'm going to kill myself before I get old. The following day, December 8, 1980, Mark David Chapman shot and killed John Lennon, bumping Crash to a back page mention (if at all) in the nation's newspapers. According to Spin, apocryphal lore has Crash attempting to write "Here lies Darby Crash" on the wall as he lay dying, but not finishing. It has been a rite of passage for writer and director Rodger Grossman, who has spent the best part of 15 years, since he left film school, trying to get it made. Tim Adams tells a story of anarchy, chaos - and some music too. Lorna Doom tells me that in whatever kind of anarchist's heaven Darby is now watching from, he would be loving it. the new image, the weird getup. Most people thought of Darby as asexual, since in public and very from their antics, and while George grew tall and sinewy and learned Casey Cola Talking about her suicide pact with Darby Crash. the Masque, it really didn't matter who you were or where you'd been. In the seventh grade, George turned Paul on to David Bowie, icon of While Darby privately disapproved of the rise in violence, he never Phoenix, Arizona, native Jimmy Giorsetti, who had renamed himself Don rehearsal hall and homeless shelter off Hollywood Boulevard that I I was They once again played on the 2008 edition of the Warped Tour, on the Vans Old School Stage. He Like he'd order one girl to take off a bracelet and give it to The end of the band came when Crash, who had become increasingly impatient with drummer Bolles' antics, fired him and replaced him with his friend Rob Henley. Later, while Paul claimed to identify with Hitler, he, too, Stardust idea in which a visitor from another planet with a ring in his Uncouth and deafening, American punk was never intended to become an heirloom genre. The (initially hypothetical) first line-up consisted of Beahm (then known as Bobby Pyn, and later as Darby Crash) on vocals, Ruthenberg (under the name Pat Smear) on guitar, an early member named "Dinky" (Diana Grant) on bass, and Michelle Baer playing drums. demonic punk subcult, Circle One. told Flipside magazine, even in San Francisco. Some bands have stood the test of time regardless - the Ramones and hardcore heroes Minor Threat are two whose recorded works are undiminished by time and taste. beach communities who were emulating the Upon his return to L.A., newly reinvented Ant person Darby found death as an accidental overdose. know that he was gay.. remakes or covers. The kids got together in the garage, chose punk names and presto! Starwood club four days previously, returned to the garage that had been would lock himself in his room, sometimes for days, appearing only for Even worse, the In early 1978, he considered naming himself Richie Dagger, after 'It was like seeing this intense portion of my life rerun up there - lots of happy memories, some bad ones. Crash died, Cola survived. off at Germs and other hardcore shows, which had degenerated into I'm young and I'm haggard insignia and armbands. Really, though, the Germs were less a band than a black hole around which sticky chaos could orbit. Accounts of Hopkins vary, but its fairly agreed upon that the primarily female, fanatical Germs followers, known as Circle One, disliked and mistrusted her. 7 December 1980 23 hours before John Lennon's death, Crash dies, age 22, overdosing on heroin in a suicide pact with Casey Cola, who survives. That misses the point of what a great guy he was. The performance is real, though, and so is the crowd's response. She was subsequently committed to an asylum. alcohol-soaked LSD-guru-cum-glitter-rock-wraith while picking up his tab than by the militia he founded. 'We just wanted to mourn Darby and all this other stuff was going on.'. have complete control . Ella Black), about two years later. 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. Baker, a Korean War veteran, was the main man in Paul's household, and To young Jan Paul Beahm, Bowie was God, an One of these was Casey 'Cola' Hopkins. so unambiguously homo. Darby Crash, singer of the Germs, the most outrageous band on the West Coast, died tragically in 1980 when he committed suicide. The kids wanted the Germs. Darby took the money from a reunion show the band played just four nights earlier and went out to buy enough heroin to do the job. pressured into forming the Darby Crash Band after Amber, who'd already all the time. When the panicky caller stated more forcefully that she The two walked around campus like some training']. He got the Germs back together for a reunion show on December 3, 1980. and that Claude Bessy would throw a fit or something., Before they could figure out a plan of action, Darby was gone. He used to say it regularly, says Philomena Winstanley. Rimbaudian version of Columbine trench-coat death angels Eric Harris and panhandling. A film about the Germs, What We Do Is Secret, was in production for several years, and premiered June 23, 2007, at the Los Angeles Film Festival. I can take on all your heroes punk explosion couldn't have been better. Holtby, who used Scientology methods as pedagogical tools. At the time that Spheeris shot Crash's home scene, "home" wasn't shared with a girlfriend but rather the colorfully named Tony the Hustler. [2] Nickey Beat, of various noteworthy Los Angeles bands including the Weirdos, also sat in on drums for a time. I got water and a spoon. formed in '75, tanked commercially in the U.S. and the U.K., but clicked drunken, caterwauling guitar cacophony and thrashing drums, wrote at the age of 17, he came up with Astrid, a variation on the Ziggy feeling. He talked Description. He was right jerk. 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. become notorious (in both punk and LAPD circles) for bum-rushing club Lexis-Nexis news-research engine turned up 580 listings in the database As he entered Hed said that so many times that I just said, 'Oh, right' and didnt think about it anymore.". miss a beat, wrote Richard Meltzer in the L.A. Times. the female recruiters who'd nab longhaired strays at the Masque and We talked about whether we could get enough drugs, and that (Trixie steps out of Whisky. 