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Off-Ramp

These Germs Were Catchy

By Off-Ramp Staff
Published Aug 23, 2008
Casey Cola on her birthday in October, 1980, a few months before she and Darby Crash overdosed on heroin in a double suicide pact. Cola survived; Crash died.
Casey Cola on her birthday in October, 1980, a few months before she and Darby Crash overdosed on heroin in a double suicide pact. Cola survived; Crash died.
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Craig Roose
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About the Show

Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John is sharing selections from the Off-Ramp vault to help you explore this imperfect paradise.

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Go back in time to the birth of punk in L.A. with the director of the new movie, "What We Do Is Secret." Rodger Grossman tells the story of Darby Crash, whose band The Germs made the city's first punk record.

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