THESE GERMS AREN’T VIRAL

First, a really bad Germs bio-pic, followed by three 50-year-olds and a TV actor impersonating the dead lead singer playing live as the band [“With Shane West, ‘New’ Germs Spreading,” Dec. 27].

It sounds a lot more like “Punk’d” than punk to me.

The “new” Germs are the complete antithesis of what was exhilarating and exciting about punk, circa 1977.

Nicole Panter

Twentynine Palms

Panter managed the Germs from 1977-80.