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Tacoma, Washington

Tacoma didn’t have much going on for itself back in 1982. A city listed as too toxic to live, with industrial sludge filling up the Thea Foss waterway at one end and the Asarco copper smelter spewing arsenic into the air at the other. That spring, Doug Mackey, Mark Holt, Evan Purcell and Mark Bader formed the band to make some noise and relieve the boredom. 11-song cassette was their only release