After graduating high school, Doug formed his first band Moral Majority with friend Bill Leen after teaching Bill how to play bass. The name came from a friend joining The Moral Majority under Doug's name as a joke.


Moral Majority was first formed with Doug Hopkins, Bill Leen, Richard Flower and Doug Fry, playing mostly punk covers, and some punk originals, rehearsing for a few months and only performing a few family concerts. The band was officially formed when Richard Flower left the group, and was replaced by Jim Swafford.

In the spring of 1981, news arose that local heroes, The Jetzons, were looking for an opening act, after growing tired of playing four sets a night. Doug knew that opening for The Jetzons would gather them attention, and an audition was set up in Bill's parent's house, which saw Moral Majority score the gig. This saw the band move from family concerts to The Jetzon's opening band at the local club, Merlins in Tempe.

Moral Majority apparently recorded a 6 track recording at Bleu Studios, that was never commercially released. No further details about it are known.

Moral Majority broke up after internal conflicts.

The following songs were written by Hopkins during Moral Majority days (and assumably performed by the band). We have no further information about the songs, or knowledge whether they were on the 6 track recording.