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on September 8, 2012, along with the former No Use for a Name members Nassie and Koff. This was intended to be the band's final performance, with Riddle commenting, "This is the last No Use for a Name show ever. No one wants to do this without Tony." The band's final show before Sly's death had also
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compilation, with the song "Gang Way". In 1988, Gras fell out with the rest of the band and left before an important show at Gilman and a live appearance on the KFJC radio show. In a tight spot, the band asked the former guitarist Dodge, who before the formation of No Use had sung in other local
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No Use For a Name was formed in 1986 by longtime friends Dodge, Papoutsis and Koff. The early rehearsals of the band had taken place at the Koff family house in Sunnyvale, where they also came up with the name for the band. During this era, the band was fronted by Papoutsis' friend John Meyer.
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joined the band to play guitar and bass guitar, replacing Gregor and Papoutsis respectively. With the punk music breakthrough in 1994, No Use for a Name received a larger audience after releasing this album, thanks to their video for the song "Soulmate" which was played on the
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in 1993. In late 1992, Dodge left the line-up, and was replaced by the guitarist Robin Pfefer, who took over on lead guitar so that Sly could step down to rhythm and concentrate on singing. No Use for a Name also released their first record on Fat Wreck Chords that year,
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Initially a four piece, it later expanded to a six piece, adding as a co-vocalist Ramon Gras and a second guitarist Doug Judd. The band experienced many line up changes during this period. In 1987, Dodge left to play in another Bay Area punk band,
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on June 15, 2012, but they reunited twice more as No Use and Friends, for the Fat Wreck Chords 25th anniversary show in August 2015 and for Groezrock 2016 in Belgium.
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Tony Sly died in his sleep on July 31, 2012. Riddle, Rest and Rivera played a tribute performance to Sly at the Envol & Macadam Festival in
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was released on April 1, 2008. In 2009, when promoting the album in Europe, Nassie left the band to join the
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on Slap A Ham Records. In 1989, Dodge left again which allowed Sly to take over vocals and songwriting.
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bands, to rejoin as vocalist, which he agreed. This line-up of the band recorded two EPs;
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on Fat Wreck Chords and, in 2002, No Use for a Name released its sixth studio album,
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Tony Sly, lead singer and chief songwriter from 1989 until his death in 2012
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Chris Dodge – guitars (1986–1987, 1991–1992), lead vocals (1988–1989)
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Ed Gregor replaced Pfefer on lead guitar soon after the release of
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The band released its eighth full-length studio album,
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Left to right: Rest, Sly, Rivera, and Riddle in 2012
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Sunnyvale, California
Punk rock
pop punk
skate punk
hardcore punk
melodic hardcore
New Red Archives
Fat Wreck Chords
Tony Sly
Chris Shiflett
Matt Riddle
Dave Nassie
Chris Rest
punk rock
Sunnyvale, California
guitar
bass

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