The Musicians

Composer, keyboardist, saxophonist, engineer and producer- founding member of Happy The Man, Frank has worn many hats. From his Crafty Hands Studio he continues to produce innovative and fresh new music. Recent projects include Pedal Giant Animals , and now new band Oblivion Sun's debut.

Stan is a founding member of Happy The Man, playing with them during their classic period in the '70s. After the band broke up in 1978, Whitaker formed a band called Vission. By 1985 he had moved on to his next group, One by One, and in 1992, Avalon. He has guested on albums by Ten Jinn, The Carl Hupp Project, John Palumbo, and others. Stan also works as a solo and duo artist with his wife LeeAnne. Visit Stan and LeeAnne

Bill has known Stan and Frank since the mid 70’s when Happy The Man was in its heyday. He started playing on a Moog Modular as soon as he got his driver’s license. A friend, Mark Roumelis from the band Facedancer, worked at Maryland Public Television and invited Bill to play the Moog whenever it was available. Bill soon found that a career in music as an audio engineer was a better move for paying the bills and started out by being the house engineer at The Bayou, a famous club in DC. Tours soon followed. He left the live touring part of his career after mixing Whitney Houston in 1989-90. Studio work followed and then moved into broadcast engineering. As chief mixer at BET Jazz, Bill had the great pleasure of mixing many of his childhood heroes such as Herbie Hancock, George Duke and more. While at BET, Stan called about a HTM reunion and he eventually became the FOH engineer for all but one of the reunion shows that the band performed between 2000 and 2004.Stan and Bill had played together a great deal over the years and was aware of his abilities as a keyboardist. When the decision was made to form a new performing band Bill was called by Stan and Frank. He immediately said yes and rehearsals began.

When not playing with Oblivion Sun, Bill produces and engineers a variety of artists. He was nominated for a Grammy for BeBe Winans “Live And Up Close” and has also mixed artists including The Cure, Maroon 5, Diana Krall, Audioslave, Toni Braxton, and many more

After honing his skills at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, and paying his dues in L.A. for a few years, Chris moved back to the east coast and landed the drum chair with Baltimore neo proggers Iluvatar in Dec. 1997. He recorded "A Story Two Days Wide", Iluvatar's 4th CD release. Iluvatar went on to play Baja Prog in 1998 and NEARfest in 2000, as well as many shows in the Baltimore area in support of the CD.

In the Fall of 2003, Chris played on "Pedal Giant Animals", a collection of songs written by Stan and Frank as a side project. He is also a member of Puppet Show, a well established progressive rock act from Northern California. Their latest CD, "The Tale of Woe", was released on ProgRock Records and mixed by producer icon Terry Brown (Rush, IQ, Fates Warning).

In 2007, Chris was active in the prog festival scene playing both The Rites of Spring Festival (Rosfest) in April and CAL Prog in May with Puppet Show and ProgDay in September with Oblivion Sun.

Chris is a well established drum and percussion instructor in the Baltimore area and plays frequently around Maryland with other rock acts including The Dave Demarco Band.

Dave DeMarco ~ When Oblivion Sun's calendar allows, Dave maintains a busy extracurricular schedule as an in-demand session and freelance player. He appears on CDs with artists such as Frank Gambale, Brett Garsed, TM Stevens, Larry Fast and composes for film and TV. His playing has been featured on HBO, ESPN, MTV's Punk'd, NBC's Coastal Dreams and several FOX TV themes. Visit Dave at www.davedemarco.com.