"That was the only time all four of us played together, and only for a short time," Simons said.

The three remaining members continued to rock on as The Bastards with Simons on drums and vocals, Brown playing guitar, and O'Toole on bass guitar. The band went on to play a few years before Brown left the band, Temple rejoined the band on guitar, and then Simons, O'Toole and Temple moved to California to promote the band.

With all four of them in town once again, The Bastards are ready to get back on Juneau's music circuit.

"We've all been friends since high school or before, and having the four of us together at the same time really opens up new creative avenues that weren't there before," Simons said.

The Bastards will be performing around 9:30 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 11, and Saturday, Jan. 12, at the Alaskan Hotel & Bar.

This time around, Brown and Temple will both be playing guitars. Their collaboration has added a whole new sound to the band, O'Toole said.

"It definitely sounds a lot more full and adds another dynamic to it with another guitar player," he said.

Simon said jokingly that there was a bit of trepidation of having two guitar players in the band.

"I didn't think it was going to work out," he said. "It's really hard to fit two guitarists' egos in one room together."

Temple agreed.

"It's really hard to fit my ego in one room," he laughed.

Temple said it's been great playing outside a rehearsal studio with Brown.

"I do really enjoy playing with Beaker," he said. "It's really good to play on stage together."

The band intends to work on more original music in the near future, but it has been working mainly on polishing up some cover tunes to play at more gigs around town.

"We probably have 50 or 60 cover songs that we play, and maybe seven originals ... but we're trying to change that," Simons said.

The band plays mostly punk and alternative covers ranging from Collective Soul to Fugazi, The Misfits to Metallica and Hated Youth, among others.

"We also play some '80s tunes that we massacre, like Soft Cell's 'Tainted Love,'" Simons said. "We're all over the map, man."

The band really just likes to play loud, fast and hard to let the audience rock out, O'Toole said.

"We provide a release for the community - just to come out and push each other around at the shows if there's enough room," he said. "People just come out and release a little bit, which is really good for the kids around here."

Temple said the band likes to exemplify all that is bastardly to put on a show.