Agent Orange (band)

Infobox musical artist
Name = Agent Orange
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Origin = Placentia, California, USA
Genre = Punk rock
Surf punk
Hardcore punk

Years_active = 1979 – present
Label = Posh Boy Records
URL = [http://www.agentorange.net/ Official Website]
Current_members = Mike Palm
Perry Giordano
Dusty Watson
Past_members= Scott Miller
James Levesque
Brent Liles (deceased)
Derek O'Brien
Sam Bolle
Charlie Quintana
Steve Soto
Steve Latanation
Bruce Taylor

Agent Orange is a punk band from Placentia, California. They are a surf-punk band from the 1980s who first gained attention with their song Bloodstains which they wrote for a local Orange County compilation album. After the compilation album the group's then managers presented KROQ, Pasadena radio station's D.J. Rodney Bingenheimer with a demo tape, which soon became one of his show's biggest hits.

Besides having Mike Palm and Scott Miller as original members, Steve Soto was the power trio’s first bass player, the one who played on the first “Bloodstains”. The "Darkness Version" of this song later appeared on Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4. Soto later left the band to form The Adolescents. With new member James Levesque on bass, (writer of such hits as "Everything Turns Grey" and "Living in Darkness") the group found their way to the famous Living In Darkness sessions at Brian Elliot recording studio (Elliot is most known for having composed Madonna’s hit Papa Don’t Preach). The result of these sessions was their first long player, Living In Darkness (originally released by Posh Boy Records in November 1981), as well as a single and one or two bonus tracks that later surfaced on some E.P.s. Sam Bolle replaced Brent Liles in January 1992, and remained with the band until May 2003, when he joined Surf Guitar Legend Dick Dale's band, where he remains to this day- although he occasionally still drinks orange juice with his old friends Mike and Dusty.

Agent Orange has had an enormous influence on the punk and hardcore sceneFact|date=January 2007, even though band members stated on "Living in Darkness" that "We don't feel a part of that scene at all." Agent Orange was one of the first bands to pioneer what would later be known as the skate-punk or skate-core scene. They developed a following in convalescent homes along with The Adolescents. The band is still together today with few member changes. Their most recent album was in 2003 with Sonic Snake Session.

Members

Entire history of band:
*Mike Palm

First two albums:
*Scott Miller
*James Levesque

Other former members:
*Brent Liles
*Derek O'Brien
*Sam Bolle 1991-2003 (CD "Virtually Indestructible")
*Charlie Quintana (CD "Virtually Indestructible")
*Steve Soto (first "Bloodstains" single)
*Steve Latanation
*Bruce Taylor

Current:
*Perry Giordano
*Dusty Watson

Discography

LP

* "Living in Darkness" (1981)
* "This is the Voice" (1986)
* "Virtually Indestructible" (1996)

EP

* "Bitchin' Summer" (1982)
* "When You Least Expect It" (1984)

External links

* [http://www.agentorange.net Agent Orange official website]
* [http://www.bebad.us/agentorange Agent Orange BeBAD.us videos]