About Kleveland
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Stephanie Smith As the dust was settling over the 90's and a four year stint co-heading rock outfit Spectator Pump, Stephanie Smith stepped out on her own to form Kleveland in 2000. She says of the band name's origin - "You know Wonder Woman's 'Paradise Island' which consist of all badass ladies? Ok-- I worked at this bar, with a couple of bad-ass ladies. This guy Bruce, the owner of the old Ozone records store on Burnside, was partying there late with us, and commented that we were woman that he imagined lived on that Island of Wonder Woman's..he called it cleave-land. We laughed and told him he would never know, because no man could get to cleave-land. Soon after I started making 4-track tapes, giving them to friends, and just wrote Kleveland on them for laughs, but I secretly always wanted to be a super-hero with a magic lasso, so it stuck.". |
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Allen Hunter Allen Hunter plays the bass. He’s been doing it for a long time. A lot of people think he’s pretty good. There is recorded evidence: with the Eels on Vagrant Records, Michael Dean Damron & Thee Loyal Bastards on Rosa Records, Black Angel, James Low, Alan Charing, The Vibrasonics, Jim Mesi. He does it in public, too: witnesses include, in addition to the above, Morgan Grace, Miss Michael Jodell, Matt Brown, Dirty Martini, Lemonade, AG Donnaloia, Bo Diddley, Jaycob VanAuken, substrate, Storm Large, Jen Folker, Paul DeLay, Robbie Laws, and others. He does what he's told. He's easy to find in a crowd (he's tall). He speaks Japanese. He's not that old.
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Kevin Hahn Former Tri-Polar and Castella guitarist, Kevin splits his time playing guitar with Kleveland and running Opal Studio in Portland, OR. As a busy producer/engineer and session musician, it takes a lot to get Kevin out of the studio but he couldn’t pass up chance to rock in Kleveland. “I’m having a killer time playing in this band and getting my musical yahoos off!” |
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Kevin Rankin "Kevvy Metal" hits things. Hard. A Spaun Drums endorser, Kevin has been seen touring with 80s pop bands for years, and was a fan of Kleveland long before joing the group. Known as "the nicest drummer in Portland", he may just charm the pants off of you. And you'll enjoy every minute of it.
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