Darby Crash Band - Starwood 27-8-1980

In 1975, at the age of 17, he devised a five-year plan for achieving immortality: form a band, collect a following, release one album, then commit suicide. The band started as a dare; T-shirts were made before any songs were learned. Its following expanded from a few hangers-on to members of the fast-rising hard-core scene from the nearby suburbs and beach communities....The Darby Crash Band was a music project started by Darby Crash and Pat Smear, founding members of the Los Angeles punk rock band, The Germs, formed after the band split in 1980.
They recruited Circle Jerks drummer, Lucky Lehrer, as well as, David "Bosco" Danford to play bass and began playing shows in Los Angeles.
The band's setlists would include a number of well known songs from The Germs' archives, as well as newly written material.
The band never recorded and played only a small number of shows before Darby's death on the 7th of December, 1980.

This is a show at the Starwood 27-8-1980.

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The Germs - The Starwood 3-12-1980

''One day you will pray to me''

- Darby Crash, interviewed 1979

On December 3 1980 the Germs reunited for one last farewell gig at the Starwood. Darby spent a lot of the gig trying to explain what it had all been about. He also wasn't very happy about the influence he was having on his audience, with all the wannabe Darby clones. Maybe this was part of the reason for his suicide... On December 7th 1980 Darby Crash killed himself. He and a girl had taken 400 dollars of rent money and bought 400 dollars worth of heroin. Darby shot up the girl and pinned a note on the wall that said: ''Here lies Darby Crash'' with an arrow pointing to his head, and spread himself out like a cross. He then took what he needed to die. When the girl woke up and found him dead she too tried to kill herself. She OD'd, but was found and taken to hospital. Suicide is always a failure and Darby's death was doubly so, as John Lennon was murdered the next day, something that kept the news of his suicide out of the press for almost a week. His last Jesus-theatrics turned out to be wasted too. Compared to Lennon being shot, Darby's OD suicide wasn't much of a martyr's death..... (Source)

Here is that final gig by the legendary Germs...