Career
He has been involved in numerous punk bands and runs Plan-lieutenant-X Records, a label founded in 1994. Clavin has been a part of many (primarily popular punk and folk punk) bands that have toured all over the world, some of them very influential in the DIY punk scene. Below is a partial list of the bands Clavin has played a part in.
Last August
Drowners
The Ted Dancin" Machine
Operation: Cliff Clavin
Disarm
Pink Ass Flowers (PAF)
The Trolls
The Coug
The Ground-Ups
I Like Japanese Hardcore
The Sissies
Ghost Mice
The Devil is Electric
Captain Chaos (see below)
Helter Skeletor
The Jammy Dodgers
Imperial Can
Long Duck Dong
By Blood
Inky Skulls
Tooth Soup
Clavin started working on solo recordings in the fall of 2004 when he wrote a song and recorded it in the same day to give to someone as a gift.
He tried to write and record one song a day. He only made it 8 days.
Those 8 songs along with 7 others are on the first album, "May All Liars Burn in Hell". The idea behind his solo projects is to write songs without thinking about them, to be pure in writing and hold nothing back.
Occasionally Clavin utilized his friends "Colorblind" Joe, McKayla or others for help.
Primarily playing with acoustic guitar or ukulele, he has toured the United States West Coast, Midwest, and Europe multiple times. As Captain Chaos
When Clavin first started releasing solo songs, he did not want his typical moniker attached to them. Spoonboy (of The Max Levine Ensemble) gave him the name Captain Chaos.
Though Clavin did not like the name, it stuck.
He released six full-length albums, one split, and appeared on a handful of compilations and other small projects as Captain Chaos before using his real name on his solo work (see further below). = Captain Chaos discography Early works
Full-length albums
Box set
All six of the full-length albums (and a bonus Chronic Disease Research of cover songs) were available in a hand-crafted wooden box set with hand-made art
These boxes were made by Dan Treiber of Crafty Records. Fifty-one of them were made.
The first 25 were made out of recycled 99-year-old barn wood.
The second 26 were made out of recycled 1960 Canadian crate wood. The box set became officially available as of April 5, 2007. lieutenant is now out of print.
Compilations
As Chris Clavin
In 2008, Clavin decided to stop releasing songs as Captain Chaos, and instead use his traditional moniker.
He began to tour solo again on a small scale, and has released one album so far. = Chris Clavin discography Full-length albums
Record labels
Clavin"s solo projects have appeared on the following record labels (this list excludes compilations and smaller projects)
Anti-Creative Records
Big Magic Records
Boom Boom Tapes
Crafty Records
Fall of the West Records
Plan-lieutenant-X Records
The Scientist and the Duke Records
Sweet Now Records
Valiant Death Records
Rock-it Records.
