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About Me

Lobe is Dead! Long Live Lobe! Born in the fall of 2000, Lobe stands as a shining example of not letting a lack of traditional instrumentation get in your way. Bass players Marc and Isaac were eager to make music and got right down to it. Sharing a love of bands both heavy and weird, they set out to forge their own sound. After years of playing with different drummers, including a short stint with Marc behind the kit (see: Gazebo of Destruction), they found a true believer in Steve. After several years slugging it out in the underground, the band split up in the spring of 2006 to focus on other projects. Marc and Steve both contributed some drumming talents to the legendary Medlar Doss, leading to the eventual formation of Slave Traitor, where you can find them flexing their metal muscles. Isaac and Marc continue to play a Gazebo of Destruction gig once or twice a year and hope to get some recording done sometime this century. Isaac has also joined up with the funsters of Happy Birthday Secret Weapon to play the kind of inaccessable brainy pop music he always wanted to play. As for Lobe, we would be glad to reunite if you've got a multi-million dollar recording contract for us.

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Member Since: 7/28/2004
Band Website: Just the myspace page. That's all you get.
Band Members: Marc plays bass and sings most of the songs. Isaac plays bass and sings the other songs & some backups. Steve plays the drums and pierces showgoers with his steely gaze.
Influences: the Melvins, godheadSilo, Queens of the Stone Age, Grandaddy, Slayer, Butthole Surfers, Flaming Lips, comic books, Chthulu, thc, post-apocalyptic shit, Pantera, Yob, Mastodon, Alan Moore, lsd, Me Infecto, Philip K. Dick, Steely Dan, Drum and Tuba, Jumbo's Killcrane, Weedeater, horror, Sk8ting, slacking, fucking, Down, CoC, mountains, CCR, Honky, Clutch, ZZ Top, Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles, Superjoint Ritual, Unwound, etc...
Sounds Like: Don't know what to compare it to. Suggestions welcome.
Record Label: Jank Styles

My Blog

Eloquence in action chained to commercial aspiration

Our CD pressing deal included a web page, free for six months: shellackthemerkin.com. I thought it would expire by now but it is still online. Go check it out. Marvel at the artistry involved in choos...
Posted by on Fri, 28 Apr 2006 20:49:00 GMT

recording the lobe

So it seems that even though we are all poor as all hell, somebody or something is rooting for us. We are planning on recording a few songs with the help of the a student from the Art Institute. T...
Posted by on Wed, 22 Feb 2006 08:19:00 GMT

pure drivel

(that would be the way to go)fm.banjobingoho/hi.guy.footurdy.restzxfight/(lead or the silver?)high.uh.forget,yorktrees.hnbzxhcvkbh;jnbvcjxhzgbnhjc vklb;jj/.i,mind.nices.nervecircle.vbhojOI.orc scum,bnm...
Posted by on Thu, 08 Dec 2005 02:33:00 GMT

the jesus steve

Yea, I was hanging out with the jesus steve the other day, and I mean, it's weird. He really doesn't say much but I tell ya, there's a whole lot going on there. I mean I will just be going off abou...
Posted by on Fri, 23 Sep 2005 16:08:00 GMT

shredding rippus on the gnar gnar rad

yea, got things in perspective now. Now that we've got thirty songs, we've decided to work on a few more. So, the jesus steve, as we like to call him, started to shred a little rippus an then Isaac ...
Posted by on Sun, 18 Sep 2005 23:05:00 GMT

New CD Out Now!!!

New CD out Now!!! Believe it or not, Shellack the Merkin has hit the shelves....more or less. You can get it online as we speak, just go to http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/jankstyles to pick up your cop...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 00:00:00 GMT

I heart canada

all thanks to duece, bina & hank of mendozza for inviting us up to canada for a kickass show. the venue was directly in the middle of crack central. much fun was had watching crackheads spazz out on t...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 00:00:00 GMT

critical failure

whoa! I musta rolled snake eyes cuz I had a critical failure with my amps. our show went down anyway, with no working tube amps on stage. our tone was compromised but we did rock. We unveiled th...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 00:00:00 GMT

thunder thunk

ouch! yea, finally got to experience the epic Mastodon. they ripped it right up and left me winded. too bad it was at el corozon.
Posted by on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 00:00:00 GMT

vast active living intelligent show

man!!! What a week! too much work is all I have to say. We played a killer show last week with Valis,sin dios, and left hand army. eric from slave traitor caravaned with us and basically roadied fo...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 00:00:00 GMT