The Reactionaries
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| Origin | San Pedro, California |
| Years active | 1978–1979 |
| Genres | Punk/New Wave |
| Labels | New Alliance Records (posthumously) |
| Members | Martin Tamburovich D. Boon Mike Watt George Hurley |
The Reactionaries were a New Wave/punk rock band from San Pedro, California who are much more notable for the band three-quarters of the group became later, The Minutemen.
The band formed in 1978 with vocalist Martin Tamburovich, guitarist D. Boon, bassist Mike Watt, and drummer George Hurley. The group existed for most of 1978, practicing regularly but rarely if ever performing live, as at the time San Pedro was more receptive to classic rock cover bands 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.
The group broke up in late 1979, and Watt and Boon formed the Minutemen almost immediately afterward, adding Hurley as drummer in June of 1980. 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 a roadie.
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 in 1984 on New Alliance. When Tamburovich died of a bacterial infection in 2003, 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 Corndogs.org.
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| The Minutemen |
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| D. Boon | Mike Watt | George Hurley |
| Discography |
| Albums: The Punch Line | What Makes a Man Start Fires? | Double Nickels on the Dime | 3-Way Tie (For Last) | Ballot Result |
| Extended plays: Paranoid Time | Joy | Bean-Spill | Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat | Tour-Spiel | Project: Mersh | Georgeless E.P. |
| Compilations: The Politics of Time | My First Bells | Post-Mersh Vol. 1 | Post-Mersh Vol. 2 | Post-Mersh Vol. 3 | Introducing the Minutemen |
| Other releases: Minuteflag | D. Boon and Friends |
| Bootlegs: ...just a Minute Men | Jam "Schtik" To Do For Gigs | Live In 1985: Acoustic Blowout | Acoustic Blowout | Live At Flynn's Ocean 71 |
| Related articles |
| The Reactionaries | New Alliance Records | Martin Tamburovich | George Hurley and Mike Watt |
