(GI) is the only studio album by the American punk rock band the Germs. Often cited as one of the first hardcore punk albums, it was released in the United States in October 1979 on Slash Records with the catalog number SR 103. The album’s title is an acronym for “Germs Incognito”, an alternate name the band used to obtain bookings when their early reputation kept them out of Los Angeles-area clubs. The entire album was included in the compilation CD (MIA): The Complete Anthology. In 2012, (GI) was reissued on CD with “Caught in My Eye” as a bonus track, after “Shut Down”. (More from Wikipedia)
Remarkably, in early 1979, Joan Jett produced the only album by the pioneering L.A. punk rock band the Germs, called (GI).
(November 2013)
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These Are the Days by Certain General was produced by Genya Ravan, the former lead singer of perhaps the very first all-female rock band Goldie and the Gingerbreads. She was also in the band Ten Wheel Drive and has released several solo albums; I have Urban Desire (1978) myself. Among her other production credits are the Dead Boys’ first studio album, Young, Loud and Snotty (1977). That’s two important punk rock albums that I know of which were produced by women, the other being the 1979 album by the Germs, (GI), which was produced by Joan Jett (a veteran of another all-female band the Runaways).
(March 2015)
