Wrangellites playing music for the masses

Once upon a time, Wrangell sported a band of local musicians with their sights on domination of the world – or at least the Seattle music scene of the early 1990s.

That band, DXD, who at one time were the house band for the Stikine Inn, took their music south to the Emerald City in 1994 in an attempt to ply their trade in the bigger market where so many bands cashed in on the hugely popular “grunge” movement.

The band, which was fronted by the husband and wife duo of Glen and Kelly Decker, played for more than a decade in the Pacific Northwest before returning home to Wrangell to work and star...