Location: Orange County, California
Active: 1978-1980

Der Stab was a punk band from California, with Joe Wood on guitars, who would go on to front the more hard rock incarnation of TSOL, and the vocalist Keith Walsh played keyboards to ‘Only Theatre Of Pain’ era Christian Death. Ward Dotson also appears in their lineup, prior to joining Gun Club, and Rikk Agnew (Christian Death, Adolescents, D.I.) contributed guitars to Der Stab’s sole recorded single, ‘Tracers/It’s Grey’, produced by Mike Patton of fellow OC punk band  Middle Class.

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Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/artist/1718600-Der-Stab

Related: TSOL, Christian Death, Gun Club, Adolescents, D.I., Middle Class, Rikk Agnew, Joe Wood , Ward Dotson

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