When Jimmy Michael Giorsetti took the stage name of fellow Arizonian Don Bolles — an investigative journalist who was killed in a car bomb in 1976, while investigating the Mafia – he took on a persona that was suitably antagonistic for the punk scene he was to become embedded in. Most famously he played in the Germs, the short-lived but highly influential Los Angeles punk rock group, whose ’79 debut (and only) album, *GI*, was produced by Joan Jett. Throughout the ’70s and ’80s, Bolles played drums for other noisy, rule-bending bands in LA, such as Nervous Gender, 45 Grave and Celebrity Skin. His career as a drummer has run concurrently with his career as a DJ, vocalists, radio host and event programmer — and he’s as busy as ever.
