The Stains were a well known punk band to come from Portland, Maine

Portland, Maine

Portland is the largest city in Maine and is the county seat of Cumberland County. The 2010 city population was 66,194, growing 3 percent since the census of 2000...

 in the early 1980s and were led by guitarist

Guitarist

A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...

 George Ripley and vocalist Dave Buxton, Beth Blood and Ira Nulton on bass as well as Joe Potter on drums. Lead guitarists in the studio and in live performance included Dave Morton, Steve Soma, Marc English, Gary Gogel, and Roger Miller

Roger Miller (rock musician)

Roger Miller is an American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist best known for co-founding the groups Mission of Burma and Alloy Orchestra.His main instruments are guitar and piano...

. The Stains released a 7" EP

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 on Gutterworst records with the songs "Feel Guilty" and "Give Ireland Back To The Snakes" on one side, and "Sick Of Being Sick" and "Submission" on the other. A posthumous LP

Album

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 was released on the same label in 1989 featuring 15 more songs recorded between 1979 and 1983http://www.collectorscum.com/volume3/neweng/. Ripley and Potter along with Beth Blood moved on to form a garage rock

Garage rock

Garage rock is a raw form of rock and roll that was first popular in the United States and Canada from about 1963 to 1967. During the 1960s, it was not recognized as a separate music genre and had no specific name...

 band called GHOST WALKS.http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:v9oSwzgiguEJ:www.podcastdirectory.com/podcasts/index.php%3Fiid%3D2392+stains+%22beth+blood%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=4&client=safari.

The Portland Stains are often mistaken as being from Boston

Boston

Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...

, perhaps because they moved to Boston in 1981 and possibly because of some confusion with Steve Stain, a Boston-area punk performance art

Performance art

In art, performance art is a performance presented to an audience, traditionally interdisciplinary. Performance may be either scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated; spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or without audience participation. The performance can be live or...

ist who often borrowed musicians from various Boston rock bands to back him up when he was performing. Sometimes he billed his impromptu band as "The Stains".http://www.rockinboston.com/thayerst.htm

For further information on either band, refer to www.thestains.com, gutterworstmusic and thestainsfromportlandme at myspace. Coming soon ghostwalksfromportlandme at myspace.