audience". Drummer Don Bolles described the experience of his introduction to "Forming" soon after it came out: I was transfixed; this was either the best or worst thing I had ever heard. The A-side was this amazingly low-tech approach to "stereo"—vocals in one channel, music (or three-chord sludge, as it were) in the other, with the singer matter-of-factly pointing out that "whoever would buy this shit is a fucking jerk". ... [The ending was] punctuated by the thunk sound of the mic hitting the floor! Now THIS, I thought to myself, is PUNK!" In early 1978, Bolles would become the Germs' permanent drummer. Live versions of both "Forming" and "Sex Boy" appeared on the 1981 release Germicide, which documented one of the band's early concerts. Donna Rhia departed the band soon after the recording of the single. An alternate version, produced by Ashford, to some extent, was recorded later in 1977 with drummer D. J. Bonebrake, who would become well known as a member of X. Referred to as "Forming 2", it was not officially released until 1993, when it appeared on (MIA): The Complete Anthology, also the first Germs album to include the original release versions of "Forming" and "Sex Boy". Personnel Bobby Pyn (Jan Paul Beahm, aka Darby Crash) – vocals Pat Smear (George Ruthenberg) – guitars Lorna Doom (Teresa Ryan, aka Terry Target) – bass Donna Rhia (Becky Barton) – drums References Notes Heylin, Clinton (2007). Babylon's Burning: From Punk to Grunge (Canongate). Leblanc, Lauraine (1999). Pretty in Punk: Girls' Gender Resistance in a Boys' Subculture (Rutgers University Press). Mullen, Brendan, and Marc Spitz (2001). "Sit on My Face, Stevie Nicks! The Germs, Darby Crash, and the Birth of SoCal Punk", Spin (May). Mullen, Brendan, with Don Bolles and Adam Parfrey (2002). Lexicon Devil: The Fast Times and Short Life of Darby Crash and the Germs (Feral House). Patterson, Fred (1997). "Like Everything Else in Los Angeles, It Is Now a Mini Mall", in Make the Music Go Bang!: The Early L.A. Punk Scene, ed. Don Snowden (Macmillan). Raggett, Ned (2002). "Germs (M.I.A.)—The Complete Anthology", in All Music Guide to Rock: The Definitive Guide to Rock, Pop, and Soul, 3d ed., ed. Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra, and Stephen Thomas Erlewine (Backbeat). Raha, Maria (2005). Cinderella's Big Score: Women of the Punk and Indie Underground (Seal). Savage, Jon (1992). England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond