PAST MEMBERS OF OOKLA

MICHAEL MALLORY is Ookla's LA-based studio bassist. They still play with him when they're on the West Coast. Mike played on Less Than Art, Oh Okay LA, and about half the songs on Smell No Evil. Mike has known Adam longer than any other member of the band, including Rand-- He was the bass player for the really pretentious progressive band Adam fronted in High School. 

LUIS GARCIA was Ookla's drummer from 1994 through 1999, when he moved to California to get married to the keyboardist from Puzzlebox, another science fiction music band.  Jerk.  He now lives in Washington State with his family and sells comic books online.  Luis has played several West Coast shows with Ookla in the years since then, and will always remain an honorary member of the band. Luis's son Tommy is the Tommy from "Tommy." He's like 18.6 now or something.  Luis played drums and sang on Less Than Art and Super Secret . 

DOUG WHITE started out as Ookla's recording engineer and then joined the band as bassist from 1998 to 2001.  Doug is the owner and head engineer of Watchmen Studios, where Ookla recorded their first three albums.  Doug played bass on Super Secret and guitar and bass on Smell No Evil .  Doug still works with Rand and Adam; Adam plays keyboards in Doug's super-depressing indie band, Life Between Us, and Rand wrote vocal melodies for a bunch of LBU songs. 

CHRIS GAJEWSKI is a phenomenally talented drummer who was a member of Ookla the Mok from 2000 to 2004. He played on Smell No Evil and Oh Okay LA . His deadpan, straight-man stage gimmick, complete with eye-rolling and constant groans of "you guys are so gay!" delighted both the band and their fans until they realized he wasn't kidding.  Since Chris left the band he's played drums on Adam's solo record, recorded and toured with the hardcore band Bleed For Me, and, incredibly, given birth to a baby girl. "It really hurt," Chris later told the band, "but not as much as your horrible, horrible music." 

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