Genres Hardcore punk Genre Hardcore punk | Active until 1988 | |
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Years active 1983 (1983)–1988 (1988)1991, 1995, 2011 (reunions) Labels Dischord, Gasatanka, Enigma, Giant Past members Steve PolcariPete MurrayMike ManosAndre LeeKenny Inouye Origin Washington, D.C., United States (1983) Members Kenny Inouye, Steve Polcari, Mike Manos, Andre Lee, Peter Murray Albums Double Image, Marginal Man, Marginal Man / Discography / Double Image, Identity Similar Government Issue, Fire Party, Artificial Peace, Gray Matter, Soulside | ||
Marginal man under a shadow
Marginal Man was a punk band that emerged in the Washington, D.C. hardcore scene in 1983. Steve Polcari, Pete Murray, and Mike Manos all had played earlier in Artificial Peace, a band which appears on Dischord Records' important Flex Your Head compilation, an essential document of the 1980s D.C. punk scene. The other two members, Andre Lee and Kenny Inouye, had previously been in the band Toasterhead. Marginal Man played for five years before a final performance at the 9:30 Club on March 24, 1988. They have reunited for shows at the 9:30 Club on August 29, 1991 and December 30, 1995—the second-to-last show at the 9:30 Club's original location—and at Black Cat on August 20, 2011.
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Guitarist Kenny Inouye is the son of former Representative, Senator, and Medal of Honor recipient Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii.
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Shades of ReasonDouble Image · 1985
Double ImageDouble Image · 1985
Missing RungsIdentity · 1984