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The Conductor

Request for vengeance on the teacher's pet

About Me


The
Conductor


Based in IndieTown, USA, The Conductor was originally the brainchild of vocalist Dirk Wood. What started out as a twang solo project underwent a five-year evolution of line-up and stylistic changes that made The Conductor a full-fledged high-energy rock quartet.
The most-recent line-up featured Wood along with former Vegas Beat and current Team Dresch drummer Marci Martinez, ex- Blanket Music bassist Jez Miller, and guitarist Greg T. Bobbitt, formerly of Radio Nationals/Haywire . The 4-song demo, 'Post Conductor', was recorded in late 2003 with Cord Amato (of Wow + Flutter fame) providing engineering know-how at Interval Studios , and also contributing drums and keyboards to the recording. The band is currently on indefinite hiatus, although there are plans to release a full-length album later this year, recorded in 2006 at Interval with Dave Fulton .
Available for birthday parties and bar mitzvahs. A must...
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Member Since: 4/23/2005
Band Website: theconductor.org
Band Members: dirk wood - vox.gtr
greg t. bobbitt - gtr.vox
jez miller - bass
marci martinez - drums.vox
Sounds Like: From UrbanHonking.com :
"This foursome plays classic East Coast College Rock a la The Replacements, Throwing Muses, and The Pixies. There's surprisingly little of this type of music in Portland and The Conductor definitely [does] it justice with their catchy well-harmonized tunes and rock solid rhythm section."

From Sound Explosion Willamette Week's guide to MusicfestNW 2006 :
"A rattling ship of Portland grit-pop prowess, The Conductor hasn't made a big splash on the local scene yet but should be watched. This is what Tom Waits would have sounded like if he'd been raised on Nirvana."--Mark Baumgarten

Type of Label: None

My Blog

The Conductor is dead...long live The Conductor

Hi kids. It's summertime and we've gotten several requests to play shows of late (thank you for your inquiries). After receiving a few of these, it dawned on me that an official status report of ...
Posted by The Conductor on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 03:18:00 PST

Pop Tomorrow Compilation Volume 1

Last year, the fine folks at Tenderloving Empire and PDX Pop Tomorrow asked us if we'd like to appear on a compilation they were putting together. Naturally, we jumped at the chance. Now, after months...
Posted by The Conductor on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:47:00 PST

King Moon Racer

While The Conductor remains on indefinite hiatus, we do have a new project that we're excited about. King Moon Racer features Marci and Greg along with Sal Dodd (ex-Vegas Beat) on bass. Their fir...
Posted by The Conductor on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:26:00 PST

New Songs, Festivals, Merch and More!

We're going to keep this real brief. You may have already noticed that there are two new rough mixes posted on our profile for your listening pleasure. Rest assured, we're still finishing up the ...
Posted by The Conductor on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 03:10:00 PST

PDXPopNow! 2006

PDXPopNow! 2006 is July 28-30 at the Loveland here in Portland. While they aren't doing an online voting system like they did last year for bands to play the festival, they do have a page up...
Posted by The Conductor on Thu, 11 May 2006 02:15:00 PST

Holy crapola! New songs!

Kids, Yup. We have two new rough mixes posted on our profile. Capitol City and The Locks. Putting the rough back in rough mixes. Recorded with our ProTools guru and resident musical genius, Mr. Dave ...
Posted by The Conductor on Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:43:00 PST

Your Official Mid-March Update

Hi Kids,Nothing real new to report--just wanted to give you an update of what's been happening with us these days. Obviously, we've taken the past few months off from playing out. But, we've...
Posted by The Conductor on Mon, 13 Mar 2006 03:17:00 PST

Upcoming show! (and Kitten)

First, a show for you--because we care. The ConductorDeHavilandThe Backseat TeachersFriday, January 20, 2006 Towne Lounge 714 SW 20th Place PDX 10pm Second, we're currently in the studio recording ...
Posted by The Conductor on Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:44:00 PST

Rose City Rollers Benefit

Hey kids, This Saturday night, we're playing a benefit for the Heartless Heathers, the Rose City Rollers roller derby league's most bad-ass team. The deets: Saturday, November 26th, 8pm Cuckoo 396...
Posted by The Conductor on Tue, 22 Nov 2005 10:27:00 PST

Not long now...

The hiatus is almost over, kids... Our back are almost healed. The sisters are just about purged. Europe is in our rearview mirror. Our long march on a road of bones begins now. ...
Posted by The Conductor on Fri, 04 Nov 2005 04:49:00 PST