Artist description The original Skatecore Ceder Crest skate ramp house band.

Music Style Skate Punk Metal

Musical Influences Black Flag, Mentors, Meatmen, Megadeth, Slayer

Similar Artists No one I know.

Artist History Coathanger started as a basement band consisting of Shaggy (David Maphis) and Thaiman (Tony Aitken) in the late 70's, barely able toplay our instruments and recording on a junky Radio Shack mono cassette recorder.Our songs began a source of venting our frustrations after a school day. Anythinggoes, and anyone was a target. Chris Converse was our first "singer", with a fewsit-ins by the infamous Bill Cook. Shaggy had another band, which played rock-n-rolland southern rock. Coathanger was always just a way to have fun. Eventully,Thaiman began to develop some cool guitar progressions and coined our first mainstaysong "SLAM!", a song about slam dancing and skateboarding, in 1979. In1983 - 1984, Shaggy got sent to boarding school and the afterschool jams got thrawted. In 1984, after Shaggy got out of boarding school, we began to play again. We bothmoved into a house in College Park, MD and began to collabourate on some newmaterial. We spent a lot of our time phoning into the local college radio station(WMUC) and playing live over the phone and engaging in totally senseless ramblingsof comedy (Pre-Jerky Boys). The construction of the Ceder Crest skate ramp in Centreville, Virginia in 1985 was thepivitol point for our band. It was at this time that Thaiman and myself (Shaggy) werereunited with a friend from our early years of skateboarding, Pat Clark. Add in themetallic stylings of Marty Cunningham and there you have our first public lineup.Wepracticed about one time before our first show in Shaggy's room in his group house.Yes, they did call the police, but we had already completed our mission. (by the wayVernon Vougt, you are very gay for calling the cops.)

Group Members Lineups: 1.SHAGGY, THIAMAN, CHRIS CONVERSE 2.SHAGGY, THIAMAN, ANDY STEPHENS 3.SHAGGY, THIAMAN, ROB MCCAUNAHY, BILL 4.SHAGGY, THIAMAN, PAT, MARTY 5.SHAGGY, THIAMAN, STEVE, MARTY 6.SHAGGY, THIAMAN, PAT 7.SHAGGY, THIAMAN, PAT, TROY CHASEN 8.SHAGGY, THIAMAN, PAT, TOM LIND, TROY 9.SHAGGY, THIAMAN, PAT, TOM LIND 10.SHAGGY, PAT, MARK HOGUE 11.SHAGGY, PAT, THIAMAN, GREGG GOODWIN 12.SHAGGY, PAT, THIAMAN, KEITH 13.SHAGGY, PAT, THIAMAN, GREGG GOODWIN, TOBY 14.SHAGGY, PAT, THIAMAN, GREGG GOODWIN, DARRYL

Instruments Rockin' BC Rich gutiarz, Kawai Bass and Ludwiggy Drumsz

Albums Live after the Abortion

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Location centreville, va - USA

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