The Reactionaries
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| The Reactionaries | |
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| Origin | San Pedro, California |
| Genre(s) | Punk |
| Years active | 1978–1979 |
| Label(s) | New Alliance Records (posthumously) |
| Associated acts | Minutemen |
| Members | |
| Martin Tamburovich D. Boon Mike Watt George Hurley |
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The Reactionaries were a punk rock band formed in San Pedro, California in 1978. The band's continual members were Martin Tamburovich, D. Boon, Mike Watt and George 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.
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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.
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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