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Claude Christensen: Guitar (acoustic), Guitar (electric), Vocals | John Gunderson: Bass guitar | Don Story: Guitar (acoustic), Guitar (electric) | David Davenport: Keyboards | Terry Micalizio: Drums

Genre: Punk

RIYL: Rick Elias, the Puppies, Four Eyes, C.J. Hutton, DFX2, the Penetrators, NE1, the Zeros, the Ravens

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Synoposis

Inception: Lakeside, 1979

Influences: Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, Fear, the Ramones, the Sex Pistols

Background:

Formed in 1979, Claude Coma & the IVs included Claude Christensen (vocals,guitar), John Gunderson (bass), Don Story (guitar), David Davenport (keys), and Terry Micalizio (drums). After releasing one self-titled record, they split in the early 1980s.

The band played mean and economical poprock behind Coma’s weirdness: “I’m sick of the bus/I can’t take it no more/Let’s kill these people/What are they good for?”

Gunderson, Micalizio, and Story later founded the Ravens.

Discography