Chris Osgood at the Minnesota State Fair

Chris Osgood
Chris Osgood of the Suicide Commandos
Minnesota Public Radio / Stephanie Curtis

Chris Osgood's legendary local punk group The Suicide Commandos plays the Minnesota State Fair Grand Stand this weekend. In 1974, when Osgood formed the band with Dave Ahl and Steve Almaas, who would have thought that they would ever play that most mainstream of Minnesota events, the State Fair?

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