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The Halo Benders
Don't Touch My Bikini
Address
United States Of America
E-Mail
N/A
Members

The Halo Benders #1:
(1st 7")
Calvin
Doug
Ralf
Wayne

The Halo Benders #2:
(1st LP, 2nd 7")
Calvin
Doug
Ralf
Steve
Wayne

The Halo Benders #3:
(2nd LP)
Doug: guitar, singing, bass
Ralph: drums, guitar
Calvin: singing, guitar
Wayne: bass, drums
Steve: keyboards
Phil Ek: organ on Planned Obsolescence, drum on Bombshelter Part Two
Jen Smith: singing on Bombshelter
Beth Rangert: singing on Bombshelter
Alex Knold: cello on Blank Equation

The Halo Benders #4:
(3rd LP)
Ralf Youtz: drums, guitar
Doug Martsch: guitar, voice, bass, keyboards
Wayne Flower: bass, drums
Calvin Johnson: voice, guitar
Steve Fisk: keyboards, theremin, harmonium
Heather Dunn: guitar on Devil City Destiny

History

Wayne Flower's musical history
Calvin Johnson's musical history
Doug Martsch's musical history
Ralf Youtz's musical history
Steve Fisk's musical history

Discography
Singles
  1. Canned Oxygen 7" (Atlas, 1994, atlas 003)
    1. Canned Oxygen
    2. It's Not Me
    3. Bikini (version)
  2. Spawning Monsters 7" (Fire, 1995, 7 SM 5)
    1. Don't Touch My Bikini
    2. Please Please Let Me Get What I Want (The Smiths)
Splits
N/A
Albums
  1. God Don't Make No Junk LP/CD/CS (K Records, 1995, KLP29)
    1. Snowfall
    2. Don't Touch My Bikini
    3. Will Work For Food
    4. Freedom Ride
    5. Sit On it
    6. Canned Oxygen
    7. On A Tip
    8. Scarin
    9. I Can't Believe It's True
    10. Big Rock Candy Mountain
  2. God Don't Make No Junk LP (Fire, 1995, Fire LP 43)
    1. Snowfall
    2. Don't Touch My Bikini
    3. Will Work For Food
    4. Freedom Ride
    5. Sit On it
    6. Canned Oxygen
    7. On A Tip
    8. Scarin
    9. I Can't Believe It's True
    10. Big Rock Candy Mountain
  3. Don't Tell Me Now LP/CD/CS (K Records, 1996, KLP46)
    1. Phantom Power
    2. Halo Bender
    3. Mercury Blues
    4. Bombshelter Pts 1 + 2
    5. Volume Mode
    6. Inbread Heart
    7. Planned Obsolescence
    8. Magic Carpet Rider
    9. Blank Equation
    10. Crankenstein
  4. The Rebels Not In LP/CD (K Records, 1998, KLP81)
    1. Virginia Reel Around The Fountain
    2. Your Asterisk
    3. Lonesome Sundown
    4. Devil City Destiny
    5. Bury Me
    6. Surfers Haze
    7. Do That Thing
    8. Love Travels Faster
    9. Turn It My Way
    10. Rebels Got A Hole In It
    11. Foggy Bottom
Compilations
  1. Yo-Yo A Go-Go 3xLP/2xCD (Yo-Yo Records, 1996, Yo-Yo 4)
    1. Freedom Riders
Various

The band is featured in the K Records Documentary by Heather Rose Dominic.

Links
  1. The Halo Benders Covers @ grunnenrocks.nl
  2. Review of the don't tell me now lp/cd
  3. The Halo Benders page, with southern records uk
  4. The Halo Benders page, with k records