- The Reactionaries
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Name = The Reactionaries
Img_capt = The Reactionaries in 1978. Left to right:Martin Tamburovich ,Mike Watt ,George Hurley , andD. Boon .
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Origin =San Pedro, California
Genre = Punk
Years_active =1978 –1979
Label =New Alliance Records (posthumously)
Associated_acts = Minutemen
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Current_members =Martin Tamburovich D. Boon Mike Watt George Hurley
Past_members =The Reactionaries were a
punk rock band formed inSan Pedro, California in 1978. The band's continual members wereMartin Tamburovich ,D. Boon ,Mike Watt andGeorge Hurley . The Reactionaries existed for most of 1978 and 1979, practicing regularly but rarely if ever performing live. After their breakup in late 1979, Watt and Boon formed the Minutemen; Hurley joined them soon afterwards.History
At the time, San Pedro was more receptive to
classic rock cover band s than to original acts, and nearby Los Angeles' punk scene was not yet prepared to take a band from San Pedro seriously. One band that did take the group seriously was another struggling L.A. punk band, Black Flag.Tamburovich's influence and input remained with his friends and former bandmates for the whole of the Minutemen's existence; Watt, Boon, and Tamburovich co-founded
New Alliance Records in 1980; Tamburovich would contribute lyrics to several Minutemen songs and sometimes travel with the band as aroadie .No formal studio recordings of The Reactionaries exist, but a demo recording (possibly from a rehearsal tape) made in January 1979 of the song "Tony Gets Wasted In Pedro" appears on the Minutemen's odds-and-sods compilation album "
The Politics of Time ", first released in1984 on New Alliance. When Tamburovich died of a bacterial infection in2003 , Watt played "Tony Gets Wasted In Pedro" in tribute to his friend on his internet radio show "The Watt From Pedro Show ".In
2005 several more unreleased Reactionaries songs were provided for free download by Watt to the fan audio site [http://www.corndogs.org Corndogs.org] .Musical style
External links
* [http://www.corndogs.org/reactionaries_georgesshed_1979.html Reactionaries demo in mp3 format (Authorized free download)]
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