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Richard Meltzer, reviewing the Germs’ G.I. album for the LA Times in 1979, declared the band heirs apparent to the Doors. So perhaps there’s poetic justice in the way the two bands’ late-period careers mirror each other almost exactly; their lives have both been reenacted in Hollywood movies, and they’ve both returned to the concert stage with a celebrity ringer in place of a defining, iconic, dead lead vocalist. And importantly enough, they’re both continuously idolized by a new crop of 16 year olds searching for an edgy, articulate, safely deceased role model every year. Consider them essential rites of passage for hippie and punker kids respectively, from the same town, their reigns just six years apart.

For anyone who missed Rodger Grossman's Germs biopic What We Do Is Secret at last year's L.A. Film Festival, or this year's NoisePop in San Francisco, the film is making its non-festival L.A. debut at The Nuart this month on Friday, August 22nd (also at Regal Irvine Six in the O.C.). Sparking both controversy and high praise, the movie was influential in rousing the remaining members of pivotal L.A. punk band The Germs back into the limelight, to delight old and new fans alike with shows across the country, featuring actor Shane West as frontman. The Germs Return line-up plays Saturday the 23rd at The Echo, as well as several dates of this year's Warped Tour, and having caught them several times before, LAist (and myself) deem both movie and live show not-to-be-missed.