Boon.ДЇollowing Boon's death, Watt and Hurley originally intended to quit music altogether. Other album covers, like on The Punch Line and 3-Way Tie (For Last), featured paintings by D.

Several Minutemen album sleeves and covers, such as the Paranoid Time EP and What Makes a Man Start Fires? LP and the inner gatefold jacket for Double Nickels, feature drawings by noted artist Raymond Pettibon, who was at the time associated with the SST label, providing sleeves for Black Flag. Their 'econo' practices helped ensure that their tours were always profitable, unlike some of their SST peers. The Minutemen toured frequently, but usually for only a few weeks at a time-they all held down day jobs. In fact, contrary to standard practice even in indie rock, the Minutemen saw records as a way to promote their tours, not the other way around. The group's early recordings (up until their 1985 12' EP Project: Mersh) were recorded as 'econo' (Pedro slang for inexpensive, short for 'economic') as possible - the group would book studio time after midnight at cut rates, rehearse the songs prior to going into the studio, record on less expensive used tape, and record the songs in the order they intended to have them on the record rather than waste time editing the master tape during the sequencing phase. On Double Nickels, they co-wrote some songs with other musicians, notably Henry Rollins, Chuck Dukowski and Joe Baiza. Though still somewhat obscure to mainstream audiences, Double Nickels has been cited as one of the more innovative and enduring albums of the 1980s American rock underground. Later, they were known for hybridizing punk rock with forms of jazz, funk, acid rock, and R&B in novel ways, perhaps best exemplified on 1984's double-album, Double Nickels on the Dime. At first, they completely avoided guitar solos, choruses, and fade-outs. Greg Ginn of Black Flag and SST Records produced the Minutemen's first 7' EP, Paranoid Time, which solidified their eclectic style. (Rehearsal recordings with Tonche on drums later appeared as the posthumous EP Georgeless in 1987.) Tonche quit the group, citing a dislike of the audience the band initially drew, and Hurley took over the drum seat in June of 1980. The group originally wanted George Hurley to join, but he had joined a new wave band called Hey Taxi after the Reactionaries disbanded. After a month with no drummer - during which Boon and Watt wrote their first batch of tunes, the band rehearsed and played a couple of early gigs with local welder Frank Tonche on drums. According to Watt, the name came from a Mao Tse-Tung quote about how all reactionaries are actually 'paper tigers'.ДЄfter the Reactionaries disbanded, Boon and Watt formed The Minutemen in January of 1980 the band's name was derived partly because of the fabled minutemen militia of colonial times, partly because of the fact that many of their earlier songs lasted a minute or less, and partly to take the name back from a right-wing reactionary group of the 1960s that used to harass figures like Angela Davis through the mail. They originally called themselves The Reactionaries, with additional band member and singer Martin Tamburovich.

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