D. Boon

Name at birth: Dennes Dale Boon

D. Boon and childhood friend Mike Watt, with drummer George Hurley, formed The Minutemen in the late 1970s. As part of the Los Angeles punk scene, The Minutemen performed short songs with leftist political rants, becoming more influential than famous. Their albums included the double LP Double Nickels On The Dime and Three Way Tie For Last. D. Boon played guitar and sang most of the songs. In 1985, he was killed when the vehicle in which he was a passenger crashed in Arizona.