The Germs
Not long after their dismissal from IPS, Beahm and Ruthenberg began trying to form a band. Before they settled on the Germs as a band name, they called themselves "Sophistifuck and the Revlon Spam Queens", but had to shorten this name because they didn't have enough money to put the full name on a t-shirt.
When the Germs initially began playing, the only member who was proficient with an instrument was Ruthenberg, who went by his stage name Pat Smear. After a short stint under the name Bobby Pyn, Beahm also changed his name to Darby Crash.
The Germs can be seen in the 1981 film The Decline of Western Civilization, directed by Penelope Spheeris. The film features a characteristically hectic and sloppy live show in which Crash, heavily intoxicated and under the influence of drugs, calls to the audience for beer, stumbles and crawls on the stage and slurs lyrics while members of the audience write on him with permanent markers. During an interview in the film, Crash also discusses taking drugs onstage to avoid feeling injuries from fan violence and "creeps out there with grudges".
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