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Checking the universal calendar... band has existed for about 15 godforsaken years now. Was one of TK's (later Tim Kerr's) early bands, with a full-length LP/CD released in 1991. This is like, the dawning of time. In the intervening billion years, 4 more full-lengths have been recorded/released. People appearing on these albums and live (good lord... this list is gonna get longer) include Chris Newman, Tom Pig Champion Roberts, Rebecca Gates, Kaitlyn ni Donovan, Brian Berg, Steve Birch, Terry Haynes, Steve Linn, Rob Landoll, John Moen, Jim Talstra... jeezus h. fucque... how many people are ON this fuggin list... Si Abrams, Debbie Smith, Stella & Madeline, Rebecca Kimball, Wendy Pate, Roger Conley, Lauren Cressman, Cleo Patton... GAWD... how many more ARE there? Let me go get the Portland phone book... Shann Mortimer, Morgan Grace, Denise Coffey, Ralph Porter, Robert Parker, Angela Crepeau, Mary Sue Tobin, Lucinda Beth Thompson, Cory Burden, Jon Koonce, Karen Searcy, Alex Russell, Roby Williams, Monica Nelson, Dave Hite... have I left anyone out? ------------------- The Lone Fir Cemetary over at SE 25th & Stark is filled with testaments to the glorious Oblivion Seekers mythology. If one ventures deep into the center, past the paved-over plots of western railroad construction workers, one will find a gargoyle-monitored tomb wherein resides a grizzled old creature, breathing in the decomposing parts, the dust of our Oregonian predecessors. This would be the band's manager, Fred Garvin. --------------------------------good gawd... ---------------------------- The band is currently at work on a live release & a studio recording. These records WILL be out some time. The trademark of an Oblivion Seekers production, you will recall, is its attention to detail. These things take time. In the meantime, the band has been playing the hell out of its live set/sets. The keyboards are going to be rearing their fearsome visage in the upcoming events. Bear witness to the glory that is the almighty Oblivion Seekers. I mean... come check out the live show. --------------------

High Noon 2001 Reptilicus Records. Released on CD only

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Member Since: 8/13/2005
Band Website: oblivionseekersusa.com
Band Members: Mark Sten - vox/guitar/organ (was in King Bee with Fred Cole, Bop Zombies on the 10/29/79 record, plays keyboards on SadoNation's 7" EP, did engineering on the Neo Boys 12", has played in the Miss U's, caught fire in Lucky Thirteens, was in the Range Rats live band & in the Torpedos, Portland's lost all-star band) *** Heidi Hellbender - vox (was a vocalist on the Oblivion Seekers' first CD, was in M99 with Rob Landoll, Regina LaRocca & James Mahone - this band toured Europe & the states, recorded with Greg Sage & released a bunch of records including a couple full-lengths, has performed with Gothic Outhouse - a band that did folk-punk cover songs & released a CD to acclaim in the greater Portland area, has sung lead & backing vocals with several billion other Portland institutions, but has yet to be institutionalized, locally. Makes relatively incognito appearances in a c&w revue called Mutts on Fire and/or The Taillights ***Tina Purdy - vox (also appears in the Blueprints, and was in the Fabulous Pheremones along with Dave Corboy & Rob Parker, and let us not forget the late lamented Naked Lunch) *** Jeff ("three braincells & counting'") Larson - guitarrorism (a chequered past: including stints in Crash Landing with Dale Moerer & John Naylor, IBC - a hardcore idea gone horribly wrong in highschool, who played at Satyricon with Napalm Beach once and Slack several times, much to their chagrin, I'm sure... this band actually released a 7-inch EP on Fred Cole's Tombstone label in 1989... so I guess it all does revert to degrees of separation from the Cole Empire; served time in Nervous Christians, the Weaklings, the Procrastinators, started the Lucky Thirteens & used the name with Bradly, Jedediah & Sten a couple years later to more renown) *** Ivan French - bass (does the name Kentucky Fried Children mean anything to you? was in New Wave Hookers with Chester Stallings, Brian Zipper, Al Maly & the inimitable Derek Baron, did some time beating the senses out of an acoustic bass with Ellen & the Felons, spent awhile as "DUIvan" in Texecutioners) *** Louis Samora - drums (which bands has Louie NOT been in? In Eugene, the almighty Foamlords, then the Torpedos here in Portland, the Rats, the Jackals, the Flapjacks... has been playing guitar alongside Steve Casmano's bass for much of his adult life - I think there was an idea, once, for a band called East Side Speed Machine - not sure this one ever got off the ground - the Miss U's, the live version of Fred Cole's western-themed ensemble the Range Rats... and several million other lucrative positions in bands here on Earth and elsewhere). ***
Influences: The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. H. L. Mencken
Sounds Like: Roughly, this is an approximation of the sounds produced in a typical Oblivion Seekers recording or live show: http://www.somethingawful.com/cliff/ihateyou/
Record Label: Portland necrophiliac union Local 138.
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

