Original T.S.O.L. Band Will Reunite--for 1 Big Payday : Punk: True Sounds of Liberty was a charismatic, unpredictable and big-drawing group. Its one-night stand in Anaheim is angering members of a band that carried on the name.

For anyone nostalgic or curious about the early-’80s punk rock explosion in Orange County, deja vu is scheduled to set in on Dec. 29, when the original lineup of T.S.O.L. will reunite at the Celebrity Theatre in Anaheim. It will be the four founding members’ first show together since 1983.

T.S.O.L. (True Sounds of Liberty) made a reputation as one of the most charismatic, stormily unpredictable and, at its peak, biggest-drawing bands on the Southern California punk scene before dwindling popularity and an acrimonious split ended the original lineup’s run.

The show, promoted by Goldenvoice Presents, is a one-time get-together and does not signal an attempt to re-form the original T.S.O.L. on a continuing basis, singer Jack Grisham said Wednesday.

“We never had a chance” to play a big farewell concert when the band broke up in 1983, Grisham said. “The last show we played was in the Cathay de Grande (in Los Angeles) on a Wednesday night, and there were about 100 people there.”

The original T.S.O.L. broke up when Grisham and drummer Todd Barnes parted with bassist Mike Roche and guitarist Ron Emory, who revamped the band with new members and a more blues-influenced hard-rock approach.

That Phase 2 T.S.O.L., with Roche now the only remaining founding member, has continued to tour and record since 1984 and is scheduled to release its fifth album, “Strangelove,” next year on Enigma Records.

Grisham said the original T.S.O.L. members decided to set aside their still-lingering personal differences to play one more show featuring their old songs.

“We haven’t even talked to each other for the past four years,” he said. “They got us together little by little, in twos. Ron Emory was just over to my house today (to talk about the reunion show). It was the first time he’d been here in five years.”

As of Wednesday, the day tickets for the concert went on sale, the four original T.S.O.L. members still had not met together as a unit, Grisham said.

The main motive for the reunion is “for the hell of it,” Grisham said. “It’ll be kind of fun.”

But it also holds the prospect of a big payday. The money “helps--they’re paying us a lot,” he acknowledged.

Also, Grisham said, attention from the T.S.O.L. reunion could help in promoting his current band, Tender Fury, which is due to release its second album, “Garden of Evil,” in January. Emory’s new group, Lunchbox, will also be releasing a debut album next year.

While the reunion figures to please older punk rock fans looking to relive younger and wilder days, as well as newer fans hoping to see what it was like the first time around, it is a source of friction within the current T.S.O.L. lineup.

“It’s been put to us as a one-time show, so we just hope it comes and goes, and we get on with our career,” said drummer Mitch Dean, who joined T.S.O.L. in 1984 with singer Joe Wood, beginning the band’s second incarnation.

“Me and Joe have both said we don’t like the idea of it, but we haven’t been left much of a choice. I just feel it’s confusing our audience at a touchy time.”

Wood, who is Jack Grisham’s brother-in-law, was more blunt in voicing his disapproval: “It would be a rip-off to the public. It’s a one-night thing of four guys who want quick money. They don’t care about the old music.”

According to Dean, Roche’s commitment to the ongoing T.S.O.L. had led him to dismiss previous reunion offers for the original lineup. Roche could not be reached for comment.

“For years he was adamantly against a show like this,” said Mike Zoto, manager of the current T.S.O.L. “I think in his heart he didn’t want to do this, but other factors besides his heart forced him to do it.

“It’s going to be an event, there’s no question about it,” Zoto said of the original band’s reunion, but the ongoing version of T.S.O.L. will now have “a lot of internal reconciliation to deal with.”