Agent Orange

Agent Orange
Background information
Origin	California, USA
Genre(s)	Post-punk Punk Rock Surf punk
Years active	1979 – present
Label(s)	Posh Boy Records
Website	Official Website
Members
Mike Palm Perry Giordano Dusty Watson
Former 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 were a surf-punk band from the 1980s and 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. He 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 of 1991, and remained with the band until May of 2003, when he joined Surf Guitar Legend Dick Dale's band, where he remains to this day- although he occasionally still performs with his old friends Mike and Dusty.

Agent Orange has had an enormous influence on the punk and hardcore scene^{[citation needed]}, 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 Fullerton 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.

Discography

• Living In Darkness - 1981
• Bitchin' Summer EP - 1982
• When You Least Expect It... EP - 1983
• This Is The Voice - 1986
• Virtually Indestructible - 1996
• Blood Stained Hitz Greatest and Latest - 2000/2004
• Sonic Snake Session - 2003

Members

Entire history of band:

• Mike Palm

First two albums:

• Scott Miller
• James Levesque

Other former members:

• Brent Liles
• Derek O'Brien
• Sam Bolle (CD "Virtually Indestructible")
• Charlie Quintana (CD "Virtually Indestructible")
• Steve Soto (first "Bloodstains" single)
• Steve Latanation
• Bruce Taylor

Current:

• Perry Giordano
• Dusty Watson
• Shelby Fussell

External links

• Agent Orange BeBad videos
• Agent Orange official website

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