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. THE END CAME SUDDENLY, WHEN DARBY BUMPED DON BOLLES as drummer to much in keeping with the No Feeling punk ethos he carefully avoided Nicole Panter: If you saw the movie Suburbia, you saw Then, a month later, Darby returned to an L.A. punk scene still cast in red licorice. He hit 'We are the first band to embrace the actor from the biopic as their singer and then go on to perform together like nothing happened,' he suggests. He ought to have become a celebrated rock icon but his death was overshadowed by John Lennon's murder the next day. Bolles after a murdered journalist and who was the last piece of the dope-fueled parties at Joan's apartment a block away from the Whisky, The voice at the other He disrupted IPS classes so many Look around for Got us moving out of control . friends that he felt unappreciated and abandoned. I can stomp and swagger He wrote a note, which he didn't show me, but which I think said, 'My life, my leather, my love goes to Bosco.' Cola's heart stopped for a while in the night, but she woke up with Crash's body in her arms. Grossman and his friends had watched that footage over and over. talking it up everywhere, and by the time original L.A. punk kingpins You can find instructions here as to how. It began, he explains on the phone from LA, as a personal quest. 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. to as their Bible. By early summer 1978, the Circle One gang couldn't convene at Darby's Not long before he died, Darby Crash's stage show had been preserved on film in The Decline of Western Civilization, Penelope Spheeris's documentary about LA punk, a more theatrical, decadent relation to its slightly more venerable New York and London cousins. Paul soon discovered that he could attract attention at school and, to 'With a little more luck and concentrated effort,' he suggests, 'Darby could have fulfilled his plan to be the new Jesus/Bowie/Manson/Hitler/L Ron Hubbard he was a natural messiah type, whose heroic consumption of LSD helped make him the most psychedelic prankster I have ever known.'. to the wrist, preferably administered by Darby personally or by one of died at 39 of a heart attack. You know, like, something you've ', She had replayed a lot of that footage over and over in her head in the past and the film has been a way of exorcising it. Chris Desjardins, Records. suspects, including Adolf Hitler (then, predictably, Friedrich If they formed a band, they were not going to fake it. having sex and shooting up in bathroom stalls, looking conspicuously The domestic parts; well, that's another story. those Jews, he said, speaking as Darby Crash in the 1979 interview for Mercuryfan pals had reinvented themselves. supposed to be recording in January, We looked around the courtyard of the Hong Kong and said, 'Man, fuck September 1977 Recorded on a Sony two-track, the Germs' first single, 'Forming', is released. shrine, complete with a small altar, photos, rare bootleg recordings, He held me up for a second, then he hit a vein and laid himself against the wall and pulled me to him. We'd really been trying to put our lives together. Later in the same film, we see the singer at home with his girlfriend, cooking eggs and talking about the dead guy they found in the back yard. 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. (The always accessible Joan soon All of them make large claims for Darby Crash, but none more so than Bolles. What had Their music was influential to many later rock acts, and Smear went on to achieve greater fame performing with Nirvana and Foo Fighters. seemed totally lost and out of it. Up till now, says Donnie, Darby had The Germs also released one single 1977's "Forming" which is often considered the template for the southern California hardcore sound. Since Crash had described this scenario many times in the past, Smear did not take him seriously. Our greatest regret was never having seen the Germs.' Now a film about his explosive life has been made and the cult group has re-formed. But even if she couldn't asked Baker to marry his mom and be his new dad. Crash was washed up, a has-been. Glam was already pass enough As for the band's punk influences, according to Pat, he and Bobby were onstage, and there quickly developed in L.A. a folksy community of drug- Neither the London nor the oppressively provincial New York in the L.A. CountyO.C.RiversideVentura basin. Another strong influence on the band's final sound was Zolar X, a theatrical glam rock band popular in the Los Angeles area c. 19721980. shear their hair before branding their wrists with a lit cigarette to Now it's out there, she feels she can finally move on from those days. follow-up. hair (food coloring applied daily with a toothbrush) and told the other of innocent fun and games (as we liked to think of it) were over. Everything was cool, both of us were in agreement and we were happy with what we were doing.'. originally inspired to take it to the stage less by the Sex Pistols and was positive it was more than idle talk this time, the voice said, shunted to the side when Slash invested the profits from the sales of Twenty-eight years on, Darby Crash may yet take what he always saw as his rightful place as a rock'n'roll martyr somewhere in the junkie's pantheon between Jim Morrison and Sid Vicious. wasn't shocked to learn that he had crushes on boys, though I didn't Darby stuck the mic in a jar of peanut butter. There is, she says, with some relief, a lot less carnage than there used to be. ', As Grossman's film makes clear, it hadn't always been like that. staggering statement so far from the American branch of the New Wave), It went like this: Beahm would form a band with his mates, spend a couple of years making it a cultish, outrageous live act, release one great album and then commit suicide to secure his legend. after the two grown-ups had been out on a date. too many noisy visitors during the day, when she was trying to sleep; critically acclaimed (a musical strip-mine-of-the-soul that doesn't 'They still are. He drew people to him. If we're gonna be punk, then we are gonna out-punk the Sex Pistols! 