George Hurley

George Hurley is a drummer best known for his work with The Minutemen and fIREHOSE. He also wrote many lyrics for the Minuteman and fIREHOSE. He is also known for his disti

George Hurley is a drummer best known for his work with The Minutemen and fIREHOSE. He also wrote many lyrics for the Minuteman and fIREHOSE. He is also known for his distinctive hairstyle that he had in his later Minutemen and fIREHOSE days, a protruding clump of hair that he nicknamed "the unit". Hurley explained in the 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 noticable on stage.

Since 1994, he has played with the Red Crayola and Tom Watson from Slovenly. He also 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, or as part of the improvisational group Unknown Instructors with Watt and members of Saccharine Trust and Pere Ubu.