A frightening spectacle. Includes pictures.

Subject: look at this nonsense. Oblivion Seekers playing at Kelly's OlympianAttention! Your favorite band, Oblivion Seekers, are playing at Kelly's Olympian downtown at SW 5th & Washington St in Portl...
Posted by Oblivion Seekers on Fri, 09 May 2008 09:37:00 PST

show w/ Pierced Arrows at Berbati’s - BE THERE!

Alright. So we’re playing with Pierced Arrows tomorrow at Berbati’s. It’s a $10 show, and yer invited. Word is Fred, Toody & Kelly will have copies of their debut full length availab...
Posted by Oblivion Seekers on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:39:00 PST

attention: yet another pile o muzak from the lord.

Attention! We understand that there are several things goin on in Portland this evening. For example, you could go watch the paint dry on the side of the new huge condo on Belmont St, for some real ex...
Posted by Oblivion Seekers on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:34:00 PST

ACHTUNG! The Strange Tones & Oblivion Seekers - together at last at the Mt Tabor Thing.

We call your attention to this fiasco:Andy Strange, Guitar Julie, Suburban Slim & JD Huge are, at last, going to host the Oblivion Seekers for a barn-levelling evening of depravity. The Strange T...
Posted by Oblivion Seekers on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:53:00 PST

tonight at Dantes - NAPALM BEACH reunite

Here's my revised request for a set list:Rock & Roll HellPugsleySilver RainFrenzy/All American BoyMy Master CallsMonsterVolunteerGet Movin'Down In New OrleansPlagueScreaming SkullShe's a CarnivalD...
Posted by Oblivion Seekers on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:53:00 PST

we have a new track posted up in here. your opinion, please.

So, we've been recording, and I've also been going through old-ass cassette versions of Oblivion Seekers songs in various states of readiness. We recorded about 5 or 10 songs several years ago that di...
Posted by Oblivion Seekers on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 02:00:00 PST

Obituaries / Pierced Arrows + us - Dantes 02 Aug 2007

Man, what a night. Thank you, everyone who made it. Rob Landoll sat in with us for the last 3 songs in the set, and it was a guitar frenzy, fer sure. Rob Landoll was in the first incarnation of the Ob...
Posted by Oblivion Seekers on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 11:21:00 PST

show at Duff's with Los Flapjacks

Well, last night was another great Duff's Garage show. Dunno what it is about that place, but it feels like home. Maybe it's the fact that we could just about stumble there with blinders on. In the su...
Posted by Oblivion Seekers on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 02:15:00 PST

show friday 17 feb

Thx to everyone who made it to the show at Sabala's last night, in nearly freezing Portland weather. Blue skies and we're still frozen stiff. Was great seeing the Nightmares again, in full-rock mode. ...
Posted by Oblivion Seekers on Sat, 18 Feb 2006 12:26:00 PST

show with Teenage Frames & the Nightmares

This is a show with the Teenage Frames, who are ex-Frankie Machine & the Stiffs people who originated in Portland, fled to Chicago, then traipsed cross-country to California, where they now reside...
Posted by Oblivion Seekers on Wed, 15 Feb 2006 04:36:00 PST