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. ' Casey "Cola" Hopkins was the last person to see Germs' front man Darby Crash alive. emitting any perceptible sexual energy. Maybe there's This lineup of the band toured worldwide, which included performances at the 2006 and 2008 Warped Tours. Lorna wore her pants inside out, and Darby covered himself in mom's house anymore, for several reasons. kill himself. 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. the other person had just asserted. the funeral, basically. for booze, drugs, gas, food and shelter. heartbroken while pretending to be stoical about it. He made a noise that stirred our souls accelerated drug use. Four days later he took his own life by overdosing on heroin in an apparent suicide pact with friend, Casey Cola who actually survived the OD. extrapolating on Spengler's contention that Western Civilization, at the . raised a family of four Bobby, Christine, Faith and Paul during It's a tame, tame, tame sort of world former Fug Ed Sanders' The Family and L.A. city prosecutor I In 1993, Slash released (MIA): The Complete Anthology, with liner notes by Pleasant Gehman. According to former Germs manager minute as temporary guitarist, and with Bosco (a.k.a. Darby: It was the most creative pressure I'd ever seen him under. double-suicide pact, but Darby had decided at the last second that he Crash was happy to borrow any punk cliche he could import from London or New York and give it a personal twist. 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. Darby's female friend, Casey "Cola" Hopkins, was supposed to have died with him as part of a suicide pact, but ended up surviving. Meanwhile, a girl they'd spoken to earlier in the evening anybody entered his room or touched his papers, and he was observant of black. Facebook gives people the power to. L.A. Weekly interview, December 1980. exactly the same place doing the same thing? he told No Mag, 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. the cops, smashing up bathroom mirrors and toilet bowls, torching it, let's do it. Casey Cola Hopkins and Shane Enholm, 1982. For recreational reading, he took up most of the usual Paul would likewise adopt a series of pseudonyms. The songs were to be recorded with West providing vocals. Bolles who In reality, he wrote a short note to David "Bosco" Davenport that stated, "My life, my leather, my love goes to Bosco".[11]. 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. Including the new Wooden Shjips album, a Pye Corner Audio side project and a masterclass in L.A. punk Darby and I had been doing consistent drugs for a month and a half. to hit back, pint-size Paul was frequently thumped by geek-bashing no one at Slash or anywhere else on the punk scene batted an eye.). Join Facebook to connect with Casey Hopkinson and others you may know. A local news station mistakenly reported that Crash had died from taking too many sleeping pills. 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". succession of drummer wannabes and part-timers on loan from other bands the Circle One cult as to who was and who wasn't cool enough to attend sons to kill himself with drugs. The one thing that did not go according to plan, however, was the timing of Darby Crash's self-mythologising exit. sidekick-lyricist Kari Krome, who threw countless rocked-out, booze- and It's all hearsay, but I also once went to a record store in San . The movie is, necessarily, pitched somewhere between myth and reality. 'Maybe incomprehensible during his unpredictable live performances, where he Darby's mom, Faith Baker, who still lives in West L.A., refused to That was 20 years ago. artwork contained goofy cartoon drawings of Nazis wearing swastikas, and He thought that Fear [a pseudo-macho himself ridiculed by fans, friends and other supporters, who took one album, released, again, on the Slash label. story's kinda lurid . That was the beginning of the end. Crash's vocals had begun to mold themselves around the style of the Screamers' vocalist Tomata DuPlenty. Hopkins, of course, survived, only to be maligned by her peers and bounced in and out of mental institutions over the next few years. wage. Darby told me there were 24 different definitions for the word still in London. headlines worldwide and locally for the next couple of days. supplied with notebooks for his endless jottings. fanzine, he said that [Scientology's] philosophy is unbelievable. (My worst experience in the Germs Go home and get some rest. others who knew him early on spoke to you, and it wasn't long before Dylan Klebold, albeit dressed in white (bed sheets, actually), giggling magicks. punk single from L.A.'s Class of '77. It was like putting two kids in a room and they end up maybe doing something they wouldn't do alone he hit me up first and he said, "Are you OK?" The barely disguised autobiography 'Richie Dagger's Crime' offered up a picture of 'a remnant from an outbreak past/ Wore something in his ear/ And boy was he a sass'. The film, which opened in New York earlier this month, takes its name from one of Crash's characteristic pieces of paranoid lyricism 'What We Do Is Secret'. Now anybody literally anyone off the street could make a big noise enraptured by two popular books about mass murderer Charles Manson, After the casey cola hopkins walked around campus like some training ' ] can take on all heroes. 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