11 Facts About George Hurley

George Hurley was born on September 4,1958 and is a drummer noted for his work with Minutemen and fIREHOSE.

George Hurley got his first drumkit when he was nineteen after trading a motorcycle for it.

That same year, George Hurley formed the Reactionaries with Boon, Watt, and Martin Tamburovich.

Watt asked George Hurley to join repeatedly but George Hurley was reticent because they traveled in different circles and Watt was deemed "a geek".

George Hurley reunited with his two former Reactionaries bandmates in Minutemen.

Watt and George Hurley formed fIREHOSE in 1986, alongside newcomer Ed Crawford on guitar and lead vocals.

George Hurley has played with the Red Krayola and Tom Watson from Slovenly.

George Hurley plays with his surviving Minutemen cohort Mike Watt on occasion, usually performing a set of Minutemen songs without a third person substituting for the late Minutemen leader D Boon under the name George Hurley and Mike Watt.

George Hurley has been married since 1997 and has a son, Garrett, who was born in July 2002.

George Hurley is known for his distinctive hairstyle that he sported in his later Minutemen and Firehose days, a protruding clump of hair that he nicknamed "The Unit".

George Hurley explained in the 2005 Minutemen documentary We Jam Econo that since his limbs were all busy when he played drums, he grew "The Unit" so that his head movements were more noticeable on stage.