Happy Birthday to the real D. Boon

[DBoon]

http://laist.com/2008/04/01/happy_birthday_11.php

and from allmusic.com:

Few bands have opposed rock star status so vehemently and broken down all barriers between group and audience so thoroughly as '80s punkers the Minutemen, led by singer/guitarist D. Boon. Born Dennes Dale Boon on April 1, 1958, in San Pedro, CA, he and childhood friend Mike Watt picked up guitar and bass respectively as teenagers, at the insistence of Boon's mother. At first immersed in the sounds of such '70s rock as Blue Öyster Cult, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and the Who, it wasn't long before the duo had discovered punk rock. Inspired by such outfits as the Germs, Wire, and Richard Hell & the Voidoids, Boon and Watt enlisted another friend, George Hurley, for the drum position, and formed the Reactionaries -- changing their name to the Minutemen shortly thereafter.

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. R.I.P.

[Inchworm]

2. This ain't no picnic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzyzVZZfUfM

Working on the edge,
losing my self-respect
for a man who presides over me,
the principles of his creed.
Punch in punch out
8 hours 5 days,
sweat, pain and agony -
on Friday I`ll get paid.

This ain't no picnic.
This ain't no picnic
This ain't no picnic
This ain't no picnic
This ain't no picnic

Hey mister don't look down on me
for what I believe -
I got my bills and the rent.
I should go pitch a tent
but our land isn't free,
so I`ll work my youth away
in the place of a machine.
I refuse to be a slave

This ain't no picnic.
This ain't no picnic
This ain't no picnic
This ain't no picnic
This ain't no picnic

PS: I hope there wasnt a member change and this isnt D. Boon :P

:hi:

[Forkboy]

3. List monitors arrive with petition!

One of a kind, both him and the band. Sorely missed.

[Orsino]

4. I saw one of his last shows...

...supporting REM in December '85. "Have You Ever Seen Rain?" took me by surprise.