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By Gus Bode

 

Mike Vaughan opens a set with the band Diet Christ Saturday in the basement of ‘Lost Cross,’ a Carbondale house that hosts regular punk rock music shows. The band played in celebration of the 25th anniversary of Vaughan signing the lease to rent the house in 1986 in hopes of creating a place to welcome punk rock bands. James Ricks, a former ‘Lost Cross’ tenant and guitar player for Diet Christ, said he bought the house’s first sound system with $400 he earned while in the National Guard. Ricks said landlord Roger Staugh won the house in a poker game and has owned the property since the early 1980s. Today marks 25 years since the first out-of-town act, Brain Dead of Louisville, Ky., played in the house.

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