Very cool guys!! I am sure it will sound great!! Good luck with the project!!

As I said before, -It's a really awesome band name you've got, good luck!

Hi Bill, I'm sure we met in the Burg back in the mid 70's. Saw Stan & Leeanne last Sat. in Leesburg....great show as usual, also had the opportunity to talk to Stan about Oblivion Sun. He seems very exited & welcomes the chance to play on a more regular basis in a band that, shall we say, allows a bit more room for improvisation. I can't wait to see you guys.
Peace. Hope to see you again soon.

What's the relationship between Oblivion Sun, Pedal Giant Animals and HTM?

First, Stan and Frank play in all three.

PGA is a duo project that Stan and Franks started during some downtime with HTM. It's close to completion. PGA features OBSun drummer Chris Mack.

Stan, Angelo and myself had a band called Avalon about 12 years ago. We never got to the point of playing originals in that band, but it was great fun for all.

As far as improv is concerned, this band will have structured tunes like HTM at times but the similarity differs with more extended improvisational segments, more vocal tunes (afterall, Stan is singing his arse off these days) and different tonalities.

Frank has started the website for the new band. For now it's just an under construction page. We plan on having some content soon.

bp

This sounds very cool, especially more vocals from Stan and extended segments of improvisation. Hey, it would be ok with me if you guys extended those 5 songs into a 2 hour show with improvisation.

Improvisations, more vocal songs and all sounds very interesting and a great alternative to HTM's music it seems, wich leads me to my question: Will Happy The Man be put on the bookshelf for a while after ProgDay in september, to concentrate on Oblivion Sun or is it both bands alongside?

Neither band excludes the other. There's a fair bit of downtime with HTM. That when OBSun writes, rehearses and eventually records and performs.

That's really great!

The name Oblivion Sun suits well with the bad summer we have in Scandinavia this year, I even forgot how the sun looks like, well almost. You should have your first gig here! ;D

Well folks, we have a change at the bass player spot. Angelo has had some personal things take up his time and is unavailable to us. We wish him the best.

We'll name the new bassist shortly.

Who's the new bass player, Bill? Rick Kennell?