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Dag Nasty was a Washington D.C. hardcore punk band formed in 1985 by Brian Baker (musician)|Brian Baker (guitar) of Minor Threat, Colin Sears (drums) and Roger Marbury (bass guitar|bass), both of Bloody Mannequin Orchestra, and Shawn Brown later of Swiz and Jesuseater (vocals).
Their style of less aggressive, melodic hardcore was influential to emocore, as well as post-hardcore. Dag Nasty was the first of a new breed of "professional" hardcore punk|hardcore bands, that would be the blueprint for the later to come "Warped Tour" styled bands.
Shawn Brown was the first vocalist with whom the band recorded (until recently) previously-unreleased versions of most of the material that later made up their first release, "Can I Say", with former roadie and new singer Dave Smalley of DYS (ban|DYS. The song "Circles" appeared on Tony Hawk's Proving Ground. Just over a year later, the band had a new album titled ''Wig Out at Denko's'', a new bassist named Doug "Fig Nuts" Carrion (then of The Descendents, later of The Kottonmouth Kings and the Humble Gods) and a new vocalist, Peter Cortner (formerly of Lunchbox (band)|Lunchbox, currently of The Gerunds) after Smalley left to attend school in Israel.
1988 saw the release of their album ''Field Day'' on Giant Records (independent label)|Giant Records (a sister label to Homestead Reco... read all
