Oranger
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| Oranger | ||
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| Background information | ||
| Origin | San Francisco, California, California, USA | |
| Genre(s) | Psychedelic rock | |
| Years active | 1998 - present | |
| Label(s) | Eenie Meenie Records | |
| Website | Official site | |
| Members | ||
| Mike Drake Matt Harris Patrick Main John Hofer Bob Reed |
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| Former members | ||
| Chad Dyer Jim Lindsay |
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Oranger is a San Francisco indie band that formed in 1997. The current members are: Mike Drake (vocals, guitar), Matt Harris (bass, vocals), Bob Reed (guitar), Patrick Main (keyboards), and John Hofer (drums).
Mike Drake and Matt Harris were in a band called Overwhelming Colorfast. Original drummer Jim Lindsay played with Harris and Alan Stewart in Stick Figures. At the beginning Oranger relied on Chad Dyer (American Sensei) on bass, while Harris played lead guitar.
The four played their first performance at the San Francisco Noise Pop Festival. At that time Dyer left the band, and Oranger was established as a trio. After the success at the Noise Pop Festival, they decided to record their first album, Doorway to Norway. Tracked in their practice space on a Tascam 8-track cassette, the debut album was recorded on their own Pray for Mojo label, and was released in 1998. In early 1999 they joined up with Scott Kannberg (Spiral Stairs of Pavement (band)) to re-release Doorway To Norway as the first release on fledgling San Francisco indie label Amazing Grease Records.
Around 1999 Patrick Main was added to the line up, and the band began to record their next album. In 2000 The Quiet Vibrationland was released. It was tracked in their practice space on an Ampex MM1000 tape machine previously owned by The Beach Boys.
The next album was a double CD, Shutdown the Sun/From the Ashes of Electric Elves. It was released in 2003 on another San Francisco indie label, Jackpine Social Club.
Lindsay left the group in 2004 and is currently playing drums for The High Water Marks. The latest album, New Comes and Goes, was released in 2005 on Los Angeles indie Eenie Meenie Records.
Their cover of the song Mr. Sandman is used for a game called Stubbs the Zombie in "Rebel Without a Pulse".
