False Alarm is an American punk rock band founded in the outskirts of Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, in 1982. History False Alarm started in 1982. Brent Alden, bass player for the band, recalled, "We started calling it False Alarm because we pulled alarms by the Fairfax District". In the early days, the band was not well organized. Membership varied, including Fat Mike, later of NOFX. They were influenced by the Ramones, Dead Boys, Black Flag, Angry Samoans, and Reagan Youth. In 1983 the band broke up. In 1996 the guys started a new version of the band and released some new and old recordings. Beverly Hills High School friends Paul Aragon (lead vocals), Brent Alden (bass), Dylan Maunder (guitar), all original members and new cast member Art Chianello (drummer) joined the band and they started playing shows mainly at Al's Bar, the Anti-Club, and other venues between Los Angeles and San Francisco. In 1998 they released a 7-song CD entitled Learning Is Impossible. It had 6 new songs and one from 1983 featuring Fat Mike as lead vocals. The newly formed band broke up in 1999. In 2001 False Alarm got back together with guitarist Dylan Maunder replacing Paul Aragon on vocals. Brent Alden, Art Chianello, and Dylan Maunder began recording a new CD. They were joined by Paul Kostabi of Youth Gone Mad after Alden had an opportunity to meet Dee Dee Ramone. Kostabi and Ramone painted the album cover for the new False Alarm CD, Fuck 'Em All We've All Ready (Now) Won!, which includes a song called "Youth Gone Mad", about the band. In 2002, Brent sent a demo tape to Cheetah Chrome of the Dead Boys and Rocket from the Tombs, who agreed to participate. He highly rates False Alarm in his interviews: "I really think they are a great band in the Social Distortion vein, with intelligent lyrics written by guys who have lived the hell they sing about… They have more heart and talent than anybody I've heard in a long, long, time." The band also recruited two veterans of the LA underground punk scene for a record: De De Troit of U.X.A. and Rick Wilder from the Mau-Mau's and the Berlin Brats. In 2002 after Dee Dee Ramones death a song he wrote and recorded with Paul Kostabi entitled False Alarm for the guys was released on CD. Quite an honor for the